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Hands-on We loved the Xandros based OS the Asus put on the original Eee PC for its simplicity and direct access to applications. Likewise Acer's version of Linpus, installed on the Linux versions of its Aspire One netbook. For 90 per cent of the tasks anyone's likely to perform on a netbook, they're spot on and allow the machines to boot up in under 20 seconds.
via The best netbook-friendly Linux distros • Register Hardware. -
As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories.
In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency. In the last five years computers are becoming even more parallel. Intel is pushing multi-core achiteture also on commodity personal computers. Neverless the computing power is ofter not well used: one again, hardware is a step head of our day-by-day software development. Remember when the 80286 came into light. The 286 was able to provide a multi-programming architecture but without memory management protection. We had to wait 386 hardware to see software working on preemptive multi-tasking, because software cannot cope with unprotected memory. In one word, it costs too much to develop a operating system without the new features the 80386 bring to us. What about concurrent programming? Can we look similarities in the concurrency field?
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Hi World. I didn’t lost a bit of grip on edge news, altrought now I am married!
In the first days of May we read about a new serach engine, called WolframAlpha.
The idea behind WolframAlpha are interesting, so we will take a close look to it.
Slashdot is following the engine very tightly (“Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera”, published on May 16) ans so will do Gioorgi.com.
[UPDATED! Google Squared is out of there!!]
First published on May 18th, 2009
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Col voto di martedì i cittadini della West Coast hanno respinto ad ampia maggioranza gli interventi fiscali (un’addizionale dell’1% sull’imposta di consumo, un aumento della tassa di circolazione e un incremento dello 0,25% dell’Irpef californiana) coi quali il governatore e il Parlamento dello Stato avevano deciso di colmare un deficit di bilancio di ben 21 miliardi di dollari. L'unica «proposition» approvata è quella che vieta ogni aumento retributivo per parlamentari e pubblici amministratori quando il bilancio è in passivo (ieri sono stati ridotti del 18% gli stipendi dei funzionari dello Stato con cariche elettive).
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