Memory Hierarchy

An interesting take on myths surrounding microprocessors. [via Smart Mobs]

Via Don Park: HTML With Just Five Tags, CSS, and many voices by Don Ulrich.

It tastes bad and lacks nutritional content: just look at the picture. [via Ted Leung & Bill de hÓra]

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[just posted to p4 mailing list]

My #1 wish is versioning of jobs and clientspecs and other meta data.
Especially jobs. Versioned jobs will make jobs a real multiuser (bug) database
with much of the functionality of P4 + P4DTI + bug database.
Fewer clicks around IDE, mailer, browser, editor, shell, p4 gui mean big saving in time.

I also support Jeff's list of md5, cross platform gui and better handling of binary files.
AlienBrain is an interesting competitor, popular in gaming industry thanks to its
handling of media files or large binary files.

-jay

[BTW, P4DTI is a most seriously cool software project: complete documentation is available. It has specs, design docs, test plans, release history all marked with full history and list of footnotes to email discussions, etc. It's an inspiration to us all.]

Isn't it strange how people are excited about 'remoting' in .Net web services when there are few remote management options for ordinary Windows machines? I see no way to login my home machine from office. Lack of management options and short uptime are Achilles' heal of Windows. But these don't seem to bother most people, not even the sysadmins.

It'd be interesting to see how Windows deal with pressure from monetization of P2P. On the other hand the monetization will depend heavily on Windows uptime. If the sysadmins can't make it run straight, home users have a snowball's chance in hell to make it run.

(Just after I wrote the above, printing Adenine manual from MIT's Haystack crashed my computer. It's just too lovely.)