Comment Scaling, or not (Score 1) 223
Also have a look at that blog post, by a Sun employee, on the SUn blog :
http://blogs.sun.com/mrbenchmark/entry/scaling_mysql_on_a_256
The comments are insightful.
Comment Re:Don't forget the WebKit team (Score 5, Insightful) 444
Before anyone else, thanks to the KDE team. It looks like Apple and Google names shadow the developpers behind KHTML, but WebKit would probably never have existed as it is now without KHTML.
Comment YARV to LLVM (Score 1) 75
I have great hopes in the YARV to LLVM compiler (yarv2llvm), even if you can't read japanese, have a look at the numbers: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/miura1729/20081012/1223785541
Comment Still no local storage (Score 1, Interesting) 258
It looks like it still doesn't implement any kind of local storage.
A feature that other browsers have for years, including IE since IE 5.5.
No big improvement in their Javascript engine either.
And Dragonfly is still way behind Firebug and Web Inspector.
Opera used to be great, it was ahead of time in the Mozilla Firebird days. But nowadays they seem to fall behing other browsers. Plus Opera is closed-source and there's even no NetBSD/OpenBSD/DragonflyBSD blob. Plus it used to be fast and light compared to other browsers, but according to recent stories published on
I was an Opera lover, but nowadays, I really see no point in using it over Firefox and Webkit.
Comment No blogbench bench? (Score 1) 249
Ehm, still those benchmarks filesystems are optimized for. Please try blogbench in order to make filesystem really hurt like they would do for a file server.
Comment querySelectorAll (Score 1) 371
Too bad that they used an old version of Prototype. Version 1.6.0.2 didn't support querySelectorAll(), that Safari has for a long time.
Comment GPL... (Score 4, Insightful) 369
GPL. So BSD coders will have to rewrite it from scratch.
This is better than nothing, but worse than good documentation and worse than a BSD driver (that could be merged to BSD and GPL licensed operating systems).
Feed New Zealand peeps imitate plants to do solar on the cheap (engadget.com)
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Obviously, scientists didn't exactly originate the idea of harvesting energy from the sun when they started slapping together solar cells -- plants have been up on this whole photosynthesis mojo for a good long while. Now some researchers at Massey University in New Zealand have developed a range of synthetic dyes from organic compounds that closely mimic the light harvesting that goes on in nature. Other scientists have been pursuing similar solar techniques, but there's a major difficulty in getting the dyes to pass the energy on for actual use. After 10 years of research, the Massey scientists claim to have "the most efficient porphyrin dye in the world." Benefits of the dyes over traditional silicon-based solar panels include the ability to operate in low light, 10x cheaper production, and flexible application -- starting with canvassing roofs, walls and windows, but eventually moving on to wearable items that can charge your electronics stash. A working prototype for "real applications" should be ready in a couple years.[Via The Raw Feed]
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Feed Company With Checkered Past Tries To Claim Patent On Cell Phone Buttons (techdirt.com)
You might remember a company called Hop-On, which claimed several years ago that it had developed the first "disposable" cell phone. While the company was able to attract a lot of media attention, the phones it was showing off turned out to be nothing more than repackaged Nokia phones. A few years later, Hop-On claimed to really come out with the disposable phones, but they made no impact on the market whatsoever. In the meantime, the company's CEO got indicted for fraud related to a previous company, and was eventually convicted. Last month, he managed to avoid jail time for that crime, and went back to the helm at Hop-On, just in time for the company to announce it's been awarded a patent covering "a MP3 Phone with speakers on the side, in addition to front and side buttons to activate its camera/video features." The CEO adds that he's looking forward to raking in the cash from operators, retailers and handset vendors, since millions of phones meeting this description have been sold in the US. However, the company was awarded a design patent, not a utility patent, so his assertion of being in the money may be just a little bit premature since design patents cover only the ornamental characteristics of the object. Furthermore, design patents aren't especially broad, since they cover one single design of an object. They also must be original -- so the very fact that millions of supposedly infringing handsets were sold before the patent was awarded (since design patent applications aren't published until the patent is awarded) might undermine the company's claim just a little bit.
Submission + - WANdisco Announces Support Services for Subversion
Owlsfan writes: "PLEASANTON, Calif. April 6, 2007 — WANdisco, the world leader in real-time multi-site development solutions announced today that it would provide professional support services for Subversion. In order to meet the growing demand for enterprise-class support for Subversion, WANdisco will offer the following services:
1. Subversion Support Subscription — a set of services and tools that assist enterprises during every stage of deployment — from implementation planning, to on-going administration and maintenance. WANdisco Support Subscriptions help reduce business and technical risks, increase IT productivity, and insure successful Subversion deployments.
2. Subversion Consulting Services — While the migration to Subversion provides many benefits, there are important questions that need to be answered to insure a successful deployment. WANdisco's consulting services assist in all facets of Subversion roll-out including migration from other source code management systems including CVS, IBM ClearCase and Borland StarTeam.
3. WANdisco Training Services — Designed to help both users and administrators jump start Subversion adoption and on-going use within your organization. Training services can be tailored to specific needs and are available in both classroom and online formats. Topics include: introduction to features & functions, overview of Subversion clients, implementation of Subversion in conjunction with Apache, branching, merging, conflict resolution, locking, bug fixes, and administration.
"We see professional support for Subversion as a critical requirement of any enterprise deployment," said David Richards, President & CEO of WANdisco, Inc. "Our existing customers have been telling us that there is a gap in the market for these services and we have the staff with the unique skills required to solve this problem."
