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IE layout engine mystery
I was looking into some browser quirks today and came across some interesting but confusing information. The layout engine used by IE7 to render pages is named Trident. MSHTML or Trident was first introduced with Internet Explorer 4 way back in 1997. Read More...
Microsoft HD Photo
I first came across HD Photo when Microsoft announced it would be releasing an image format to replace the ubiquitous but aging workhorse called JPEG. Back then it was called Windows Media Photo. The first thing that put me off me was the sheer lameness Read More...
Internet Computer Names
Just found out about an amazing new feature in Vista called Internet Computer Names. I don't know why Microsoft has kept this under wraps till now but this is going to revolutionize content publishing in the next few years. IDN allows every PC connected Read More...
Cost of Computing
Just found some amazing stats regarding the falling price of computing over the last 10 years : 1997: about US$30,000 per GFLOPS; with two 16-Pentium-Pro–processor Beowulf cluster computers, Loki and Hyglac 2000, May: $640 per GFLOPS, KLAT2 , University Read More...