Archives for February 2006
Since Netbeans 5.0 was released, I’ve been looking at Matisse to see if the hype surrounding the new graphical user interface design tool is justified. Java’s GUI system, Swing, is a super-powerful, flexible, cross-platform toolkit: there isn’t a better system for building sophisticated graphical interfaces. However, through the years, using graphical IDEs - [...]
I wonder about the intellectual capacity of comment spammers. I figure they can’t be too smart if they think structuring spam along the lines:
Your website is wonderfull (sic). I’ll come visit again.
Immediately followed by some gibberish such as:
Green, Central, Beautiful nothing comparative to Superb: , Red Cards Kill or not Beautiful is feature of [...]
On the way to a meeting this moring, I was reading the FT. I always read all the IT and Biotech/Pharmaceuticals stories, so I was interested to see a story talking about IBM’s new Power 6 chip - due to be unveiled today. I hadn’t heard much about about IBM’s Power roadmap, so [...]
Well, well, well. VMWare has just created a new product - VMWare Server - that is free. No catch. It’s seemingly a response to increasing competition in the virtualisation market.
I think they’re going to get a lot of volume with this product - a huge number of people are going to be interested [...]
With Sun just announcing their new dual-CPU range of Ultra 40 workstations, I headed on over to the web-site to take a look. What caught my eye, however, was not the Ultra 40 workstations (nice though they are). Rather, it’s that you can now get Ultra 20s with dual-core Opterons. Not sure [...]
It seems that Google missed its numbers, in large part due to a decline in UK sales. As a result, the company paid an average of 41.8% tax on its profits for the last quarter, compared with its usual annual rate of 30%. The resulting decline in share price was $15.3 billion [...]