I’ve been on Yahoo! Answers recently, and noticed that almost every other question seems to be about the Large Hadron Collider, and “will it destroy the world”.
Well, as far as I can tell, there are four possible answers to that question: (more…)
How prescient. After talking about Amoeba, Orca and other fluffy Vrije Universitat stuff, PC World just interviewed Andrew Tanenbaum. And MINIX was next on my left for OS of the week, too 
The Inquirer’s top ten trends of 2008, unshockingly, suggests that virtualisation won’t go mainstream next year.
Simon Collis, editor of esotechnica, expresses no surprise: “virtualisation is gaining slowly among those sort of people who like this kind of thing. But for those who don’t, it’s no big deal.”
Peter Stringfellow, London nightclub owner and entrepreneur, wasn’t consulted for this post, and didn’t decline not to uncomment.
“Well,” said an unnamed spokesperson for a company that preferred not to be named at some yet-to-be-revealed point in the near-to-distant future, “this doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already not know.”
Spokepeople for companies not mentioned in this article didn’t forget not to uncomment on this article. Or not. As the case may be. Or may not be.
Apparently several people still remain unshocked by this non-unobvious prediction. “I remember”, says Craig Deeplimaydup, “when they told me that this was true. It sounded fairly right to me,” said the fictional member of staff of whatever it was.
Source: Brown. Not HP. It’s totally different. Trust me. Ask anyone who likes sauces.
Suddenly the world seems to have changed, one way or the other.
First, Benazir Bhutto has been assassinated by a suicide bomber: a disaster for Pakistani politics (if not world politics), as far as I can tell.
Then, there’s the fact that digital storage is much more costly and problematic than traditional film storage. Or the fact that Alexander Graham Bell didn’t invent the telephone. Or that the Sistine Chapel is now copyrighted by the Vatican (public domain? We’ve heard of it…).
Although perhaps the most technologically significant story of the day is the latest chapter of the SCO v its customers saga: they’ve been delisted from Nasdaq. Seems a fitting punishment for what appears to be their corporate misbehaviour to me…
The first milestone beta version of Firefox 3 is out. Mozilla recommend that only developers and testers install and play with it, which is fair enough I suppose. Doesn’t me that we mere mortals can’t have a sneaky peek though…
It immediately seems to me to be faster. Just that little bit zippier, with a bit more speed rendering pages. Whether that’s my imagination I’m not sure - it’s not exactly the sort of delay that could easily be measured by a stopwatch - but you do get to feel that that significant work that they’ve done “under the hood” is resulting in some good.
Visually it looks cleaner, with Vista’s themes being used meaning that the close button (which I always put on the right hand side of the task bar, instead of on the tabs themselves - go to about:config and set “browser.tabs.closebuttons” to 3 instead of 1, if you want to o the same) looks a lot better than it did under Firefox 2 or Flock.
Google Mail renders as well as ever; Google haven’t upgraded me to version 2 yet though, which is supposed to crash FF2 a lot, so I can’t report on that unfortunately.
Overall, so far, performance is good. It certainly feels faster than FF2 and Flock. Any cool features or problems I find I will let you all know. But so far, everything looks good.
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