Monthly Archives: April 2011

“Why can’t it work like a TV?”

April 13, 2011 Posted by Karl Beecher under General software engineering
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The research of Andrew Tanenbaum (who, like me, is based in a “Free” university, but his is “Vrije” where mine is “Freie”) has long involved computer operating systems, and he reserves many disparaging opinions about their general state. He regards a number of common OS concepts as obsolete, be they file systems largely unchanged since… read more

Presenting the New Saros Interface

April 5, 2011 Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros
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The latest version of Saros (11.3.25) is one of the most exciting and important releases in its recent history. Why? The whole interface has been overhauled and redesigned to provide a much more usable layout. Three of Saros’s views (Session, Roster and Chat) have been merged into a single view from which you can manage… read more