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News from the Cel

News from the CelAltivec?"Bear in mind that the cell consists of an Altivec equiped PPC based main processor controlling an eight way on-board grid."I'm not sure that Altivec is included in the new Cell architecture. Anyone confirm?Yes, check this presentationhttp://www.research.scea.com/research/html/CellGDC05/index.htmlThanks for the link nt, you're rightnt

Tags: Processors, Altivec, Cel

Discussion threads 2005-06-24

Huh? Mactel, for real?

Huh? Mactel, for real?Goodbye Apple!Did Apple leave a suicide note? Perhaps this switch means that they will not have to write software to be able to use the dreaded and feared OS that "Most" people use and like! Too bad, I kinda liked listning to the Mac Bunch...

Tags: Linux, Processors, Workstations, Operating systems, Apple Inc., Intel Corp., Altivec, Mactel, IBM Corp., operating system, Niagara, PC

Discussion threads 2005-06-06

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plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook business

plagiarism, Gibberish, IEEE, and the textbook businessi tend to agree with your wifeThis is very poor english, but does express a meaning that make sense. You may disagree with what it says, but it is coherent. I wouldn't call the extracts you chose as plagiarism. Author used one transformed sentence...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, OOA/OOD/OOP, C/C++, Operating systems, plagiarism, textbook business, IEEE

Discussion threads 2008-10-09

QuickSearch64 (zip)

Search for a word, sentence or binary code fragment in files/folders/disks.Easy and powerful interface using "target" tool to save search parameters between sessions.The search engine was written in highly optimized assembler for very high performance.Written for 64 bits CPU (PowerPC or x86 Intel, and XMM/Altivec)French and English localisation.OS 10.5 or...

Tags: Intel X86, CPU, IBM PowerPC, Birtz Alain, 64-Bit, Processors, Network Technology, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Networking

Software downloads 2008-06-16

Betting that Apple will make PPC laptops again

But you won't be able to buy one any time soon. Apple says it bought P.A. Semi to get its hands on some patents and a bunch of very bright engineers who are already used to working together. I'm sure that's true - but...

Tags: Dual-core, Apple Inc., U.S. Department Of Defense, Laptop Computer, Chip, PPC, Robots, Corporate Governance, Processors, Semiconductors, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Hardware, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-26

A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customers

A dumb prediction: IBM will buy HP's Unix customersDumb[i]"So, bottom line, how dumb is this prediction? It’s a bet on how smart IBM is - and, really, how can that be a loser?"[/i]IBM is a multi-billion dollar making company whereas Sun seems to specialise in multi-billion dollar losses. HP is...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Servers, HP Unix, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., IBM AIX, Unix

Discussion threads 2007-08-17

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...

Tags: pattern recognition, satellite, submarine, Murph

Discussion threads 2007-05-22

Dreaming up a new defence contractor

On August 22, 1963 a guy named Joe Walker flew the Bell X-15 experimentalspaceplane to 354,200 feet - a record not equalled until Brian Binnie flewSpaceShipOne to 367,442 feet in October of 2004.What happened at NASA in between was basically that the nationalurgency put into the moon missions forced...

Tags: General

Blog posts 2007-05-22

Targeting development for future hardware

Recent products from IBM and Sun have brought diversity, and thus choice, back to the hardware market. In particular, developers with hot ideas a year or so away from marketability now face some difficult choices that simply werent there before. Imagine a product idea, lets call it "Canary",...

Tags: Development, General

Blog posts 2007-02-20

Microsoft's 'Flash-killer' now supports Firefox on the Mac

Microsoft's 'Flash-killer' now supports Firefox on the MacWPF/E Rich applicationThey are already in quite an advanced stage with some very nice demo apps http://www.vista.si/This will definitely be interesting...This will definitely be interesting because of how horrible Flash is on Macintosh. Adobe did buy Macromedia, so we can see if...

