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Weekly Ten: FreeBSD Supports Snow Leopard, Coding Simplicity, Solid State Hard Drives

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 20, 2009

“6. Shopping with AR
You are sitting in a café reading the newspaper and there’s
a QR code on the page near an article which you found interesting.
You’ve never seen this box symbol in a newspaper before but, since
you already know the general purpose of these funny black and white
checkered boxes, you ask yourself what this is about.
More @ OreillyRadar

“7. FreeBSD adds support for Snow Leopard’s Grand Central
Dispatch
Apple’s Grand Central Dispatch technology, which debuted in Snow
Leopard as a mechanism for optimizing parallelism across multiple
cores and processors, has now been ported to FreeBSD.
More @ AppleInsider”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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