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Running With Forks

The browser war has temporarily been placed on hold in favor of a simultaneous application war. It appears that a Vista user can run maybe 100 applications at a time, and on OS X you are likely to get only a mere 150 applications into your dock. Of course, on Linux you can run even more despite the incredibly high CPU utilization. Imagine a completely unusable computer running 200 applications at once, and in fact this is the scenario we should really be concerned with.
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By Eric, ago

Working With Wine

It’s been a while since my last post, and during that time I have been busy playing some computer games that I haven’t looked at in a while. At the moment, Empire Earth and SimCity 4 are at the top that list. What is significant about this is that these are playable on Wine and they actually work. (more…)

By Eric, ago

Network Dependency

While traveling this past holiday season, at one of the many airports a kid was busy talking on her cellphone and complaining about how she was having such difficulty finding a phone number. At the other end, it sounded like her mom was navigating through her Facebook page to locate the phone number in question. Have we really become so dependent on network connectivity?
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By Eric, ago