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Slowly taking form again. OK, form is there, noz waiting for content.
2008-09-30 ^:
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It remains nice but there are clouds and the wind is turning. So we will probably receive the predicted downpour. (5°C ^_^ 16°C)
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Politics influence the Web.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/30/house_website_slow_after_bailout_bill_rejected/ )
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Putting the SAN inside a blade-server chassis is rather logical I would say. Large businesses an afford to put completely separate racks and chassis for their storage and servers and other stuff. But if you are a small firm you may not need a fully server populated blade box nor a fully packed standard SAN, it looks like a waste to get two half-filled chassis. With a good blade chassis you should be able to mix various servers, ex a couple of X86 servers for standard apps, a Power/Cell blade for calculations. And why not a couple of disk-blades and a network/firewall server.
Fujitsu is on the right track but derails itself at the same time by coupling the storage to a specific other blade. It kills the scalability inherent in a blade box. ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/29/fujitsu_storage_blade/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-29 ^:
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Lots of mist but the skies are clear. (5°C ^_^ 19°C)
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Ha, IBM is going to save the world again.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/ibm_sprinkler_patent_app/ )
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The AMD atom, Bobcat, is not going to be dropped is suppose. Intel can afford to spend millions on a project and then just drop it, AMD can't. So I guess we'll see a Bobcat. But I also suspect it will get delayed in favour of a low-voltage Athlon.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/26/amd_denies_bobcat_cancellation/ )
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Hybrids are fashionable. Even BMW starts messing with them.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/26/bmw_preps_7_series_hybrid/ )
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Good by America. It's just a flat world after all, with the sun running circles around it.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/palin_science_creationism/ )
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Removing the shiny chrome layer from Crome. It is an interesting exercise. Probably not something that will grab lots of market share but I can see it being used in big companies that want something fast and flexible like Chrome but without sending corporate data out the door whenever Google wants to see it.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/26/chrome_iron_browser/ )
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Server-side rendering sounds like a good idea. But it isn't really. It was a great idea when mobile devices were seriously under powered. Mobile devices these days have plenty of processing and memory capacity to do all the rendering and processing, they are only really limited in bandwidth and battery. And even bandwidth isn't that much of a limit anymore.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080928-hands-on-skyfire-browser-brings-gecko-on-windows-mobile.html )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-26 ^:
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The weather seems to be stuck as hard as our political situation. But on the clear and good side. (7°C ^_^ 19°C)
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Discarding the OS part from OS-es. VM has a point that running a couple of full scale OSes each inside a virtual machine session is wasteful. What it is saying is ditch your OS and use us as OS. There is some merit in the idea but the alternative is why use VM at all? Why not put the few VM-specific functions into the actual OS? Like we had/have the multiple DOS boxes running in Windows, or like we had multiple Windows, DOS (and PM) sessions running in OS2?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/vmware_needs_stripped_down_guests/ )
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Windows HPC hasn't really left the door but it's already an option at IBM.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/ibm_winhpc_utility/ )
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Blue-ray may well be the last optical disk format reaching out.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/25/toshiba_download_sd_set_tops/ )
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Portability is being inserted into portables again.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/25/dell_confirms_12in_notebook_netbook/ )
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MS is trying to replace Vista soon, hoping the world will forget all the Vista problems. Win 7 may do that. But it just might get pushed out to hard and fast introducing a whole new set of market disasters.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/windows_7_pre_beta_pdc/ )
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The end of the story for Transmeta.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/25/windows_7_pre_beta_pdc/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-25 ^:
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It's misty and clearing out very slowly. (25°C ^_^ 32°C)
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It may be an easy step in for Microsoft but Windows doesn't sound like an appropriate OS for a high performance box. Yep, Windows and Performance don't belong in the same sentence. But for the low range of the HPC market though it may well sell. More effort from the Linux firms is needed.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/24/windows_hpc_low/ )
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Nice notebook. Hey, maybe that Windows HPC version is just made for this box ^_^.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/24/dell_launches_m6400/ )
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Standardising the standards ratification process.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/24/ibm_open_standards_policy/ )
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Police infringing on copyright. Sure thing.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/24/cleveland_police_prs_oink/ )
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ID is making inroads into schools. I would say it's a worrisome evolution taking place in the US. Yes ID is pitted against Evolution but the ID-ism believers are attacking science itself.
