Five tiny mistakes that became Huge Catastrophes - Click Me
There are many interesting little gems scattered throughout the story, so it's well worth a read.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
General: Who likes a good 'B' picture?
Here are quite a few of them, from the SL wedding of Baldric and Emmanuel!
Techo: CPU Usage 1%
Yes, well you'll get that with 64-bit Windows Server 2008 Datacenter...
IF you have 64 processors and 2 TiB (2,048 GiB) of RAM!
Much more on Pushing the Limits of Windows Physical Memory, for the many varieties of Windows, by the cluey Mark Russinovich here.
IF you have 64 processors and 2 TiB (2,048 GiB) of RAM!
Much more on Pushing the Limits of Windows Physical Memory, for the many varieties of Windows, by the cluey Mark Russinovich here.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
General: Celebration Central
Well, 'Saturday night and Sunday morning' indeed!
Saturday night Carol and I went to another Christmas in July at the local lawn bowls club.
There were about 80 guests and a great time was had by all.
I had to go at 10PM though to get a bit of a rest, ready for Sunday morning.
Sunday morning 1:30 AM that is, to attend a wedding in Second Life, 9AM Saturday their time.
This was a first for me but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Unless you were there you couldn't imagine how serious and significant an event it was with no detail overlooked, thanks to great work by a lot of people.
The minister was an actual real-life minister and it is a real relationship in both worlds, SL and RL.
The ceremony was in both text and Audio, so those of us so equipped got to hear them both making their vows and the minister declaring them married, definitely a Kleenex moment!
I got a heap of pictures of the wedding and reception, so have a look here.
Congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy future to Mr and Mrs Garfunkel!
(Well, I'm not sure if you actually can change your surname in SL, but you get the idea)
Update: The offocial photo's are here, That's me in piccy number three.
Saturday night Carol and I went to another Christmas in July at the local lawn bowls club.
There were about 80 guests and a great time was had by all.
I had to go at 10PM though to get a bit of a rest, ready for Sunday morning.
Sunday morning 1:30 AM that is, to attend a wedding in Second Life, 9AM Saturday their time.
This was a first for me but I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
Unless you were there you couldn't imagine how serious and significant an event it was with no detail overlooked, thanks to great work by a lot of people.
The minister was an actual real-life minister and it is a real relationship in both worlds, SL and RL.
The ceremony was in both text and Audio, so those of us so equipped got to hear them both making their vows and the minister declaring them married, definitely a Kleenex moment!
I got a heap of pictures of the wedding and reception, so have a look here.
Congratulations and best wishes for a long and happy future to Mr and Mrs Garfunkel!
(Well, I'm not sure if you actually can change your surname in SL, but you get the idea)
Update: The offocial photo's are here, That's me in piccy number three.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
General: Christmas In July, #1
We were invited to a friend's Christmas In July party (a Blue Mountains tradition) last night.
I got a little virtual dancing practice in first, but there was no actual dancing as it turned out.
Still, I did get to sit on Santa's knee and got a prezzy from the Secret-Santa pile.
Piccies Here for those who're interested.
I got a little virtual dancing practice in first, but there was no actual dancing as it turned out.
Still, I did get to sit on Santa's knee and got a prezzy from the Secret-Santa pile.
Piccies Here for those who're interested.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Techo: Opening up TWO cans of Wupass!
On Intel, AMD/ATI and Nvidia.
Maybe PC prices will drop further with a bit of luck!
Email evidence unveiled in NVIDIA/ATI price fixing civil action
EU Files New Charges Against Intel
Maybe PC prices will drop further with a bit of luck!
Email evidence unveiled in NVIDIA/ATI price fixing civil action
EU Files New Charges Against Intel
General: Now I'M feeling very depressed!
Blue - http://www.bluesnews.com/ - puts down my 1.5Mbps broadband in no uncertain terms!
"Just in time for all these E3 movies, my cable bandwidth was quietly upped, and I am now getting staggering 31 Mb/s downloads, close to 4 MB a second.
