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Book Reviews

Friday, October 31, 2003

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NokiaBlogs: "Real students. Real stories. From real life. Read the journals of the students creating ads for Nokia" [thomas n. burg | randgänge]

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World drowning in oceans of data: "The equivalent of a 30-foot pile of books of data is produced for everyone on Earth annually, a study finds." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

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IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux: "Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second." [Slashdot]

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Panther At The Low End, And What To Do With Jaguar: "We all like it. Panther is definitely more responsive than Jaguar." (Low End Mac via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Microsoft Fires Worker Over Weblog: "It all started when Hanscom noticed something interesting on the loading dock on his way into work a week ago -- three pallets of shiny new Apple Power Mac G5 computers, clearly destined for somewhere on the company's Redmond campus." (Seattle Post-Intelligencer via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Apple's 'Panther' Stalks New Ground: "In Mac OS X Version 10.3, Apple combines its latest ideas with pieces drawn from the open-source world, from Mac OS versions past and from operating system rival Microsoft's Windows. In so doing, Apple delivers what's probably the most polished desktop operating system available today." (eWeek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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O'Reilly Announces OS X Innovators Contest Winners: "iStopMotion took first honors in the International category. First place winner in the US category was OmniOutliner." (MacMinute via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]