( http://arstechnica.com/reviews/other/discovery-textbook-review.ars )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-24 ^:
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It's still raining. Well not hard, you can walk out and not notice it at first, but you can't drive without windscreen wipers. (09°C ^_^ 14°C)
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Multicore bonanza. Most chips these days work with 64 bits, this one works with 64 cores. Well, it's been out a year and it still survives. Which makes it clear that you can live on a non X86 core.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/tilera_cpu_upgrade/ )
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Blade-servers are still hot but also still new. Lots of potential but that is not fully used yet, they are all to often used as simple, smaller replacements of standard servers.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/blade_server_standards/ )
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The Amiga just refuses to die.
( http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amigaos41-ars.ars )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-23 ^:
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There is a good cloud-cover in the morning so temperature are up. But there is no sun either so they don't peak either. And there is rain in the evening. (9°C ^_^ 15°C)
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Don't you just love managers.
Friday, half past four the manager-2 calls cause he needs a program for a warehouse-move. Urgent. Must be done Monday morning. yada yada yada, Manager-1 chimes in with a "wait-a-bit yes, no, do-it" series of mails and phones.
Simple program so I stay a bit later and finish it (so I don't have to do stuff in the weekend) and notify the manager(s)
Monday comes and goes without a mention.
Tuesday noon the manager-1 mails to manager-2 that the program is ready.
then there is radio-silence again.
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Who needs airco. Just let air and wind do that job for you
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/data_center_open_walls/ )
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Virtualising browsers sessions. It sounds complicated but it basically is doing what browsers should be doing themselves.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/hp_virtual_web_browser/ )
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San boxing plug-ins and sessions as Chrome does is rather similar. But it's copied from Windows. OK, reverse engineered. Well, if you want to do a similar thing you are likely to do it in a similar way.
( http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/chrome-antics-did-google-reverse-engineer.ars )
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Smaller Cells are coming. I don't think Sony will redesign the PS3 on the outside but the inside may get a lot simple and cheaper.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/22/45nm_cell_in_09/ )
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Coming closer to a paper less office.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/22/new_electronic_book/ )
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Sun kit always look and sounds interesting. Just to bad it doesn't sell well.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/22/sun_microsystems_server_plans/ )
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Mini tablets have their place. But it's not a big place. They are to small for working comfortably with, they are a bit to big for simple phoning.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/22/nokia_maemo_5_details/ )
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Slot-music is a very good idea. An ideal way to distribute music. ... Just coming 10~15 years to late. If it had come out in the early nineties nobody would be looking at CDs, DVD and BlueRay would probably never have seen the light of day.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080922-labels-launch-slotmusic-format-miss-point-of-digital-music.html )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-22 ^:
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Getting colder still, there is a chance of frost on the work location. But with plenty of sun daytime temps remain comfortable (6°C ^_^ 19°C)
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Paul : can you make extra user profiles for our users just like Hal-1?
Sjon : Why?
Paul : well just like Hal-1 we need them.
Sjon : Hal-1 doesn't use them anymore, they were a temporal measure there.
Paul : Anyway we need them here.
Sjon : Why?
Paul : Well just like Hal-1 we have a new company an our users need a new profile to work with that new company.
Sjon : You don't need new profiles for that, users can switch whenever they want even without logging off.
Paul : Anyway, we do need them. Harry says so as well.
Sjon : *sigh* OK, you'll get them
(continuing the discussion takes more time, -certainly when Harry gets involved- than adding users)
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MIPS chips? Aren't that the good old powerful chips that disappeared just before they were about to take over the world?
