Thursday, August 25, 2005

Potential for GNUstep

Many things are happening right now with respect to GNUstep, that it's almost scary. There are opportunities that have been brought to my attention that I cannot talk about at the moment, but I can simply say that they could be very good for GNUstep's future.

It's hard not to be nervous at times like these.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Got the new machine

After some hassles with Comp-USA's check writing service, I've got the new box!!

It's really sweet:

P4 630 w/ EM64T and Hyperthreading @ 3.0GHz.
2GB of RAM
120GB of HD
etc...

The challenge now will be getting GNUstep to run on the 64bit processor. Please see http://wiki.gnustep.org for more.

Friday, August 12, 2005

Broken computer

Well... my computer broke because of a power surge. It seems as though the MB was fried, so I simply replaced it with the old motherboard and put in a sound card I had lying around. I realized however that, this machine is on it's last legs. I uses Socket 423, which no one makes anymore and it also uses RAMBUS memory which was fast back in the day, but is not relatively slow when compared to more recent technologies and is also hideously expensive. I've decided to get a new machine.

Objective-C end of life?? Not a chance...

Recently, I saw this article regarding ObjCs "end of life" from JetBrains. The tiobe index seems to disagree. It’s also importa...