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Slowly taking form again. Like getting mail=in links again at every day.
- 2008-02-01 ^:
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>After the storm tonight the day is calm as can be:. (4°C -- 13°C)
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Weep for the demise of the real onion
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/01/no_more_tears_onion/ )
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Rather pricy for a memory chip. But then at that capcity it is pushing at the low capacity end of harddisks.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/01/sandisk_prices_32gb_sdhc/ )
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Special for Dan :
Dell cutting some more.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/01/dell_garrotes_canada/ )
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And the strategy is ... do nothing.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080131-we-have-a-broadband-strategy-bush-administration-says-yes.html )
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- 2008-02-02 ^:
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I needed a new harddisk to revive and old computer. Well, old is relative, but ... .
Anyways.
I don't use much space so I was looking at something of 100GB or up. So I looked up online and went in some local shops. Turns out there are just three sizes available at reasonable prices. You get 200/250GB, or 320GB or 500GB. Other sizes are available but those seem to be the sweet spot on the price graph. The price hovers around 0.40€ per Gigabyte. Lower capacity jumps up in price, there is almost no sticker difference between a 100GB and a 200GB drive, and higher capacity remains flat, with a 1TB drive just twice the price of a 500GB one.
And then I saw a pallet of drives on promotion. Lacie 500GB portable USB drives at 98€. That is a lot cheaper for a portable drive than for the same size naked drive. This kind of shows what margins there still are on drives if they can add a solid housing and SATA-to-USB electronics and a power-converter and still hit way below the price of the naked disk.
Well, I don't need the extra portable features and slow USB stuff, but I can easily strip those off and get the stripped disk in my computer.
The disk inside?
A Seagate Barracuda 7500.10 SATA 500GB
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- 2008-02-03 ^:
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- 2008-02-04 ^:
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Two clear nights and open days with a pale wintery sun. Well at this time of year that should mean serious frost. But in stead of minus ten it's almost plus ten. (6°C -- 14°C)
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Taking a Mac Air apart isn't trivial but no magic is needed. Once open there is no magic inside either. just some good -non Dell- design.
( http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/First-Look/Mac/MacBook-Air )
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Running at 1 or 2W and at good speed. Intel is serious about capturing the mobile market.
If things go on like that we'll get chips that generate electricity in stead of consuming it.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/04/intel_silverthorne_details/ )
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Tacling the RIAA. Won't be as easy as it looks, just like the Millenium act they will probably tacle and buy legislators in order to get the law 'rectified'.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080203-mediasentry-role-in-riaa-lawsuit-comes-under-scrutiny.html )
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Building perfect spying infrastructure. Making it easy to use for anyone to spy.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080203-unchecked-surveillance-threatens-security-as-well-as-privacy.html )
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- 2008-02-05 ^:
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Strange weather. It gets overcast in stead of clear and yet thettemperature drops overnight. Maybe it's the cold rain and strong wind playing together. (4°C -- 12°C)
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Ahoy. The disks have come.
A new system arrived. Well there was a delivery problem so all we got was a single empty rack. The actual AS400 went missing. Not the first shipping error from that particular -now ex- IBM employee.
Then the AS400 arrived, preinstalled in the second rack. A nice and black iSeries 570 system.
Now the disks arrived and got isntalled. 7 boxes (4 in one rack, 3 in the other) of 16 drives each. No huge-capacity drives, just 148GB each but they are pretty fast, 15K on an FA interface, and there are plenty of them. A little bit of a step-up from the total of 800GB in the current box. Though I don't know whether all that is going to be linked to the production As400, part of it might be reserved for the Notes server.
Curious thing is each box has some networking connections at the back, plain ethernet and fiber, but there is also a USB type-B connector. Yep you could use then as plain USB drives on your home machine.
( www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/disk/ds6000/index.html )
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Green energy. Raking in green-backs mainly.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/wind_farms_hide_terrorists_guzzle_pork_sez_ofgem_mod/ )
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Cheers to the fantastic success of Vista. heu, would you like XP with that?
