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Slowly taking form again. Like getting mail=in links again at every day.
2008-04-30 ^:
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It's all still wet but nothing new is coming down so it might just turn out to be a good day. (4°C ^_^ 20°C)
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Trying to predict the 'next wave' of interest. Interesting maybe but it's bound to be a very small wave if not a mere ripple.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/sun_open_storage_video/ )
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The part of Dell that you don't hear or see much about
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/dell_cr100/ )
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The home network. How long has X-10 power-control been around? I had expected that, some 10 or 20 years ago that type of signaling would evolve far enough to do more than switch devices on and off. But networking is still not really working.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/29/chip_makers_from_homegrid/ )
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Innovative research indeed. Now show me someone who didn't know or suspect that pets are good against developing allergies? Well, unless you are allergic to pets of course ^_^
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/allergy_study/ )
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Small portables are springing up all over the place. And I like the VIA reference but I would expect them, being less advanced than the Asus, to be cheaper.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/29/french_offered_eee_rival/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-29 ^:
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Welcome yesterday, not welcome today. The rain is hanging around to long.. (8°C ^_^ 20°C)
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How to fight against democracy and freedom?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/radio_free_europe_ddos_attacks/ )
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Another way to have a poke at democracy and freedom.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/25/justice_bill_extreme_pron/ )
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Intel is getting (back) into Cray. I think it remarkable though that they do so with the Xeon line. Yes that are very good processors but wasn't the Itanium not positioned to be the better chip? Wasn't the Xeon brand a stop-gap job untill the Itanium would take over?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/intel_cray/ )
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What is the difference between a business PC and a low end consumer PC? Apart from the warranty.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/28/amd_business_class/ )
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MS is stopping it's spot-watch line. Which is a pity I think. A watch is a great place to put and add functions. I think about the MP3 watch I have, that is an under powered cheap Chinese thing but it is simple and easy.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/28/ms_unwinds_spot/ )
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I love small things. Especially if they come in black. And silent running is also high on my wish list.
But Lenovo did cut in a couple of odd choices and provided no expansion. I think it looks a good choice for an office where silent low power boxes are desirable. But they have to spec it up a bit before it becomes competitive.. Or price it down. It reminds me of the IBM boxes that are it's parents and grandparents. Nice and good quality but expensive and under powered. But Lenovo is not in a position to extract a premium for it's brand.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/28/review_lenovo_a61e/ )
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Minesweeper and missiles now in the Apple portfolio. And not it's not games. It's the real thing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/25/apple_pasemi_missiles_storage/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-28 ^:
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It's been almost summer during the weekend so a bit of rain on Monday doesn't hurt.. (8°C ^_^ 20°C)
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No, those aren't a real data-centers. Won't compete on anything except size and consumption. But they are perfect for an install and forget home-data center
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/27/small_data_center/ )
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And fresh from the oven, the EeePc 900. With it's slighty larger and higher resolution screen it jumps from a nice on the side toy, to fully usable box. The 20GB storage also helps here even though a real disk would be helpful. And a bigger battery is also on the wish list. Also distracting is the serious price-hike, expectable with the bigger SSD and better screen, which pumps it from a buy-first see if it's usable-later to a think-first buy later.
To me the only distraction is the battery. Anything less than 4 hours is a disappointment while I ideally want an 8 hours runtime. Well, actually I want more than 8 hours. I want a portable that works a bit like my old Psion 3a.. That ran for a month or longer, depending on use, on a couple of standard AA batteries. I know it's a bit unrealistic for a full scale notebook but still ...
Sure that Psion was not a portable but a pocketable one with a 40x16 character (graphics 320x120) mono screen and no backlight. And it wasn't a powerhouse (8086-clone at 4Mh + 512Kb) not even when I got it 1991. But I kept it because it never crashed and I never had to look for a power outlet.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/25/review_asus_eee_900/ )
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Washington grabbing power wherever it can. Empire building goes on.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/25/governator_and_greenhouse_gas_emissions/ )
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Hitting it's millionth drive. And who remembers those original 5Meg disks? Probably only people who still know what a full height drive looked like.
