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Open Source and Government
Over the past week or two, there have been several announcements about open source use within the United States Government. The one getting the most attention is the announcement about whitehouse.gov moving to Drupal; however, I think that the memo from the Department of Defense (DoD): Clarifying Gu …
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The Box or the Other Box, a PC and Console story....
An Almost always ongoing topic here are some recent thoughts for the PC side which does not get a ton of attention. PCs scale: Sure, it's a glass half-full or half-empty situation, because component upgrades often break your wallet. Question is, would you rather have a platform that can play nearly …
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Sensor Access in Your Web App
You are a JavaScript programmer. You want to write an application that can access some really cool sensors on the client platform: accelerometer, gps, thermometer, compass, ambient light sensor, etc. There are different ways that such an API might show up. For example, to access temperature on the c …
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What do you see as the most influential and industry changing games of all time
The most influential and industry changing games of all time? I have seen this question come up a lot lately among people I chate with so i decided to post and ge some thoughts on it. The most influential games of all time are in my opinion Super Mario and then several titles by ID software, like Do …
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New Take Five Videos? Learn More about Atom, Window 7, Ubuntu
Ever wonder how to install an OS on an Intel Atom-based device? Interested in Landscape for Ubuntu? How about Windows 7? Learn more from the Take Five video series with the latest take on technology. Take Five Videos Enroll in Intel Software Partner Program today and learn how the program can he …
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What’s the Advantage of Modeling Parallelism on my Serial Program with Parallel Advisor Lite?
One of the most useful aspects of Intel® Parallel Advisor Lite is its ability to model parallelism in my application without actually running the code in parallel. Simply by doing this modeling it can tell me potential race conditions and correctness issues while still running everything serially. A …
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Chris Lord Talking about the Moblin Web Browser
In this video from the Intel booth at OSCON, Chris Lord, Intel Engineer for Moblin, talks about the Moblin web browser and some of the decisions and steps required to get the technologies used in Moblin (Clutter, etc.) to work with Mozilla browser technologies and applications for Moblin. You may h …
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Are You Animated Enough for Viewport???
Artists & Animators - got a beef? Want to sound off? Or - do you just have a cool pic of your work you'd like to share? We've set up a new support group on Facebook for all recovering, aspiring and pro digital artists. It's eleven steps short of a 12 step program, but it works. What's the most …
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Turning a serial application into a parallel application
As multi-core processing has become more mainstream, a challenge has been posed to software companies with existing or legacy applications that have not been updated for parallel processing with multi-core systems. How do I update my current application product line for multi-core processing? Wher …
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api and widget demo: cpu power connection mashed with video
Here are a couple of presentations I've been making a lot lately - about our work to expose platform/device capabilities to web developers. After you look at the technology, think about the kinds of device capabilities, hardware and software, that would make your web application better. Then share t …
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Parallel Programming Talk #51 - Anwar Ghuloum and James Reinders
While I was at the Intel Developer Forum in September of 2009 I asked Anwar Ghuloum and James Reinders to discuss and make sense of Intel's current parallel programming tool and technology. Check out to what they had to say!
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Memory management challenges in parallel applications
Let me share some recent practical experience with memory management issues when developing a multi-threaded application. This can probably be a rather common case (as recent post by Roman Dementiev and its follow up discussion demonstrates), and I’d be happy if my experience were helpful for others …
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"Embedded" University Program Reloaded from China!
If you are not new to Intel, you'll know Intel is not new to the Embedded world. Names like Xscale, IXP had gained big fame for Intel in university campus. Professors are now looking at what actions coming up for the "new babies" - Atom platforms. On Oct.21st till Oct.23rd, a faculty workshop on cur …
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Interview: Paul Cooper, Moblin Apps and UI Engineering Manager
Paul Cooper has worked as a developer and advocate for open source software for over 10 years. Currently he manages the Moblin Netbook UX Engineering team, part of the Open Source Technology Center at Intel. Prior to their acquisition by Intel, Paul was the Business Development Manager at OpenedHand …
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Moblin Compass API
I just proposed a compass API for the Moblin Sensor Framework. We'd like to eventually make it part of the browser so your web app can use the data (See Andy Idsinga's post). But for now on the Moblin platform, it's a GObject API. Go have a look and tell me what you think. If you have an application …
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Is the Desktop Fading away?
Are you still using a desktop? As the world becomes more mobile everyday, do you find the standard desktop a thing of the past? I believe as mobile technology improves more companies will move away from non-mobile devices. I currently use my smart phone 50% and my Netbook and Laptop the rest of …
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Cloud Computing at Red Hat and Novell
I just ran across a blog post from Red Hat outlining some of the recent cloud computing developments at Red Hat, and it reminded me that Jeff Jaffe, Novell's CTO, had written a series of blog posts over the past couple of months about Novell's approach to cloud computing. I thought it might be inter …
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Cooking Up a Little Meatloaf to Build a Torso
Okay, it sounds a little odd - but the latest tutorial I've posted on the Artist/Animator resource site (www.intel.com/software/artist) will show you how this works. Check out Modeling a Torso One Meatloaf at a Time And you get a free model along with the free tutorial - talk about a bargain! The me …
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Visualize this! GameDev.Net Trends and Challenges in Game Development
Hello and welcome to another episode of Visualize this! where we talk about topics relating to Visual Computing. I am Arti Gupta, community manager for Games Development on the Intel Software Network. My guest today is Drew Sikora executive producer at Gamedev.net. Drew will speak about the trends …
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Spreading the Word in Romainia
Teaching a class is a real pleasure when the participants are all fully engaged in the subject matter. Such was the case ealier this month when we assembled faculty members from University Polytechnica Bucharest (PUB), as well as 5 other universities around Romania to review our course materials on …
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