Intel Larrabee story revealed
This came via Miguel de Icaza on Twitter. Very interesting read about what’s been happening behind the scenes at Intel with Larrabee. I’ve been very interested in Larrabee, since it represents the continuation of moving more and more onto the general purpose CPUs instead of having specialized chips for things like 3D graphics. The idea of being able to have a very large multicore (64 at the very least) CPU that can run software to be the GPU is a very cool idea. It seems more logical to me that this is the way things are going rather than projects like OpenCL, where CPU load is offloaded onto the GPU. But after reading this article, it is very clear that we are a long way from that goal.
Jan 02, 2010 Read More »
Digital Copy
I’ve noticed that quite a few movies these days are coming out as a Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy now – I just picked up a copy of Up at Target for $20, for example. I think this is a really smart way for the studios to get people to upgrade to Blu-ray. Right now, I happen to own two movies on Blu-ray, but no player yet. I hadn’t really thought about buying a Blu-ray player before now, but with a growing collection and cheaper players, I just might now.
Jan 02, 2010 Read More »
Recursive Descent
A co-worker of mine from Zeemote just started a new blog. Paul’s a really smart guy, so it should be an interesting read. Go check it out.
Jan 02, 2010 Read More »
Tomorrow afternoon, there will be a hockey game between the Bruins and Flyers played at Fenway Park. Yes, that Fenway Park. I happened to be able to go there yesterday with my son to help put a bunch of seat cushions down with the Boy Scouts. It was great fun to see the park in December and setup for hockey instead of baseball.
We also got to hear the Dropkick Murphys practicing as well. I was really impressed at how good their live act sounds, since I’ve never actually seen them perform before.
Dec 31, 2009 Read More »
Absolutely ridiculous… this is after installing the remaining updates from earlier. I’m not sure it’s possible to make the update process any worse than this.
Dec 31, 2009 Read More »
Vista Updates
I’m really starting to wonder if I’ll be able to have a fully updated Vista install by the end of the year now. Since last night at 9:30, the machine has been trying to install 25 updates, and it’s spent over an hour on the 24th update now. I’m pretty certain I could’ve installed Snow Leopard (or even Leopard or Tiger) and had it fully updated by this point. Really scary how bad this process is…
Dec 31, 2009 Read More »
Windows 7 and Boot Camp
Looks like Apple is almost certainly not going to meet it’s self-declared deadline of end of 2009 for Windows 7 support in Boot Camp. Of course, there is still almost 2 days to go in 2009, but with all the rumors on the web about a tablet, I don’t think Windows 7 support is their highest priority.
On an aside, it is now going on almost 2 months since Snow Leopard was updated and 3 months since the iPhone OS got an update. This, to me, is the biggest indicator that Apple is working on something big. Back when the iPhone was announced, Apple was then working on MacOS X 10.5 (aka, Leopard). They were originally going to release Leopard at the end of 2006. Instead, they pushed Leopard’s release date to October of 2007 because they were focusing on the iPhone. It appears something similar may be underway right now since there hasn’t even been any rumors about a Snow Leopard or iPhone OS update in a while.
Dec 30, 2009 Read More »
Windows Vista
Someone please tell me that was a joke, right? Because even though I don’t care for Microsoft that much, I have a hard time believing that even they could’ve released something as horrible to install as Vista.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if you are attempting to install Vista from the install DVD, you’ve already failed. There is no sane reason why after almost 7 hours that I shouldn’t have a completely installed and updated Vista install on my machine. I still haven’t even been offered SP1 via Windows Update yet and my patience is getting very thin.
Dec 30, 2009 Read More »
mxcl’s homebrew at master – GitHub
mxcl’s homebrew at master – GitHub
I shared this on my Google Reader share the other day, but before I had really had a chance to try it out. But now I have had the chance, and I have to say, I am pretty impressed with it so far. For the packages I’ve installed with it so far, it has hands down beaten Fink and MacPorts in simplicity, ease of use, and minimizing the amount of crap on my machine. In fact, it’s convinced me to stop installing things via configure, make, make install and to use this instead.
Dec 27, 2009 Read More »
The Unarchiver
I just went looking for this again to install on my machine and I wanted to not only remind myself for the future, but also share it with others.
The Unarchiver is a replacement for the BOMArchiveHelper.app that comes with MacOS X. You drag it to your Applications folder, run it once to setup which files it handles, and then pretty much forget about it. From then on, it will handle opening most of the compressed file formats that you find on the Internet, including RAR, 7-zip and Stuffit files.
Dec 26, 2009 Read More »