Jim [hbwt] highlights the Fragile Base Class problem that can beset O-O systems such as BeOS.Be Newsletter, Issue 79

BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: What's the Fragile Base Class (FBC) Problem?

Try as we might to separate and hide our implementation of the BeOS, certain dependencies are created the moment a developer compiles and links against our dynamically loaded libraries.

Note to my students: the FBC Problem will not appear in the 52.223 Low Level Programming exam on Friday ;-)

Accessibility of the Internet in Higher Education:

In this White Paper I will provide a brief description of the need for the Web in the education of ALL students and will describe what is happening as postsecondary entities participate in our society's online explosion. Through multiple data sources, I try to capture a national snapshot of postsecondary accessibility today for students with disabilities. Finally, I offer a model to explain the enormous challenges faced in education and potential directions that could help mitigate this endemic problem.

via [HtP]: Former Compaq execs to launch server company

TWO FORMER EXECUTIVES of Compaq on Tuesday will announce they have formed a new server company that will use alternative processor technology to introduce fresh competition into the already fierce high-density server market....

The company's new line of servers, code named "ICE," will utilize a low-power processor from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Transmeta, makers of the revolutionary Crusoe chip, sources said.

Why Blogger Empowers Mindless Nits

Sun's Cobalt may launch AMD's Athlon into server market

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon processor may make its long-sought leap into the server market when Sun Microsystems Inc. next week unveils its Cobalt division's low-end Internet-appliance server.

FEED: Tomorrow's Desktop

In the past, if you stumbled across a new visual metaphor, a new way of imagining information, you needed to scramble past the gatekeepers at Microsoft or Apple to get your vision onto other people's desktops, assuming you didn't have the funding to start your own software company. But the web enabled all of us to experiment with different lenses, and share those creations with others. Surely that change would result in more ways of seeing.