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Slowly taking form again. Like getting mail=in links again at every day.
2008-03-31 ^:
Weather - -
It's a bit windy but relative warm. And wet of course, we got the wettest March on record. It did dry all up in the afternoon. I wouldn't be surprised April to turn out to be the driest on record. (5°C ^_^ 14°C)
News - -
Fingerprint fallacy
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/30/german_interior_minister_fingerprint_appropriated/ )
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Battle of the bones. (cause we don't have access to the fingerprint database of those times ^_~ )
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/29/oldest_european_hominin_fossil/ )
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Particle Physics Phantasy
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/28/lhc_cern_hawaiian_botanist_lawsuit/ )
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End-User Licence Agreements become End User-Licence (dis)Agreements when it's only the end users that are reading them.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080329-adobe-joins-list-of-companies-not-reading-own-eulas.html )
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Putting constrains on RFID tagging. Or rather on the reading of the tags. And for once they are not decades behind technology with the lawmaking. Though enforcing those laws may be a bit on the difficult side.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080328-washington-state-passes-rfid-privacy-law-wheres-uncle-sam.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-27 ^:
Weather - -
Raining again, all day, but just very lightly. (0°C ^_^ 12°C)
News - -
Two core chips and four core chips are pretty common. But now the three core chips are out. And they are a bit weird beating their four core cousins.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/27/amd_announces_b3_phenoms/ )
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Cloud computing remains ... clouded.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/ibm_autonomic/ )
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Sony keeps trying.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/sony_son_of_connect/ )
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Putting big laser-guns in the air hits a snag. Boeing is interested but wants to milk the military for extra funds. That's where it finds out suddenly that there are alternatives around. A laser bearing Airbus would be possible and a shocker to the US air industry. And what is them actually stopping from picking up a good old Russian Toupolev?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/boeing_abl_funding_airframe_worries/ )
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Apparently I am not the only one lusting for a small box.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/26/asus_admits_eee_supply_issues/ )
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I always liked computers integrated in a keyboard. Liked in a design way of things, not as a user. Certainly not this type of take on a keyboard-computer. It's to big and heavy for a comfortable keyboard. I have used a good keyboard-computer once. But that was a kind of thin-client computer with a late 486 chip and no disk. It was almost indistinguisabe from a standard keyboard and could be used as one. It had a non-standard multi-head cable with VGA and power and serial and parallel all combined with additional network, serial and ps2 ports on the side of the keyboard. Lovely. But sadly not coffee-proof.
I doubt this one is coffee-proof either. And while it looks interesting it doesn't look usable. Well, usable and practical enough to carry into a LAN-party but for regular daily use it's to fat and heavy, with to many cables attached and pushing it around on the desk those fans are likely to blow your papers and postit notes all over the place.
Nope, nice design-effort but not a toy for me.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/26/all_in_one_pc_cybernet/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-26 ^:
Weather - -
There was some snow on my car this morning. Just the half-molten and re frozen stuff from a nightly shower. But it's raining now. No snow to be found anymore. (0°C ^_^ 14°C)
Self - -
quick test.
>hat is your first thought if you see an order or load number 0004004 ...
yep the old Intel chippy ^_^
News - -
Just as AMD get up into a competing position Intel moves on. Those Intels are still throttled by their front side buss but the replacement is already on the calendar. It's curious how the server and corporate market has changed. Product cycles used to be closer to decades than years. Now it's moving as fast as the desktop scene.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/intel_l5400_series_processors/ )
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Just a shipping mistake. You order some batteries and get some nukes.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/us_nuke_parts_mistake_battery_brouhaha/ )
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I wonder why the Greens didn't come up with this. Probably because nuclear plants don't produce soot and they cannot add another positive card for nuclear now can they?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/soot_solution/ )
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In a sense it's a bit sad that
MSXMLOOXML doesn't get approval. Now it is and remains a lock-in key for MS, if approved they loose the key and ability to us it as a lock-in/lock-out method.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/25/ooxml_votes_india_cuba/ )
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Database battles move on.
