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Monthly Archives: March 2006
Originally uploaded by so-wrong.
Upped the contrast and saturation to particular colors, so the foreground now stands out more.
Agony is when, in your urgency to take a dump in the comfort of your own toilet, you take the wrong feeder bus.
Thank goodness, I’m making up for my mis-convenience this evening.
- Intel’s Robson project will put NAND or flash memory chips on all its desktop/mobile systems. NAND memory is the memory used in your iPod nano’s and compact flash cards. Unlike the RAM you’re familiar with, data stored in NAND chips are not erased when you shut down. This will allow commonly loaded applications and O/S components to be prestored in the flash memory. Result? Your computer will boot in something like 6 to 10 seconds, and common applications take mere milliseconds to load. This will not only make older computers look really sloooooooww, but also improve battery life, since NAND memory consumes much less power than HDD’s. This technology is slated for release early next year.
- Intel released its first generation of dual core processors without including Robson. I reckon they did so for Apple’s sake. Chances are, we will see an update on the Core series of processors to include Robson. Note that changes to Intel’s architecture now affect both PC and Mac users, since they are both (almost) in the same camp. It is unlikely that Intel will license exclusive processor technology to Apple, since Apple makes up a relatively small part of Intel’s chip business. However I am not ruling out the possibility.
- Windows Vista: Unless you’re techno-phobic and feel safer with the familiar XP. It’s worth to wait for the release of Vista. Then you’ll have Vista pre-loaded on your PC.
- 802.11n: The new standard in Wi-Fi, will be featured in new Intel chipsets.
- 802.16e or WIMAX will deliver a linear broadcast range of up to 50km. However real world tests show results of around 5 to 8 km, given line of sight is usually not guaranteed. WIMAX will likely eliminate the trouble of finding wireless hotspots where it is available.
- Intel is in the midst of a chip architecture revamp dubbed the Intel Core microarchitecture. This takes technology found in the new Core Duo and Core Solo mobile processors, and will transcend its entire span of processor types, from mobile processors to servers. So if you’re buying an Intel based desktop, you should wait. Scheduled for released in the 3rd quarter of 2006.
- Intel will feature quad-core processors for it’s new rage of high end desktop processors. Apple’s Power Mac’s – to be renamed Mac Pro – will probably be the first new desktops to feature this chip.
So unless you urgently need a new computer, it is better to hold. Chances are that if you purchase a new computer now, you might it incredibly obsolete in a year.
Originally uploaded by so-wrong.
The same photo, in black and white. Lacks clean whites though.
Still waiting impatiently for my invites from Writely, Riya, Crazy Egg, and Google Page Creator. Wish I had signed up earlier.
OH MY! Life is so unfair! What did I do wrong to be born a server in this day and age? I could have been a nice simple bicycle that people happily rode around on all day. But no, I’m stuck inside this metal case serving web pages instead. I never even see the light of day and all I can hear is the rush of the air-conditioning!
Well, no more! I’m relaxing here with a cup of tea and a biscuit until someone shows me some love and attention.
It never takes them long to fix me when I kick up a fuss so check back in a few minutes and I’ll be chugging along merrily again.!
Signed,
The WordPress.com web server
(WordPress.com – where even the machines have life!)
Heard off The Dan and David Show, science historian George Dyson says that “Google allows users to behave like neurons in the sense of making the links….it digitizes everything, indexes everything and lets people leave trials to them. In 20 to 30 years people would have linked the meaning between things, in the same way the brain works.”
Hovering around this idea, Wiki’s and other social webs are stronger semantically linked data structures. But on the other hand, google works on a much larger scale, in the sense that it’s record of all searches probably covers every concievable human thought, well ok, excluding cultures with limited access to the net. And of course, a large part of the search being porn.
But how amazing.
Reasons NUS shouldn’t make students pay for it’s mistakes and luxuries:
The most posh toilets in NUS are found nowhere else but the famed University Hall.
The new university hall is purely for administrative staff, has no student services.
Sheares Hall was torn down to make space for the new university hall, which has little or no need for a central location, since it has no student services.
There’s a champagne gold E-class parked everyday at the grand driveway, which again, brings us back to the point of why a building with so little traffic needs a grand driveway.
It is ok for some big shot’s car to be parked illegally, while students’ cars are clamped everday for parking in red lots.
Is it a coincidence that a security guard stands around the car? Doesn’t he have a post?
Should we be made to pay for extravagant mistakes?
