Service Pack 2 for Windows Server 2003 has been released. To be honest, I don't understand why the changes required a whole SP - the list is very short and doesn't look all that important. Maybe the release notes are incomplete?
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SoftDynamic
SoftDynamic is a new UK IT company. Despite being very young, it has established connections with experienced software professionals both in the United Kingdom and globally, with background in multiple business areas.
FPGA - extreme computation performance for finance
Abstract
High performance computing in financial and other industries is constantly challenged by growing demand for faster results and larger volumes of data to process. FPGA - specially designed hardware units - through their ability to execute complex tasks in parallel - can substantially increase the throughput of systems and reduce data centre load.
Software, that sucks
So, what is the software that I hate the most? The list could be long, but some applications are internal to places where I worked and are unknown to the rest of the world. From the familiar to an average Internet user things I can mention:
- Picasa - I already wrote about my feelings toward this bastrad child of Google
Байки из Банка - битва за еду
Рассказывают, что в банке служила некая девица, только что закончившая университет. В силу юного возраста и сложившихся в банке традиций, занималась она делами малоотвественными и доходы имела более чем скромные.
Flash player 9 for Linux
At last, there is a downloadable beta of the Macromedia (now Adobe?) flash player 9 for Linux. For quite a long time release of the Linux version was lagging behind the Windows. Many popular web sites utilized features from the newer versions, and such sites were unusable on Linux.
Is that the beginning of the end?
Property-related indexes are falling on LSE, according to an article in Financial Times. Many analytics mention in their comments, that current property prices in the UK are "unrealistic". Maybe they have been talking about it for long enough to actually cause price drop in the end.
Electrolux manuals
I tried to find manuals for Electrolux kitchen appliances in my new house. I was pleasantly surprised to find all of them on the manufacturer's web site, with a search interface.
Firefox 2 on FC6
The official build of Fedora Core 6 doesn't include Firefox version 2, rather the outdated 1.5. Fortunately, a French RPM repository seems to fill the gap.
Apparently, you can also get Firefox 2 from the development branch of Fedora - simply run
yum -y --enablerepo=development update firefox
Picasa sucks - AcdSee rules!
I have just installed AcdSee - and I can tell you it is way better than Google's Picasa. Starting with the simple thing - full screen viewing, and down to the proper interface and all the rest. Picasa looks like a quick hack compared to the slick and polished feeling, provided by AcdSee, and the functionality of the later is very good as well. It will take me some time to get used to it, but I
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