( http://www.regdeveloper..co.uk/2008/03/25/enterprisedb_ibm_investment_dev_updates/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-25 ^:
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I love it. Really. Fresh snow on the roads is beautiful. And fun for driving.
OK, not fun when there is traffic and the roads get clogged up with stoopip drivers that think snow beside the road means first gear all the way. But I drive off to work at 06:15 and there is no traffic then. Almost none. In quite some places I am the first driver, laying tracks in the virgin snow. There are a couple of dangerous points but I know these. Like the old bridge over the railroad, guaranteed packed with snow and hard-frozen at that, with luck -bad sometimes- you can slide down the whole way. Or the sharp turn at the buss stop, even on dry days you can spin there.
After some sun during the morning we get more snow at noon. but it doesn't stick, the roads are all clear. (-2°C ^_^ 14°C)
News - -
Not all searches use Google.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/24/us_border_control_laptop_searches/ )
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I know it's pretty normal to sell and buy patents. I would change that. A patent should granted on a name and become locked to the person registering it. Same with copyrights.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/25/ajax_patent_auction/ )
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Intel Super computers? Yep they are around now and will stay dominant. But breaking in the top-10 ... not likely.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/23/intel_gelsinger_petascale/ )
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CPU here, more cores there, dual graphics all over. But storage is all but forgotten. The only storage related info hitting the press is disk-size. And yetAll the processors and gigle hertz in your box are worthless if they have to wait on slow disks. RAID and other storage controllers are not sexy but they are important if you run more than a simple desktop.
( http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Storage/Adaptec-Ships-First-28port-Controller/?kc=EWKNLBOE030808STR5 )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-21 ^:
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Arrrgh, to much sun again. Auch to much rain. Damn to much snow. Oh hell, to much sun. WTF to much snow. Ahh, dancing demons, to much rain. ...
Four seasons in a day is not fun, But if they switch every 15 minutes it becomes fun again. (4°C ^_^ 13°C)
News - -
Silly comparison between a 5 year old HP server and a 5 day old IBM server. But, as silly as it it it shows the advances made in servers over the years. It gives you a good incentive to look out for a replacement of your old server racks.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/21/ibm_superdome_parisc/ )
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Toshiba comes out with high capacity flash drives. At over 100GB flash drives are sizing up into the lower levels of disk drives.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/21/toshiba_begins_mass_production_mlc_flash/ )
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Portability goodness. To bad nothing has reached the shops around here.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/20/ecs_spills_g10il_beans/ )
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Another take on the cost of climate change. Written with a bit of a cynical smile.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/budget_2008_fuel_duty/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-20 ^:
Weather - -
The weather is back to normal. As in grey and wet. (4°C ^_^ 13°C)
News - -
SSD notebooks returned? "Feedback from customers indicates they are pleased ..." They don't count feedback from ex-customers of course.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/dell_solid_state_drives/ )
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The Java promise (write once, run everywhere) is brought to all programs. Using Transmissive does cost you on performance but at least you don't have to rewrite everything in a hurry.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/transitive_solaris_sparc_x86/ )
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Sun not only gets Transmissive in bed, it also hops on the VMware train. So you can run virtually anything on a Sun box.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/sun_vdi_two/ )
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Music getting messed up more. It really is getting confusing here.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/apple_itunes_unlimited/ )
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Raw Science is difficult. So it's important to make a good setting and environment for it to become understandable by non-scientists. Randomness, unpredictability, statistics and numbers
( http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/communicating-science-polarized-public.ars )
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Finally AMD ships good Barcelona chips. Almost a year late.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080319-amd-barcelona-to-hit-server-racks-in-april.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-19 ^:
Weather - -
The clouds that kept the night from freezing retreat when the sun comes up. Nice and sunny. Untill at noon, it suddenly starts to snow. Suddenly in the sense that one side of the office is still bathing in sunlight while the other side sees snow. A minute later it's snowing on both sides (2°C ^_^ 16°C)
News - -
Patent mess. How can a computer indexing system be patented? What's new about it?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/patents_software_online/ )
Sad - -
One of the best SF writers of all time is gone. Thank you Arthur C. Clarke, thank you for your great ideas and good writing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/19/arthur_c_clarke_dies/ )
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On the one hand it's good to see power consumption cuts. But on the other hand we will all need bigger disks and more memory just to save all the documents with rules and regulations
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/16/it_carbon_footprints/ )
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$20m from MS Intel is not a huge grant but it shows they realise they cannot push programming alone and fast enough. It's also an invitation for other big players to pour money in computing.
