Browsing archives for July, 2008

IM protocols, do they support dynamic embedded images?

ideas 9 July 2008 | 2 Comments

here’s a scenario i’d like to have: i’m chatting with someone on IM i want to show him something i’m seeing on my screen i hit ctrl+apple+shift+whatever, get an overlay control to crop some part of my screen click my mouse, boom that part gets cropped and sent to my chat partner my chat partner [...]

Multi-Core Software

7 July 2008 | 3 Comments

It’s a known fact that CPU cores are not going to see high increases in their singular power. The alternative chip-makers have come up with is multi-core – the poor man’s SMP. It seems like future CPUs will be trying to maintain Moore’s law using more cores rather than more singular power. Does this change [...]