Availability
WANdisco's support services for Subversion are available now. For more information please see: http://www.wandisco.com/php/subversion_support.php
About WANdisco
Since 2001 WANdisco has set out to push the limits of what can be achieved with distributed systems deployed on a Wide Area Network (WAN). The result of these efforts is new technology that fundamentally changes the way distributed nodes, or servers, interact to provide unprecedented levels of reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) enabling the internet to realize its full potential. WANdisco has applied this technology to the development of its suite of MultiSite SCM solutions for CVS, CVSNT, and Subversion. For the first time a development team can truly be spread-out across the world and work as one unit, in real-time.
Global 2000 companies rely on WANdisco's suite of SCM solutions for CVS,CVSNT and Subversion to enable them to distribute work based on where their talent is located, rather than on the basis of time-zone constraints. This results in dramatically reduced costs and significantly improved utilization of scarce resources. Visit http://www.wandisco.com/"
1. Subversion Support Subscription — a set of services and tools that assist enterprises during every stage of deployment — from implementation planning, to on-going administration and maintenance. WANdisco Support Subscriptions help reduce business and technical risks, increase IT productivity, and insure successful Subversion deployments.
2. Subversion Consulting Services — While the migration to Subversion provides many benefits, there are important questions that need to be answered to insure a successful deployment. WANdisco's consulting services assist in all facets of Subversion roll-out including migration from other source code management systems including CVS, IBM ClearCase and Borland StarTeam.
3. WANdisco Training Services — Designed to help both users and administrators jump start Subversion adoption and on-going use within your organization. Training services can be tailored to specific needs and are available in both classroom and online formats. Topics include: introduction to features & functions, overview of Subversion clients, implementation of Subversion in conjunction with Apache, branching, merging, conflict resolution, locking, bug fixes, and administration.
"We see professional support for Subversion as a critical requirement of any enterprise deployment," said David Richards, President & CEO of WANdisco, Inc. "Our existing customers have been telling us that there is a gap in the market for these services and we have the staff with the unique skills required to solve this problem."
Availability
WANdisco's support services for Subversion are available now. For more information please see: http://www.wandisco.com/php/subversion_support.ph
About WANdisco
Since 2001 WANdisco has set out to push the limits of what can be achieved with distributed systems deployed on a Wide Area Network (WAN). The result of these efforts is new technology that fundamentally changes the way distributed nodes, or servers, interact to provide unprecedented levels of reliability, availability and scalability (RAS) enabling the internet to realize its full potential. WANdisco has applied this technology to the development of its suite of MultiSite SCM solutions for CVS, CVSNT, and Subversion. For the first time a development team can truly be spread-out across the world and work as one unit, in real-time.
Global 2000 companies rely on WANdisco's suite of SCM solutions for CVS,CVSNT and Subversion to enable them to distribute work based on where their talent is located, rather than on the basis of time-zone constraints. This results in dramatically reduced costs and significantly improved utilization of scarce resources. Visit http://www.wandisco.com/"
Submission + - Google Stolen the wordlist
orz writes: Today, Google.cn announced that they offer a new Chinese input Method to Chinese users. Few hours later, an angry article was post in www.techweb.com.cn, which is one of the most famous Chinese computer tech forum, and declared that the wordlist of the Google's new Chinese input Method copied a same wordlist from sogou.com, which is an important searching engine company in China. And sougou.com launched its Chinese input Method few months ago.
The article showed some evidence to prove that Google.cn did copied the wordlist of sogou.com.com's. Some picture shows that google's new Chinese input Method has the same mistakes in Chinese spelling as well as that of sogou.com's. And when user inputs the abbreviation of some Chinese names or nicknames of numbers of sogou.com.com's program designers, google's input Method can spell out the full names. Some of the names are not very familiar even for Chinese people.
Google Fans tried to fight back, explain that it is google's searching engine that collected those words and names from Internet, the evidence can not prove anything except the pride and prejudice of the Chinese program designers'. Google.cn has no comment for this event till now.
Original post is here [Chinese!!!]: http://forum.techweb.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=592 17&extra=page%3D1&page=1
Submission + - Site incorporates OSS code bounties in bug tracker
Maur writes: BountySource is a hosted project management site for OSS, but unlike SourceForge or Google Code, BountySource incorporates code bounties directly into the bug/feature tracker. Other sites (like Bounty County) have tried to track bounties but have failed because they merely link to the bounty details and do not hold the money in escrow.
BountySource currently allows bounties to be placed using Paypal and has a built-in dispute settlement system. The site shows signs of beta software, but it's under active development and according to their roadmap they have some cool features in the works. Some major projects, such as ZSNES, have already switched to it.
Submission + - Folding@home killing the planet
Drakaal writes: "Folding@Home is Killing the planet
Folding@Home costs nearly $70million, uses 584gigawatt hours of power, and produces 730 kilotons of Carbon dioxide. Is fighting mad cow worth it? This article weighs the cost benefit of donating electricity and CPU Cycles, VS. the Real Cost of the project."
Folding@Home costs nearly $70million, uses 584gigawatt hours of power, and produces 730 kilotons of Carbon dioxide. Is fighting mad cow worth it? This article weighs the cost benefit of donating electricity and CPU Cycles, VS. the Real Cost of the project."
Feed Qualcomm Seeks Arbitration Ruling in Nokia Dispute (nytimes.com)
The wireless chip developer hopes to resolve a dispute over a technology license agreement that expires Monday..
Feed Systems to Prevent Rollovers to Be in All New Cars by 2012 (nytimes.com)
The government said the technology, called electronic stability control, could save 5,300 to 9,600 lives annually.
