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Apologies for being so silent over the past weeks. There are no real excuses, other than being totally swamped with various work on all fronts that we've been doing... and hopefully you'll be able to see them soon.
Now, what's new?
Installer 4.0b8 is out (it's been ready for a while and even included in the last PwnageTool but we were holding off to releasing it publically). Among notable features is the switch to libcurl from the stock Foundation URL loading classes, which means more lightweight CPU and memory footprint and, more importantly, resumable file transfers. The new beta also features a plethora of little fixes which we won't extensively list here. Enjoy. We'll be pushing out a 4.0 release soonish...
The featured page you see when you launch Installer is actually automatically generated based on the popularity of the packages (based on the number of installations across the board), so it's nothing like the "old" featured page that listed a set of pre-defined products. It will eventually have some "sponsored" products, but they will be easily distinguishable visually and we'll try to keep the amount of these to the minimum - no more than 3.
Community Sources are updated as well to reflect the change in the modmyi.com domain name and to remove some outdated sources that shown promise but actually never delivered anything.
Kate update been out for a while, and we're finally at adding new features to it - so look for a non-bugfix release in the near future.
If you're a software publisher and would like to be hosted in Installer - please
let us know and we'll do all the work for creating proper install scripts and hosting on our server (which has a few spare terabytes of bandwidth).
Moreover, thank you for staying with us and supporting us along the way - it couldn't been done without you!
Tagi: bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock
Posted by on under bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock |
Apologies for being so silent over the past weeks. There are no real excuses, other than being totally swamped with various work on all fronts that we've been doing... and hopefully you'll be able to see them soon.
Now, what's new?
Installer 4.0b8 is out (it's been ready for a while and even included in the last PwnageTool but we were holding off to releasing it publically). Among notable features is the switch to libcurl from the stock Foundation URL loading classes, which means more lightweight CPU and memory footprint and, more importantly, resumable file transfers. The new beta also features a plethora of little fixes which we won't extensively list here. Enjoy. We'll be pushing out a 4.0 release soonish...
The featured page you see when you launch Installer is actually automatically generated based on the popularity of the packages (based on the number of installations across the board), so it's nothing like the "old" featured page that listed a set of pre-defined products. It will eventually have some "sponsored" products, but they will be easily distinguishable visually and we'll try to keep the amount of these to the minimum - no more than 3.
Community Sources are updated as well to reflect the change in the modmyi.com domain name and to remove some outdated sources that shown promise but actually never delivered anything.
Kate update been out for a while, and we're finally at adding new features to it - so look for a non-bugfix release in the near future.
If you're a software publisher and would like to be hosted in Installer - please
let us know and we'll do all the work for creating proper install scripts and hosting on our server (which has a few spare terabytes of bandwidth).
Moreover, thank you for staying with us and supporting us along the way - it couldn't been done without you!
Tagi: bugfix release, memory footprint, little fixes, community sources, prome, terabytes, frts, apologies, new features, bandwidth, lt, popularity, scripts, domain name, beta, stock
Posted by on under fcc rules, net neutrality, iphe, network quality, fri, gatekeepers, minutiae, compas, free kids, influx, fcc, comcast, slate, 3g, p2p, discrimination, blackberry, winmo, bandwidth, amp |
Based on what we're hearing, a slate of soon-to-be-proposed FCC rules may
stop the likes of Comcast from
discriminating against P2P applications on their networks, and AT&T sure will have a tougher time justifying why it won't let the
iPhone's version of SlingPlayer run on 3G while giving WinMo and BlackBerry users all the bandwidth they can handle. Julius Genachowski, the
new chairman of the entity, is slated to discuss the new rules on Monday, though he isn't expected to dig too deep into the minutiae. Essentially, the guidelines will "prevent wireless companies from blocking internet applications and prevent them from discriminating (or acting as gatekeepers) [against] web content and services." We know what you're thinking: "Huzzah!" And in general, that's probably the right reaction to have as a consumer, but one has to wonder how network quality for all will be affected if everyone is cut loose to, well, cut loose. Oh, and if this forces telecoms to deploy more cell sites to handle the influx in traffic, you can rest assured that the bill will be passed on to you. Ain't nuthin' free, kids.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
FCC to propose new net neutrality rules disallowing data discrimination originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under power efficiency, performance crown, integrated graphics, core processor, lga, teases, chaser, gpu, dual core, cores, hex, variants, virtue, beast, processors, intel, bandwidth, chips, debut, nbsp |
The 32nm dual-core
Clarkdale processors that recently made
their debut are about to pave the way for Intel's next performance crown chaser, the six-core
Gulftown. You might've known that already, but Intel's decided to furnish us with the above slide detailing the particular differences between the two dies, with the most notable being the whopping 1.17
billion transistors that the new CPU will be composed of. The major attraction of Clarkdale chips lies in their
power efficiency and
competent integrated GPU, but the Gulftown focus will be firmly on the high end. Hence, there's no integrated graphics, but the built-in memory controller supports three channels of DDR3 RAM and even plays nice with lower-powered
1.35-volt sticks. There's also confirmation that the
forthcoming hex-core chip will fit inside the familiar LGA-1366 socket, so if you bought a
high end Core i7, worry not, you'll be able to replace your still blisteringly quick CPU with an even faster beast. Quad-core variants -- by virtue of disabling a pair of cores -- are on the cards as well, while Intel also took the opportunity to delve into questions of 1Tbps+ bandwidth interconnects and its
80-core processor project, but you'll have to hit up the links below to learn more about those.
Intel teases six-core Gulftown, discusses tera-scale computing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under internet capacity, sxsw festival, keynote address, ek, austin texas, leverage, ace, bandwidth, ceo, sweden |
Today, during
his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO
Daniel Ek had a big revelation: "
On certain days, we're consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country." Ek made the statement when asked why Spotify chose to use a P2P model, rather than centrally store all of its music in one place and stream it from there. Ek noted that if they were to stream from one UK datacenter, they'd consume all the bandwidth. So instead, they leverage the power of the Internet to get their users to help them stream to other users.
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