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Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1
News It says TraceMonkey will speed JavaScript apps dramatically, making browsing snappier and opening new horizons for Web applications.
Tags: Browser, Programming languages, Protocols and platforms, Web browsers, Mozilla Corp., 3D, Web Application, Mozilla Firefox, software, processor
Microsoft eyes multicore boost from Windows 7
News New operating system should be able to make better use of modern multicore chips--in part through changes to adapt Windows to big servers.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Server platforms, Components, Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Parallel Pattern Library, Microsoft Corp., Tool, Microsoft Windows 7
IT: Set your sights high
Insight perspective In a depressed economic climate, IT should raise its sights and help the business generate revenue, says analyst.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Infrastructure/architecture management, IT Governance, IT Budget, CRM, IT-spending, Sales, software, marketing, revenue
Apple acknowledges Snow Leopard data loss issue
News Company says it is aware of a problem related to guest account log-ins that "occurs only in extremely rare cases" and it does not yet have a fix for it.
Tags: Mac OS, Apple Inc., guest account, cell phone, CBS Interactive Inc., mobile, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, discussion board
Intel hopes 48-core chip will solve new challenges
News 1.3-billion transistor processor could endow computers with human-like processing abilities and meet today's data center problems.
Tags: Processors, Intel Corp., Multi-core, Single-chip Cloud Computer, Computer, Microsoft Corp., Chip, Graphics, Programming, processor
Downed Facebook accounts still haven't returned
News It's been a week and some members say they still receive a "down for maintenance" error message when trying to access their profiles.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Web sites, Web 2.0, Video, YouTube Inc., e-mail, Mark Zuckerberg
Implementing multithreading in .NET: Two major factors to consider
Techguide Justin James responds to an interesting question about multithreading in .NET from a reader, and includes downloadable sample code.
Tags: .NET, Processors, Protocols and platforms, Thread, CPU, C#, ThreadPool, Semaphore, Thread B, X
Apple: Next Mac OS X unlocks chip power
News Snow Leopard features tech called Grand Central Dispatch to better tap into multicore chip power. Also: OpenCL for doing calculations on a graphics chip.
Tags: Processors, Multiprocessor servers, Apple Inc., Chip, Graphics, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, graphics chip, processor
Gartner: Multicore chips leave software trailing
News The growth of multicore processors is too fast for software, which struggles to use the technology effectively, research firm says.
Tags: Mobile processors, Processors, Business applications, Mobile applications, Operating systems, Multi-core, Chip, Gartner Inc., operating system, Ferrari
Get agile requirements by asking for user stories
Techguide Having trouble gathering agile requirements from a nontechnical client? Consider asking for user stories, which are simple and outline tasks users plan to do when they sit down at the keyboard.
Tags: IT project management, Project management, IT Professional, Rick, Environment, Use Case, job, technique, natural language, team
DTrace gets guernsey in new FreeBSD
News The FreeBSD Project has released a new stable version of its popular Unix operating system, officially incorporating for the first time Sun Microsystems' flagship DTrace performance analysis and debugging tool.
Tags: Operating systems, Open source, CPU, Database, Unix, operating system, Sun Solaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., DTrace, Environment
Google's plans for Android's YouTube
News The company releases more information about some of the goodies we can expect out of version 1.5 of the Android smartphone operating system.
Tags: Linux, Smart phones, Google Picasa, Google Inc., Web Browser, Video, photograph, T-Mobile G1, YouTube Inc., T-Mobile
Tools to monitor memory usage in Windows 7
Techguide Over the years, Microsoft has vastly improved the primitive Resource Meter and increasingly made it easier to see what is going on with the OS's use of memory.
Tags: Microsoft Windows, Amount, System Resource, Physical Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Entry, Tool, Microsoft Windows 7, Memory, operating system
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.26GHz Xeon, 2009)
Reviews Apple's new eight-core Mac Pro shows improvements in high-intensity digital media and multitasking scenarios. We also love the design tweaks that improve on Apple's already industry-leading efforts. Any Apple-bound design professional would welcome this powerful tool.
Tags: Apple Mac Pro, Apple Inc., Intel Xeon, CPU, Chip, Graphics, Card, Apple Macintosh, Model, Memory
Gain fine control in OpenVZ with resource management
Techguide Get the most out of OpenVZ by using all the settings that allow you to control resources that are made available to the OpenVZ containers.
Tags: Open source, Virtualization, Red Hat Inc., CPU, host system, allocation, Canada, exec, barrier, disk
