Computerworld has an article predicting what your laptop will be like in 5 years. Hmm, maybe. Interesting.
Laptop of the Future? All Screen, No Keyboard
12 Thursday Jun 2008
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Happy 30th Birthday Intel 80×86
09 Monday Jun 2008
For those who don’t know, the Intel 8086 was the great-great-great grandfather of the Pentium chip in your PC or Mac. The family is 30 years old. Here’s a ComputerWorld article.
The 8086, 8088 (cpu in the very first IBM PC), and 80286 had a segmented memory architecture that drove us programmers to abuse substances 🙂 Hey, I was young then. You could only address 64K directly, then you had to fool with the segment registers to get to more of the 24 bit total address space. This was finally fixed in the 80386 with its 32 bit flat architecture.
I also remember the 8080, 8085, and my favorite of the 8 bit world the 8051 microcontroller (an 8085 variant designed for embedded applications). The 8051 was the first microprocessor I really worked with professionally. I fondly remember the Intel micro development system that could emulate this chip at full speed. The first microprocessor I ever programmed was the 6502 (not an Intel chip).
Why Malware is Avoidable on Macs
01 Tuesday Apr 2008
The Unavoidable Malware Myth: Why Apple Won’t Inherit Microsoft’s Malware Crown — RoughlyDrafted Magazine via kwout
Interesting article explaining that malware such as viruses, adware, spam bots, etc are a major problem on Windows and not on Apple Macs. The reason is the poor quality of Windows.
Teen Kills His Dad Over Internet Use
06 Thursday Mar 2008
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Teen who killed dad angry he couldn’t use Internet via kwout
I’ve heard of internet addiction, if that’s the story here this kid had it really bad. Or perhaps it was just a teenager vs. parent argument over behavior gone bad.
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo
02 Saturday Feb 2008
This NYT article starts with the sentence “Oh, how the mighty have fallen.”
A Giant Bid That Shows How Tired the Giant Is – New York Times via kwout
My own take is this is a desperate act, an admission that Google is dominating Microsoft in the state of the art area of online or so called “cloud” applications. MS, of course, still owns the desktop 😦 especially in larger organizations.
I don’t think this merger would work, even if it gets by the EU regulators who have seen MS as being anti-competitive in the past. The US regulators have been either asleep or for sale regarding MS’s behavior. These companies have very different cutures and technology bases.
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