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The State of Ruby VMs — Ruby Renaissance 89

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday November 22, 2009 @11:59AM from the take-your-pick dept.

igrigorik writes "In the short span of just a couple of years, the Ruby VM space has evolved to more than just a handful of choices: MRI, JRuby, IronRuby, MacRuby, Rubinius, MagLev, REE and BlueRuby. Four of these VMs will hit 1.0 status in the upcoming year and will open up entirely new possibilities for the language — Mac apps via MacRuby, Ruby in the browser via Silverlight, object persistence via Smalltalk VM, and so forth. This article takes a detailed look at the past year, the progress of each project, and where the community is heading. It's an exciting time to be a Rubyist."

AvantGo Shutting Down, Changing Markets 36

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 03, 2009 @03:09PM from the oh-fickle-fate dept.

codebudo writes "AvantGo, the once ubiquitous application for all PDAs, is shutting down its web sync service. Users of the service have just begun to see banners stating, 'Starting June 30, Avantgo will no longer offer mobile web content.' According to parent company Sybase, AvantGo will transition from a mobile web service, to an SMS advertising and content delivery system."

Zotac's Ion-Based Mini-ITX Board For Atom Debuts 106

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @10:54AM from the underseat-entertainment-box-for-the-subaru dept.

MojoKid writes "There have been a handful of NVIDIA Ion-based products with Intel's Atom processor that have been unveiled recently, ranging from NVIDIA's own reference system, to the Acer Aspire Revo SFF PC. Today Zotac announced an Ion motherboard that will be appealing to the DIY crowd. The design of this IONITX-A model board tested and reviewed here in particular, offers some very interesting features, not the least of which is its DC power input with an external power brick. It also is built on Intel's dual core Atom process for a bit more horsepower to back up NVIDIA's Ion integrated graphics chip."

Should Network Cables Be Replaced? 524

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @04:33PM from the depends-where-you-work dept.

Jyms writes "As technology changes, so hubs routers and switches are upgraded, but does the cabling need replacing, and if so, how often? Coax gave way to CAT 5 and CAT 5e replaced that. If you are running a 100Mbit/s network on old CAT 5, can that affect performance? Do CAT 5(e) cables get old?"

Comment Who knew that Men Without Hats saw this coming (Score 4, Funny) 659

by Yohahn on Sunday January 25, 2009 @09:15PM (#26602951) Attached to: Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note

Have a look here:
http://www.menwithouthats.com/micro.html

Men Without Hats knew this was coming.

Pop goes the world!

Comment Re:Fallout from the election (Score 1) 3709

by Arnos on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @11:11AM (#25641641) Attached to: Barack Obama Wins US Presidency

Crud now that "the Other guy" won, that means Fallout 3 can't happen.
Darn *throws Vault tickets away*

Submission + - Ethiopian Govt Promotes IP Throughout Society (allafrica.com)

Submitted by candl on Friday May 30, 2008 @09:49AM

candl writes: Ethiopia has mobilized its media, schools, judicial and law enforcement agencies, as well as commercial, cultural, artistic and scientific groups to press home the need for intellectual property (IP) protection to develop the country's economy. Basically, they're starting a PR campaign against piracy, but the line that caught my attention was this: With regard to the Ethiopian music industry, the association of recording companies agreed to lower the prices of compact discs of original recordings from $15 to $2.50. The price reduction took away much of the incentive to produce pirated compact discs, which cost about $1.10.

Submission + - iPhone-like Linux Phone Delayed

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:34PM

An anonymous reader writes: As Apple launches its iPhone, a company attempting to build a similar touchscreen-based phone around an open, user-extensible Linux OS has acknowledged significant delays. OpenMoko now hopes to ship its first "mass market" model in October, according to the leader of the project, which is spinning out as a separate company from Taiwanese OEM/ODM giant FIC. All of OpenMoko.com's phones will reportedly be unlocked GSM/GPRS devices, and will run a user-modifiable Linux-based OS maintained by OpenMoko.org, an open source project sponsored largely by FIC to date.

Submission + - Wii lightsaber game in the works (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by moderatorrater on Thursday June 28, 2007 @12:32PM

moderatorrater writes: Gamasutra's reporting on a Lucasarts employee answer to a question about a Wii lightsaber game. From the article:

We're all over that, and internally we have already played a lightsaber game on the Wii. It's a lot of fun, and we'll get there.
Hopefully it's more like Jedi Academy than Jedi Power Battles.

Comment Re:for the grammer nazi's (Score 1) 75

by Yohahn on Tuesday August 02, 2005 @10:37AM (#13221553) Attached to: Django: Python's Rapid Web Development Framework

I never challenge the spelling nazi's. There, I simply admit defeat.

That said, how do you pronounce "grammar"? My spelling "mistake" (languages evolve, right?) is due to my spelling it as I say it.

Anyway, either I spelled it wrong, or I was referring to nazis from grammer, IN.

Comment Re:Streamsicle (Score 1) 158

by candl on Friday March 26, 2004 @11:02AM (#8679545) Attached to: Streaming MP3s on Demand?

I was going to give props to streamsicle too, but I see I'm now just another 'ME TOO.' Streamsicle + Winamp is a hoot and ultra easy. Bandwidth is an issue but there are work arounds. (May sound obvious, but Streamsicle doesn't have any built in throttling, just does a 128 bitstream) Check the forums for tweaks.

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