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True, and I must say I thought it was a bit of an odd way of going about it, but I've found it to be exceptionally (100%) reliable since the API was upgraded. The fact that it works for all markets that IB provide access to makes it a great facility. Where else will you get Eurex, HK, IPE, SGX...

I'm not saying Java isn't too slow for what you are doing, but I'm curious to know in what respect Java is too slow. I'll grant that Java start up times are excessive and Swing is undoubtedly slower than native GUIs but in some respects Java benchmarks as well as C++. As for bounded realtime...

IB now has six months backfill. Refer to the API release notes.

Definately get the 939 socket board. The 754 will soon be the low end for AMD and socket A will be no more. There should be a performance advantage with 939 for any Athlon 64 because of the better memory bandwidth. Also I doubt if dual core chips will ever appear on 754 so there is not much...

The market prices shown against positions in the account window are only updated every few minutes unless a position changes in size. From my observations of the API I think it is about every three minutes but I could be wrong about the exact frequency. Prices are not streamed into the account...

Steve_IB, I notice that there are two new order states that may be shown on TWS. I presume these will also be available via the API. Could you add mention of these to the API release notes and document the strings representing these states in the API ? Thanks

I think you can get UK sector indices (and the component stocks) from yahoo uk. I don't know about the others but might be worth having a look around yahoo.

Yes, but the opposite is also true. What if you encounter problems or limitations with TS (or any other product) that are a serious issue for you and THEY won't fix them in a time frame that's acceptable. You really are stuck then. A decent programmer should be able to fix any problem given the...

Quite so on Linux. You mention IDE 'smart' HD diagnostics. More people dependent on their computers should make themselves familiar with smart. It can warn of impending HD failure when there are no obvious symptoms. I think there is a Win version of some of the open source smart stuff.

No problems at all with DAX and ESTX50.

Of course it depends on what you want to do, but if you get a partial fill on a limit order, you will get an order status event showing number filled and number remaining, and the balance of the order remains sitting in the market until filled or cancelled. By it's nature you should never get a...

Why do you need these things ? There's a lot of info available on tuning firefox eg http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=53650&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0

Of course XP home is just XP pro with a few bits missing.

On the topic of MS Vista, it appears that it will come in seven different flavours (unlike XP which only has home and professional). All (except the most expensive of course) will be crippled in various ways. And no doubt Server 200X will add a few more flavours as well. Unlike Linux where...

Some of them are not so small eg the X11 server. Something like 15 million lines of code. Not only runs on Linux, but virtually all Unices, Windows, MAC, OS/2 and others. And not only x86 but also PPC, SPARC and others. Supports sqillions of video cards unlike MS where the card vendors write the...

One thing to consider for those investing in a new PC and thinking of using Microsoft Vista (aka Longhorn) is that it seems it will have some fairly hefty hardware requirements. Partly I think because the GUI stuff will be vector graphics based (rather than bitmap) MS are suggesting at least...

Not so. There is nothing magical about concurrency on SMP boxes. It's really just a system call to create a new thread (or process). The OS scheduler/dispatcher sorts out the running of them and executes any required privilged instructions. Really.

Yes. I have developed both server side and client side multithreaded code. Server side on medium size SMP boxes (4 - 16 CPUs). C++ and pthreads. Client side Java. And yes Java apps will distribute threads over multiple CPUs if you are using a modern JVM and assuming the threads are runnable ie...

Sorry, I don't agree with very much of this other than some charting software may not benefit much if there is nothing else running on the machine. Floating point is quite irrelevant. Many database, web servers etc use multiple CPUs and benefit greatly from it and perform virtually no...