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1. Comment - IE8 Beta 2 adds standards mode, suggestions, 'Web slices'

   (Aug 28, 2008 - 6:54 AM)

   your download links for vista 64 bit download beta 1, so....
   
   I have :
   uninstalled beta 1
   installed beta 2 from your LINK
   thought what’s the dif
   looked at the package build number (6.2)
   downloaded from MS
   package build in now 6.3
   uninstalled beta 1
   installed beta 2.
   
   1 hour later, better get some work done.

2. Comment - Intel readies the world for 'generation 7' of its CPUs

   (Aug 12, 2008 - 9:48 AM)

   IMHO we are going to see more and more cores (manycore) and then we will see some new OS designed to work better with Many Cores.
   
   MS have a R&D OS called singularity, if you watch the vid (on channel 9) the kernel developers to talk about it being highly threaded and ready for many core. ( I think this has been renamed and will be the next thing after windows 7 or 8 (Vista is 6))
   
   I think current kernels don’t really work that well with more than 4 CPU's for doing pure kernel things.
   
   Off course, software that runs on top of these kernels can work on more than one CPU and can work well, but its when you get into 'locks' and things its get interesting with lots of threads.
   I don’t like the idea of HT thought, the running apps should not be ‘tricked’ into thinking they have more CPU / Cores, I remember when HT first came out, it did cause a few problems with servers spinning more threads as they thought they had more CPUS to work with, this was fixed quickly but once you have 4 cores do you really need to double it to 8 with HT? I think this may slow things down due to more threads, more lock overhead. Apps have to be written VERY well to take advantage of anything more than 2 cores.
   Some web servers like IIS running ASP.NET don’t work well with more than 4 cores as you are lead to using web gardens and you don’t have any sort of session affinity to the worker process so things like caching don’t work well, SQL works very well with lots off cores but that has taken a huge amount off dev effort. The 2 examples are not desktop apps off course.

3. Comment - IPhone feature could enable Apple to kill apps remotely

   (Aug 8, 2008 - 8:54 AM)

   This is not what it reads, IPhone apps can use the location services to detect where you are. This is the core location framework. Some 3rd party apps could use this information and track your location without you knowing.
   
   Apple can prevent such apps from using this framework, not KILL THEM or other APPS.
   
   Read :
   
   http://daringfireball.ne...core_location_blacklist
   
   PS
   
   I am not fan boy off anything, I just like technology off any sort.