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Windows 7 equals some strange math

In many ways, Microsoft's decision to keep the Windows 7 name was entirely logical -- but to arrive at the number 7, Microsoft does some strange math. Read more »

Google's math == FAIL!

Google's calculator has some trouble handling math with some large numbers, an issue that's not unheard of in computing circles but that might not sit well at a supremely nerdy company that's named after a humongous number. Read more »

Light-based quantum circuit does basic maths

Researchers from the University of Queensland have taken a significant step in the quest to build a quantum computer, creating a light-based quantum circuit capable of basic calculations and moving quantum computing closer to a becoming a reality. Read more »

Analyst predicts bleak future for Aust ICT economy

A visiting analyst has warned that an over-reliance on a temporary minerals boom and a decline in the number of science and engineering graduates will erode Australia's ICT capacity and hinder its unprecedented stretch of economic growth. Read more »

Skills crisis, what skills crisis?: Coonan

Senior politicians have warned that Australia is heading for an ICT skills crisis with the country's students outpacing their teachers in their knowledge of technology. Read more »

Microsoft silent on true Vista figures

Microsoft is keeping mum on sales figures of Windows Vista, despite its chief operating officer claiming that 60 million units have been sold. Read more »

Next NASA mission: Twitter and Facebook

Some executives believe that adoption of Web technologies like Twitter will help the public be more connected to space exploration. Read more »

Intel learns from insects to make 80-cores practical

Researchers at chip giant Intel are looking to create insect-like exoskeletons that will help make 80-core processors work with today's software and hardware. Read more »

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Why women just don't want IT

IT is perceived as nerdy, blokey and boring, but the problem in attracting more women to the ICT industry may not lie with the fairer sex per se. Read more »

A formula for procrastination

Can you assign a formula to putting off to tomorrow what you can do today? One professor believes you can. Read more »

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Programming for Cell

As the Cell has seven usable cores and some exotic memory features, it can offer more parallelism than other chips in the marketplace but it comes at the cost of ease of programming. We discuss the challenges faced by this difficult yet highly parallel architecture. Read more »

Create graphics applications with Java 3D

The Java 3D API allows you to develop 3D graphics applications that have a high degree of visual realism. Read more »

JRuby: An Introduction

JRuby is a 100 percent Java implementation of the Ruby interpreter, and while it does not have all the features of Ruby it does have most of built-in classes of the language. Read more »

Yahoo! Pipes brings mashups to the masses

The Yahoo! Pipes project facilitates mashup creation via an easy-to-use interface. Read more »

Streamline your data management with deduplication

The concept of deduplication is simple - it's creating a single copy for all the duplicate bits or files that exist on a network. But how does it actually work and how do you use it? Read more »

Perform date/time arithmetic with Java's Calendar class?

Java's Calendar class offers a set of methods for converting and manipulating temporal information. In addition to retrieving the current date and time, the Calendar class also provides an API for date arithmetic. Read more »

Performing mathematical functions in VB.NET

To perform mathematical operations in VB.NET you can utilise the System.Math class. In this tip, we will look at a simple way of working with math-related functions in VB.NET. Read more »

A Quickstart to Erlang

If any language could be said to be ideally placed to deal with the challenges of the next 10 years it's Erlang. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of parallel and multi-core architectures, and natively supporting distributed systems coding, Erlang is a valuable addition to your programming skill set. Read more »

Extract high quality MapPoint images using VB.NET

Extracting a quality MapPoint image requires some programmatic footwork via Microsoft Office Document Imaging and the .NET Framework. Read more »

Wooing interns to Silicon Valley

Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates. Read more »

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Windows maths and Browser Goodies -- Club Builder

Windows 7 will be code-versioned as Windows 7.0, won't it? On this week's Club Builder we see that it isn't so, as well as get Steve Ballmer thoughts on Vista deployment; plus we see some new HTML5 tricks. Read more »

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Google launches Mail Goggles to save you from yourself

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Just a quick post to mention a silly experiment that Google has released to the public: Mail Goggles. This feature is designed to prevent you from sending stupid e-mails in the small hours, when you're most likely to be inebriated and at risk of making a complete idiot of yourself. Read more »

Developer creates Mac UI for Java apps

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Java developers may soon be able to get their apps looking less ugly and more Mac-like if a promising new project continues. Read more »

Solving the network storage dilemma

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- I've had some friends and readers ask me the same question about what to do about the problem of storage in the home and how do you make it accessible to every computer or set-top box in the house on the internal network. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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