Posts by tom hall

Microsoft super sizes multi-threaded tripe

Solaris is the answer?

Sun have Solaris working on the 32 "core" Niagara (depending on how you count; 8 4-way cores)

See http://www.sun.com/processors/UltraSPARC-T1/ - outstanding.

More within my price range is a dual socket-f athlon board with 2 dual core cpus for now, ready to go to 2 quad core.

From a video presentation by Bill Moore on ZFS (see http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/zfs_learning_center.jsp ) I get the impression Sun have been thinking about concurrency for some time in their kernel.

I'm waiting till www.gnusolaris.com stops being alpha and then I should have most of debians tools and the SunOS kernel.

Erlang is the answer?

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/erlang.html

Very interesting, I'm certainly getting involved.

Stolen laptops fuel industrial espionage fears for UK software firm

Re: Market Leaders

Thing is I dont think there is any restriction on saying

A market leader in X ("A" being the weasel word here)

or

One of the best X in the galaxy.

Meaningless phrases,

I am one of the sexiest men in Britain for sure, perhaps the 20 millionth.

Google's AdWords set to face jury for the first time

Google and Apple

They stopped me saying something along the lines of

"compatible with Windows/Apple/Linux"

because of the word Apple.

Why only protect apple?

Don't forget the ‘C’ in Objective-C

This book may be worthwhile

I stumbled across this the other day

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270658/

Write Great Code Volume I: Understanding the Machine

Write Great Code, Volume II: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level

Cant give a full blown recommendation as I'm just starting as a programmer.

Windows on Mac: BootCamp vs Parallels Desktop

Don't forget Wine

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/

works pretty well in linux, may be worth a look.