( http://www.theregister..co.uk/2008/03/18/intel_microsoft_berkeley_illinois_funding/ )
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So everybody now is putting Linux preinstalled on boxes. In India. Time to do this world-wide.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/18/hp_novell_india_suse_deal/ )
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Integrated graphics growing up. Actually for non-gamers there is almost no reason to buy graphics cards anymore. And with suppliers bundling Linux (above) drivers shouldn't be a problem either. I think this may lead to a new breed of small sized boxes. Full-power and capable yet barely larger than MacMinis.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/18/review_amd_780g/print.html )
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Remnants of planet building.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/lost_world/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-18 ^:
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yay, it's freezing again. Not very hard but at least hood enough to form a mini glacier on my car. It's also gloriously blue with no clouds to provide a red dawn. (-2°C ^_^ 17°C)
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Blinking chips. Maybe not a good idea for all those case-mod enthusiast that put lights inside their box.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/18/ibm_nanophotonic_switch/ )
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Curious how Intel finally catches up with AMD on the cash design and true quad-cores. It's only really working when they drop the old style front-side bus.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/17/nehalem_phenom_cache_plan/ )
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Hmmm, yes, that would be a nice desktop. Probably fast enough.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/17/hp_dl785/ )
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The EeePC hits the desktop? Maybe. Interesting to follow anyway.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/17/desktop_eee_seen/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-17 ^:
Weather - -
It has been raining all weekend. And heavy rain at that. Record breaking amounts according to the weather gurus (5°C ^_^ 15°C)
News - -
Nice looking military tools. Not a bat-man but a bat-bot.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14/robot_bat_ornithopter_smell_gargoyle_us_army_ploy/ )
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Passing at just 50Km, a good daily commute. But on a cosmic scale that is as good as a direct hit.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/14/cassini_enceladus/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-14 ^:
Weather - -
Storm is gone ... storm is back. Well not a real hard storm but lots of rain and some very strong unsteady winds. . (6°C ^_^ 12°C)
Wurk - -
Backup. basically it works the same as on the old machine. But it's a little different.
There are effectively 2 drives. Which is good cause the i5 is split into two partitions. One for the production and one for the Notes server. Now each partition has it's own drive.
There are also 48 slots for tapes in the tape library. One of those (top-right, 48) is reserved for the cleaning tape. Because there are so many slots moving a magazine takes a long time cause each slot is physically checked every time (yep the stupid box check left and right even though it only allows the moving of one side at a time).
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Ha, yes, Java. Write once and run anywhere.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/14/cross_application_servers/ )
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The Cuban black-market is going to feel the pinch. And suddenly the US, seeing non-American goods flowing into Cuba, may realise it's sanctions were a complete waste of rhetoric.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/cuba_lifts_ban_on_computers/ )
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It is strange that the MS Zune hasn't shown up in Europe. Staged releases, with devices coming out in the US or japan first and reaching Europe last, are common. But usually it's just a case of months. Not, as with this Zune a case of years. I suppose MS is selling the Zune in the US based more on it's brand name than on it's qualities and in Europe the MS brand name is far less strong. Not strong enough probably to propulse Zune sales. Or MS is just, sensibly, waiting for Release-3.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/13/microsoft_zune_euro_delay/ )
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Making money with Linux?? can be done the serious way but also the cute and funny way. ^_^
( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/tux-droid-review.ars )
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Try out of 'the great switch' IP6 is ready when the world isn't yet.
