A recent change in Apple’s roadmap for the future of its operating system has left some old-school developers feeling let down.
At the 2006 Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple promised support for 64-bit processing in both Cocoa and Carbon programming environments. Then, at the 2007 WWDC held last week — and only six months before the release of its new operating system — Apple quietly let it be known that its much-hyped support for 64-bit applications will not be extended to the Carbon programming environment. Only apps written with the newer Cocoa toolkit will be able to support 64-bit processing from top to bottom.
A wiki has been set up as a sort of ad hoc FAQ about the change of course, including this bit of reasoning from Apple’s Eric Schlegel: “Fundamentally, Apple engineering is focused on Cocoa much more than Carbon, and Apple’s engineering management made the decision to un-support 64-bit Carbon to emphasize that fact.”
I’d love to say I hated KDE, for only one reason though, its File-Manager plus browser combo called Konqueror.
Now everything seems to have changed! KDE4 will have new Seperate file manager called Dolphin.
KDE4 is scheduled to be released in October 2007 and will have a lot of updates from the current release. It will be using QT4, which according to many sources will increase the desktop performance by 20-30%. Read the rest of this entry »
General
* at
o Runs a command or script at a given time
* atq
o Shows the jobs that are scheduled to run
* atrm
o Used to remove a job that is scheduled to run
* batch
o Runs a command or script and is really a subset of the at command that takes you to the at>prompt if you type only batch
* cat
o Displays the contents of a file to the screen
* cd
o Changes to another directory
* chgrp
o Changes the group associated with one or more files to a different group
* chmod
o Controls file security
* chown
o Changes file ownership
* chsh
o Sets your login shell
* cmp
o Used to compare two files
* cp
o Copies a file to another directory (and you can rename the file at the same time)
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This is a follow up to the previous Compatibility List for Windows Vista. The March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update is a package of software updates that address common application compatibility issues in Windows Vista. When you try to install and run certain legacy games or applications in Windows Vista, you may experience one or more of the following symptoms:
• The game, the application, or the firmware may not be installed correctly.
• The game, the application, or the firmware may cause system instability.
• The primary functions of the game, the application, or the firmware may not work correctly.
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Microsoft has finally released the Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP x64 edition. The much awaited service packs offer critical updates and patches.
This is also a major update for those using the Windows Server 2003 since service pack 2 offers better performance and features.
Chief executive and president of Nvidia Jen-Hsun Huang said recently that NVIDIA plans to release a new series video cards for laptops , the GeForce 8, in time for Intel’s Centrino Pro laptop platform launch.
“We are ramping production on our GeForce 8 family of laptop GPUs, the industry’s first DirectX 10 and high-definition video GPU for laptops. GeForce 8 will be the only DX10 GPU shipping in the upcoming Santa Rosa laptop launch,†Mr. Huang said.
Good news for all you Vista fanatics and probable buyers, in light of recent speculations that there are many softwares that don’t work with Windows Vista, Microsoft has gone ahead to publish a list of applications that have earned the “Certified for Windows Vista†or the “Works with Windows Vista†logo.
The list applies to both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Vista.
The latest version of Gentoo based SaboyanLinux, version 3.26 x86-64 has been released.
What makes Sabayon differs from any other Gentoo distro is that the initial install is made using pre-compiled binary packages, instead of installing the entire operating system from the source code.
