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Slowly taking form again. OK, form is there, noz waiting for content.
2008-05-30 ^:
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It is still raining. With localised inundations grabbing headlines. (11°C ^_^ 25°C)
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A new Stealth Bomber future could well be on the charts. Though it's pretty unlikely there will be a type of conflict coming up where it's needed.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/29/scaled_composites_stealth_bomber_uncloak/ )
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Seagate goes flashing. And the bet is they will buy a fab. Anything else looks overly expensive and risky or to low profile to succeed.
( http://www.theregister.co..uk/2008/05/29/will_seagate_build_a_flash_foundry/ )
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Where is the limit? There are 'cartoons' that are almost indistinguishable from reality. And then there are The Simpsons style. Banning them from the Cartoon network sounds good. But next Harry Potter books and films will be forbidden cause there are under age actors being shown.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/28/government_outlaws_pictures/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-29 ^:
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More rain. But at least it isn't getting hotter.
Oh ho, it suddenly turned dark around here. Darker than night cause at night we have street lights. The only light came from lightning. With the rolling thunder drowning out the usual busy truck engines. ... An hour later we're back to light grey weather. (11°C ^_^ 25°C)
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*sigh* Why do people always call before looking??
user : What pallet type is that load-line *pause to read mail* 74369812 you sent? ...
Sjon : just a second ... *opens mail in sent-messages* ... I think that is a CP5 pallet.
user : Thank you.News News - -
Fat Java or Lean Java. Long gone are the write once-run-everywhere dreams.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/28/eclipse_e4_old_java/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-28 ^:
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More rain. And higher temperatures. (12°C ^_^ 29°C)
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I suppose they are just dropping the case cause there is no money to be had. And that's the only thing the RIAA is interested in after all.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/riaa_abandons_ituneski_suit/ )
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Extra IE8 tag needed. Well, that's the way MS fixes it's old faults.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/ie8_fall_beta/ )
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Hopefully this VIACOM - YouTube case isn't dropped. Whatever the outcome it will clear up a lot of uncertainty.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/google_youtube_viacom_defence/ )
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Pushing IPv6. It's a silly situation really. Everybody involved knows it's essential to switch and everybody knows it's better to switch early than late. Yet everybody drags his feet and looks elsewhere.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/eu_reding_ipv6/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-27 ^:
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More rain. And higher temperatures. (11°C ^_^ 26°C)
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A nice history of failure. Silent world.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/26/paul_sanders_digital_flops/ )
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Only possible in 'merica. "Would you like a gun with that?"
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/23/us_auto_dealership_offers_handguns/ )
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Every visitor to the US is a criminal and needs to be finger printed. And everybody in the UK automatically becomes a criminal and child abuser as he (or she) reaches 36 of age.
Fine wold we live in.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/22/faceparty_bans_oldies/ )
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Prevent global warming with a sunshade. And then weep because the solar panels are producing less energy en hydro-electrical station don't have enough water. *lol* But hey, it's fun to play with things you don't understand..
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/23/sunshade_world_lukewarm/ )
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Two sided televisions may be a fun novelty. I doubt it will be a success as a normal household television but it's future lays in commercial setups.. It's early stages still but I can imagine wall-sized panels used to separate up rooms, each side displaying a different scene.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/lg_two_sided_display/ )
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yes, it has power. I wonder how they argument the combination huge weight and then low battery life. The weight is no problem though. The best part is that they did not go for a cheap screen.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/review_dell_xps_m1730/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-26 ^:
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Rain. It was predicted for the weekend but we barely had any. So now it rains all night and well into the morning. With the heat turned on, though no visible sun, that of course leads to a sweaty humid day. I hate those. (11°C ^_^ 25°C)
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Lock-down ... lock-up. Security on mobile phones is getting twitchy.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/24/omtp_security_again/ )
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Data-centers are growing into real big sizes.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/24/switch_supernap/ )
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If you think Benchmark battles are a thing of the past or just a side-track for gamers then think again.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/23/ria_benchmarks/ )
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Getting free testers for the MS home-server is going to be tricky. It's a product intended for people who don't want to have to work on it. A kind of plug-and-play storage box.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/05/23/windows_home_server_public_beta/ )
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Asus is driving not just small notebooks but also small desktops. And it's driving Linux, getting it to people who wouldn't otherwise think about Linux. It aren't desktops aimed at gamers for sure but for typical home, or office use they are plenty good. And with the price as low as they go I suppose they are going to be a runaway success for students. You can buy two or three of these for the price of a single Apple and that makes a real difference if you have two or more kids. In stead of sending the "kid" to college with a good gaming box and a cheap screen you send her out with a good non-gaming system and a decent screen. Two scores.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/asus_e_dt_is_ebox/ )
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About time AMD does something to safeguard it's presence in the notebook arena.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/23/amd_puma_june/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-23 ^:
Weather - -
It did not rain as predicted but it was rather overcast in the evening. And still overcast in the morning. (11°C ^_^ 21°C)
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Phone panty. The "can I use your phone" get another meaning that way?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/22/call_me_panty_punted/ )
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Lower capacity batteries are good enough for Europe. Auch.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/22/asus_speaks_out_eee_battery/ )
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The green way forward. IBM (and others) do more than just computer chips..
