“The Status of the P Versus NP Problem”
“It’s one of the fundamental mathematical problems of our time, and its importance grows with the rise of powerful computers.”
Archive of posts filed under the Software and Software Development category.
Topics pertaining to software and software development, mostly for Microsoft Windows or Linux, and mostly in C or C++.
VMware Fusion 3
The guys at VMware have really improved VMware Fusion. Most of the claimed improvements were apparently made for Windows 7, which I’m not running yet, but it’s a major improvement even without that. With version 2 (at least on this MacBook Pro), hard drive accesses from the VMs were extremely slow, though the virtual machines …
“Proving a Computer Program’s Correctness”
It sounds great, but isn’t viable in practice.
“Idle wild: how Intel’s mobile Core i7 speeds up to slow down”
It seems that Intel has found a way around the major complaint about multi-core CPUs, which is that they run single-threaded applications slower than single-core CPUs: they’ve come up with a technology to shut down unused cores to boost the speed on the remaining active cores. It’s not a perfect solution, but it’ll probably help …
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“iPhone developer stamps out calculator profanity”
You’ve got to be kidding?!
“US court says software is owned, not licensed”
This is certainly going to shake up the software industry.
“Microsoft mulling 128-bit versions of Windows 8, Windows 9”
Let me get this straight… 32-bit computers have lasted nearly twenty years, if memory serves me (I got my first 80386 motherboard in late 1991). In the last year or so, Microsoft has managed to get 64-bit Windows adopted, giving us access to 16 exabytes of RAM (“approximately 17.2 billion gigabytes,” according to this Wikipedia …
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“Microsoft offers stickers to boost Windows 7 64-bit take-up”
This should help boost the mainstream take-up of 64-bit computers. With multi-gigabyte memory sizes starting to feel a bit cramped, it’s rather important… 32-bit systems can’t address more than 4GB of memory, or even use all of that — my dearly-departed Dell was limited to 3.3GB of the 4GB I had installed in it, and …
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“Aussie power grid threatened by virus”
Despite the title, the power grid itself is apparently not at risk — because its computers don’t run on Windows. Despite the (deservedly) bad reputation it has in security circles, there is something to be said for “security through obscurity.” 🙂
Developing For Windows Mobile OS
Hm… Go tinker with windows mobile. As someone who has written serious, production-quality code for WM5 and WM6, I say this from many months of hard experience: I WOULD RATHER STICK A FONDUE FORK THROUGH MY [censored]. Never the [censored] again will I develop for that platform. My god, I thought X11 was bad… Do …