Subscribe by EmailMonday morning links serving: The May 18th edition
May 18, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 0 comments-World’s fastest CPU clocked at 128 gigaflops
Reports from Japan say that a new supercomputer processor has taken the crown of world’s fastest by not just beating, but obliterating the old record. Fujitsu’s eight-core SPARC64 VIIIfx Venus CPU was clocked at 128 billion computations per second, which destroyed the previous Intel-held record by a factor of 2.5.
-Final Firefox 3.5 update: a new logo
For the upcoming new Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko), Mozilla is planning an important final update: the venerable Firefox icon.
-Why Do Computers Suck at Math?
399 999 999 999 999 – 399 999 999 999 998 = 0. Google can’t be wrong — math is! But Google is hardly alone; this is just another example in a long and storied history of obscure little computer math errors that go way back.
-20 Insane Vectors by Ahmed Alrefaie
Totally insane vector graphics by Ahmed Alrefaie. He creates great vectors so full of details that it’s unbelievable. No wonder why he takes a month on each piece, check it out!
-Clean Up and Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac
A few years back you dropped significant cash to switch over to a shiny new Mac, but over time it’s gotten slow and crufty. Let’s clean it up.
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