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080522-ibm-solar-cell-trick-brings-future-of-green-tech-into-focus.html )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-22 ^:
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A few clouds make a difference. The morning is less cool and the day feels less warm, the actual temperatures don't change much though. (12°C ^_^ 21°C)
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The MS top dreams of this Vista on iPhone. Just like a dream it isn't real Vista.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/vistaperfection_iphone/ )
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Open Document Format. Another MS dream. Or fata morgana.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/21/microsoft_office_pdf_odf/ )
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Cuba is the arch-enemy. Untill there is a glimmer of a commercial opportunity. Money dictates politics. As usual.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/bush_tests_castro_with_mobile_phone_gifts/ )
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Defending the US against Canadian invaders.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/21/reaper_satnav_bombs_canada/ )
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Interesting box.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/15/review_jb7_micro_dukebox/print.html )
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From the beach to the kitchen. The EeePC looks just as desirable.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/21/new_eee_girl/ )But I think the black one would look better in the kitchen.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/21/black_eee_pc_901_spied/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-21 ^:
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Just a couple of sunny days and the temperature soars again. But it's clear and cool at night so people complain about the cold. (12°C ^_^ 21°C)
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Putting security on the front. And leaving MS IE further behind.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/new_firefox_security_protections/ )
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Flash forward. No moving parts. It would be interesting but Flash still has a couple of problems. The main one is duty-cycle. You can read and write on a disk without wearing out the the bit locations. If you write to often to flash the transistors wear out. And the current method of spreading the write-load over the whole volume works for high-capacity low usage devices in the consumer market. In a server storage application it isn't going to help.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/emc_ssd_prices_fibre_channel_disks_by_2010/ )
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Going back to middle-aged technology for voting. I do hope all the people campaigning against voting by computer are appointed do do the vote-counting. And recounting. They are against computers so let them lose their time.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/20/dutch_ban_on_voting_computers/ )
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We will probably get to see those Medion micro notebooks before the Asus becomes available. Medion is sold by the hyper low-price Aldi chain. There is however a worrying trend visible already. Screen sizes are going up. The Akoya with over 10 inch is pushing the envelope. Going any bigger will negate the portability advantage of these computers. Notice that the size difference between the EEPC (8.9") and the Akoya (10.2") is not accompanied by a resolution difference, so you bet more bulk, more backlight but not more data.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/20/medion_takes_aim_at_eee/ )Bit different form the S37B which crams the same resolution on a 7+ screen. Adding a touch screen does push up the price though.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/19/review_vye_mini_v_s37b/print.html )
*sigh* can't have everything I guess.
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We should remember fuel-cells are still in their infancy. Performance boosts of 50% shouldn't be surprising. And they are welcome.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/20/mit_fuel_cell_boost/ )
(Remarks about words)
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2008-05-20 ^:
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Sunny and cool. Which is the best weather ever. (16°C ^_^ 21°C)
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the RIAA minions are still trying to cripple the internet.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/19/mininova_faces_legal_action/ )
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Shifting and pushing military budgets is a funny exercise. It's more an exercise in local subsidies than actual defense (or offense) strategy.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/18/blighty_carrier_deal_announced/ )
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Another small portable. They are really flooding the market. This one is a bit on the small side but it has a reasonable battery life. It is also a bit pricy but then I suppose the Asus EeePC has set the price expectations a bit to low.