Yep, I am old.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/seagate_ships_1_billion_drives/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-25 ^:
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Less sun and more clouds. With rain during the night. And in the afternoon. Yep, the weather is back to normal. (6°C ^_^ 20°C)
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500GB external drives give me the creeps. Yes, it's rugged and will survive some abuse. But 500GB is a lot of data to be lost or mislay. Or stolen.. And with a USB interface it's to slow to backup.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/la_cie_rugged_500mb_drive/ )
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There will be low-power Suns in the future. And probably more flexible ones as well. Probably Sun chips with multiple various course. As in a mix of 86 and Spark cores on the same die.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/sun_buys_montalvo/ )
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Heu? I am not a vitalisation specialist so forgive me for thinking that was already included in almost all vitalisation tools. For goodness sake the old fixed disk-quota thing is a pre-eighties thing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/ibm_svc_to_get_thin_provisioning/ )
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So Oracle is going out. And I suppose that while Sun doesn't like the price strategy of Oracle it doesn't mind to much as it sharpens up it's Postrgress and MySQL databases.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/sun_oracle_t2/ )
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Big collisions but don't fear, no airbags or helmets are needed.
Happy anniversary Hubble.
( http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/16/image/a/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-24 ^:
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there has been plenty of rain during the night so not surprising the morning is wet and hazy. But there are no clouds so we get another perfect spring day. (6°C ^_^ 20°C)
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yes, IBM innovates sometimes.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/23/ibm_idataplex/ )
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A mystery buy. Apple has often hinted it wanted a foot in the processor market but it never got in for real. It did get involved, like getting a stake in Motorola during the PowerPC era, but it never owned a full scale operation. And by going into bed with Intel it has a access to the best and cheapest chips available with all possible performance levels. Yet now it buys a chip shop.
Is it going back into the Power line of processors? Seeking better ARMs?
It remains a mystery. I suppose there is a strong control-factor at play here. With Motorola and it's ARM suppliers, heck even with IBM it was one of if not the biggest customer and thus in a position to influence them. It could force the development in one way or another. with Intel it has access to the biggest supplier, with the best process technology and resources but it is just one of the clients and not in a position to push development. At best it can ask for changes and suggest directions. And if Intel actually takes note and implements one of the proposals it becomes automatically available to the whole world so there is no competitive advantage.
So it buys a chip developer to play. ( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/23/apple_buys_pa_semi/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-23 ^:
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Warm again but it's not all clear. There are no clouds but just a general haze, and a beautiful blurry red sunrise. (8°C ^_^ 19°C)
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Just out of habit. MS is so used to screwing up standards they they did it again. Actually forgetting they forced that standard trough themselves.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/office_2007_oxml_fails_test/ )
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Note to self : upgrade
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/22/avg8_free/ )
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Yes, I remember the Foleo. It was a bit expensive. But it also was dropped on a cold market in the US. Nobody there was waiting for a small notebook like this. The only thing happening was sizes going up from 15 to 17 and 19 inch screen, disk breaking out of the 40/80GB range. Bigger is better ruled in the US, still does to a point. Launching a mini portable in that type of market is hard. Especially if you don't have some specific feature to break open a new segment. Add to that that Palm was in trouble already so it didn't have the market stamina to hold on and keep pushing.
It's a bit like the old Psion Series-7. A very desirable ultra portable product with great potential. But over priced and undermarketted, by a company that was sinking.
Asus had it a bit easier as they launched at the right time on the Japanese market which is much more receptive to miniature novelties. And they picked a better price point.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/22/ft_palm_foleo_first_eee/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-22 ^:
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Warm again but it's not all clear. There are no clouds but just a general haze, and a beautifully blurry red sunrise. (8°C ^_^ 19°C)
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I think we have a good drive here. Oh I know most people want several TeraByte in their comp and will think a 300GB is not worth looking at. And of course those people want to have fast drives, so they buy relative fast disks ... and then hook them to their computer via a 100Mbps network or -dear god- an USB-2 link. I think it's ideal though, (well, almost ideal, 15.000rpm would be better) add some very fast disk locally and put slower bulk storage online. The same principle used in memory and cache.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/21/wd_velociraptor_hdd/ )
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Oh, panic-panic fuel is getting expensive, panic-panic must reach Kyoto goals, panic-panic we need biofuel to survive, panic-panic pour all your money in bio-fuel, panic-panic ...