( http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ietf-ipv6-switchoff.ars )
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MPAA is trying to make knots in the law. Getting desperate.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080313-mpaa-boss-net-neutrality-would-cramp-our-p2p-snooping-plans.html )
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Remnants of planet building.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/13/lost_world/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-13 ^:
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The wind is gone and it took the clouds and rain with it. leaving us in a balmy spring spell. (5°C ^_^ 12°C)
Wurk - -
Yes, it's the thirteenth.
Tonight one (or two) of the airco units in the server room went down. Some time later servers started to struggle. This morning a good 10% was down. Losing 10% during the night is not noticeable but once people start coming in and log on Cytrix has to put more users per server than is good for them.. So already over heated servers get overloaded as well. Oh dear.
News - -
Upgrade to XP. Or Win2K for that matter is an improvement over Vista. The disadvantage is that you loose out on security and bug fixes. If your business apps can live in an Antarctic environment you should of course upgrade to a penguin.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/freeformdynamics_vista_downgrade/ )
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MacBook Air = Hot Air.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/12/macbook_air_overheating_fix/ )
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Quick, copy this before you loose connection and start suffering anxiety.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-disconnect-anxiety-a-malady-for-the-21st-century.html )
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It's one thing when your computer gets hacked in. It's another when your heart gets hacked.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-hacking-implanted-defibrillators-shockingly-easy.html )
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OLED screens are getting closer to market.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-oleds-inch-closer-to-mass-market-via-ge-manufacturing-tweak.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-12 ^:
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Storm is precited so we start with a clear and nice looking bit windy morning. . (4°C ^_^ 12°C)
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This looks interesting. No doubt the RIAA will find or create or buy a loophole in the law to get out of trouble. But trouble surely is brewing up.. The Mafia nature of the organisation start to show trough more and more.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080311-michigan-says-mediasentry-lacks-necessary-pi-license.html )
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Well, six months needed to fix a bug. Seems pretty fast doesn't it? But who cares, it's just the home-server sector.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/microsoft_windows_home_server_bug/ )
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Is Church just trying to look modern?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/vatican_updates_sins/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-11 ^:
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Real Belgian spring. With real belgian rain, you know, that steady unrelenting rain with a low uniform grey sky. (5°C ^_^ 13°C)
Wurk - -
OK, we're on the new system. Lots of extra disk space, a lot faster processing, heaps of internal memory and nice blinking black lights. The problem is that all the extra disks are external disk. Quite fast disks and with a fast optical connection but still, a fair bit slower than a set of internal disks. So the performance is quite good but not as big a step forward as hoped for. I mean the box runs about three times as fast, on a next generation processor, with almost three times the memory and more than three times the disk volume. And it feels about ... 15% faster ... Oops.
And, my shop, there is a new backup system in it. First backup scheduled for tonight.
News - -
Perfectly true. Windows is better off closed. As in closed down.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/10/bill_hilf_open_source_windows/ )
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No coffee with your apple pie. I wonder why Apple hates Sun so much that it writes is licence explicitly against them.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/iphone_jvm_pipe_dream/ )
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It's Intel against "the rest". Of course if Intel joins in there won't be a rest.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/10/ibm_hitachi_32nm/ )
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And so it began ...
MP3 isn't that old really.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/10/ft_first_mp3_player/ )
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A bit of an expensive toy. But then again for a quite capable tablet box it isn't very expensive. While I hate notebooks with "widescreen" displays, for a tablet it makes sense.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/10/review_hp_compaq_2710p/print.html )
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Integrated chip sets used to be a budget choice that was avoided whenever possible. This new AMD chip-set brings some interesting features that may pull it into the more performance oriented market.
( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/amd-780g-chipset-review.ars )
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A bit of an expensive toy. But then again for a quite capable tablet box it isn't very expensive. While I hate notebooks with "widescreen" displays, for a tablet it makes sense.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/10/review_hp_compaq_2710p/print.html )
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check this check this check this
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080309-fighting-the-black-market-crypto-locks-for-cpus-other-ics.html )
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Oh dear! A politician that hasn't been bought yet.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080311-canadian-mp-dont-use-wipo-as-excuse-for-canadian-dmca.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-10 ^:
Weather - -
Ha, there is a grey morning .... . (4°C ^_^ 11°C)
Wurk - -
We just switched over to a new machine. Moving everything over from one AS400 to another.
Everything went well. But of course not everything has been tested on the new box. In theory nothing should go wrong but as a precaution I came in a bit earlier to make sure everything actually runs. The first shift starts at 06:00 so I hobbled into work at 05:50. Of course everything works fine. Except the printers, the first time a print queue is used it gives a system message. So I got a bunch of those. An a bunch of users with forgotten passwords (everybody who changed his password during last week). And a couple of minor mishaps.
So I got in extra early but I didn't actually get more done than usual. *damn*
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Biting in the apple
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/08/jvm_for_the_iphone/ )
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At IBM it's not all silicon that glitters.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/ibm_graphene_sandwich/ )
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That doesn't look like a typical desktop. The problems it solves aren't common business problems either.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/edinburgh_qcdoc_calculations/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-09 ^ :
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-08 ^ :
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-07 ^:
Weather - -
Ha, there is a grey morning .... . (4°C ^_^ 11°C)
Wurk - -
Ha, yes, users are a special breed.
When the get a serious error message they just enter and try (often half successfully) to get trough anyway.
And next they get a warning message ... and promptly call for help.
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looking for trouble? just search it with Google
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/06/googe_iframe_piggybacking/ )
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Multi rules at Sun. Multi-socket systems with multi-core chips that use multi-tread designs.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/07/sun_victoria_falls/ )
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MS is holding tight onto patents. But at the same time it shares them. Weird situation
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/06/microsoft_moonlight_patent_protection/ )
More silverlight stuff. A bit technical.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/06/silverlight_two_data_services/ )
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It looks like a major thumbs-down to Vista. I mean MS is helping to get it on the EeePS and yet the Window that finally hits the world with it is XP. Lucky though that Linux still remains available on it.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/06/asus_brings_xp_to_eee_pc/ )
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Hopefully for AMD the Puma series will get some grip on the Centrino bound mobile market.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/06/amd_announces_griffin/ )
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Not really getting the Open idea. Yes, the AOL SDK is open but with strings attached.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-aols-open-aim-2-0-sdk-license-requires-apps-to-include-ads.html )
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It seems MS IE is getting better. Becoming usable even.
( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/ie8-beta-1-first-look.ars )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-06 ^:
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Ok back to mellow weather. with clouds and sunshine and rain. (3°C ^_^ 12°C)
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Ha, America rule tha waves.
Yep, 40 years of sanctions and still playing hard. Thank goodness they are effective against the Cuban government. And European web sites.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/us_kills_european_based_cuba_websites/ )
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The Fire-wire break-in is not exclusive to MS. But it can easily be blocked. I bet it's on the MS to-do list. behind the leapyesr-bug.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/windows_password_bypass_tool/ )
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IBM is tackling MS. Again.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/05/ibm_open_referent/ )
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AMD is getting it's 45nm started. Good point
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/05/amd_heralds_45nm_cpus/ )
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080304-amd-demos-45nm-server-and-desktop-processors.html )
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The MPAA isn't blaming everything on pirates. Well it can hardly blame they record braking profit on piracy now can they?
All the rest however ....
