Archive for the tag 'Microsoft'

Dec 21 2008

FLAC compile benchmarks

FLAC is a cross-platform codec, but when it comes to Windows, one has a pretty wide range of compiles. Some are more optimized than others.

I first got the idea for this benchmark when I stumbled upon a native 64-bit FLAC executable…

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Apr 29 2008

Windows XP SP3

Windows XP SP3

Eh. It’s good, I suppose, and I’m sure its much-vaunted performance is there, but this is very much a service pack dealing with O/S guts, and not a massive feature pack a la SP2. I can’t immediately tell any difference.

In other…

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Feb 15 2008

Size curves for office file formats

Just a few days ago, I compared the relative sizes of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) and OASIS’s OpenDocument format (ODF). I noticed that while OOXML was smaller for smaller amounts of text, ODF was smaller for larger documents. I…

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Feb 12 2008

Comparing office file formats

A while ago, as OpenOffice.org 2.0 approached completion, I compared the file sizes of Microsoft Office’s binary format against OpenOffice’s new OpenDocument format. Recall that OpenDocument is an XML-based storage formatted that is ultimate compressed into a zip file, creating smaller…

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Dec 19 2007

Look! A flying pig!

IE8 (still in development) passes the ACID2 test. I’ll be damned.

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Oct 23 2007

Microserfs

Douglas Coupland • Microserfs Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Year: 1996
Pages: 384
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№49

So soon after I read Show Stopper!, my literary travels once again take me back to Microsoft… sort of. Microserfs is a fictional story of a…

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