Now found again in supercomputers. OK, not world-beating ones. But hey ... the chips run at 700MHzThat's about a quarter of the current Intel crop. At 90nm the features are twice as big as the Intel things. And they live on a 10W diet.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/sicortex_kicker/ )
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Toshiba still makes notebooks. And it comes in small sizes ass well now. Stylish and a bit different from Impressive rest
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/18/toshiba_unveils_netbook/ )
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Samsung joins in as well.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/19/samsung_unveils_nc10_scc/ )
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Hybrid Mercedes. Using laptop-batteries. But basically it more a hybrid for marketing then for greening. It still has a big fat petrol engine for driving, using the meager electric one as an assist.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/19/merc_hybrid_gets_li_ion/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-19 ^:
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Copy. (124°C ^_^ 21°C)
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Those IBM Cell-Power chips are pretty efficient.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/19/green500_super_list/ )
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Intel may be ahead in production but IBM is close behind in fab technology. Close enough to hop over from time to time.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/ibm_22_nanometer/ )
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Linux isn't good for mobiles. It sounds like an very defensive Symbian reaction. But there is a lot of truth in it. Linux can run on a mobile but it is a bit on the big side. You can trim it down to the right size but then you trim off so much stuff that a standard (desktop) Linux programmer can't work with it. Unless he adds the trimmed off parts again.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/symbian_on_linux/ )
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Yay, mud-throwing party ahead. Well, with the RIAA involved that is always mud enough.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080918-riaa-pot-calls-kettle-black-over-vexatious-legal-tactics.html )
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China is moving to space faster. I thinkµ I'll learn Chinese, might be good to book a ticket.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/18/china_space_station/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-18 ^:
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The grey is more even. And it's getting cooler each morning but with sun in the afternoon it heats up nicely. (15°C ^_^ 22°C)
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A new release of AIX is always interesting.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/ibm_aix_ee/ )
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Big flash shakeup.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/samsung_makes_hostile_offer_for_sandisk/ )
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Media companies try to wrestle with Apple. They still haven't learned that the best, most compatible DRM already exist. None.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/media_standard_apple/ )
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Leading to a nice analogy.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/17/feudal_music_concession/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-17 ^:
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Less colour in the morning. None at all actually just different shades of gray as the sun struggles over the horizon. late in the afternoon the cover cracks enough to let some rays pass. (15°C ^_^ 18°C)
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IBM is arming up Lenovo to fight against HP. Yes the article doesn't say that. But with Lenovo poking holes in the HP server bottom line it gets easier for IBM to
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/lenovo_intros_thinkserver/ )
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China's space race is moving incredibly fast considering it's racing alone
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/china_space_mission/ )
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MS trying to inch in on HPC territory. While they may get a foothold it won't happen silently. HPC is now using Linux most of the way and that is providing a moving target.
Oh, btw, nice box to have there. Reminds me of the old SGI boxes in the MIPS days
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/cray_baby_super/ )
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Spore. It reminds me of those kids in all-you-can-eat restaurants. They heap plates full of food and when they quit sated they leave tons of food on the plates. DRM isn't nice and good but it's not necessary an evil thing.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080916-ars-puts-spore-drm-to-the-testwith-a-surprising-result.html )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-16 ^:
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It is about the most beautiful weather of the year. With ocre and orange coloured morning skies turning to pale blue and all that. And it's not to warm anymore. (14°C ^_^ 19°C)
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The tide is turning on MS.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/16/hp_rumor_toying_with_linux_os/ )
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4 x 4 x 6 ... Hmmm. It's a bit on the opposit side of one of those EeePC boxes. But I would like to have one.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/15/nec_unisys_monster_xeon/ )
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As good as the new Nano may be it's not something for me. I mean I would lose it faster than unpacking it. ^_^
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/15/review_apple_4g_nano/ )
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Citrix is doing well. One problem with Citrix (and other virtualisers) in the commercial realm is performance. The idea is that you run a serious PC, server, and share it among a couple of users. And that's fine almost any box these days is more than powerful enough to do that (with business apps at least). The temptation though is to add more and more users, till they all are at a standstill. It's like system requirements on a software box, it will run on a system as state but you won't want to use it.
We run Citrix at work. With an bunch of servers, I think we use 20 servers for Citrix, shared by about a thousand people. But people are working in shifts and some don't use Citrix at all. Still we end up with about 20 users per server. And some older servers can't cope with that kind of load.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/15/xenserver_5_cloud/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-15 ^:
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It got a lot colder over the weekend. especially the night temperatures dropped, thanks to the clear nights (12°C ^_^ 21°C)
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Making the right choice.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/12/rh_bg_netbooks/ )
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Creationism should stay out of science classes, if anywhere it belongs in religious classes. But the RS is right that teachers should know about it.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/creationism_in_uk_schools/ )
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Typical activist behaviour, crying for Linux to be pre-installed and when that happens they move on. Most people that really want Linux get a normal (cheap) machine and install their own flavour.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/lenovo_linux/ )
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1TB notebook drives. *sigh* I remember when 8 inch 200MB disks units were replacing washing-machine sized drive boxes.
( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/western_digital_2_5_inch_drive_roadmap/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-12 ^:
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still warm in the morning, warm and misty. At least we do get a good heavy shower halfway trough the morning. No thunderstorm though and after the shower it's just as warm as before. (19°C ^_^ 21°C)
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putting a power plant on the moon is a good idea. Though getting it there may be a problem.
Of course on the moon you could use good old solar panels most of the time but it's a good experimental place.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/11/nasa_testing_nuclear_power_for_the_moon/ )
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Privacy? what privacy?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/google_ip_anonymization/ )
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One against all and all against one. And still Intel is far ahead.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/12/nec_joins_nec_chip_alliance/ )
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New iPods are out so people are doing comparisons. Nice players. And not a Zune in sight ... maybe the new Zunes are to new to be reviewed.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/11/roundup_ipod_alternatives/print.html )
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AMD Atom. Well it's got a competitor chip about ready but it is still nameless. It should beat the Atom on performance when it hits the market. But Intel will probably have a second generation of Atoms in the labs by then.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-details-leak-on-amds-purported-atom-competitor.html )
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Intel readying a six-core chip. Going from single to dual core was revolutionary. upping to four cores was a big thing. getting an uneven number of cores was surprising. Going further ... Yawn. I am a bit surprised (just a little) that Intel holds on to it's big onchip caches even as it drops the old front-buss bottleneck.
( http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-10032313-64.html?tag=nl.e703 )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-11 ^:
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It was going to be bad, with clouds and rain and low temperatures and all that. Sure as hell, when they predict bad weather we don't get it. Just to hot in the morning. And sunny. They changed the forecast late in the morning, it should be warm and overcast/hazy with a thunderstorm in the afternoon. Hazy and warm OK, but no thunderstorm. I think I am going to ask my money back. (19°C ^_^ 29°C)
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Only wussies need space suits. Nobody seems to conclude that this indicates life will go on whatever. Even if we do our best with full nuclear and chemical warfare explicitly trying to kill all we probably won't succeed.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/10/water_bears_in_spaaaaaace/ )
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*blink* Something is wrong here. *blink*
I mean, a reasonable article about the LHC. Com-on, that's forbidden isn't it?
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(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-10 ^:
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Cloudy. And rainy. strangely it's very warm in the morning and it hikes up nicely even without much sun. (21°C ^_^ 27°C)
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Journalists don't love each other. And when everybody becomes lyrical over Crome it's the perfect opportunity to sound a dissonant note. While pouring acid on the others.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/dziuba_chrome/ )
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ha, yes. Chrome is Good. chrome is perfect. ... Chrome is patched ... heu ... oh well every "operating system" needs patches.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/09/google_chrome_update/ )
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New systems from Sony are always nice. They have style and quality to match Apple (matching the price as well) but they introduce with the fanfare and reality distortion that Apple does. Interesting is the combination of a classic disk and a SSD one.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/09/sony_blu_ray_systems_launch/ )
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A 24h battery run is remarkable. It costs a lot extra and will probably be unreachable when using the notebook normally. But the point is that you should get a full working day out of it. that's 8 hours and then some. If only they got that out of the mini-notebooks.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/09/hp_battery_life_full_day/ )
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Old games don't just die when new versions come out.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080909-first-look-gog-revives-classic-pc-games-for-download-age.html )
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You bet there will be a lot of job opportunities for bioengineers in the coming years. When I entered univ some twenty years ago bio-engineering was so new they had no courses for it. It started tentative with some new labs and extra course to biology but at other universities it branched off from the chemistry department. By the end of the eighties it became independent departments but then, with the greens (and media) hammering against everything that sounded like engineering it went out of fashion.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080909-bioengineering-bacteria-for-efficient-biofuel-production.html )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-09 ^:
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summer is back again. with a cool morning but a rather hot afternoon. (16°C ^_^ 28°C)
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NASA is sailing without a clear compass. Maybe they should talk to the Chinese. If only to put pressure on the Russians. Not that that will solve it's problems.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/griffin_leaked_email/ )
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Well, it looks like a magazine and it reads like a magazine. And it's flexible. Probably not flexible enough yet to roll it up and use as a fly swatter but still ...
