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Tuesday, September 2, 2003
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Jobs At Top, Ballmer At Bottom Of CEO Approval Ratings: "Apple CEO Steve Jobs received a rating of 91 percent for August. That's up from 77 percent last month and tied for his highest tally yet. By Dennis Sellers" (MacCentral via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Not lovin' it: "I'm not sure whether it's some kind of temporary PR campaign or if the slogan is with us to stay, but employees at Vienna McDonald's are now wearing black T-shirts with the slogan "I'm lovin' it" imprinted on them. [...] having the employees wear these T-shirts seems like an exercise in capitalist cynicism, because the slogan is just ambiguous enough to state that they also love their jobs." [The Aardvark Speaks]
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IBM Boosts G5 Speed With New Compiler: "IBM offers its optimized compiler not just for Intel CPUs, but also for its own G5 processor (article in German at Heise). Unlike gcc, it is optimized for the G5 and achieves a major boost in speed, as first results show. The SPEC values for the older Power4 processor are way higher." [MacSlash] I downloaded and installed both the Fortran and C/C++ compilers by IBM. I tested the Fortran compiler with some codes from my textbook on Fortran 90/95 (available in Finnish). The compiler performed as expected. To use Fortran 90/95 files which end in .f90, you have to use the command f90, or use the flag -qsuffix=f=f90. The use of the IBM compiler is documented, for example, in the user guide (see page 55) to the IBMSC supercomputer at CSC, Finland.
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Virginia Tech G5 Supercomputing Cluster: "Think Secret has a story about Virginia Tech building a G5 cluster that when completed will be one of the top five fastest supercomputers." [MacSlash]
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Laptops Dramatically Change Education: "The academy has joined the ranks of other schools providing laptops for students' use at and away from the classroom. By Oseye T. Boyd" (The Star Press via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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The Best Of Fall: Apples And More: "For Mac users, Panther's prowling promises a nice, if costly ($129), upgrade. By Mark Kellner" (Washington Times via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]
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Olympus rolls out C-5000 Zoom digital camera: "Olympus America Inc. on Friday announced a new digital camera: the C-5000 Zoom, a 5.0-megapixel model with a 3x optical zoom lens." [MacCentral]
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