Thursday, January 12, 2006
Macs with Intel
The new Intel Macs are now out and there is already talk of home to install Windows on them.
Based the Apple documentation, they use Intel's EFI instead of the standard PC BIOS. This means that Windows XP 32 bit will not stand a chance, but Windows Vista is meant to support EFI so it looks like that is worth a try (well for anyone that wants to run Windows on their Mac).
Based the Apple documentation, they use Intel's EFI instead of the standard PC BIOS. This means that Windows XP 32 bit will not stand a chance, but Windows Vista is meant to support EFI so it looks like that is worth a try (well for anyone that wants to run Windows on their Mac).
Friday, January 06, 2006
Summer starts now..
OK it is 9:30pm and it is still hot - looks like summer has finally decided to start!
Monday, January 02, 2006
Just a second...
A friend of mine is quite interested in accurate time keeping, particular with reference to NTP - a protocol for various time servers to synchronise time. Apparently we got an extra "leap second" added between 31-Dec-2005 and 1-Jan-2006 and he has written a detailed assessment of how the leap second propagated through the NTP network.
The short answer is "not as well as it should have", but I recommend that you look at the article to see the point illustrated graphically.
The short answer is "not as well as it should have", but I recommend that you look at the article to see the point illustrated graphically.
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