Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph

Tonight's slashback with news of how you can help rebuild the foundations of the Internet (at least a small corner), more on slimming down the old Cathode Ray Tube, a new compiler which costs a bit more than GCC, and more.

Why not put 'em on Freenet while you're at it ... Imran Ghory writes: "Google has put out an appeal to get NetNews CDs (produced by Sterling Software and CD Publishing Corporation) which archived usenet between 1992 to 1995. Looks like Google is reviving Deja's idea of a total usenet archive."

This sounds like a worthy objective, worth rooting around for -- maybe they'll even give you a credit somewhere.

They know that of which they speak. Hot on the heels of the inexorable GCC project's 3.0.1 release, zealot (and a number of other people) wrote with the news that "Intel will release its latest compilers (the ones that optimize for P4 and can do some auto-vectorization of code) for Linux this Thursday. I'd love to see some performance numbers for compiled code on a P4 if anyone gets their hands on this ... maybe the autovectorization could help some gimp plugins speed up."

You cannot stop the chess updates Álvaro Begué writes: "Junior is the new World Micro Computer Chess Champion, Shredder won in the single processor category (five years in a row) and Goliath won the blitz tournament. Congratulations to all of them. Check out the official website."

Maybe the durned things will stick around forever. In addition to the IBM research on making ultra-slim CRT monitors, an Anonymous Coward points to another article on the future of CRTs: "This is a new technology that can integrate into existing production lines and can halve the depth of a CRT type tube. A TV normally 22 inches deep would be only 11 inches."

Comments

GCC vs. Intel

[KidSock]

Would you be surprised if Intels compiler produced faster code than GCC? I believe Linus has stated that GCC is a bit "bloated". I wonder if you can compile the Linux kernel with it (minus assembly of course). That might be interesting, particularly for P4. Linux could get an instant speed boost. And such a radical switch in compiler might expose flaws in the code. Definately a worthwhile excercise if nothing else. And even though the average user isn't going to buy it to compile their kernel, the distro's might for their precomiled kernels (err, wonder how that would work ;-/).

ATTN: Brain dead moderator

[mikeage]

Yeah, you! Just because this troll "informed" you doesn't mean it was really informative. That's a fake story. This ain't segfault. Surrender your moderation points, and die. Oh... and moderate me down, too, please... I've got karma to burn.

Re:ATTN: Brain dead moderator

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a fake story

Oops.

YOURE STILL HERE THEN

[Anonymous Coward]

Im surprised to see you back my little fat bastard - still wont face me but will you ?

Scared of a jew and full of shit - you still havent gotten the hint have you

IM NOT LEAVING YOU ALONE WHILE YOU STILL POST HERE - YOU HAVENT GOT THE GUTS TO FACE US IN REAL LIFE SO THAT MAKES YOU A BIG FAT WIMP PUSSY

Re:YOURE STILL HERE THEN

[Ralph JewHater Nader]

It's a zionist tradition, hiding in the shadows and never showing their faces. Maybe they are vampires and the pristine power of the sun destroys them.

Thievery from the darkness may scare some people, but as soon as the Aryans fought back they were killed en masse, like sewer rats.

Kill all niggers

[Anonymous Coward]

White Power!

Re:RALPH IS A FAKE, A LIAR AND A WIMP

[Ralph JewHater Nader]

Jews are like cockroaches, they never fucking die. We need a final solution.