Oh panic-panic food is getting expensive, panic-panic ...
Yep, green-fever and politics at it's best.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/21/eu_biofuel_quota_coolness/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-21 ^:
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It is actually quite warm . (4°C ^_^ 18°C)
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How many times can a company survive bankruptcy? If it was a competition Commodore would rank in the top players league. .
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/commodore_lawsuits/ )
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Great product endorsement. Well, you cannot argue wit Balmer in this.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/ballmer_vista_incomplete/ )
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Punching out hard disks. Moving litographic processes to magnetic disks could put a new spin on storage.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/18/oducat_sells_hdd_kit_to_mystery_vendor/ )
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Serving the desktop. By putting the MS server system on the desktop you get all the benefits from Vista without the anchors to drag it down.
just a couple of tweaks to the server modules handling the job and tread scheduling could
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/18/windows_server_2008_vista_desktop/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-18 ^:
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Spring has sprung some time ago but now it's gaining momentum. It's clear and bright as the last couple of days but no ice. (0°C ^_^ 16°C)
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Sun spots. As expected a storm brews up about the Sun handling of MySQL. Mostly because paying for someone's work is unimaginable by some. Paying is a dirty word.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/17/sun_closed_source_mysql/ )
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First step, get DNA from convicts. Second step get DNA from every arrest.. Third step? DNA from everybody else. But don't fear it's all securely stored in a database and never accessed.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/feds_to_collect_dna/ )
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Oops. Easy access to data. Not sure whether there was DNA in the data there.
( http://www.theregister.co..uk/2008/04/17/oklahoma_corrections_site_data_exposed/ )
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The music corps wet dreams are self-destruct disks like this. With DRM.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/disposable_dvd_germany/ )
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Rip-cord
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/17/sawed_off_usb_key/ )
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It's a bit curious. The very long delay on the Opteron four-core chip hasn't cause it to drop out of the market.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/fujitsu_siemens_computers_opteron/ )
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People wondered why IBM sold it's disk production while it was one of the branches where it used to invest heavily in research. Hitachi knows why.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/hitachi_disc_unit/ )
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Bug fixes to catch.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/17/alt_browser_updates/ )
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I am a bit worried about the trend. If this shift to notebook and portable computers continues and accelerates it will become harder to find low cost components to build your own computer.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/17/intel_laptop_desktop_crossover/ )
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Google's monopoly is starting to pay off as it now can 'dictate' standards. And of course it's getting some people nervous.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/04/16/google_de_facto_geographic_standard/ )
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To be added to my daily visits page.
( http://thedailywtf.com/Default.aspx )
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Security? Backup? what is all that crap about?
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080417-wifi-popular-with-the-young-people-backups-not-so-much.html )
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Pirate bay is expanding. It seems that, the harder the music and film conglomerates fight against it the more popular it becomes.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080417-pirate-bay-opens-uncensored-blog-site-tweaks-ifpi.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-17 ^:
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Again ice in the morning. An clear sunny skies (0°C ^_^ 17°C)
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Finally MS does something good, disabling keyboard and mouse are one of the best security measures for Windows. Cause it's the user that causes most of the risks anyway by doing unreasonable things. Like opening mail or a browser.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/vista_defender_sp1/ )
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500TB per square inch. It would be nice to have that kind of storage density now in stead of waiting 20 years for it. .
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/16/glasgow_university_storage_breakthrough/ )
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Yep, Vitalisation is an old medicine for new diseases. At least now managing the visualised environments is getting easier.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/16/virtualization_perspectives/ )
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EeePC 900. Now where can I get it?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/16/asus_launches_eee_900/ )
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Check for security setup. Though I am not sure it is relevant to my old P4-MacMini.
( http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/mac-os-x-security..ars )
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How can laws be copyrighted?
