Thursday, October 27, 2016

Apple desktop users screwed again

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Geez, Tim. You could have at least phoned in a refresh for the mini. Instead, we get a TV app and software function keys . Apple must be usi...
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Thursday, October 20, 2016

We need more desktop processor branches

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Ars Technica is reporting an interesting attack that uses a side-channel exploit in the Intel Haswell branch translation buffer , or BTB (k...
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Saturday, October 15, 2016

It's Talos time (plus: 45.5.0 beta 2 now with more AltiVec IDCT)

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It's Talos time . You can now plunk down your money for an open, auditable, non-x86 workstation-class computer that doesn't suck . ...
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Sunday, October 9, 2016

The Xserves still lurk

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Xserves, the last true Apple server systems, apparently still lurk in dark corners in data centres near you. But for me, the quintessential...
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

A Saturday mystery, or, locatedb considered harmful to old Macs

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I've been waist-deep on AltiVec intrinsics for the last week converting some of those big inverse discrete cosine and Hadamard transform...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

gdb7 patchlevel 4 available

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First, in the "this makes me happy" dept.: a Commodore 64 in a Gdansk, Poland auto repair shop still punching a clock for the las...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Firefox OS goes Tier WONTFIX

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I suppose it shouldn't be totally unexpected given the end of FirefoxOS phone development a few months ago, but a platform going from s...