This makes it more apparent than ever that in this brave new internet world, my old 1.5 Mb/s connection probably doesn't even qualify as broadband, as it was not really capable of downloading a lot of these clips, much less streaming them.
Back in the day we had a joke about "Low Ping Bastards," but I think that's much too kind a description of the connection I'm currently enjoying."
"Just in time for all these E3 movies, my cable bandwidth was quietly upped, and I am now getting staggering 31 Mb/s downloads, close to 4 MB a second.
This makes it more apparent than ever that in this brave new internet world, my old 1.5 Mb/s connection probably doesn't even qualify as broadband, as it was not really capable of downloading a lot of these clips, much less streaming them.
Back in the day we had a joke about "Low Ping Bastards," but I think that's much too kind a description of the connection I'm currently enjoying."
General: I'm not getting you down am I?
That would be 'Marvin, the Paranoid Android' of course.
If you want to own a bit of Douglas Adams memorabilia, this will certainly fit the bill, a very big bill though, $25,000 !
http://gizmodo.com/5025757/douglas-adams-hitchhikers-guide-typewriter-up-for-sale
Not that there's really much funny about mental health issues, they can happen to anyone, we're just lucky they only cause suicide in under 1% of us!
J.K. Rowlings experience, for instance -
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Depression/story?id=4542880&page=1
Still, it's not surprising individuals in trouble get overlooked by society when 3,600 mental patients can vanish in a single mental institution! (and then be discovered) -
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5379962
Scary stories, all of them. Now do you feel lucky?
If you want to own a bit of Douglas Adams memorabilia, this will certainly fit the bill, a very big bill though, $25,000 !
http://gizmodo.com/5025757/douglas-adams-hitchhikers-guide-typewriter-up-for-sale
Not that there's really much funny about mental health issues, they can happen to anyone, we're just lucky they only cause suicide in under 1% of us!
J.K. Rowlings experience, for instance -
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Depression/story?id=4542880&page=1
Still, it's not surprising individuals in trouble get overlooked by society when 3,600 mental patients can vanish in a single mental institution! (and then be discovered) -
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=5379962
Scary stories, all of them. Now do you feel lucky?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Techo: SSDs not quite so bad as first thought
Toms Hardware has taken note of criticism of their SSD/HDD battery-life evaluation, such as this one by George Ou that I read some days ago -
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/81/Default.aspx
Here is Toms Hardware's apology and revised evaluation -
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/toms-hardware-rescinds-ssd-power-test-finds-them-more-efficien/
This time, George gives then an 'A-' instead of an 'F' -
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/83/Default.aspx
The more important thing, imo, is the differences between Single-Level Cells and Multi-Level Cells (SLC and MLC) used in Flash memories.
MLC is inferior in performance, but cheaper to make, so guess which one the manufacturers want to foist on us?
I vented (just a little bit) here -
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=89349
I'll tell you right now,
MLC is the HD/DVD of SSDs, SLC is the Blu-Ray of SSDs.
People just won't settle for cheaper but inferior, no matter how many profit dollar signs are in the vendors eyes.
They might as well get used to it and concentrate on SLC and bring the price down by total market dominance, that works!
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/81/Default.aspx
Here is Toms Hardware's apology and revised evaluation -
http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/15/toms-hardware-rescinds-ssd-power-test-finds-them-more-efficien/
This time, George gives then an 'A-' instead of an 'F' -
http://www.formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/83/Default.aspx
The more important thing, imo, is the differences between Single-Level Cells and Multi-Level Cells (SLC and MLC) used in Flash memories.
MLC is inferior in performance, but cheaper to make, so guess which one the manufacturers want to foist on us?
I vented (just a little bit) here -
http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=89349
I'll tell you right now,
MLC is the HD/DVD of SSDs, SLC is the Blu-Ray of SSDs.
People just won't settle for cheaper but inferior, no matter how many profit dollar signs are in the vendors eyes.
They might as well get used to it and concentrate on SLC and bring the price down by total market dominance, that works!
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