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/05/amd_heralds_45nm_cpus/ )
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And the RIAA will need some deep thinking about NIN success and profit with it's unprotected music distribution. They will also have to come up with a good explanation of why major labels are needed.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/05/amd_heralds_45nm_cpus/ )
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The RIAA is also struggling in another case. A court case where it refused to provide the evidence needed for a conclusion. Of course showing the evidence would prove it's gained illegally and that might undermine it's whole sue-the-customer campaign.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-battle-brewing-over-mediasentrys-subpoena-stonewalling.html )
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MS is not just creating bugs and security holes and marketing hype. The Singularity project is showing it's also creating interesting technological things in the OS arena.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080304-singularity-microsofts-research-os-available-for-download.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-03-05 ^:
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When a cold front strikes you get fun on the roads. It was nice and warm yesterday. Till the front struck. First signs were heaps of snow and sleet and cold air. Followed by clear night skies. So first you throw very cold water on the ground to cool it down and then you blow freezing cold air over it. Guaranteed ice patches. Then in the morning you let a bunch of crazy drivers (are there other?) loose on that and you got news bulletins that get extra long. (-3°C ^_^ 8°C)
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DnD has put gaming on a new level. And it made sure computer games were more than just shoot-them-ups.
Thank you Gary.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/gary_gygax_dies_at_69/ )
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Trying to bring China in line with the rest of the world. Still needs some extra work.
( http://www.theregister..co.uk/2008/03/04/us_eu_protest_chinese_news_restrictions/ )
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Bill is right again. Google isn't ready yet to take on business. But then again, the speeds at which it is developing is promising. So today Bill can smile and sneer. But tomorrow ...
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/bill_gates_on_google_apps/ )
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And they move in themselves hoping to catch businesses online. So maybe tomorrow looks good for MS.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/03/04/hosted_microsoft_services/ )
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That leap year bug has burrowed deep in the MS software tree
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/sql_server_hit_by_leap_year_bug/ )
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Vista SP1 delayed. But don't expect it to solve the leap year bug. They are just making sure the leap year has passed so Vista will never be hit by it
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/vista_ultimate_sp1_language_packs/ )
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New Adaptec controller. And they seriously boost performance. they are clearly not intended for your average desktop.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/adaptec_series_5_raid/ )
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It's intended (though not priced) as a second-phone that much is clear. So all the blattering about lacking features is not well placed. Also admiring it because it's small and then lamenting it is to small doesn't strike a good pose either.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/04/review_onyx_liscio_mobile_phone/ )
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Yay! Yay! Yay!
That's for the larger screen version of the EeePC. 8.9 is still small enough to be take anywhere but also big enough for work. And with a good resolution at that. Still, wide screen but enough pixels
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/04/asus_eee_900_surfaces/ )
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Mars avalanche. Doesn't look promising for skiers.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/martian_avalanche/ )
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2008-03-04 ^:
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All quiet. And wet. We didn't get any real hard shower but it kept raining all trough the night. Just perfect to swim to work in the morning.
Oops. It just started to snow. Hard. In about an hour my car was covered in 15 cm of snow. But it was weird really just a couple of kilometers down the road there was no snow at all. (5°C ^_^ 15°C)
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Dear Management.
I, the penis, request a salary-raise for these noted reasons :
- I perform strenuous physical labour.
- I have to work at great depths
- I always have to go in head-first
- I don't get free on weekends nor holidays
- I always have to work in a wet environment
- I am not payed for over-work
- I have to work in dark and badly ventilated spaces
- I have to work in a hot environment
- My work puts me at risk of infectious diseases
Kind regards,
Mister Penis
Dear Penis.
We received you request for a wage-raise. After studying the noted reasons and considering your performance and current situation we decided to decline your request. Our decision is based on the following reasons :
- You never work a full 8 hour shift.
- After short periods of labour you gave a tendency to fall a sleep during working hours.
- You often don't follow the orders from you management team
- You often leave your assigned work place and work in other unauthorised places
- You seldom take initiative, extra stimulus and preassure is needed to get you to start your work.
- When you do take initiative it is usually not in an appropriate place and manner.
- You always leave your workplace in an untidy and messy state.
