Mac OS X comes with dozens of utilities and applications—many of which can be easily cataloged, such as Internet and media tools. Many applications, however, can't easily be assigned a category. This chapter covers the useful Mac OS X applications and utilities that you're likely to use regularly.
OpenGL, the decade-old mother of all graphics application programming interfaces (APIs), is getting two significant updates to bring it into the 21st century.
NUMA is a memory architecture used in multiprocessors wherein apart from the common system memory each processor has its own local memory which can be used for the processor's own computations.
Three days are left for our 'Aspire Swatter' competition (prize worth $3000 US) and we have only received a single submission. Participate, as the chance of winning is huge!
Microsoft acknowledged today its investigation into the illegal use of an activation key generator for enterprise software including Windows Server 2003.
Eclipse is one powerful IDE. I've been using it for a few weeks and in this article, I will be reviewing a few of the features that make it such a wonderful tool.
In this episode, learn how to make use of some new features added to Visual C++ in Visual Studio 2005. These include adding OpenMP to your application, optimizing your application with Profile-Guided Optimization, and building a 64-bit application.
K. Brown pulled together a number of examples where fully trusted code can skirt around CLR security features, starting each with a question that seems to have an obvious answer.
Maynard Kuona takes a look on Gnome 2.6-pre and discovers a whole new world of new features and well-crafted interfaces built-in on every Gnome-bundled application.
Microsoft is paying Sun Microsystems $1.95 billion as part of a deal signed Friday--but Sun could gain as much as $450 million more over the next 10 years through a patent provision in the agreement.
Faster clock speeds, smaller die sizes, and more cache are what we've come to expect each year from the major desktop CPU vendors—and 2003 didn't disappoint.
YellowTAB has updated their screenshots with new shots from the upcoming Zeta 1.0, while IsComputerOn reports about the YTAB plans to attend the BeGeistert 12 gathering.
OS2 World reports that Serenity Systems published the document "eComStation Roadmap", announcing eComStation 1.2, which should be available by the second quarter of 2004.
Paul Murphy writes for the LinuxInsider: "Personally, I'd put DEC's failure to recognize that commercial VMS users weren't remotely like mainframers in solid second place, although I can think of some other contenders too -- including AT&T's purchase of NCR, the Defense Department's choice of staff and criteria in the development of ADA, and Intel's decision to continue 64-KB block addressing in the i80286."
Vector Linux has always interested me because of its purpose and origin: a simplified distribution from a Slackware base. Last month Vector's developers announced the first release candidate for Vector Linux 4.0 SOHO edition and here is the review.
Jan Schaumann announced today that, in order to provide a summary of the most important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is now available online.
