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Sculpt OS release 23.10 available

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Modern PCs provide plenty of metering and power-management options. Version 23.10 of the Genode-based Sculpt operating system makes these features available via an interactive user interface. One can watch the temperature of each CPU core, monitor the individual CPU frequencies, switch between power profiles, and reveal details about power draw. Go to the download page to get started with Sculpt OS. It’s used as the day-to-day operating system by Genode developers, so it’s quite capable.

Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre 2023 : ́ I Le baptême

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« Aujourd’hui c’est le baptême de notre Class40 Google Chrome ! On va célébrer ça avant de partir en mer »

Derniers instants à terre pour Kieran et Basile qui s’apprêtent à prendre le départ demain. On a hâte de voir le duo du projet du Virtuel au Réel sur la ligne !

Pour sa 16ème édition, la Transat Jacques Vabre Normandie Le Havre met de nouveau le cap sur la Martinique ! La baie de Fort-de-France accueillera l’arrivée de la transatlantique en duo la plus longue et la plus exigeante, avec la promesse d’un joli spectacle.

© Transat Jacques Vabre 2023

A quick look back at the MSX PC platform, including Microsoft’s role, on its 40th birthday

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We have written articles in the past year about some of Microsoft’s different product launches, like how its first real hardware device was an add-in card for the Apple II, or its not-so-smartwatch platform, SPOT. However, many people may not be aware that Microsoft had a small involvement in a movement to create a standardized PC platform that evolved into a huge video game platform in Japan. The platform is called MSX, and on October 21, 1983, just over 40 years ago, the first such PC that used the platform went on sale in Japan, the Mitsubishi ML-8000. The launch price for the PC was 59,800 yen or close to $400. One of my oldest computer memories is using an MSX with a friend at his parents’ house. I must’ve been 7 years old or something like that. The MSX was weirdly popular in The Netherlands due to Philips building quite a few of them.

Glimmer DSL for LibUI Custom Shapes

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Glimmer DSL for LibUI 0.10.1 & 0.10.0 ship with support for building and scaffolding Area Canvas Graphics Custom Shapes (with optional Gemification). Custom shapes represent higher-order graphical concepts, like cube, cylinder, and uml_class, that could be formed out of more rudimentary shapes like rectangle, circle, bezier, and text, to aggregate and simplify interaction with them as coarse-grained components in a desktop application. Custom Shapes improve productivity significantly through code reuse in graphical desktop applications that rely on Area Canvas Graphics, like UML Diagramming tools, Traffic Control Signalling apps, and games… https://andymaleh.blogspot.com/2023/10/glimmer-dsl-for-libui-custom-shapes.html