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/09/plastic_logic/ )
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SSD is gaining market but the price is still on the high side. Certainly for standard desktop and notebook use.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/08/intel_ships_ssds/ )
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Dual core Atoms are moving from announcement to products. Sporting two cores each running a multi treading set this practically closes the gap between the Atom and Core2 range
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/08/dual_core_atom_september_launch/ )
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No the Atoms are not (yet) taking the top spot. That's still reserved for the Xeons
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/08/intel_new_faster_and_greener_xeons/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-08 ^:
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someone turned on the sun again. It's not to tropical levels yet but much better tan last week grey and wetness. (16°C ^_^ 23°C)
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To bad, there will be no black holes or strangelets. No other than what can be found in most newspapers at least.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/05/lhc_to_leave_fabric_of_spacetime_continuum_unripped/ )
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To bad, there will be no real space-race. If the Chinese go on at this rate with their space program the Americans are likely to find a welcome committee (and a take-away chinese restaurant) when they finally reach Mars.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/07/china_to_launch_manned_space_mission_by_end_of_month/ )
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Tips for the Acer One. Always welcome. And actually a good way to get your feet wet with Linux. Yes you can do these things with any Linux desktop but most, as in 99.9%, explanations about tweaking assume you know everything already. The sub notebooks are tapping into a new market with people not caring much about the OS. Yes, like most PC buyers, but when you buy a classic PC you get Windows pre-installed and most people don't care they just want some tips to get their favourite plug-ins and one or two non pre-installed things running. It's the first time Linux hits that type of customer base.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/05/ten_aspire_one_tips/ )
(Mail Remarks about words)
2008-09-05 ^:
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Low temperatures and lots of clouds. And rather strong winds as well. But less rain. (15°C ^_^ 18°C)
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I Robot.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/lockheed_droid_legion_ai_control_demo/ )
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Weird OS release. I am not a security expert but this opensourceing of a rootkit does raises my eyebrows.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/linux_rootkit_released/ )
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Chrome is positioned to replace classic apps. And it may well do so (after the licence is rewritten (see yesterday) ).
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/04/chrome_review/ )
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About time they get on with the 45nm process at AMD. Competing with Intel is not something you do cheaply or in a single effort.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/04/amd_ces_jan_09_deneb_debut/ )
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2008-09-04 ^:
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Grey, wet and windy. sounds nice and I actually like that though the wind makes biking to work less interesting. (25°C ^_^ 32°C)
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Some user are real annoyances.
They ask how to do something, you tell them and they say you are wrong.
"how do I get B and C to move?" "Well, you move B en C automatically follows. "That's impossible! You must tell me how I move B and C!" "Well, if you move B, C will be moved automattically." "No! no! no! that is impossible!!" "Well, just move B en then call me back if C is still a problem." "No, that doesn't work! I will call back!"
BTW, I didn't hear back from him. And when I checked later everything was moved.
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Now you see me, now you don't. So invisibility cloaks are not only for ostriches. Maybe.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/invisible_shed_now_with_windows/ )
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Crome needs some polishing. Definitely if you use it to upload things, like FTP-ing. Or filling in a form to your bank. Or running an emulation thing to your work systems.
All your base belong to G.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/ )
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Case-modders may have a problem with their in-case lights and windows when this type of interconnect gets real. The main advantage of photonic connections is that they are not limited to a two-dimensional space so a lot of routing problems fall away. And over reasonable distances the latency variation is low (one problem with current day connections is that the various lines of a bus need to be the same length). Of course the chips still work with electrons so there is a conversion step (with latency needed).
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/sun_darpa_cake_split_with_kotura/ )
Now I remember well IBM did some work on optical chip-connections some years ago. What happened to that?
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I have been waiting for an eBook reader like this for years. I still love the feel of classic books and eBooks will never replace them but rather than lug a whole stack off manuals and text books and novels around on the move, packing a single eBook reader would be nice. It would also be a great replacement for magazines and newspapers (if they build a larger version of it).
