Had this thought ever passed you that the OS that’s fuelling all these thousands and millions of servers worldwide would be worth if it’s undertaken as a commercial project? If it’s Open Source does not mean it’s development cost is zero. After all, it’s the fruit of years of community driven development. Two researchers have estimated the cost of replicating Linux kernel from the scratch at about 1.4 billion USD! Who said Open Source is free?
Ever wanted to go to Mars before NASA does? Check out Orbiter Space Flight Simulator. As real as it gets it comes with many features which makes the whole experience very close to the reality. Whether you want to launch Space Shuttle Atlantis or docking it to the International Space Station (ISS) or maybe fly to the moon or why not mars, or if you are more adventurous then go to infinity and beyond.
Ever wondered how you could have saved your grandpa from that terrible fall down the stairs of on the road? As we just discovered there are some great products in the market specifically made for this very purpose!
WebKit is an open source internet browsing engine. The HTML and Javascrip
t components of WebKit began as a branch of the KJS and KHTML libraries from KDE.
To build webkit on your system you will need to checkout a copy of the WebKit source tree. You will also need to have the developer tools installed.
Popular Programming Languages which resulted in a whole paradigm shift and changed the way we program our problems. Here are some of the photos of the creators of these Programming languges. Hope you enjoy them:
And yes, if you are more interested then you can read the history of how these languages were created. Links are provided with each title.
It has become a common practice for software developers to use more than one display and unfortunately the code and diagram Windows within Visual Studio 2008 SP1 are locked within the Visual Studio frame.
According to blog posts by Chris Bowen and Noah Coad this has been a request the team has been hearing a lot and the good news is that Visual Studio "10" provides support for multiple displays and according to the
feedback item on Connect this has now been closed as fixed.
[via IntelSoftwareBlogs]
