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Some Monday Links

By Nick Hodge | July 23, 2007

Aliv­etec (That’s the Gold Coast health gad­get guys) go lar­ger than The Geek Stor­ies: ABC’s Good Morn­ing Amer­ica. MSR + Aus­tralian good­ness goes really large! A phone that tells you when you are not breath­ing. W00t!

John Lam gives an update on Iron­Ruby. The first drop is avail­able now. LOLCODE, Ruby, Python. A dif­fi­cult choice!

Want to step out with Sil­ver­light in Bris­bane? Pop me an email and I’ll con­nect you up.

AMD Dual Core (2007) vs. Mac Plus (1986). Inter­est­ing com­ments on “large soft­ware” — as I actu­ally remem­ber using Mac Plus’s for hard work (word pro­cessing, spread­sheets) and System6.0.8; I should write up what the Mac could not do in 1986. Meh.  The Mac was only throw­ing around 22K of graph­ics (512 x 384 pixels / 8 bits as the Mac was only B&W) ; Word didn’t even repa­gin­ate in the back­ground. This Mac could not have TCP/IP’d as there wasn’t enough memory on the logic board (1Mb hard­wired, no upgrades) or speed in the SCC (serial con­trol­ler for the RS423 on the Macs).  An inter­est­ing read to see how far we’ve come.

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