cianduffy - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Use it today (Score 2) 406

by cianduffy on Saturday June 09, 2012 @08:59AM (#40267683) Attached to: Why Visual Basic 6 Still Thrives

The little work I have to do with the IDE on Win7 still works fine. I would imagine installing some supporting libraries for specific features could be difficult - I did have to fight the SOAP libraries on.

Comment I thought patents had to have no prior art? (Score 2) 326

by cianduffy on Friday June 08, 2012 @02:17PM (#40260453) Attached to: Apple Granted Broad Patent On Wedge-Shaped Laptops

My Sony Vaio R600 (R505 in the US I believe) had that same shape about eight years ago. Fantastic laptop, at that.

Comment Re:He seems conflicted (Score 1) 253

by cianduffy on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @04:53PM (#21876646) Attached to: Dvorak Looks Back At 'Another Crappy Tech Year'

This year, but before the iPhone came out. Nokia have provided updates, some with new features, for a large range of their handsets for a while, at least in Europe. This on a phone that cost less and has a proper 3G radio interface in it at that...

Submission + - PS3 Folding@home project gets Guinness record (news.com)

Submitted by

mytrip

on Wednesday October 31, 2007 @05:23PM

mytrip writes: "t's a small thing, but Sony got some good news today related to its troubled PlayStation 3 video game console. In fact, the system helped set a new Guinness World Record.

The record was set by Stanford University's Folding@home project, a distributed computing system utilizing PS3s among other computers, to help scientists study the effects of a process called "protein folding" on a series of serious diseases.

Well, Guinness has apparently certified the project as the world's most powerful distributed computing system. According to a release from Sony, Folding@home topped 1 petaflop last month, meaning that it surpassed a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. By comparison, the well-known SETI@home project has topped out, according to Wikipedia, at around 265 teraflops, or 265 trillion floating point operations a second."

Submission + - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by

swaha

on Thursday April 05, 2007 @10:47AM

swaha writes: "Microsoft is apparently threatened by open source software running under Vista and has imposed limitations on memory size on GCC compiled programs that were not present under either XP or Win 98SE or even MS-DOS."

Submission + - Canadian ISP Blocking Encrypted Email

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 05, 2007 @10:14AM

An anonymous reader writes: Michael Geist reports that Rogers, one of Canada's largest ISPs, has implemented new technologies that may limit access to basic services such as email. The move comes as a result of Rogers packet shaping, which limits the bandwidth allocated to peer-to-peer applications. Many P2P apps now encrypt their data, so in response Rogers is simply degrading all encrypted traffic and in the process mistaking encrypted email traffic for BitTorrent traffic.

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