WinExposé

Via The Tao of Mac, WinExposé is a version of the Mac's Exposé feature for Windows, and it's only 10 bucks. I was totally wowed by Exposé when I tried it on my friend's Mac. It's definitely one of the best and most innovative features of the whole OS. I may want to get this.

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23:20 (utc-5)

 

IBM mouse

Cool, next time I need a mouse, I'll check out IBM.

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22:56 (utc-5)

 

Mac OS X

Via Slashdot, here's an interesting article: What is Mac OS X?, which happens to answer a question I asked a few days ago about how Mac OS X boots.

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14:55 (utc-5)

 

Hyperthreading

Hyper-Threading Explained And Benchmarked

• To help explain all this stuff, someone linked to MIT's OpenCourseware for their graduate-level Computer System Architecture course.
• Here's a link to the main article: Exploring Hyper-threading Performance - Part I
• And here's a link to an Intel whitepaper on hyperthreading.

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05:27 (utc-5)

 

Pet peeve

Pet peeve: programmers who say "automagically" in every instance where one would normally say "automatically".

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05:26 (utc-5)

 

Links

• Leakiness in .NET
• Via the Daily Python URL, two PEPs:
  • Builtin path type (pre-draft)
  • A Case for Top and Bottom Values
• Crappy reporting from Newsweek (as usual) -- via Brian
• Area code map
• A report about NGOs -- via Glenn.
• Via Erik, via Daniel H Steinberg, 10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0. The article's a year and a half old, but while some doesn't still apply, a lot still does.
• Legal Theory Lexicon for 2003 (I must read all of these)
• Clayton has an interesting post about the redistricting in Texas and compares it to the redistricting in California in the 1980's.
• Via himself, Reynolds has a great column up: What's Wrong With Income Inequality?
• Kayode relays how to break into a Windows machine (assuming you have physical access to the machine and 15 minutes)
• http://www.henrygeorge.org/

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04:40 (utc-5)
edited: 2004-01-08 00:08 (utc-5)

 

Firefly score soundtrack

WHEDONesque has news that a score soundtrack to Firefly is in the works. That's awesome, I loved the music to Firefly. It'd better have the theme song on the CD

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02:47 (utc-5)