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080416-oregon-publishing-our-laws-online-is-a-copyright-violation.html )
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What you see is what you get? What you send is what you get? ... Both wrong. Your web page might look different after passing trough some ISPs and routers.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080416-research-1-3-percent-of-web-pages-altered-in-transit.html )
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Check
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080415-new-battery-prototype-may-mean-the-end-of-exploding-laptops.html
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/gp2x-review.ars
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(Remarks about words)
2008-04-16 ^:
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It's been reasonably warm (and unreasonably wet) for the last couple of days. So today we got frost in the morning. A spate of cold air causing some road-fun. What with mist and fog banks and icy road patches in between. (4°C ^_^ 17°C)
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The DNS mystery hole. The curious thing is that not just one made the mistake but several of the big ones made the same mistake.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/dns_cache_poisoning/ )
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Next step, 32nm is coming to the stage. I am afraid the progress in chip development is going to fast. Well, I like the progress, faster smaller and cooler chips are good. But the investment in production is reaching astronomical levels and the write-off period is getting shorter. This looks like a path leading to a total collapse or to a monopoly.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/ibm_alliance_32nm_chips/ )
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Is that a tag in your pants or are you just happy to beep me?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/american_apparel/ )
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Yay. An EeePC class thingy with a real hard drive. It looks better -cooler- than the EeePC but it runs on Windows. And it will be even later to reach Europe I suppose. The Windows part may not be that much of a stumbling block, it runs on the AMD Geode, the same chip inside the Linux powered OLPC so it should be possible to load Linux on it.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/15/kohji_rolls_out_eee_rival/ )
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To check :
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2275343,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2282395,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2283081,00.asp
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2280808,00.asp
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Check. Citrix.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/citrix_xendesktop/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-15 ^:
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Singing in the rain. Or sinking in the rain. Yep it's raining and not a light refreshing rain at that. It's pouring down. (4°C ^_^ 17°C)
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IBM wants to get more people thinking about it's Power chips. Just mentioning that lots of people already have and use a Power powered computer at home could help a lot. Every time you turn on your XBox or PS3 to turn on a Power chip.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/14/ibm_power_revitalize/ )
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By by Black hole. The last physicist of a glorious time for the field has gone. Things are still progressing, and ever faster but few now are capable of playing a role in the whole field of physics.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/14/wheeler_physicist_obituary/ )
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very nice box for Apple haters that want an Air. It's a good halfway house between the super portable EeePC class and the regular 15inch and larger lugables. To bad about the price though.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/14/tosh_unveils_128gb_ssd_r500/ )
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A bit on the other side of the scale but very desirable as well.
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Net Neutrality is getting a definition.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080413-atrans-atlantic-definition-of-net-neutrality.html )
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Check. Linux.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/14/linux_manual/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-14 ^:
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Singing in the rain. Or sinking in the rain. Yep it's raining and not a light refreshing rain at that. It's pouring down. (4°C ^_^ 17°C)
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What's about free music? An artist's view.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/billy_bragg/ )
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Curious job-cutting. But then it was a curious position to start with and it didn't last long. Actually it looks like a crisis-management job, just make all heads point in the same direction and then get out.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/amd_cto_phil_hester_resigns/ )
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How good is green fuel? Double good for the environment I suppose. Less fossil carbon dioxide is good. And less people is good for the environment to.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/world_bank_biofuel_kicking/ )
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The interesting thing about this Jisus notebook, apart from it's EeePC size is that it doesn't run on an Intel chippey. Nope not an AMD or Cyrix either, a true Made in China part.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/11/dutch_vendor_touts_jisus_laptop/ )
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Linux is finally gaining market traction. Not because it's better than Windows. If that was the reason we would all be using Linux now with Windows being just a historic bootnoote. Nope. It's gaining cause it's being pre-installed. 90% of computer users don't buy, much less install, an operating system. They buy a computer that works right out of the box. They only install extra software (and games).
It's much like cars. People but cars with wheels and windows on them so they can ride the moment the get the keys. Later they may add a radio, or spoilers or other stuff.
MS know that full well. That's why it has always cut deals with PC producers. Putting Windows on all boxes and adding other programs. Having MS Office installed with a 60day-free period is great. You hook users into using it and make it easy to register and upgrade later. Much simpler than going out and buy a box with disks and -oh horror- manuals. But they shot themselves in the foot (ps the MS-feet are riddles with holes) by trusting the old model where people buy expensive new computers. One of the main reasons PC vendors were eager to get in bed with MS was that they could sell ever faster new boxes even before the old boxes the users had were worn out.
But now there is a bit of an economic down turn (crisis say some) en people want cheaper boxes. So they buy cheaper lower capability boxes. And Windows doesn't run on those.