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/nec_xp_vista/ )
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The actual reason why they want to buy Yahoo, MS loves the bugs so much.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/yahoo_jukebox_vuln/ )
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Looks like an inetresting storage thing. And Dell probably hasn't had time to cost-cut it to dead yet.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/dell_ps5000_array/ )
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Flying on gas. It's godd to see they are looking into alternatives for standard oil. It's not a solution to all problems but better tha just idling.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/a380_synthetic_gas_fuel_test/ )
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HD being ousted in Europe. But here the PS3 is winning the war single handedly.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/04/blu_ray_hd_dvd_europe/ )
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An interesting glimps of the future. Though I doubt it will work out that way. Cutting out the powerconsumption from the picture will always let developers focus on and get higher perfromance. So I bet the people needing real super computer power today will still be using super consuming stuff. In normal datacenters though things will move in that direction. And probably desktops will get there to.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/02/horst_simon_cloud_computer/ )
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PostgreSQL in a new release.
( http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/features83 )
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/04/postresql_record_update/ )
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- 2008-02-06 ^:
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It's been stormy all night, with tons of rain. And it remains stormy with rain for most of the day. With just one or two blinding outbreaks of sun. (5°C -- 11°C)
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I just killed a toad I think. Remember it's dark when I leave and it was raining making everything a bit darker still. Well I stepped and slipped a bit and when I looked back I saw the toad on the ground. I did not putt my full weight on it so I am not sure whether I killed it. With some luck it survived and is only mildly hurt and gets off the driveway. If it is seriously injured or rightout dead I suppose some crows or cats will get it.
Sorry toady.
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IBM looks ahead. Ready to make some future. It actually complements the lowpower datacenter stuff from yesterday.
I suppose there will still be enough organisations that demand more peak perfromance.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/ibm_bluegene_web/ )
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And those IBM blue Genes look well poised for the Blue Cloud.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/ibm_eu_cloud/ )
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30MB of on chip cache. It realy sounds impressive for Intel. But it also points to a huge connectivity problem. With the impressive bandwith QuickPath provides the cache should become less important and yet they increase the size. I admit that the cach-per-core goes down so maybe there is not a real problem with Quickpath. But still.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/intel_tukwila_2bn/ )
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Someone order a thombstone. For SCO. They are probably unable to pay for one themselves.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/sco_annual/ )
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- 2008-02-07 ^:
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Strange. It's been to warm for the season for weeks. And suddely there is ice on my car in the morning. (-1°C -- 11°C)
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Yep, Flash disks are going to get big and cheap. OK, not as big or as cheap as harddisks but they surely are going to cut the very small disks. The 1.2 inch disks are all but dead and I suppose the 1.8 inch plavour is gone feel the preasure.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/sandisk_43_nanometer_nand_flash/ )
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More details on the low poser Intel Silverthorne chip. Well, not realy mouch more info.
( http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/06/ever-wanted-know-silverthorne )
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AMD has more work to do to catch up with Intel again. But they are working on it.
( http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/05/analysed-amd-nm-comeback-vs )
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Clogging up and freezing the pattent system is underway. The way it's going now the US may well be on the way of blocking off progress.
( http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/24716 )
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- 2008-02-08 ^:
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>There is ice again. But the predawn sky is beautifull and clear. (-1°C -- 13°C)
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More disks arrived. And all are installed and running.
Very nice. Especially with the lights off.
And a huge difference with the other racks. They are 'PC' racks with some disk-arrays and blade systems. Everything there has multiple light, in various colours, and most of them are blinking nerveously.
The AS400 has just a couople of leds and a small illuminated display. And each disk has a single light. All calm and steady.
Another difference is the noise. Each disk array has two big quiet fan and the system has a couple of similar fans. Standing behind it there is a soft flow of warm air.
On the PC server side there are all sorts of fans. Some vey big and quiet fans on teh drive arrays. Medium fans on the blade powersupplies. Small and loud fans on the old 2U servers. And high pitched screaming fans in the blades. All different pitches and sounds, not musically coordinated. And in places you feel a real hard, hair blowing draft of hot wind.
Yes, it's all HP gear but mix-n-matched with old servers and new servers and various generations of blades. It's not 'a system'.
There is actually more processing power and disk and memory space in the PC-server side if you add it all up.
