AS promised here are the results from the testing with the SIMD code. If you have no idea what I’m talking about see my previous entry here and As can be seen there was quite a bit of variance accross the different systems. The P4 2.80 really seems to come out on top everywhere and I can only […]
Impressed
Well I’ve been having problems with the Mac. Disapointing I know. Its especially difficult trying to convince people how good the system is when it dies. Anyway I decided that the only step forward (Other than sending the damn thing back to Apple again) was to reinstall OSX. So I start doing all the things I normally do […]
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Windows Programs
Last night I went searching for s small, fairly simple utility that would pull info from a CDDB database (or similar such as Amazon) and use it as the base for ID3 tags on MP3’s. I had resigned myself to the fact that most likely such an application was going to require Windows as almost all apps like […]
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OS X x86 + AltiVec == Too bad
Ok I thought this probably deserved a post of its own. I’ve just been playing with Rosetta under OS X running on x86. Its all working as well as can be expected and I’m currently running a number of apps that were compiled for PowerPC (Firefox, iTunes etc). This is using the Rosetta engine which inturn (I’ve been […]
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OS X86
Well for anyone who is interested in Apple computers, you may have already heard that someone last week hacked the Intel developer image of OS X to run on any machine. Really it was only a matter of time. So incase you hadn’t yet guessed…. I installed this on my trusty old P4 (I knew the thing would […]
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Minor Updates
I rememberd I had two other things to say about the Mighty Mouse. 1) (And I realise this is a more generic OS X mouse thing) I CANNOT set the sensitivity of my mouse high enough in OS X! This drives me nuts. Its so close but not quite as fast as I have under Windows or Linux! […]
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Mighty Mouse
So the other evening, bored on the overnight shift, Apple decided to release their Mighty Mouse. It was about 01:30am at the time and my credit card just kept getting hotter and hotter until it was used. Two days later it rolled up at my door. An interesting thing about purchasing an item only minutes after its release […]
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Public Property
An article on /. this evening got me thinking, again, about open source. Specifically today it was open source in government. The article was about how the Australian Tax Office (ATO) has release their latest version o e-tax, their electronic tax submission program and, surprise, surprise, its Windows only. Whilst it being a Windows program isn’t too frustrating […]
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