Friday, May 30, 2008

Let's do Lintel and Kill -9 Wintel

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hhdT390ldRZ9RC9ok9TvEPcsh16gD90USE700

The push into smaller gadgets is set to take Intel further away from Microsoft. "Netbooks" generally run Linux or Windows XP, which Microsoft has been trying to discontinue in favor of its flagship, Vista.

"Vista has a larger memory footprint, a larger graphics requirement and a higher price point. This is all about low-cost computing," Otellini said.

He noted that Microsoft has an operating system for smart phones, but it runs only on chips designed by Intel competitor ARM Holdings PLC.

"I see much of the activity in Mobile Internet Devices, sort of the evolution of the handset, being centered around Linux," he said.

Firebird Experts Forum - fastest forum i have ever seen

The forum here is created using the phpBB Software, available on http://www.phpbb.com.It is a great and free Open Source Solution and since version 3, it has full support for firebird.This installation uses apache 2.0, phpBB 3.01, php 5.21 and firebird 2.1 on windows 2003 server.

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Dot Net Performance of Firebird 2.1

Comparing the performance of several operations in FB2.1, OraXE and SQLServerXE using the vendor specific .NET data access drivers, I discovered Firebird was about 3 times faster than the others which were both nearly the same speed.

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Firebird 2.1 in Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Firebird 2.1 will be included by default in the next Ubuntu release named Intrepid Ibex that will be released in 30 October.

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Free Open Source Counterparts of Windows Software

I will be giving information on my personal favorites (which would generally mean BETTER) open source replacements. There are however other choices as well, so drop a line or two if our choices differ!

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Gaming With The Open-Source R500 Driver

From the release of Mesa 7.1 Release Candidate 1 to Multi-Pointer X being merged to master to the R500 3D milestone, it's been an exciting past 24 hours for the X.Org community.

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Isaiah cpu block diagram

These days more than half of the cpu is cache , and then there is the x86 instruction decoder and prefetcher

I wonder if is not better to cram some other cpu units rather than have this dead silicon



http://www.hothardware.com/News/Introducing%5Fthe%5FVIA%5FNano%5FProcessor/

Dell + Ubuntu+ sub$500 mini computer = EEEpc killer ?

Thinking of a new Eee PC or maybe Wind laptop? Hold up, Dell's about to loose this baby on the sub-$500 mini-laptop world.

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Diagrams of the how Git (version control) uses indexes.

A nice overview of how git uses it's index and how it is different to most other Version control systems. Also includes a nice overview on how some people are using git to work.

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Via launches "Nano" chips

Just as Intel brings to market its Atom chips, based on in-order execution pipelines, longtime in-order chipmaker Via goes the other way and springs out its new "Nano" parts, boasting a Core Duo-like "64-bit, superscalar, speculative out-of-order" pipeline.

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Install VirtualBox Additions for an Ubuntu 8.04 Guest

VirtualBox, is much easier to use with the additional drivers (called “Guest Additions”) that allow higher screen resolutions, better display performance, and mouse integration.

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Brazil Protests OOXML Too! Asks Approval Be Reconsidered

South Africa was the first, but not the last. Now Brazil has sent a letter protesting the adoption of OOXML as an ISO standard.

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Amarok 2 Gets Music Video Support!

Thanks to KDE 4 Plasma magic the video is nicely integrated into the context view of the user interface of Amarok 2. This feature is especially handy for watching YouTube videos, and they're working on integrating it directly with their SeeqPod service, allowing to find and play videos from the net in the blink of an eye.

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.net 2.0 framework on linux with winetricks

wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
chmod +x winetricks
./winetricks

choose dotnet2.0


choose accept

finished

DirectX 9.0c March 2008 redistributable on Linux with Wine

A guide with screenshots and code samples to show you how to install and run most of the DirectX 9.0c March 2008 redistributable on Linux using Wine. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms.

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Extreme Tux Racer Review

Version reviewed by Softpedia: 0.4

Extreme Tux Racer is an open-source downhill racing game starring Tux, the Linux mascot. It follows in the path of Tux Racer and its derivatives.

Some features:

· racing game
· racing simulator
· open source game
· Tux Racer fork

Microsoft's plan to colonise open source

A Microsoft job ad for Senior Marketing Manager – Open Source Community, spells out the company's plans. It is in effect a concerted attack on GNU/Linux. Once use of the main open source program has been reduced, Microsoft can then easily dispose of the now-dependent open source app vendors, assuming they are foolish enough to fall for this trick.

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Firebird 2.0.4 and 2.1.0 packages for debian

As you may have noticed, debian experimental got firebird2.0 (2.0.4) and firebird2.1 (2.1.0).

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i agree with this article that is simpler to write hello world in php than using mod_perl

<?php
echo "goodbye world";
?>

Than installing modperl and configure-ing the app (I'm working as sys admin)
maybe simple_mod_perl should interpret all *.pl and after that an use an templating system
<?perl
say "goodbye world";
?>

Howto: Use Ubuntu-VM-Builder to quickly and easily build VMs

ubuntu-vm-builder provides a method to quickly create a clean testing environment, a way to automate the virtual machine installation process, and for software developers, the ability to integrate the creation of a virtual machine into the build process of an application.

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