Year: 2004

Virginia Tech’s System X expected to drop in ranking

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

Even though Virginia Tech’s rebuilt G5 supercomputer is 20 percent faster than last year’s system, it is expected to drop out of the top five–and possibly the the top ten. Adding nearly 2 teraflops, the university’s System X now operates at 12.25 teraflops, which would put it in fourth place in the world ratings, but it will probably be surpassed by new supercomputers from NASA, IBM and others. The new top 500 list will be released later this month at the SuperComputing 2004 conference in Pittsburgh.

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SyBrowser v6.1

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | , |

SyBrowser:

A Macintosh application that can query Sybase, Oracle, PostgreSQL and
MS SQL databases hosted on OSX, UNIX, Linux, and Windows servers.

SyBrowser v6.1 features include:

– Pressing the Command key and the down arrow moves forward though
the history of executed statements.
– A new preference was added.

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Apple insiders sell $73 million in stock

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

The San Jose Mercury News reports that seven insiders at Apple sold more than US$73 million in stock last month. So far this year, 10 executives have sold $229 million in company shares. Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Jonathan Rubinstein had the largest gain. He exercised options to buy 500,000 Apple shares for $17.31 each October 1. The same day he sold those shares for prices ranging from $38.61 to $38.98 each, for a gain of $10.7 million.

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Delicious Library now shipping

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | |

Delicious Monster Software today began shipping Delicious Library, its new application that creates an electronic card-catalog of a users books, movies, music, and video games. Delicious Library’s features include 30fps iSight barcode scanning, photorealistic digital shelves with high-resolution 3D renderings of your covers, Address Book and iCal integrated checkout to keep track of who has your media, and smart recommendations to help you find new things to add to your library.

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4D Release Beta 1 of 4D 2004.1

Posted by | Nov 8, 2004 | , |

– 4D Release Beta 1 of 4D 2004.1-
– Public Beta shows commitment to providing the best possible release-

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 8, 2004 — 4D, Inc., publishers of the 4th
Dimension RAD/RDBMS Environment, 4D Business Kit and 4D WebSTAR Server
Suite, today announced its release of the first beta of 4D 2004.1 for
immediate availability. The public beta program reflects the company’s
commitment to ensure that 4D 2004.1 is the best possible release ever.

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