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Copping every PC.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/08/riaa_wants_filters_for_end_users/ )
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It sounds logical to drop the Astronimical unit. It being defined on a varying mass isn't the best thing around. And it's just another measurement unit for distance. We have more than enough of those. Especialy outside of the International Standards.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/astronomical_unit_inaccurate_shrinking_sun/ )
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Simply switching over to another email provider is not trivial. Definitly not for the average customer. I expect many prople to drop their email address and get a completely new one.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/sky_google_mail/ )
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A different ping-of-death. Mainly legal pings going on now. I don't think active sonar is needed. Just passive litening should be capable enough. Just call one of the sailors on his mobile phone and listen to the ringtones..
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/07/judge_bush_sonar_dolphins_whales_legal_fracas/ )
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Good for hard nuts to crack. But delivery of these big bombs could be a problem.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/massive_ordnance_penetrator_bunker_buster_delay/ )
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IPv6 is taking a long time to get introduced. A very long time. And by the time IPv4 is choked large parts of the internet will still be on it.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/ipv6_milestone/ )
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- 2008-02-09 ^:
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- 2008-02-10 ^:
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- 2008-02-11 ^:
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>Nice, fifth day in a row with ice on the car and yet warm and sunny by day. (-0°C -- 15°C)
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It reminds me of court battles. All without bloodspilling yet just as nasty
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/10/yahoo_to_reject_microsoft_offer/ )
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Is Bluetooth growing some real teeth? Hitch-hiking on Ethernet can not only speed up BlueTooth but may also increase the range. Two very interesting things. You could transfer data from you phone to disk faster en you could walk around the office keeping your BlueTooth headset connected and babling on via Skype.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/10/bluetooth_sig_confirms_wifi_plan/ )
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NewMaxico opens up it's supercomputer, and claims it's a fresh idea; It's a bit back-to-the-future actualy. When I started University (1980) we had a connection to a "super" computer in Brussels. Billed to the universety on usage-time. We even had touch screens then (soft transparent rubber layer on the CRT).
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/09/encanto_computer_newmexico/ )
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It looks like the Penguins are gone call home.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/08/linux_versus_iphone/ )
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English?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/08/symbiotic_ephemeralization/ )
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- 2008-02-12 ^:
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Still ice on my car. But when I reach the office I can enjoy a red dawn.. Not an expansive scarlet one, just a rusty red border: (-0°C -- 15°C)
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Yahoo digs in and MS goes after it. More aggressive if needed. just showing the world how desperate it is. It knows what a monopoly is and it fears it.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/11/microsoft_still_wants_yahoo/ )
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Getting a better grip on the mobile market? Just buy your way in. Unlikely though that they will get a monopoly there.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/11/microsoft_acquires_danger/ )
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Apple going for the games market? Well, maybe. It's a bit harder to break into than the music-player market but MS has shown that being late is not a guarante for failure.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/11/apple_games_console_patent/ )
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Talking about game stuff. There are intersting things going on. Probably leading to a round of pricedrops.
( http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/11/ps3-cell-drops-45nm )
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It doesn't only depend on hardware though to get a games box out. You need games and Apple has some pacifying to do
( http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/11/game-makers-hit-apple )
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- 2008-02-13 ^:
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Still ice on my car. But when I reach the office I can enjoy a red dawn.. Not an expansive scarlet one, just a rusty red border: (-0°C -- 15°C)
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What's the best way to piss off a customer calling for support?
You pick up and say : "what's your problem now?"
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Johny Walker goes swimming ...
(http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4cvix&v3=1&related=1 )
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Very few companies do these large scale rollouts anymore.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/ibm_february_storage_rollout/ )
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Just for interst. I remeber Wind River as a developer of a real-time opperating system, long before Linux came to the spotlight.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/12/wind_river_montavista_mobile_linux/ )
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MS is flying Office as main banner these days. Probably hoping people won't notice the holes in the underlying Windows.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/12/gates_office_yahoo/ )
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Firefox is growing up to the important release-3 step.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080212-first-look-firefox-3-beta-3.html )
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The House version of the bill does not contain the immunity provision..
Strange, does that means the House and Congress vote for the same thing but with different texts? Does that mean you vote for one thing and something else is passed?
Strange.
