Friday, January 27, 2006
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Linux vs Microsoft: Has Linux's time come?
LXer: Linux not standing in wait as Microsoft sinks its own ship
Interesting article that presents some different ideas on why Microsoft might have to start worrying about Linux and other "competitors".
Interesting article that presents some different ideas on why Microsoft might have to start worrying about Linux and other "competitors".
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Wine starts to catch XP!
BenchMark-0.9.5 - The Official Wine Wiki
I'm impressed! They're a little selective on the tests (old versions of 3DMark, etc) which means the benchmarks aren't necessarily giving current APIs (DirectX 9, etc) a real work-out.
I'm impressed! They're a little selective on the tests (old versions of 3DMark, etc) which means the benchmarks aren't necessarily giving current APIs (DirectX 9, etc) a real work-out.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Neat: VGA Adapter for your PDA/Smartphone!
Video-on-the-Go
All you need is an SDIO slot and away you go!
Possibly quite handy if you don't want to lug a laptop AND a project around for PowerPoint presentations.
Shame it's only 640x480...
All you need is an SDIO slot and away you go!
Possibly quite handy if you don't want to lug a laptop AND a project around for PowerPoint presentations.
Shame it's only 640x480...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
"Most Vulnerable OS"
A number of sites are reporting this CERT article as pointing out that Linux/Unix had more vulnerabilities reported in 2005 than Windows did.
The point they're missing, is how many vulnerabilities are 3rd Party apps and how many are core OS? I know this is very hard to define for Linux/Unix, since so many of the apps shipped on the install CD/DVDs are 3rd party and have always been. Unlike the various Windows OS distributions, which have very few 3rd party apps.
Just my2c, people really should think a little and do some analysis of their own...
The point they're missing, is how many vulnerabilities are 3rd Party apps and how many are core OS? I know this is very hard to define for Linux/Unix, since so many of the apps shipped on the install CD/DVDs are 3rd party and have always been. Unlike the various Windows OS distributions, which have very few 3rd party apps.
Just my2c, people really should think a little and do some analysis of their own...
Friday, December 16, 2005
Microsoft working on another OS, but it's more like Unix...
Apple Matters | Singularity
Some interesting stuff here about a MS Research OS called Singularity.
James makes some great points about the pros and cons, but one of his arguments is flawed.
He talks about the short-sightedness of using Sing# to code the OS and code apps for the OS. I don't see any problem in this, longer term, since MS would no doubt use their existing CLR (Common Language Runtime) architecture, which would make application coding language independant and potentially/probably the coding of the OS itself as well... (Spec# basically being extensions to [Spec#] extensions to [C#] extensions to [C++] extensions to C)
Good to see there are some seriously open-minded people at MS!
Some interesting stuff here about a MS Research OS called Singularity.
James makes some great points about the pros and cons, but one of his arguments is flawed.
He talks about the short-sightedness of using Sing# to code the OS and code apps for the OS. I don't see any problem in this, longer term, since MS would no doubt use their existing CLR (Common Language Runtime) architecture, which would make application coding language independant and potentially/probably the coding of the OS itself as well... (Spec# basically being extensions to [Spec#] extensions to [C#] extensions to [C++] extensions to C)
Good to see there are some seriously open-minded people at MS!
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