Projects

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today. I think its a great idea: supporting directly Windows on Apple Intel computers aims Users to become MacOSX users easly. First buy a MacIntel, then install the 2 systems and “try both 2 worlds”… what’s the result? New MacOSX-lovers. I’m sure ;) . ...

Colgo davvero al volo l’idea di Sbatman e pubblico qui il corpo di una possibile email che si può mandare all’emerito Presidente del Consiglio: A: redazione.web@governo.it, urpdie@governo.it Oggetto: Richiesta di scuse Body: Presidente, stanco dei continui e gratuiti insulti che da un po’ di tempo a questa parte Lei indirizza a qualsiasi cittadino italiano che abbia opinioni divergenti dalle sue, le chiedo di scusarsi FORMALMENTE di fronte a quel popolo di cui Lei è DIPENDENTE e che istituzionalmente rappresenta. Cordiali saluti. Un coglione. ...

Operating Systems based on Micro-Kernel seems to return fashionable, and some experimental OS releases demonstrate it: the National ICT of Australia, infact, has released a Darwin porting for L4. This is for being able to study the behaviour of that class of o.s.. This porting include XNU, the hearth of MacOSX. ...

krugle/the search engine/ for developers/ findcode/findanswers/krugle makes it easy for developers to find source code and technical information—fast!… I subscribe the beta-testing program of this new, powerfull search engine for developers. Yesterday an email advertise me that a very interesting screencast is available, to explain the target and the features of this engine. Other than the features, the heavy usage of Ajax is very beautiful. But “bando alle ciance”: see the screencast here.

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Welcome to eyeOS, a web based desktop system. With eyeOS you can access your data and your applications anywhere, anytime. A virtual office in your hands, no need to install anything in the computer. Everything lives in the browser, for you and your work colleagues. eyeOS is open source and free software. Set up freely an account on our servers or, if you prefer it, install it in your server. Make your life easier with the virtual word processor, calendar, file manager, messenger, browser and other applications. And if you want more applications, just visit the eyeOS Application Database! ...

A portable NES/Famicom emulator written in C++ It’s available for Windows and MacOSX and here you can found a rich collection of roms. Source, Melablog. On The Old Computer Dot Com a wide collection of emulator and roms.

Red Hat, finally, opens its Knowledgebase: Red Hat Knowledgebase is a library of tips, troubleshooting advice, and current information updated daily by Red Hat technicians. A “sink without bottom” (translation of the italian meaning-full expression “pozzo senza fondo”) of sources, knowledge, solutions about Linux. Source, OSSBlog.

Run Windows, Linux and a lot more Systems on your Mac. Q is a feature packed cocoa port of QEMU: Switch fast between guest PCs. Save and restart guest PCs at any stage. Easily exchange Files between Host and Guest. Q makes use of OS X most advanced technologies like openGL and coreaudio to accelerate your experience with your guest PC. This is “only” an easy-interface to QEMU, «a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation», but it works very very good (and smarty, imho). ...

Another AMAZING usage of Ajax by Google: Google Finance. It’s obviously a “beta” and the home page does not seems to be very “ajaxed”… but try to find out a symbol and… be prepared for WOW! 8O