Another company is preparing to sell Intel-based computers that can run Apple’s Mac OS X. But unlike Psystar, a Florida clone maker that’s been sued by Apple, Open Tech won’t pre-install the operating system on its machines. Open Tech’s Home (equipped with an Intel dual-core Pentium processor, 3GB of memory, an nVidia GeForce 8600 CT video card and a 500GB hard drive) and XT (which includes an Intel Core 2 quad-core CPU, 4GB of RAM, an nVidia GeForce 8800 video card and a 640GB drive) machines will sell for $620 and $1,200, respectively. Open Tech is prepared to do battle with Apple if it comes after Open Tech. ‘We definitely would defend this,’ said [Open Tech spokesman] Tom. ‘The only possible case that Apple can make, the only one that has any chance, would be based on the end-user licensing agreement.
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Another programming acronym: ARAX
Asynchronous Ruby and XML. You heard it folks, Asynchronous Ruby. Guess who is pushing it? Yeap, Microsoft. It will be completely integrated into the Silverlight package that Microsoft is failing miserably to spread across the internet. Frankly, why would they succeed in getting programmers to use Silverlight - Microsoft still uses Flash.
Can ARAX overcome the overwhelming appeal of AJAX? I doubt it, mostly after reading the following:
Indeed, Galbraith said, “As long as Windows/Office dominates Microsoft’s balance sheet, these cross-platform Microsoft plays always feel a bit like the story of the boy who upon encountering a rattlesnake picks it up after it promises not to hurt him, upon which the snake promptly bites. After the boy protests, the snake says: ‘You knew what I was when you picked me up.’ No matter what capabilities Silverlight may have, I think most of us in the community simply wouldn’t dream of embracing architectures dependent on Microsoft’s goodwill to support other OS vendors.”
Dion Almaer, the other co-founder of Ajaxian.com, said, “It is interesting to note that you have been able to use JRuby to run Ruby in the browser for quite some time … IronRuby is great. Getting more languages into the browser is great.”
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Worst Comcast Story to Date
I thought my experiences with Comcast were bad: frequent outages, technicians who didn’t know how to connect the line to my house, and shotty billing techniques; the following is the worst Comcast story I have hard in a while:
In the spring of 2005, Comcast had a national DNS problem that lasted for a couple of days.
A couple of weeks after that , my own Comcast started disconnecting and reconnecting all by itself. I’d be on one minute and off the next. Sure it would work 90% of the time, but only about 9 out of every 10 minutes.
The outages would be 3 or 4 seconds, or up to a minute or more. working remotely or working on a server became impossible. A constant internet connection for me is just as important as speed. Here’s a sustained ping to Comcast…
Microsoft Vista is actually selling?
According to Steve Ballmer, Vista is selling “incredibly well”.
“”Vista sells on almost 100 per cent of all the new consumer PCs around the world,” the Microsoft CEO proclaimed. He added that the operating system was also selling on, “45 percent of all of new business PCs”. Which is enlightening, since business users are about the ony buyers of new PCs that get a choice.”
After reading that nobody likes Microsoft’s most recent OS, Vista, this news is quite surprising. Personally, I have used Vista for over a year and have never had a problem with it. Not one crash. No hardware compatibility issues. No problems whatsoever.
XP was and still is a beautiful operating system. XP lacked one aspect thought, aesthetic value. Vista is an amazing piece of eye candy with awe-inspiring graphics.
The biggest complaint I hear about Vista is that it “hogs so much RAM”. This is because the graphics functions are stored in the kernel rather than in virtual memory, which eats up more RAM. Big deal, it looks pretty enough to part with an extra gig of RAM.
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