After all the price of a box is more dependent on the time and effort needed to make it than it's size, there is just as much work on an eight inch keyboard as on a sixteen inch keyboard. Basically the processor and memory cost as much in a small box as in a big one. The screen is smaller and there is a real price opportunity. But then again with the number of 15 and 17 inch screens being rolled out the volumes make up for the size. And the resolutions of the current 15 and 17 inch screens is rather low -and thus cheap- compared to the resolution on the under 10 inchers so there cannot be that much of a price difference between the bug ones and the portable ones.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/19/review_vye_mini_v_s37b/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-19 ^:
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Ideal. Nice weather during the week, then drowning in rain on Saturday, some more wetness on Sunday, and a cloudy but rain less Monday. (16°C ^_^ 22°C)
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Paypal going down is going to cost them a lot. Oh well some lost business and transactions aren't worth the bother. But to regain the lost trust is gone take a lot of work and time. An opportunity for other players to step in.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/17/paypal_ipn_meltdown/ )
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Plugging that security hole is just one needed step.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/paypal_page_succumbs_to_xss/ )
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HTML keeps moving and evolving. Ant running behind the wave front. It was expected that XHTML would replace it but that's not happening.
( http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/16/html5_xhtml_vendors_lockin/ )
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OLPC with Windows. Nice, I didn't know MS needed support.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/olpc_windows_xo_laptop/ )
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Modded XBox. And very good looking at that.
I am not at all taken in by most PC modding which seldom ends up as something looking good and being useful. Putting a window and some light on doesn't change a boring box really, certainly not when shoved under your desk. And making it look like a Starwars figure was fun the first time but after the tenth R2D2 it's mainly the inconvenience of a non standard case and layout that catches the eye.
This one is very beautiful and well executed. But of course after seeing 100 repainted and texture wrapped XBoxes it will stop being nice.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/16/xbox_alligator/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-16 ^:
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Hot and dry for a while followed by heavy rain. Nice. The news runs over about localised flash-floods (21°C ^_^ 31°C)
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Lopping armed apples at the enemy.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/pasemi_apple_support/ )
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Why oh why did I become a programmer and not an attorney ??
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/tanya_andersen_attorneys_fees/ )
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The market for real notebooks is moving fast.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/15/asus_eee_901_spied/ )
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iPhone may switch to Intel chips. But I suspect they won't jump on the first Atom generation. I would not however be surprised to see a larger
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/15/apple_iphone_intel_atom/ )
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Better late then never. Though it's seriously late. The US Shuttle has been scrapped and hauled back just for the ISS. Basically we are now relying on the Russians and that is a serious political liability these days. Neither of these are new or unexpected problems though so the ESA's reaction is damned late.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/15/manned_atv_modification_plan_rumours/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-15 ^:
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After almost two weeks of warm and dry weather rain is welcome. And we got two showers, with light and sound effects. But the rain comes down to hard, hammering the drought-weakened young plants and shoots down. (21°C ^_^ 31°C)
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Last day for Katja. She found better work (not difficult). We'll miss her, she was always ready for a smile and a joke, always willing to help. And gossipping at the right times. A perfect colleague.
But we get two new colleagues to replace her.
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A recent Super nova? Well, 1680 sounds recent but you actually have to add a good 26.000 years.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/galaxys_youngest_supernova/ )
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Actually an easy choice. do you want a MacBook with a DVD or with 1TB disk space.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/1tb_macbook_mce/ )
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Dell slipping? Not really, it remains a big hardware player but on the service and software side it doesn't stand strong and gives no indication of investing in a future. but then, when did Dell do some investing?
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/dell_services_problem/ )
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Not really getting serious with services and supporting two competing system lines.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/14/dell_not_killing_xps/ )
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Sonny coming up with nice figures about its PlayStation stuff. But the PS3 remains well behind the MS XBox360. And that the PS2 is still out selling the PS3 doesn't sound to great either
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/14/playstation_sales_rise/ )
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Green warships? What's next? Rockets delivering your nukes flying on Bio-fuel to minimise their environmental footprint?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/14/playstation_sales_rise/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-14 ^:
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Clouds and haze turned up. Yes, for a couple of days we had perfect sunny weather with clear blue skies. Which means it cools down at night. But all the heat has caused humidity to peak en with a drop in wind that forms an insulating layer. (21°C ^_^ 31°C)
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Adaptec is coming back. As SCSI disappeared from the low end Adaptec disappeared as well. But with disks becoming cheap and storage needs creeping up RAID on the desktop is viable again. So Adaptec pops up again.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/adaptec_series_2_raid/ )
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Is that a PS3 in your Blade server? Nope. But the Cell is growing up into business.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/13/ibm_fresh_cell_blade/ )
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Just one hour of battery on a laptop is laughable. But a server with a one-hour UPS built in is a another story. And it is up at server performance really what with 1.5TB disk 8GB memory and a quad-core. It is more a portable server than a notebook, well fit for a mini-lanparty server or building a portable office.
