http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/past-present-future-file-systems.ars
A tongue-in-cheek historical review of most file systems, that can double as a quick history of operating systems. I found it hillarious! The ZFS is the future!
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Mozilla Labs last week released a new version of Prism, a single-site browser system that brings web applications to the desktop. The latest version is designed to work as a Firefox extension rather than as a separate XUL application.
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-prism-first-prototype-of-browser-integration/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism/Scripting
Roughly, you can run server side code offline. The interesting part is the lightweight browser. It does [...]
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http://www.phun.at/
Quoting:
Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
The some of the videos [...]
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