Also strange is the "Everyone deserves their day in court against companies that may have wronged them." quote. Unless I mis something here the law would force telcos to break the law whensecutity maffiaFBI comes knocking. But then people want to be able to sue them anyway for something they are obliged to do. Nice set of contradiction in these laws. Of course the FBI (and buddies) cannot be sued.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080212-democrats-fail-to-block-telecom-immunity-provision.html )
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BeOS is a bit like OS2. It simply won't die. But unlike OS2 it isn't actively supopressed and killed by it's parent.
( http://arstechnica..com/news.ars/post/20080212-first-look-haiku-poetically-resurrects-beos.html )
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- 2008-02-14 ^:
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Its a cross between drizzl and mist. More like driving trough a drizzle cloud. And clouds are good insulators so it isn't cold. (3°C -- 8°C)
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Spy satelite dilema. And a great test for the nuclear-sheld stuff. Hey, maybe they could ask the chinese to help, they have proven to be able to shoot sats out of space.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/us_spy_satellite_rights_enforcement_shoot_down/ )
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Yes there are problmes with bio-fuel. But the original hope can not and will not be abandoned, the supper simple logic behind it (and the trendy BIO in front) will weather the storm of reality. That's why negative reports are munched and re-edited before reaching the public news.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/science_biofuel_reports/ )
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A better alternative to biofuels used for transport if using hydrogen. Safely stored and transpported in the form of ... petrol (or similar stuff). Of course the energy still needs to ge generated in the first place, most likely nuclear, and realising that there is a loss in every conversion I douobt the whole procedure is going to work out. Better batteries seem a more efficient solution.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/carbon_capture_onboard_cars_water_petrol/ )
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This is what the Apple Air should have been. A smaller screen for portability, enough thickness to provide a good grip en room for connections. And all possible wireless options built in.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/13/mwc_ecs_super_3g_laptop/ )
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- 2008-02-15 ^:
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It isn't cold, well, not freezing, but it feels cold. Most of the mistiness has gone, there are even some cloud-breaks in the afternoon. (2°C -- 9°C)
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Usualy you get management and staff shuffling after a merger. MS does it before the merger.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/14/microsoft_prespring_reorg/ )
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Sounds like $100M down the drain.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/14/sco_reorganisation_plan/ )
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HD ?? -flash forward- Daddy, tel me what HD was?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/15/blu_ray_disc_sales_in_europe/ )
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No that exceptional for Saudi trials. Witch trial in much the same style as the mediaeval Christian which trials. But who are we to complain? We did just the same stupid stuff in our post crusading days.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/14/saudi_appeal/ )
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The pot calling the kettle or somesuch. How bad is hijacking the 404 page? Well it certainly is not a feature I want. Using a custom 404 is a good way to instantly see whether the page asked is not found or whether the server askes is down.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/13/google_nabs_404_error_pages/ )
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T61. Sounds like an old Rusian tank.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/14/review_lenovo_thinkpad_t61/ )
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- 2008-02-16 ^:
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- 2008-02-17 ^:
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- 2008-02-18 ^:
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It finally got cold. As it should. But also sunny so the difference between night and day is big. (-7°C -- 13°C)
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I hate the office.
It's always to warm form me. But some days are worse. Like today. It's gone be a nice sunny day and when the sun shines tthje temperature in the office shoots up. But of course early in the morning there is no sunshine and the heating is on medeum, just under 20°C. So people come in fron outside where it freezes and they turn up the heat. To max.
And then, half an hour later they leave for a meeting in another building but of course they leave the heating on. Full blast. By ten o clock it's to hot even for other people so ... they open the windows.
So now the windows are open and the heating is going all out.
Me?
I do nothing. If I dare set things to comfortable levels --for me- the coleagues will probably lynch me.