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/03/sony_reader_uk_debut/ )
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Of course Dell gets in on the Ultra portables. And having an easy openable design may attract a lot of people.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/03/dell_inspiron_910_hackable/ )
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2008-09-03 ^:
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Nice and grey again. But with a clear horizon an beautiful red clouds. (14°C ^_^ 19°C)
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Holidays are over so the team is fully manned again. So I can bring my hours back to normal. I have been doing 14 hours or Impressive a day all trough August. Slowly slipping down now, with 13.5 on monday, just under 13 yesterday I'll be hitting the signoff-butting close after 12 hours today. ^_^
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Online services have some disadvantages. Like reliability and trustability.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/mysterious_skype_hijackings/ )
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Yet another comeback for Commodore?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/02/cbm_launches_scc/ )
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Interesting to see a business folding-over to open source.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/02/symbian_half_year_results/ )
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Who needs another browser? Well with IE8 coming up and looking the best IE in years it is time to move the goal posts a bit.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080901-google-opens-up-new-front-in-browser-wars-with-chrome.html )
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-hands-on-with-chrome-googles-browser-shines-mostly.html )
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Check. It depends on how you define stealing of course.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080902-the-bofh-lives-88-of-it-workers-would-steal-data-if-fired.html )
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2008-09-02 ^:
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Lots of clouds but they don't know whether to drop rain or not. We get the odd few drops, not drizzle but rain sized drops but but just two or three and then nothing for a couple of minutes and then a gain a couple. Weird. (15°C ^_^ 22°C)
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House-printing. I don't know how they do supporting flat roofs, hollow spaces are nit easy with any two dimensional process.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/01/concrete_building_printers/ )
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Intel shows the way for AMD. Neither need software in their portfolio to make money but both are entirely dependent on software and not just plain drivers. Of course AMD doesn't have the big funds that Intel has to work out a software strategy. So it has more reason to put money in open source initiatives. As it is now it is mainly dependent on the open source stuff the Intel develops and thus it can't move away from Intel's shadow.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/01/intel_buys_openedhand/ )
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Competition in the UMPC market is working. We're getting more choice and variation. And more Linux.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/01/msi_modifies_wind_line/ )
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Getting install and uninstall problems with beta software isn't surprising. But one wonders what the final version is going to do.
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/ie8_xp_sp3_beta_2_lockdown/ )
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Well, you can't get a better screen for nothing. Question is is it worth-wile?
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/01/psp_3000_battery_life/ )
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2008-09-01 ^:
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. (25°C ^_^ 32°C)
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RIAA and friends are playing the point-and-shoot game. Why put the aim in between there?
( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/29/freedom2surf_copyright_accusation/ )
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So you bought a bigger TV. OK, now it's up to you to find films in the right resolution.
( http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/08/29/panasonic_150in_viera_tv/ )
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Sun is swinging back to Intel. AMD hasn't been booted but I hope they are worried.
( http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Sun-Fires-Up-Server-Lineup-with-Intel-Processors/?kc=EWKNLENT08222008STR5 )
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MS IE8 beta-3 is, on features, getting level with most other browsers. It's MS so you should wait for beta-3 of course ^_^ . Of course by then the competition has moved. (remember they are comparing beta products with released versions
( http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10027345-83.html?tag=nl.e433 )
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The interesting point to note is not that Atom is out selling Intel's facilities. Or that there is an opportunity for VIA. The point to note is that the netbook market jumped from a fringe play to the main stage.
It started with a couple of small boxes and VIA processors and nobody looking. VIA just showed that there is a bit of room above the untouchable ARM chips. Then Intel notices, and moves in, but it moves in deceptive, it drops it's ARM line. And nothing changes, nobody sees the opportunity and window for beating Intel. I assume most people think Intel's move of X86 to low power -remember we're at the P4-150W chips time- is not going to work out, everybody expects an Itanium story. And then Intel shows it has a moderately low power chip. And suddenly the market explodes.
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080831-limited-atom-supply-shows-strong-netbook-demand.html )
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getting rid of windows can be done. But only in silence. Do Godfather, maffia, omerta sound familiar?
( http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080831-lenovo-wont-refund-the-windows-tax-without-an-nda.html )
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