( http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/20505/?nlid=978&a=f )
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Check.
( http://www.news.com/2300-1010_3-6234743-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-11 ^:
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More sun all the day but not realy blue skies, more a shimmering white. (3°C ^_^ 17°C)
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The floppy-replacement carries on the floppy problems. Sloppy problems. It doesn't matter to a virus whether it sits on a disk or a tick.
( http://www.theregister..co.uk/2008/04/11/sandisk_usb_thumb_drive_security_threat/ )
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The NetworkSolutions hijacking game.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/11/network_solutions_sub_domain_parking/ )
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Please someone tell me how that is patentable? I admit that the chaos I deal with at work is of a less than global scale, but I have been doing for years what IBM wants to patent today. Should I start paying a fee now?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/10/ibm_chaos_patent/ )
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New memory on the block. No wireless tech here. And it reminds me of the old 'memory-tube' stuff of the 50-ies.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080410-storing-data-in-three-dimensions-with-racetrack-ram.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-10 ^:
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Another touch of frost. But so light the ice on my wind screen almost melted when I looked annoyed at it. The day itself was sunny and warm. (0°C ^_^ 17°C)
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Typical problem.
A user calls because "the system isn't working right".
After digging over some code and data I find out that the "system" doesn't work because the data, coming from the supplier, is not correct.
Maybe I am developing a Hall 9000 syndrome, but really it's always human error that lays at the root of "system" problems.
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Uch. I got blue legs.
Thanks to my new, unwashed and unbleached blue jeans. I also left home in the morning with white undies. And back home now, they are blue ... O_o'
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These Suns are definitely not intended for your average game box. Unless high tread counts are your game.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/sun_ultrasparc_t2plus_servers/ )
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A low power counter offensive by AMD was to be expected. But it's just targeted at the low power side, not at the very or ultra low where Intel's efforts are now being directed.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/amd_embedded_chip_3400e_3600_4200/ )
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Finally the AMD Barcelonas hit the market. Just about a year later than expected. Which is curious cause AMD had the best cards to move from single core to two core and four core or even eight core chips cause the original K8 core was build for working in parallel with other cores. Let's hope they come up with some really new stuff soon. And deliver on plan.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/09/amd_opteron_processor_chip_ships/ )
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When Dell jumps in you know the super-portable market has been broken open. They wouldn't take a risk (or build some innovative product).
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/09/dell_readies_eee_rival/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-04-07 ^:
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It's overcast but dry. Well there was a bit of sun in the afternoon and the overcasting clouds are bright white in stead of the usual grey. (3°C ^_^ 17°C)
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When do you notice things are going in the wrong direction?
You leave after 11h at work. And feel guilty for leaving early.
Yep, first time in seven or eight weeks that I do not stay over 12 hours on the job and it actually felt weird not leaving as last man. Not locking up the office. Yes, I am usually the first one in and the last one out. Today I wasn't. First in still, there is only one who sometimes beats me by a couple of minutes. On days when he got to tend his kids after work so he has to leave early.
So I get in at 07:05. And at 18:45 I am thinking up apologies for leaving 'early'
And the stupidity of it only slowly seeped in on my way home.
But still. I love the job.
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IBM is still playing the Gigahertz race while all the other players have left the field. But then a 5GHz Power chip is impressive. I am pretty sure the price will be impressive to ^_^
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/ibm_595_water/ )
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There doesn't seem to be a big success looming for Montalvo. Even if it gets it's chip working and ready. But the idea of asymmetric cores is not a bad one. The idea of Sun buying the company seems crazy. Unless you consider the possibility of hooking an x86 core into a Spark ship.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/montalvo_verify_x86/ )
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The EeePC broke open a market. Now the big boys jump in. And it looks interesting, mainly the big disk option. Just waiting for a real review.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/08/hp_launches_eee_rival/ )
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2008-04-08 ^:
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It is freezing again. Not deep, just enough to put an ice sheet on the car. And kill early blooms on fruit trees. (-2°C ^_^ 14°C)
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Powerplay. 2.
The power went out a couple of times again. After an hour crawling under desks the problem was eventually tracked down to a faulty extension-distribution block. Just a crown in our fantastic electrical system.