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The end is near. For HD. The format will linger on for a while but relegated to some niche markets while the rest of the world forgets it ever existed. Meanwhile the next battle is brewing in the labs.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/17/tosh_drop_hd_dvd_claim/ )
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SIM. It's a small card carying a big business. But the future is like the card. Slim.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/14/swp_sim_nfc/ )
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Labels are comming late to the table, after the cake has been devided en then demand their slice. the only way to get a slice is some other player gives up his share. They are trying all right but they seem to confuse themselves more that anything.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-labels-want-piece-of-the-ad-supported-music-market.html )
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When you go shooting at the cloudscause they obscure the sun you are more likely to get rain than sunshine.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-booty-call-music-has-beens-line-up-to-sue-the-pirate-bay.html )
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At the same time finding music gets easier.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080217-tagoo-youre-it-new-mp3-search-engine-unfazed-by-ifpi.html )
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Two phones for every one? Well probably not every one but I can see most people carrying two or more phones. Well, maybe not two phones but two or more phone-capable devices. Apart from a bunch of people that get a private phone and a company phone I think many people will end up carying more than one. Like one regular phone and a game-console which probably has a -vgideo- phone built in. And a music player that can be used to make and take calls.
( -http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080215-2phones-for-everyoneif-industry-cant-get-its-act-together.html )
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- 2008-02-19 ^:
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It's freezing allright. But also misty. So in the morning things are interesting. Everything is frozen over and visibility is limited. (-4°C -- 9°C)
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Panic.
Due to a minor database glitch all the barcode scanners were locked up. And without scanners the halls cannot work. So from 05:00 to 07:10 the whole company was at a standstill. A good hour later everything was back on track and cleaned up again.
Time to let my telephone and ears cool down.
Leave no time for news.
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- 2008-02-20 ^:
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New computer acronym:
WYGIWYD -What you got is what you deserved.
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This temperature inversion has weird effects. The cold air is close to the ground so it freezes. But higher up the air is warmer so te clouds there produce rain. So in stead of a thin even layer or frozen-down mist my car was covvered in bumpy frozen raindrops. And the roads are not different. the big roads are open but the small roads and parking lots are icy and interesting. (-2°C -- 9°C)
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The Bush spy regime is probably to unconstitutional to be allowed to reach the courts. But liky George has got the supremes in his pocket.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/warrantless_wiretapping_challenge_rejected/ )
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But then why would they need warantless spying if they can get a single warant? One address or all isn't that much of a difference.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/18/fbi_email_surveillance/- )
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Just an upgrade to Apple's file-system. Not realy interesting. They are also trowing out their RAID hardware. Now that is interesting. Well, with the new filesystem being able to work with other people's RAID systems that is not much of a handicap. And competing in the RAID market is not working well for Apple. Unlike desk-and laptops beautifull design is far less important back in the server room. The interesting point though is looking at the future for the Xserve. When they started out they were seriously different from anybody elses servers. They ran Mac OS on Power hardware. But now? They are just another intel box running Mac OS flavour of Unix. Easy to replace with any other brand of Intel server running another version of Unix. It wouldn't surprise me at all that the Xserve line comes in for serious change. Or for the chop.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/apple_xserve2_release/ )
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Sun moving away from Texas Instruments. This doesn't bode well for TI. Not that Sun was their biggest customer. But is was their most visible.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/19/sun_tsmc_ti/ )
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The EeePC has shocked the big players into action. Soon there will be tons of small, truely portable notebooks -running Linux- available. Apple seems to have missed this boat. Absent from the HP abby is a pricetag, most likely well above the Asus price.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/hp_compaq_2133_spied/ )
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With Sony pushing OLED screens we may start to see prices drop. And they may crop up in notebooks. Especially interesting given their low power consumption. Now if only they start making notebooks with normal aspect screens in stead of the useless wide screen stuff.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/19/sony_oled_development/ )
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- 2008-02-21 ^:
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Nothing interesting. Well ist's cool but not freezing, wet but not raining. And misty but with good visibility. (1°C ^_^ 8°C)
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Sun just has the the quality of server that we need around here. We are running on HP servers and blades via Citrix. But to many users on to few servers and those servers are under powered maxing out at 4GB for the best.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/sun_blade_x8450/ )
