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Sony Launches BD-Live Ready BDP-S350 Blu-Ray Player

By Doug Holland (Intel) (73 posts) on July 8, 2008 at 4:02 pm
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If like me you've been waiting for a new BD-Live enabled blu-ray disc player then Sony has the answer with the new BDP-S350. The BDP-S350 supports true 1080p output and is compatible with Dolby TrueHD. Unlike the majority of the previous generation of blu-ray players, the BDP-S350 features an Ethernet connection to enable BD-Live features as [...]

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Category: Uncategorized

Get TBB going by a single click!

By Elena Gavrina (Intel) (1 posts) on July 7, 2008 at 4:28 am
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Have you ever confronted compiler or linker errors while building a Intel(R) Threading Building Blocks (TBB) based application with Microsoft* Visual Studio*? What was the problem there? Perhaps the path to the TBB headers was absent? Or TBB libraries were not added to the project settings? Or maybe different TBB versions were mixed? Have you [...]

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Category: Threading Building Blocks

It ain't easy being agile

By David Stewart (Intel) (82 posts) on July 4, 2008 at 7:25 am
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(With apologies to Kermit the Frog, whose song "It Ain't Easy Being Green" is a much older meme). I love reading case studies of teams that shake up "business as usual" and reinvent their world.  It inspires me to be open to the possibilities of such change. If you are involved at all in software engineering, check [...]

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Category: Cool Software, Open Source, Software Engineering

MID Wiki content trickles in, our contest prizes trickle out

By Jeff Moriarty (Intel) (15 posts) on July 3, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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Thank you to the few people who have contributed to the MID Wiki!  We have the first few winners selected and will be posting their names shortly.  Sadly, we're not getting as many submissions as we were hoping.  Since there is a $100 weekly prize for the winning submission each week, the only logical conclusion [...]

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Category: Atom, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility

Bit Stories 2008-07-02: Recording Screwups, Moblin.org, Linux, MIDs, and NetMeeting

By Josh Bancroft (Intel) (61 posts) on July 3, 2008 at 8:30 am
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Here's this week's show! Have a listen, and check out the download/subscribe links and detailed show notes below. Click to play This week's show is only 30 minutes long and weighs about 28MB (it’s a 128kbps MP3). You can download the file directly, listen using the streaming player above, or (BEST OPTION!!1!) subscribe to the Bit Stories [...]

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Category: Atom, Bit Stories, Mobility

Thoughts After Installing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V RTM

By Doug Holland (Intel) (73 posts) on July 3, 2008 at 8:16 am
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Once Microsoft released to manufacturing Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V on June 26, 2008 it wasn't long before I upgraded the beta installation that I have been using for a month or two. Setup of Hyper-V is as simple as adding an additional role to Windows Server 2008 and the following screen shots describe the process in [...]

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Category: Software Engineering, Virtualization

Serial Programming is Dead! Long Live...uh...serial programming?

By Clay Breshears (Intel) (79 posts) on July 2, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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I guess paraphrasing some standard quotes just doesn't work everytime. Still, if serial programming is "dead", why is there still so much of it around and why is an eminent CS professor still concerned about it? And what impact will today's serial programming have on tomorrow's parallel code?

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Category: Multicore

JavaScript Paths,Querystrings and Encoding

By Kevin Pirkl (Intel) (19 posts) on July 2, 2008 at 8:17 am
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Rick Strahl's "Making sense of ASP.Net Paths" has been inspiring to me since I have visited the page quite often so I thought I might do a quick similar post for Client Side JavaScript code and some How To's with some AJAX know-how sprinkled in. Firefox and Firebug add-on developer tool make undestanding JavaScript's document.location much [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Open Source

Implementing task_group interface in TBB

By Arch Robison (Intel) (19 posts) on July 2, 2008 at 5:53 am
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The TBB class task was designed for high-performance implementations of the TBB templates.  It's efficiency, particularly its emphasis on continuation-passing style, comes at some price in convenience.  Rick Molloy of Microsoft has posted a description of a task_group interface that Microsoft is considering.  It's more convenient for than the TBB interface, particularly when your compiler supports C++ [...]

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Category: Multicore, Threading Building Blocks

Windows Server 2008 Desktop Experience - DVD and Blu-Ray Playback?

By Doug Holland (Intel) (73 posts) on July 1, 2008 at 10:15 pm
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As some of you might have noticed from some of the previous blog posts I have written on the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the configuration of Windows Server 2008 as an aero-enabled workstation, or dual booting Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, I have now been using Windows Server 2008 as the primary OS on [...]

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Category: Software Engineering, Virtualization
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