Reducing OS Boot Times for In-Car Computer Applications, Part III
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The final installment in this series--did they meet their goal of a five-second boot?
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Theater-quality systems and other entertainment are coming to the car. But will wireless file swapping wreak havoc during rush hour?
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Putting your applications and data in a partition separate from Windows' system files makes your backups faster, and reduces the risk of a virus attack.
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In a follow-up to a previous blog post, Alexey Zakhlestin shares a few more thoughts on the project and the proper object hierarchy's going for.   actually, I changed it completely 3 times already in my thoughts. I finally "see the light"(tm) and will implement it on a weekend. I think about converting SCGI-part to a simple "driver" and move all http-related stuff to a separate driver-agnostic set of classes. This way, I would be able to implement FastCGI as anther driver without altering applications. If you have any better ideas - let me know.   He also includes a link to another sample application that uses the functionality to create a pie chart (including some benchmarks) with the help of the eZ components framework.
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This is a new release of squashfs, a highly compressed read-only filesystem for Linux. Squashfs compresses both files, inodes and directories, and supports block sizes up to 64K for greater compression. It is implemented as a kernel module under VFS.   Squashfs 3.1 has some major improvements to the squashfs-tools, a couple of major bug fixes, lots of small improvements/bug fixes, and new kernel patches.  You can download squashfs from this page: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=63835
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Reducing the cost of networking car cameras could result in more safety systems in a vehicle. In Autopia.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Feb. 18--NEW OPERATING SYSTEMS NEED MORE HORSEPOWER: There may be few  certainties in life, but there's at least one in the computer world.
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Running 32-bit and 64-bit applications on the same system is a step closer to reality.
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Will the search engine leviathan end the hunt for a commercial hybrid? In Autopia.
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Delivering the capabilities of traditional EAI products within a light-footprint, standards-based infrastructure supporting incremental integration
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Many PC makers have a list of drivers and other patches that should be in place before installing the OS update.
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A closer look at some behind-the-scenes tweaks for speeding up page loads, reducing memory drain and making the interface behave the way you want it to.
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A distributed multi-protocol load testing tool.
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New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next?
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âWith the Intel Macs,â explains Brian Allen, director of technical support at Bemidji State University in Minnesota, âstudents now have the potential to have both systems on their machines, so they can run both Windows and Macintosh applications. They can easily switch between Appleâs iLife suite and AutoCad. Itâs the best of both worlds; theyâll really have two computers for the price of one.â In addition to offering students more flexibility, Allen and his team discovered that âWindows applications run faster on the Mac.â Best of all, dual-booting Mac computers offer BSU âthe potential to save $150,000 to $200,000 a year in lab hardware purchases.â Whatâs next for Boot Camp at BSU?
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The eagerly-awaited Ubuntu Studio has been released, adding another entry into the expanding list of multimedia-optimized Linux distributions. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but interested readers can peruse some installation screenshots or check out the latest news and information on the Ubuntu Studio Wiki. I plan to review the distro in a future column, along with an update on the latest version of the venerable PlanetCCRMA, but in this entry I'm focused on another very exciting new release. Ardour 2.0 is now available for download. This version is a significant improvement over the 0.99 series (1.0 was never released), with many new features and enhancements to performance and stability. The following article profiles the new Ardour as I employed it for three projects, all involving the program in the processes of composition and arranging as well as the more typical tasks of recording and editing. I've described each project in some detail, and each description includes a link to the final audio output.
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Samsung's 1TB Spinpoint F1 Series hard drive is fast, so fast that it beat the nearest competitor by more than 11% in access times. But formatting the drive with the latest version of Windows Vista also took 37 hours.