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Letting 3Com go down the drain apparently is better for America
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/3com_huawei_deal_collapses/ )
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I doubt this hovering dalec is suited for police work. But maybe the police works different in the US. Increasing the range to more than just an hour it might be intersting for trafic control and utilities surveilance though.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/micro_air_vehicle_hover_n_stare_daleks_for_miami_heat/ )
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Free internet is a fairy tale. But a bad ending if things are not reshuffled. And thats just for the delivery of 'content'. Once the advertisers make a cost-benefit analysis I bet three quarters of the 'free' content will go up in smoke.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/iplayer_isps_broke/ )
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Speed doesn't come cheap. But with this Intel board your games may play just about fast enough. Antyone interested in a game of solitaire?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/20/intel_launches_skulltrail/ )
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It's about time. Thunderbirdis good but it is getting long in the tooth. With a dedicated team things may move forward a bit faster.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/20/mozilla_messaging/ )
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Not the cheapest sat-nav on the market but it apears this Mio has no flaws.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/20/review_mio_c620/ )
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Microsoft opening up? More likely their only way to remain attractive to government and other organisations that have been looking at OpenSource alternatives. It's also a way to make sure developers bind in to their apps more. Sounds like an offensive on the desktop. Or a last-ditch effort to hold on to it's cash cow.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/microsoft_goes_open/ )
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But then MS starts focusing a bit more on the other, non-desktop, side of it's business. It tasted success with the XBox while everybody waited for Sony to finally get it's act together. Sony is standing upright again and the XBox isn't flashy-new anymore so it's MS turn again to make a move. Laying the groundwork for the version-3.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/21/xbox_live_zune_mobile_gaming/ )
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And it is going out shopping for services. And not just fishing for Yahoo. Hoping they can borg that market eventually.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/ms_danger_why/ )
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Google health. Doesn't sound like a healthy proposal.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/google_health_records_private_launch/ )
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Fast Flash. It sounds like a RAM-caching flash drive. But it probably is a bit more complicated.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/21/pliant_startup_decloaking/ )
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It's been warm and sunny for a couple of days. Way to warm for February. But now it's wet again. with almost normal temperatures, though it still doesn't freeze at night. (4°C ^_^ 10°C)
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I woke up Sunday morning with a stiff and painful upper right thigh. Not much of a problem. Except by evening it hadn't gotten one iota better.
This morning it was worse. I am a crazy morning person. Usually I wake up at about 05.30 and I jump out of bed. Literally. This morning I couldn't. My best effort was rolling out of bed. It isn't but it feels as if its swollen and stiff. As if someone or something slammed in and halfway crushed the muscle. I did get to work after some stretching but at work it bothered me all the time. Getting is was seriously painful but the longer I sit still the worse it gets.
And it's running day so I move and start running. Those first 500m were the worst I have run in years. On the left my knee still hurts and on the right my thigh felt as if it was dropping off at every step. But after that first half kilometer things got better.
It's still sore and painful but bearable.
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Flying on food-based oils. Well, probably the best use for those meals served on planes.
( http://www..theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/virgin_747_biofuel_algae_no_uk_gov_corn_maybe/ )
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Google is struggling on the privacy front. And unlikely to win. They may gain some time but not much else.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/23/google_spins_ip_address_privacy/ )
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Green fights green.
( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/ap_on_hi_te/green_dispute ) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/prius_treehuggers_v_solar_plugin_neighbour/
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Interesting black hole. A bit overweight.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/22/hefty_black_hole/ )
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Humpf. The weather wizards predicted colder and wetter. Huge success for them, they got it 50% right. It's wetter. The temperature was just touching the zero last evening to veer up again. (3°C ^_^ 11°C)
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Ha. I could jump out of bed again this morning. The muscles in my thigh are still a bit sore but it's easy to ignore.
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Virtual Machine vulnerability is not virtual.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/vmware_critical_vuln/ )
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More cores is better. Well, that's the Intel mantra these days. I wonder how they will get around bandwidth scaling problems with their frontside bus..
