Daily Friction #297
Test your mail sending with the Dumbster, check out the new beta of Opera 9.5, drool over AMD’s new FireStream 9170 dedicated stream processor, review the new Windows Home Server, red about the hidden costs of offshore software development, Simplify Your URLs, find great bargains and not much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
- The Dumbster is a very simple fake SMTP server designed for unit and system testing applications that send email messages. It responds to all standard SMTP commands but does not deliver messages to the user. The messages are stored within the Dumbster for later extraction and verification.
- Opera 9.5 Beta - The second alternative is alive and kicking on the desktop as well.
Hardware
- AMD announces FireStream 9170, first dedicated stream processor - AMD’s launching a dedicated stream processor, the FireStream 9170, and an accompanying SDK, which will be available in Q108. Granted, this 55nm “world’s first Stream GPU with double-precision floating point technology” will run you two grand, but you’ll be getting 500 GFLOPS at under 150 watts power draw, but you’ll get all the insane math-crunching benefits of stream processing that your current number-crunching rig isn’t seeing, despite the eight 8800s you’ve got jury-rigged into the thing.
Information
- Windows Home Server is a powerful networking tool - For once, Microsoft hasn’t ‘dumbed down’ a software package, says Preston Gralla - The just-released Windows Home Server (WHS) from Microsoft is a surprisingly powerful networking tool.
- Hidden costs of offshore software development - Having led a distributed team in India and two time zones of the US, I can tell you that its not all cake. Some of the problems we came across ranged from the typical cultural differences to actual management issues within the Indian company.
Wed Development
- Simplify Your URLs - Tired of working with over extending URLs? Time to Simplify them (For IIS 7.0).
Bargains
- Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
- Canon PowerShot G7 10MP Digital Camera with 6x Image-Stabilized Optical Zoom ($475.99).
- Canon PowerShot A630 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom ($239.88).
- Canon PowerShot A640 10MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom ($259.88).
- Regular Expression Pocket Reference ($5.97).
- TomTom ONE Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator ($197.16).
- Maxxum Swiss Gear by Wenger Notebook Backpack Blue ($38.99).
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