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[Tech News] Interesting technology

JaimeVargas
16-Feb-2006
[232]
Plus the threads libraries and timers that come with it?
Graham
16-Feb-2006
[233]
Please sir, may I have some more?
Terry
16-Feb-2006
[234]
More Beer?
Graham
16-Feb-2006
[235x2]
thanks.
Pass the bottle.
Terry
16-Feb-2006
[237]
I would rather close source BEER, and have more docs ;)
JaimeVargas
16-Feb-2006
[238]
Comunity project. Just kidding ;-)
Henrik
16-Feb-2006
[239]
sunanda, I'm terribly disappointed by this virus. :-) OSX is so far 
behind in this regard, basically like a Ford T vs. a modern Ferrari 
where WinXP is so far ahead in virus propagation
JaimeVargas
16-Feb-2006
[240]
I don't expect an exponential growth in virus like in windows, but 
it sad to see such malware showing up.
Henrik
16-Feb-2006
[241]
it's always going to be there. I remember cleaning the Saddam virus 
from my old Amiga floppies, oh boy. :-)
Sunanda
16-Feb-2006
[242]
Well Henrik, a basic rule of security is that attacks only get stronger, 
never weaker.
So just wait a while...... :-)
Henrik
16-Feb-2006
[243]
sunanda, it surely will be very interesting to see
Allen
16-Feb-2006
[244]
Well finally there is a market for virus checkers on the Mac, I bet 
there are many virus suite companies who are pleased with that. ;-)
Henrik
16-Feb-2006
[245]
yes, I can imagine they'll be selling by the dozens. :-)
Pekr
17-Feb-2006
[246]
MS Sparkle - does not it look like View? :-) I tried to watch the 
Video, I wonder if second guy told "amiga"? (few sentences before 
he mentions "no more notepad"), but maybe I just wrongly understand 
...  http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=157843
Pekr
20-Feb-2006
[247]
mySQL AB buys company of one of Firebird authors - Jim Starkey .... 
Netfrastructure ... never heard about their "revolutionary" products 
... sounds like collaborative environment?


http://netfrastructure.com/main.nfs?a=netfraweb&l=;PAPERS;PAPER_NO='7'&t=drlWhitePapers


Jim was author of nextgen Firebird generation - called Vulcano or 
so ...
Graham
20-Feb-2006
[248]
Jim Starkey was one of the original authors of Interbase.
Pekr
21-Feb-2006
[249x2]
Scientists at IBM say they have figured out how to produce smaller 
and more powerful microchips than previously thought possible. It 
is hoped IBM's announcement at San Jose on Monday will mean the creation 
of miniscule microprocessors which will save the IT manufacturing 
sector billions of dollars. The breakthrough revolves around the 
distance between the circuit-lines chip makers must 'draw' onto the 
surface of a computer processor. IBM scientists declared they can 
now draw lines on silicon much closer together than ever before.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/21/microchips_get_smaller/
Robert
22-Feb-2006
[251]
Maybe something for Rebol as well:


dsandler writes "Researchers at Rice University have just released 
version 0.7 

of FeedTree, a peer-to-peer system for distributing Web feeds faster. 
Instead of 

polling feeds independently, FeedTree users cooperate to share news 
updates 

using multicast in Pastry, a scalable p2p overlay network. FeedTree 
reduces the 

update delay for existing RSS and Atom feeds to a few minutes without 
putting 

extra stress on the webserver (anyone who's ever been temporarily 
banned by 

Slashdot's RSS feed knows this is a real concern). Feed publishers 
can also 

choose to push digitally signed updates for immediate, tamper-proof 
delivery to 

subscribers. The client software (download) runs on Linux, OS X, 
and Windows, 
and works with any desktop feed reader." 
 
http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=3816
Graham
22-Feb-2006
[252]
I believe Maarten might be working on a rebol freepastry client.
Robert
22-Feb-2006
[253]
Ah, who else ;-))
Graham
22-Feb-2006
[254x4]
Gabriele was working on Chord .. but gave up due to Rebol problems.
Maybe Jaime or Ladislav can tell us whether we can build a Pastry 
like network upon Beer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4736984.stm