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/intel_six_dunnington/ )
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At last something moves out in the memory landscape. There have been new things regularly but the market is to regulated and conservative for most innovations to push trough.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/weber_metaram/ )
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Novell buys vitalisation tools. Not shocking but I guess this is something to watch.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/25/novell_buys_platespin/ )
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Battling for air-supremacy. The Apple has the style. The Toshiba has the features. Now if someone can combine the build quality from the Apple with Toshiba's features they have a winner.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/25/review_toshiba_portege_r500/ )
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And when thin is in Nokia has a champion on their hands. Not on the market yet but it's coming.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/25/nokia_cambridge_morph_mobile_phone/ )
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2008-02-27 ^: |:
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Lots of rain yesterday. Just a bit less today. (3°C ^_^ 13°C)
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Virtual server on a USB stick. While it sounds impressive it's not big magic. Even the full 2GB+ version can be stored on single USB stick (or an other Flash memory card). The interesting thing is that it probably makes the VMware software more common.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/26/3i_embedded_vmware/ )
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IBM keeps upping the mainframes.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/26/ibm_z10_mainframe/ )
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While others start chewing at the bottom of the mainframe market.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/psi_system6/ )
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Thin is in. Now Lenovo lands a box on the Air field. It looks nice enough, and unlike the Air it has all the needed and useful interfaces. But it's only available with a Flash disk, comes in a bit under powered both in processor and graphics. And hugely over priced.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/26/lenovo_intros_thinkpad_x300/ )
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All those flattened notebooks still have a relative big screen and accompanying large footprint. The only real gain is thickness and weight. You still need a business like suite case or standard notebook bag with room for the notebook and a charger. At least now you have space free for a newspaper. Oh, and apart from a business suitcase you need a business sized wallet as well.
The EeePC en Via Nanobook designs like this TangoX go for real small sizes. You can carry them about in about any bag or pocket and they usually last long enough for a normal working day. Sure the screen is a bit small for typical business apps but for real work a 13" screen is barely enough either.
I wonder when we will see boxes in the 9 to 10 inch screen range. Yes that's a bigger footprint than the small ones but still small enough to carry in almost any type of bag. And with that bigger footprint comes the extra room for batteries. 10" isn't good enough for a typical business spreadsheet but it's plenty usable and comfortable for texts processing end document handling ( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/26/south_korea_gets_eee_style_umpc/ )
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We'a back to dry weather. With lots of clouds but they drift by trough a blue sky. (5°C ^_^ 14°C)
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Researchers and scientists like to play as well.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/28/ps3s_put_to_use_simulating_blackholes/ )
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The Sun-Earth merger. As caclulated on another console.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/sun_swallow_earth/ )
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Oh dear, someone trows facts into the balance.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/chemistry_chief_coconut_jumbo_n_carbon_offsets_bogus/ )
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Wind energy is safe. Unless there is to much wind.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/disintegrating_turbine/ )
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Treating censorship as a trade-barier is probably the best way to fight against it. It won't work to stop censorship of course but it does add the preasure.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-eu-may-begin-treating-net-censorship-as-a-trade-barrier.html )
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Turning VOIP into a real phone service.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-senate-oks-enhanced-911-voip-requirements.html )
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Australia tries for complete blocking of pron. Being afraid of naked walibis.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-government-reports-say-89-million-porn-filter-wont-work.html )
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Not only the people DownUnder are afraid of porn. The Americans (Utah) know that complete blocking is not possible, constitutionally at least, so they try for rating ISPs. That sounds a lot more feasible than the fuill blocking but it's not likeley to work as it's to costly and dificult to get a lower tha G rating and keep it.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080227-this-isp-has-been-rated-g-by-the-state-of-utah.html )
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We'a back to dry weather. With lots of clouds but they drift by trough a blue sky. (5°C ^_^ 14°C)
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Some interesting shots of the moon. South pole.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/28/monn_south_pole/ )
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The fence is not working. The Eye of Sauron ... appropriate name maybe. Half the purpose of Sauron's fortifications and fencing was to keep orks and others inside.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/28/virtual_fence_eye_o_sauron_actually_rubbish/ )
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Finally the wirless disk arrives. I always wondered why nobody made wireless disks before. I know bluetooth is slow but there are faster short range comms possible. The idea of just placing your drive on top or besides your computer and access the data sounds much more interesting than looking for a USB or other type of connetion around the back and trying to get your cable out of the rat-nest without pulling others when you're done is appealing. And, adding onduction-loop pads for charging an internal battery, it would mean you can build components completely sealed and weather proof.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/apple_ships_time_capsule/ )
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A day you don't learn something is a wasted day.
A day you don't teach something is a lost day.