I do wonder though why they fix a screen and keyboard on it, wouldn't it be more interesting to have an ultra thin screen and keyboard separate (or removable). Kind of linking a portable server with an Apple Air.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/13/eurocom_server_laptop/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-13 ^:
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Still full out summer. With temperatures cranking up out of the comfort zone. I usually walk around barefoot but out in the sun the ground is getting to hot to stand still. (15°C ^_^ 31°C)
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Microsoft. Copy-right, -left end center. Their stand is where the money is. They defend the copyright of big corporations so they can get money from that stream and they allow all other infringements to be bale to sell more of their own stuff. To bad if you are a small company (or private person) with copyrights to hold up.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/microsoft_on_copyrights/ )
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The second Babage machine is up and running. Now how to install Vista on it ... ::ponder:: ...
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/babbage_difference_engine_museum/ )
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AMD has lost it's advantage a long time ago but it isn't down and out. Of course AMD catching up a one of the best indicators for Intel to move the goal-posts again.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/amd_low_power_opteron/ )
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Nope nVidea isn't going to buy VIA for it's CPU technology. While such a move makes some marketing sense that, with AMD and Intel marrying graphics and cpu cores, I doubt nVidea is going in that direction. Certainly not with VIA. With all respects to the VIA cpu team but their core is not capable enough. AMD and Intel are merging very good GPUs with top-class CPUs in multi-core chips. The VIA cpus are far from top class and probably not worth integrating. A medium range nVidea GPU externally linked to a plain AMD or Intel chip is likely to beat a nVidea-VIA integrated design.
They may end up buying VIA but I suppose they would drop the CPU business itself (side note) and use the architects in adapting the GPU and preparing it for integration with CPU designs from other companies. I think for example a Cell-gForce integrated job would be an interesting beast. Sony-nVidea. Maybe they can lob in a VIA core on the side for some x86 compatibility and cryptographic stuff.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/12/nvidia_and_via/ )
Side note : How long is the VIA CPU line going to survive anyway now that Intel (and probably AMD) is making work of mopping up the low power market. Up to now VIA could play in that market cause there was almost no competition in the low power x86 range. With Intel's Atom that picture changed. Suddenly a company with more and better design-teams and with superior process-technology walks into the playground. I think VIA should be looking for a good exit strategy
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-09 ^:
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Still nice and -to- warm. (14°C ^_^ 27°C)
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It ain't no Longbottom leaf. The stuff great Laws are made of.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/cannabis_law_analysis/ )
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The yellow-danger is back.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/belgium_india_china_warnings/ )
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This looks like a promising little drive. 320GB and 7200rpm for a notebook. It also sounds nice for extra small desktop. Of for putting a small raid box together for NAS. I really expect to find a typical CD drivebay sized box with four of these drives in a raid configuration. I did that a couple of years ago but without the RAID part it's silly as it costs more and still is smaller and slower than a regular drive. 4x 4GB (I used cheap end or range drives) when 40GB drives are common and cheap) makes no sense but it was fun doing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/hitachi_travelstar_7k320/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-08 ^:
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Good weather is boring, isn't it (14°C ^_^ 27°C)
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Multiplying cores is a kind of fun game. For a desktop I doubt anything over three or four cores is going to help much. With running just a few apps concurrently even a single core chip is idling most of the time adding cores will shrink the delays during busy peaks but with two or three cores even those are caught well. Even demanding games are GPU limited more than they are CPU limited.