Tags: Web browsers, Desktops, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere, Apple Macintosh, Macromedia Inc., Sun Solaris, Mozilla Firefox

Discussion threads 2007-02-02

Building your own supercomputer

Building your own supercomputerOkay I have a horse in this race but...I just came from the BARC conference (Boston area ARChitecture, dumb acronym, good little conference) last week. We always get a higher-up rep from Intel or AMD along with the folks from the Universities around Boston-- it's a...

Tags: Semiconductors, Development tools, Parallelism, supercomputer, desktop, chip, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-02-01

Six things the techpress isn't talking about

"Everybody knows" - all kinds of weird and wonderful things. Unfortunately most of them are wrong, we mostly dont know theyre wrong, and a lot of us base daily decisions at least partially on some of these certainties. As a public service, therefore, I thought Id list five...

Tags: Intel Corp., compiler

Blog posts 2007-01-24

MacTel: "the real story"

MacTel: "the real story"Backwards CompatibilityBackwards compatibility is important for the most widely used operating system in the world. Gee, go figure... All the haters out there continue to criticize MS but we would not be where we are today without Microsoft. What most likely you are going to see is...

Tags: Processors, Games, Backwards-Compatibility, Intel Itanium, Cell, Intel x86, Microsoft Corp., PPC, Sun Sparc, performance, river, Sony PlayStation 3

Discussion threads 2006-12-15

MacTel: "the real story"

As I discussed yesterday, Robert Cringley has spent a lot of PBS Pulpit time trying to find the gold in Apples MacTel decision. Now, personally, I rather think people, even people like Steve Jobs, make mistakes - but, lets consider an alternative theory. This one starts with Microsoft...

Tags: PPC, Microsofts, Microsoft Corp.

Blog posts 2006-12-15

Xserve Xeon, Thumper, and Apple's Market position

When Apple's Xserve first came out it stood head and shoulders over the competition on every measure applicable in its markets - markets that were defined by the entertainment, education, and pre-press industries and therefore rewarded extensive optimization for image and streams processing. Thus Apple's Xserve was the first machine...

Tags: General, Apple

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Adobe releases beta of Flash for Linux

Adobe releases beta of Flash for LinuxWow, this is the final nail in M$'s coffinAmazing, just 10 years after Windows had this feature - turn your back for one minute, and there's no telling what Linux will do next. At this rate, they will be useful in about 15...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Linux, Adobe Systems Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-19

Scary bloggie: Paul Murphy doing Windows?

Mr. Editor person asked that the regular zdnet bloggers honor Halloween by discussing something scary... so, since Im always happy to oblige - and, besides it is Friday the 13th today - Im setting aside the regularly scheduled program to bring you some scary realities. And, FYI, the regularly scheduled...

Tags: Java

Blog posts 2006-10-13

Is that a dagger I see before me?

Sticking out of Steve Jobs back, I mean. Heres the 411 according to the registers Tony Smith, reporting from Intels developer conference last week: Intel will pay whoever designs what it reckons is the worlds coolest living room computer $1m. Apples Mac Mini might be a candidate,...

Tags: Intel Corp.

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Apple releases Mac OS X security update

Apple releases Mac OS X security updateif it's only for versions 10.4 or later I guess...I needn't worry if I'm running an earlier version of OS X. also, doesn't look like any further patches for their wireless cards.gnu/linux...giving choice to the neX(!!)t generation.p.s.s. finally I'm the first to post. :-)Thanks...

Tags: Modems, Security administration, Desktops, Patches, Operating systems, Improves Apple File Sharing, Apple Inc., Third-party Resolves, Apple Macintosh, external Apple USB Modem, Improves Express Card, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X

Discussion threads 2006-09-29

PPC: IBM's ace is Games King

The world's top three dedicated gaming platforms, by sales volume, are Sony's playstations, Nintendo's gamecubes, and Microsoft's Xboxes. All are now powered by next generation PPC products made by IBM: Microsoft's X360 uses a three core, G5 derived, 3.2Ghz Xenon; Sony uses a G5 based, 3.2Ghz cell processor; and Nintendo's...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., PPC, game

Blog posts 2006-09-13