Jan 25, 2006
Demise of the Alpha + More
A nice run down on why the DEC Alpha processor was so cool (and of course why it was killed off). In a similar vein Emulators International have an Alpha emulator that lets you run VMS on your Windows XP system. A little pricey at $495US but I guess for the target audience of VMS users money isn't a big issue.
Comprehensive review of the OQO 01+. Lovely form factor but there seem to be reservations about the screen brightness, screen touch-surface and stylus. Maybe they'll get it right in the next revision.
The Japanese even seem to have a knack for classy gift wrapping technique. Check out something similar over here for a near zen like How to fold a shirt.
This is very cool - OGLE: The OpenGLExtractor - it allows 3D Screen Captures - essentially it intercepts and interprets the 3D data between the application and the screen - it can then use this to re-create the object in 3D. This could probably be really useful at my previous company who have some cool 3D visualisation tools.
Handy - perl script converts log files into RSS so you can subscribe to them in your feedreader. Nice way to keep tabs on your servers.
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