On the server side more remains better. Certainly as vitalisation moves on.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/amd_server_roadmap_may_2008/ )
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I wonder how there can be any doubt.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/wikipedia_eff_defamation_immunity_lawsuit/ )
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Live airshow.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/air_france_incident/ )
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Play Station turned into a plain old video recorder. At about triple the price of a decent video recorder.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/07/playtv_ps3_sony/ )
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Could be interesting. The problem with debugging web stuff is that a page/site is often build up of components written in different languages or different versions of a language. Few tools are able to debug a diverse environment like that
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/07/opera_dragonfly/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-07 ^:
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Sunny, nice and warm is becoming blinding, stifling and hot. Well, outside it's nice but inside and office with a bunch of people it gets uncomfortable (12°C ^_^ 28°C)
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Itanium was intended to start as a high end chip and then move down to eventually end up on the desktop. But now it's the little desktop ship that is pushing the Itanium out from the super computing scene.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/sgi_moon_nasa/ )
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How is the car knowing you said Stop to the radio in stead of stop to the engine ??
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/windows_mobile_automotive/ )
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Yes we will see power-assisted soldiers sometime. But this ain't ready yet.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/06/sarcos_exoskeleton_iron_man_puffery/ )
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Hey, I didn't know those were in production. A gyrostat is not the perfect replacement for batteries but it works well enough.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/pentadyne_flywheel_release/ )
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After years of struggling you finally replaced your hunt-and-peck typing with touch-typing. And then you get a new Dell laptop.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/dell_keyboard_blunder_vostro/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-06 ^:
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Pre-summer lasts. I love this time of year cause you got long days and lots of sun but the temperatures don't yet shoot over the comfort zone and it is cool at night. (12°C ^_^ 25°C)
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Another reason why off-site backup is important.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/05/peter_gabriel_server_theft/ )
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Green is in. But how green are you going to be and at what cost?
Low power components are important and they work. I notice in the computer room we have three HP Blade boxes. One old, about 4 years old, a newer, almost 2 years old and a brand new, about one month old baby. Standing behind them makes you feel the difference between energy efficiency and spillage. The new box blows out a reasonable amount of cool air. The old box blows out the same amount of warm air, a bit like a air-drier on low setting. And the ancient box blows out twice as much of really hot air, about the same temperature as a hair-drier at it's highest setting. Let's forget the ancient one, it's old and probably up for replacement by the end of the year. Comparing the two other boxes is interesting. They are basically the same model with the newer one just using the more recent Core Duo processors while the older one is using the last of the P4 Xeons (or the very first CoreDuo Xeons). Going real green would mean we replace the old box with a new one. That would probably cut a quarter to a third of it's power consumption. And it would probably mean the airco can run a bit less cutting some of it's consumption as well. At a cost of nicely over $10.000 (for a full populated blade center). Doesn't look good for the balance.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/ibm_green_partner_rollout/print.html )
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Of course they are going to bring out a Bluerayed 360. With HD off the market there is no other choice.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/02/xbox_360_blu_ray_pegatron/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-05 ^:
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Lots of sun. To much actually. (12°C ^_^ 24°C)
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MS is sitting on a nice mountain of money. Even though it's a very good place to sit it still isn't comfortable.
Yahoo isn't sitting in a comfortable place either of course.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/04/microsoft_withdraws_yahoo_offer/ )
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Global warming of the next ice-age? It's easy if you can rewrite history..
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/a_tale_of_two_thermometers/ )
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Switches getting smaller. Usually ships in switches and other external components lag a couple of generations behind in processor technology. Basically manufactures use their financially written of fabs to increase profits on those less demanding ships. If they are getting 65nm at that market it just means the huge investments in fabs are payed back faster than expected.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/02/broadcom_interop_2008/ )
(Remarks about words)
2008-05-02 ^:
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The weather was weird yesterday afternoon, what with thunder and lightning and hail while the sun is shining and all that. But today it's all back to boring normality. Nightly clouded. (6°C ^_^ 18°C)
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You would better not carry anything into the US.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/electronic_searches_at_us_borders/ )
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And here I innocently assumed the RIAA was responsible for collecting the money and distributing among artists. Apparently song-writers aren't artists.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/ascap_aol_real_yahoo/ )
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BlueRay isn't a runaway success. Not surprising really cause there is not much advantage over standard DVD. Not enough to run out and buy a drive. Most people who do buy one do so together with a big and HD capable screen. And in a slow economy those are not high on the agenda.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/01/blu_ray_us_sales/ )
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The mamsistor. It sounds like the discovery of quarks and other fundamental particles. One knows they exist but can't find them.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/01/hp_labs_unveils_memsistor/ )
(Remarks about words)
A day you don't learn something is a wasted day.
A day you don't teach something is a lost day.