Is there any utility that displays on your task bar all the applications running within your Virtual PC / VMWare / Remote Desktop Session? I'd really like such a utility. It ought to be possible, at least if the virtual machine is network-reachable. If I felt that I could sell more than …
more ...\<a href="http://hvo.wr.usgs.gov/kilauea/update/archive/2007/Jul/DSCN1003_L.jpg"" target="_blank" atomicselection="true" rel="noopener noreferrer">Since I blogged the pause and restart of Pu'u O'o, for completeness I will report that the eruption on The Big Island of Hawai'i has not only returned, it's …
more ...Kurt Schrader wonders if he's the first person to hit a point in a Rails app where he wonders if he's "finally hit the point where the cost of maintaining our code in Ruby is higher than the savings by writing it in Ruby in the first place?"
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more ...Huh. I just received a link in email to "my" August issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal. I'm not going to post the link I got, since it's undoubtedly linked to me, but can anyone access http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj0807/index.php?
It's a Flash-based interface, but even …
more ...Google is joining Intel in putting more cash into the kitty for the Turing Award. To me, \$250K is nonsensical -- you should either go for the million (Who Wants To Be A CS Millionaire?) or maintain the super-coolness of the \<a href="http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/aboutus/jcfields/fields_medal …
more ...I'm not a big fan of Eclipse -- I'm an IntelliJ IDEA man, myself -- but Europa, this year's coordinated release of components for Eclipse, is now available.
more ...The very good Threading Building Blocks library from Intel, released last year around this time as 1.0 and being updated soon, has been \<a href="http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070724fact.htm%3fiid%3dpr1_releasepri_20070724fact"" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">open-sourced by Intel. This is a hardcore C …
more ...more ...We're hiring developers and testers for the Parallel Computing team in Microsoft's Developer Division....[Contact] joedu at microsoft dot com if you are interested.
Interesting, my analysis from last November is unchanged other than time-shifting and yet, emotionally, the availability of TiVo makes a huge impact. On the other hand, I am not sure that they would allow me to change my current TiVo lifetime subscription over to the TiVoHD, so I'd be facing …
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