Bjarne Stroustrup talks with Bill Venners about the perils of staying too low level and venturing too object-oriented in C++ programming style. Stroustrup is the designer and original implementer of C++.
A recent study said that many Windows users are planning on evaluating other platforms. What about the tech savvy OSNews readers? Are you staying with Linux, OSX or Windows, or switching to something else? Come in and vote!
Among the technology industry's historic monuments sits Xerox PARC, the almost-legendary R&D facility nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley. Xerox also has a big research center in New York, and researchers from that facility and from PARC recently held a soiree in San Francisco to show some of the company's key research efforts. Read the article at PC Magazine.
While Microsoft execs at last have admitted publicly that Longhorn will ship in 2006, Microsoft works on Windows XP 64-Bit. The emulation technology in Windows XP 64-bit Edition will be crucial to the OS's success. Microsoft's Windows on Windows 64 emulation technology is a subsystem that will allow users to run 32-bit applications on a 64-bit OS without a reduction in performance, NewsFactor reports.
With the one year anniversary of Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system approaching in November, several PC makers have released or will soon release new tablet PC models designed around the OS.
The rush to endorse open source alternatives to Microsoft's dominant Windows software has been criticised by senior technology executives who warned that companies risked falling victim to growing hype around software such as the Linux operating system.
"Seems the new version of Samba ups the ante in file/printer sharing options for Windows network, with a 2.5x performance gain over Windows Server 2003, according to tests by IT Week." Read it here.
Richard Seibt, boss of the largest European offerer of Linux operating systems, the Suse Linux AG, expects: "I believe that Apple computers in the future, will run the Linux operating system". He said so (Google translation) in the "citizens of Berlin newspaper" (Monday issue). Seibt also said that Linux will make it "really big" by the year 2013.
Microsoft and Vodafone are joining forces to extend Web services standards to mobile devices, in an attempt to open up the potentially large & lucrative mobile net services market to Web services devs.
YellowTAB made a number of announcements regarding additional features to be found on Zeta 1.0 and the future: Java 1.4.2 support, C# support via Mono and support for thousands of scanner models via SANE. Additionally, Bernd Korz, CVO of yellowTAB, sheds his view and knowledge on recent developments involving BeOS and Zeta, and discusses the past and future of computers in general.
Apple is developing a distributed/parallel computing solution called Xgrid, according to ThinkSecret. Apple recently put up a mailing list, "xgrid-users". According to the page, the mailing list is for discussion regarding use and deployment of Xgrid. No archived messages exist. The page describes Xgrid as "Apple's solution for parallel and distributed high performance computing."
Microsoft spent a lot of effort tuning Active Directory in Windows Server 2003, to improve scalability and speed and to correct key deficiencies. In this sample chapter, you'll learn what's new, and how to take advantage of Active Directory's new features.
Macdevcenter has an overview of the features and benefits of Mac OS X 10.3. The essential question is asks is "Should I upgrade?" and it answers "yes."
In a recent conference presentation, Google's Craig Nevill-Manning notes that cheap and fast hardware is the key to Google's success. The software, he says, is written to assume that the hardware will fail, and work around that. That way, the company can use commodity PC hardware and not worry when it fails--just replace it.
"The folks at Libranet were kind enough to provide me with a copy of their 2.8.1 release for a review. After downloading the latest and greatest from their ftp site a few nights ago, burning the cd's this morning, making an emergency trip to the vet during the second cd burn and eating a late breakfast, I was finally ready for the install."Read the review by Frank Merenda.
Darma today announced its network attached storage (NAS) operating system for OEMs who manufacturer NAS servers, NAS-SAN gateways, and disk-based backup appliances.