Support calls did come in all the time though so I had to log and solve them without computer. Rather tricky. Especially seeing that there was a really big problem with stock moving around without being tracked. They were still cleaning up the mess in the evening.
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2008-04-07 ^:
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It's dry and clear in the morning. with just a light touch of frost. My car is clear as I get in but by the time I stop at the newspaper shop there is a thin layer of ice on the wind screen. Easily wiped off though. (4°C ^_^ 13°C)
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Powerplay.
As in playing with the power supply. There was a short somewhere in the building so the fuses blow. And someone resets them. but doesn't remove the short circuit. Well, it probably isn't a real short but an overload. Cause resetting solved the problem. For ten minutes. Resetting again solves it for 15 minutes. Third time lucky ... lasts for half an hour. Fun.
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Encrypting your tapes and external storage is good. From a security point of view. But it might cause problems. Cause there is no guarantee that you can use yesterday's backup on a new box. Unless it's the same brand and series.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/hp_storage_encryption_add_ons/ )
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Oh dear, he's gone kill everybody at school with that murderous weapon.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/disposable_camera_shocker/ )
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2008-04-04 ^:
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It's dry for a change. But misty. After a couple of warm and wet days we got a load of cold air flowing in hence the mist. (4°C ^_^ 13°C)
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They are trying to kill me.
I think I had about one hour to actually do something today. The other almost 11 hours were spent resurrecting deleted records, finding missing moves, linking, relinking, unlinking orders, checking, holding and correcting precomposings, etc. I usually start the debugger three or four times a day on the production machine to find out what the real problem is or to perform some odd illegal stuff. Today I was at one moment debugging in five different session at the same time and I almost constantly was hopping in and out of the debugger
Normally when the phone rings I put on my headphone, pick up the phone, handle the problem, hang up and put off my headphone. today I have had the headphone on for hours on end. So now I have one hot red and sore ear -it's a single-side phone-
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Oops, apparently someone at creative doesn't listen to lawyers. Or maybe the layers didn't wear asbestos undies and got burned by the flame mails.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/creative_restores_home_brew_vista_driver_links/ )
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Well, when the new product doesn't sell, you keep selling the old one. As long as money comes in it's OK. And keeping Linux out of user's hands is worth something to. Not worth enough to fix Vista. Cause that's un-fixable of course.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/microsoft_extends_xp_shelf_date_for_ulcpcs/ )
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Intel's focus on low power chips is interesting. Part because those chips are great. I love a return to fan-less computing. Part because it seems Intel is leaving the big server chips in a dead-end, game for other companies to play. Of course they aren't dropping out. I suppose we will see some interesting moves soon when they apply some of the low power stuff to the top of the line.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/03/idf_inside_silverthorne/ )
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/intel_idf_server_chums/ )
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2008-04-03 ^:
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Hmm, it starts out grey today. With rain. Thick drops but far apart, as if they are hesitant, not really wanting to fall. (4°C ^_^ 13°C)
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Telephone ringing from 07:01 ...
I usually get in at around 07:00. I got time for my first coffee at about 10:45.
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Good by AS400. OK, it changed into an i5 some time ago already but that was just a small step. Now the hardware is completely converted. The next step -already underway is getting the the old OS400 (i5/OS) converted.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/03/ibm_power_i/ )
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2008-04-02 ^:
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OK, it's a brilliant, clear morning just like yesterday. So probably a clouded over and wet afternoon as well.
Oops, I was wrong. It clouded over almost immediately after sunrise. (4°C ^_^ 12°C)
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Nice line-up. And I wonder where VIA is going now that it gets real competition for it's C-range.
I do cringe at the Atom name though, makes me think about the good old Atom computers
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/02/idf_intel_details_atom/ )
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Small black holes exist. But don't fear, it will grow slowly.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/smallest_black_hole_known_discovered/ )
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Welcome back Newton?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/01/idf_intel_reinvents_pda/ )
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2008-03-01 ^:
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Looks like we got a weather break. What with pale blue skies and not a cloud in sight. (2°C ^_^ 12°C)
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God's burning sulfur explained.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/kofels_asteroid/ )
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The good old floppy disk based infection method isn't dead. Sure the floppies are gone but sticks have taken it's place
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/31/iliad_adware/ )
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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.