- You never take security measures, management for example often has to force protective clothing on you
- You are never prepared to run double shifts
- You more often then not get ready and out before your work is actually done.
- And lastly, we notice you always show up for work carrying two suspicious bags
Kind Regards,
The management team.News - -
We had a leap year bug as well in our in-house programs. Unlike MS though I solved it, in several programs within two days, not 25+ years.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/microsoft_admits_to_exchange_leap_year_bug/ )
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Taking security serious. just for $35 you get free access to a huge stack of secret US mail.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/mildenhall_website/ )
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China wakes up.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/pentagon_2008_report_china/ )
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Music is breaking free. I am not a Nine Inch Nails fan but I just might buy some. To support the idea.
It is the RIAA worst nightmare. They will have to fight against their clients and their suppliers while being bypassed by both.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/03/nine_inch_nails_album_released_online/ )
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Oh break out the tar and feathers. the Apple Time-Capsule is not server grade.
Say what? Does anyone that buys a Time Capsule needs server-grade. And does anyone who needs 'server grade' storage buys a Time-Capsule. Yep, thought so.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/03/apple_timecapsule_hdd/ )
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the Fujitsu P1620 looks like a candidate for me. The screen is bigger and better than the EeePC one but still small enough for the portability hot-spot. And there is plenty of storage and power in it. Just the battery seems to be a but under sized. And the price over-sized.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/03/fs_launches_1kg_lifebook/ )
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Atom is back. Well, it's something completely different from the old late seventies Atom computers of course. It does look like a killer chip for small computers. Walking right up to the ARM and other embedded processors. It also is a possible killer for the VIA cpu range.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/03/intel_launches_atom/ )
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2008-03-03 ^:
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The storm is gone. Leaving everything calm and wet. (5°C ^_^ 15°C)
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There is a rich man. Or a fool. Suing Apple for providing caller)ID functions in it's iPhone is a smart move. But all known phones and phone systems provide that function. So either everybody is paying him already and than Apple was foolish to refuse. Or no one pays and then the man is a fool to sue in a guaranteed to loose case (unless his family is made up of lawyers that all benefit from cases like this.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/apple_sued_over_iphone_callerid/ )
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Just helping our buddies. And actually Vista will run on those under powered embedded graphics. Not fast but it runs. And it helped MS to sell Vista to cheaper boxes, cause with an expensive but capable box there is no room left in the budget for an expensive Vista licence.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/03/01/microsoft_intel_vista_capable_emails/ )
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And then, a year to late they go cutting the Vista price so there is enough left to bump up the graphics in your box.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/vista_price_cut/ )
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Backup is essential. And don't trust the government to do it. You should do it yourself and trust them to demand the data a second time. Or a third time .... . Who cares that you lose your tax-bonus for early filing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/29/sorry_we_lost_your_tax_return/ )
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Windows 2008 server is finally released. Just a bit later than expected. And lacking a bunch of features. But apart from dropping features it also dropped some clutter. Going back to basics.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/02/27/windows_2008_web_server_core_review/ )
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Stirling-engined cooling. Great ideas keep coming back. Soon we will have a steam engine built in.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/02/29/msi_stirling_cooling/ )
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2008-03-02 ^: Weather - -
The storm has gone but the weather gods remain nervous. So we get perfect wind-still spells and sudden blasts of wind, hard wind. It's generally grey but gaps with bright, blinding sunlight fly by. Often followed by a bout of rain, sometimes hesitant coming down with just a few fat drops, sometimes in a veritable shower but neither lasts long. (5°C ^_^ 14°C)
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2008-03-01 ^: Weather - -
We had some strong winds yesterday. And a very real storm at night. Passing over on it's way trough Europe. We typically get one tornado every fifty years or so. Tonight several touched down.
That was tonight. Now it's still windy and rainy but both intermittant. And there is a bit of sun as well. (5°C ^_^ 14°C)
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A day you don't teach something is a lost day.