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Liquid cooled Power Macs running Mac OS X 10.3.5

Submitted by razor 2004-07-09 macOS 40 Comments

Preproduction models of Apple’s recently announced 2.5GHz liquid cooled Power Mac G5 computers are running a new version of the Mac OS X operating system, according to sources. UPDATE: More info about the 10.3.5 version.

Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-09 Solaris 22 Comments

"Analysis Try to imagine a geeky version of famed salesman Ron Popeil. Keep Popeil's exuberance, keep his pitchman savvy and keep his verbal overflow. Then erase his age, sturdy frame and Ronco Food Dehydrator and replace all this with a young, lanky kernel engineer hawking something called DTrace, and you have Bryan Cantrill." Read the rest at TheRegister.

Bossa, a Framework for Scheduler Development

Guest post by Christophe Augier 2004-07-08 Linux 12 Comments

This article is a quick overview of scheduling in operating systems and presents Bossa, a research project on operating system schedulers and domain-specific languages.

VAX Users See the Writing on the Wall

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 OS News 32 Comments

The VAX system at Triumph Components has been in use since about 1996, and information systems manager Dan Blackshear couldn't be happier with it. There's just one problem: He's got to scrap it. The system is fast, works well with Windows and "fits into the modern environment very cleanly" at the El Cajon, aerospace parts maker, said Blackshear. "But it's a dinosaur, and eventually it has to go".

Trolltech Releases First Qt 4 Technology Preview

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 Qt 27 Comments

Trolltech has announced the availability of the first Qt 4 Technical Preview. Qt 4, the next major release of the popular cross-platform C++ application framework.

KOffice 1.3.2 Released

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 KDE 13 Comments

The KOffice team is brings you the second bugfix package that builds upon the successful 1.3 version.

New Microsoft patch doesn’t plug all holes

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 Internet Explorer 54 Comments

Microsoft Corp.'s effort last week to fix a vulnerability in the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser program and end the latest series of Internet attacks doesn't address another closely related and dangerous vulnerability, according to a security specialist.

Microsoft Readies Its SMB Hosted Services

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 Microsoft 4 Comments

What does Microsoft's top exec have up his sleeve? CEO Steve Ballmer gave a hint in his company-wide memo: many hosted services for SMBs are now waiting in the wings.

Mnemonic user interfaces

Submitted by Anonymous Coward 2004-07-08 Graphics 21 Comments

In this article (re:PDF - 127k) the author attacks the difference between today's file structure representations and our mental model of the same, and suggests mind mapping as a method of closing the gap. Here's a screen shot of what it might look like.

QEMU Ported to Mac OS X

Submitted by Jaime Ieong 2004-07-08 OS News 8 Comments

QEMU is now working on Mac OS X. Download ready-to-run images of QEMU virtual computers, pre-installed with a Free Operating System and a set of popular free software.

Tuning Java garbage collection

Submitted by David 2004-07-08 Java 8 Comments

If you're part of the current blogging craze, then you've likely heard of Blog-City, a blogging site owned and operated by Blog-City Ltd. When some unexpected performance issues cropped up, Java performance experts Jack Shirazi and Kirk Pepperdine(from JavaPerformanceTuning.com) were asked to assist in a technical tuning of Blog-City. Here's what they found out and did to fix the problems.

Visual Studio 2005 “Whidbey” Enterprise Dev Edition Alpha Preview

Eugenia Loli 2004-07-08 General Development 20 Comments

Fernando has previewed Visual Studio 2005 Codename "Whidbey" Enterprise Developer Edition Alpha. Below is an excerpt: " Visual SourceSafe is a viable solution that lets you effectively manage project files. It tracks and stores changes to a file so that developers can review a file's history, return to earlier versions of the file and develop programs concurrently."

Free 10 GB Novell Resource Kit: Get SuSE Linux for Free

Submitted by Sanjaya Sugiarto 2004-07-08 Novell and Ximian 67 Comments

Novell is giving away 10 GB of DVDs and CDs. Some of the included software are SuSE 9.1 Pro, SuSE Standard Server 8.0 and Novell GroupWise.

Looking Glass: An Insight Look with Hideya Kawahara

Submitted by Sanjaya Sugiarto 2004-07-08 Oracle and SUN 33 Comments

An interview with Hideya Kawahara, the lead developer of Project Looking Glass, about one of Sun's hottest projects, recently open sourced.

Inside Tiger: A Look at Spotlight

Submitted by Synthetic 2004-07-07 macOS 18 Comments

This is the first installment of ThinkSecret's "Inside Tiger" series, covering Mac OS X Version 10.4. Today, they begin looking at one of Tiger's most touted features, Spotlight, a new suite of systemwide search tools. Elsewhere, SMH in Australia has a Tiger article. Update: Appleinsider has more Tiger articles with screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4.

Thoughts on 3D Desktop Development

Guest post by Jono Bacon 2004-07-07 3D 27 Comments

I have written up an article about a bunch of ideas for 3D desktop development now Project Looking Glass is Open Source. A number of the Looking Glass owners have an interest in the document and it might prove interesting to get an insight into the potential desktop of the future.

Opera 7.52 Brings Important Security Fixes

Submitted by Carlos Vendramini 2004-07-07 Opera 25 Comments

Opera Software released today the version 7.52 of Opera browser with added security (Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and MS-Windows):

Cedega Review: A Whole New Way to Play Games on Linux

Guest post by Joe Drago 2004-07-07 Games 60 Comments

One glaring issue I've had since my transition to Linux is video games. Being a Nintendo (consoles) and Sierra (PC) kid, I've gravitated to consoles more lately, but the occasional PC game has kept my interest solidly enough to keep Windows around on a spare drive. I tried WineX (CVS) in the past, and had great success with Diablo II, but didn't bother to try any 'new' games with it.

KDE 3.3 Beta 1 Released

Submitted by Metin Amiroff 2004-07-07 KDE 26 Comments

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Klassroom.

Performance of Java versus C++

Submitted by aaa 2004-07-07 Benchmarks 55 Comments

This article surveys a number of benchmarks and finds that Java performance on numerical code is comparable to that of C++, with hints that Java's relative performance is continuing to improve. Then they describe clear theoretical reasons why these benchmark results should be expected.