As lots of other coders in the PHP blogosphere, I am rejoicing for the release of the final version of the FastCGI extension from Microsoft that promises to bring enormous gains in terms of speed and stability when running PHP with IIS.
Unfortunately, when you look at the minimum requirements, you will see that only Windows [...]
Microsoft loves PHP, at long last! (or does it?)
Google scientist to demo quantum computer
A Google scientist will join a controversial demonstration of a claimed quantum computer on Monday–but scientists doubt the validity of the system being shown.
During a session at the SC07 supercomputing conference in Reno, Dr Hartmut Neven, a Google specialist in image recognition, will show an image-recognition algorithm running on a device, made by start-up D-Wave [...]
Windows 7 “top feature request list” leaked to the public
With Windows still managing to find its way to over 95 percent of the desktop computers sold each year, it’s not surprising that one can find plenty of people interested in giving their feedback about what future versions of Windows should be able to do. A few years ago, before Windows Vista had even shipped, Microsoft sent out [...]
Google’s Android OS early look SDK now available
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/software/Google_android_now_available’; Just like the good folks promised, the early look software development kit for Google’s soon-to-be huge phone OS has hit the streets… er, internet. From what we can tell, the OS is as comfortable on larger, VGA devices as it is on more traditional smartphone layouts. Oh yeah… and it plays Quake. [...]
Intel Launching New Chip Lineup
SAN FRANCISCO — Intel Corp. plans to roll out its newest generation of processors Monday, flexing its manufacturing muscle with a sophisticated new process that crams up to 40 percent more transistors onto the company’s chips.
The world’s largest semiconductor company expects to start shipping 16 new microprocessors _ which also boast inventive new materials [...]
Some Maxtor Personal Storage 3200s shipped with virus
How convenient — your shiny new Maxtor Basics Personal Storage 3200 may have come preloaded with a nasty virus right out of the box. That’s right folks, you may not even need to open any suspicious emails or surf over to dodgy websites, as an undisclosed amount of drives produced by a company sub-contract manufacturer [...]
14 Year Old BitTorrent Hacker Threatens to Sue What.cd Users
Users of OiNK-replacement What.cd, are receiving emails from what appears to be the RIAA. In it are threats that users must either stop their ‘criminal acts of piracy’ or have charges pressed against them. But is it the RIAA? Rival Waffles.fm? No, it’s a 14 yr old script kiddie out for revenge, says What.cd
Users of [...]
Translation Widgets for Your Site
Both Microsoft and Google added widgets for translating your web page into another language. The feature was already available at BabelFish, but the site makes a major faux-pas by using flags to represent languages.
Microsoft’s widget (the second one from the screenshot) uses a translation system from Systran and offers 25 language pairs. The widget seems [...]
Is Microsoft Building a Flickr Competitor?
You gotta love job postings. Depending on the description provided, you can often times determine some underlying plans for a company. And the only companies we care about in this regard would be the ones big enough to lend some interesting job postings and descriptions. In this case, WebProNews was tipped off to a posting [...]