More bad news for male criminals.  Though I wonder how technique 
would fare in China where there are only 100 official family names.
I guess one problem with a multicast tree is that if you're disseminating 
your RSS feed this way, you may not know how many subscribers there 
are.
JaimeVargas
22-Feb-2006
[258]
Graham feedtree can be implemented with BEER. The Multicast approach 
restrict the number of users that will be able to use it. As there 
is no multicast backbone on the current internet.
Robert
23-Feb-2006
[259]
Does someone know this? http://www.airset.com
Geomol
23-Feb-2006
[260]
No. We need to get out of the browser. A place like that should have 
a REBOL client! :-)
Robert
23-Feb-2006
[261]
Yep, that's true. The calendar looks pretty neat.
[unknown: 10]
23-Feb-2006
[262]
http://pages.google.comgoogle just launched a new beta... They are 
gooing and going faster faster...
Graham
23-Feb-2006
[263]
Another unsignupable service !
Henrik
23-Feb-2006
[264]
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/06/0222quantum.html<--- Quantum computing 
reaches more spooky levels. Get an answer from an algorithm without 
running the computer. It's called "counterfactual computation".
Terry
23-Feb-2006
[265]
IE 7 Beta http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie7/ie7betaredirect.mspx
BrianW
23-Feb-2006
[266]
I'll wait, thanks. I have enough trouble with IE when it's *not* 
in beta :)
MikeL
23-Feb-2006
[267]
I tried IE7 beta - needed to upgrade to XP from 2000 so no go.
Volker
23-Feb-2006
[268]
Maybe MS learned from Carl and now the beta is the more stable version? 
just thinking..
Terry
23-Feb-2006
[269]
It's better than IE 6  tha'ts all i can say.
Alan
23-Feb-2006
[270]
using 7 beta here also and seems ok but I still use Firefox for most 
of my surfing.IE 7 seems to have "borrowed" several ideas from Firefox 
but that's nothing new
Alan
24-Feb-2006
[271]
got a pc and want to run OSX on it ? try this then :   http://maxxuss.konglish.org/
[unknown: 10]
24-Feb-2006
[272x2]
Earn your Sun Server -->> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan?entry=niagara_benchmarks
http://www.ubrowser.com/and 3d browsing ;-)
Terry
28-Feb-2006
[274]
Why Windows Vista Won't Suck

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1931913,00.asp
Ashley
28-Feb-2006
[275]
Hope they can deliver on this: "Vista will include a built-in speech 
recognition engine, and new and improved speech synthesis. Assuming 
it works as well as it should, you'll be able to dictate emails or 
give voice commands for web navigations without buying additional 
speech recognition software."
Graham
28-Feb-2006
[276]
Only have to buy a new PC to accomodate the hardware requirements 
of vista.
Allen
1-Mar-2006
[277]
the speech engine, hopefully better than the one built into Windows 
XP Tablet edition
Ashley
1-Mar-2006
[278x2]
Internet Explorer 7 under Windows Vista runs in a special super-low 
user access mode that gives the browser very little access to the 
underlying OS, and ActiveX security has been tightened up significantly 
as well, with most ActiveX controls off by default and set to opt-in 
rather than opt-out. Hopefully other browsers will follow suit and 
operate in this least-privileged mode, too.
 - Like IE is a model of good security practices!?
Microsoft would have liked to build in antivirus software, but would 
have gotten in legal trouble.
 ???
Gabriele
1-Mar-2006
[280]
Why Windows Vista Won't Suck - maybe because the author of the article 
has been paid by MS? ;) I'll believe this when I see it (but even 
in that case, MS is evil and must be fighted)
Terry
1-Mar-2006
[281]
Well lets see. according to yahoo, Microsoft has revenues of $41 
billion, a 31% profit margin, total cash of $34 billion, a $15 billion 
operating cash flow, and a market cap of $277.66 Billion.

Thats BILLION as in $1000 million.

But hey, what do they know?