Alright, it isn’t as fancy as the Regent Street Shop, but it’s a start. Located inside a Saturn market (one of the biggest german electronic retailers) in Hamburg – 50 m² are better than nothing, although they could do a little work on the ceiling and all (see pic on link below).
Found via heise.de
The german division of Tom’s Hardware Guide is doing a major head to head burn-in stresstest. A AMD64 3500+ system is running head-to-head with a P4-system. Both systems are equipped with the latest boards and components and are really packed. Both systems are running round the clock with numerous test applications (benchmarks) to really stress the components to the maximum.
The created a site which shows both systems and a shot out of their computer lab and stats about the current up- and down-time along with the number of reboots (see here)…so far the AMD system is “in front” with 0 reboots and 0 downtime (current status: AMD, up 3 days 0:08, 0 downtime, 0 reboots; Intel, up 0 days 4:59, 0 downtime, 1 reboot).
Yes! A two page ad was run today! (see official site).
And here’s my name on it: :mrgreen:
The pdf of it is here. A picture of it is here.
:-)
Alrighty, after Google’s desktop search and MSN’s toolbar (including desktop search) we’ve got the third one on our hands: Ask Jeeves Desktop search.
Now I’m wondering: how much desktop do you even have to search? How often do you really search for something on your desktop with a search-functionality (OS side)? Isn’t it better to just organize your files and stick with it? Maybe it’s just me, but I stick to my well thought out data-organisation and abstain from shutting down my brain in an effort to push “new technologies” like the desktop search.
It doesn’t mean that those search-programs are a bad thing (although they might as well be – think about what Google Desktop search does (can’t speak about the others as I didn’t and probably won’t test them): build an index of all your files. Do you know if that is properly encrypted? Do you know whether or not a “bad person” could take advantage of such (a) file(s)?), I was really amazed how fast the search mechanism worked – in contrast to the WinXP built-in search mechanism. So maybe it’s time that Microsoft works on their own engine or allow others to be integrated into the OS as there’s no way I’m going to install this thing as an additional program.
I’m just wondering what’s next. I mean okay it’s normal that manufacturers of both soft- and hardware are competing with more and more innovation, eyecandy and loads of (sometimes totally unnecessary features) to catch the eye of the consumer – let’s see: AMD vs. Intel, Nvidia vs. ATi, PC vs. Apple, etc etc. This is both groovy and necessary as it’s the only way that products can improve and ultimatively become affordable to the regular user. That’s some good competition…
Today I browse around some news sites and see that users are competing in new categories now, too. Back in the days when I was one of the dudes who would buy new stuff right when it came out the main goal was to have a kick-arse system which was faster than the pc of your fellow geeks. Nowadays this is still important, but it seems to me that the “look” or “coolness”-factor of your pc is more important than the performance itself. How would I know? I just found out that on April 16th 2005 there will be the 4th annual german case modding championship (see here). Wow! How could I miss this for the last three years? Something “this important“.
Note: lie ;-)
On another note: I’ve got a “modded” case, too…a limited edition painted one with a window, but that’s about it, no 100 blue/red/green-leds, no flashlights or whatever. The only really reasonable case-mod to me is a silencer mod (silent fans, passive cooling solutions and the like), but I guess I won’t win any prices with that :-)
Woohoo! The big 1.0! Get it now!
I just did, download was fast as ever, the “update” from 0.9 worked like a charm and everything is looking good (especially the new icons).
I guess it’s time that you Reclaim Your Inbox, too! ;-)
online-bookmarks is a really nice web application using php and MySQL to implement an online system for bookmarks. Alright, you can always save (or export) your bookmark list from your browser and upload it to a web-location, but that’s not really elegant nor efficient. So this really comes in handy. You can import and export bookmarks (I just tested the import with my bookmarks of my Firefox 1.0 – which worked like a charm) and best of all: manage them online (add, delete, move, etc)!
All you need is php and a MySQL-db and you’re set. Really nice! It took me less than two minutes to have it up and running. Thanks to Ben for finding this one! You can read his thoughts about it here.
Well, well. It was really interesting to watch the auction “live” (refresh, refresh, refresh). In the last hour the bid rose to over 3000$ taking a stop just before the end of the auction with the winning bid of 3350$. Nice one!
Too bad that my guess of 2600$ was a little bit too low, so no prices for me, but hey…at least Jeremy got a nice amount of cash!
Read more about it over at ensight…
Man I love such quiz things :-)
Update: The prices that are up for grabs are starting to pour in hour by hour! The grand prize is now even higher and there are more prices for the runner up places! So, make sure you enter this competition!
Hehe, nice one. As you might have heard Jeremy is putting himself up for auction at ebay (see here). So after he’s posting day to day standings of the current price I suggested he could make it a “competition” (see here): whoever guesses the final price (or is nearest to it) will win something like a T-shirt or something.
Now he really did a great job and put up the Contest:
First price will be
Two thumbs up, and the prices for second and third price aren’t bad either!
So…if you’re interested, get your behind over to ensight and enter your guess ;-)
Alright. Arvid Axelsson released the new verision of Qute on November 27th 2004. It carries the version tag 3 and is compatible with all versions of Firefox (up to 1.0) now. Groovy stuff.
If you’ve been waiting for it you can get it here or update it if you’ve already installed the old version (2.1.3): in Firefox: Tools -> Themes select the Qute theme and hit the update button.
While I was really busy this week there was much going on around the “blogosphere”.
Plextor is about to released it’s newest DVD burner PX-716SA which has got the same features as the PX-716A but is a serial-ata (s-ata) device – so no free ide-port needed. Groovy…now if I only had a S-ATA port ;-)
Anyway, I’m more than set with 2 dvd-burners in place, so I guess this one (or a even newer generation one) will certainly be an option for my next computer.
Well, it was about time that I bought something bargain style again. So I won an auction on ebay for an additional paper-feeder for my color laser printer (Apple Laser Writer Color 12/600PS – old school but still running very good and cheap with page prices of under 6 cents). What did I pay? 2.50 Euro :-)
It was sort of backbreaking to get the printer on that thing, but now it’s up and running and my “beast” is now fully equipped (maximum stage of expansion: 40MB Ram, 2×250 paper-feeder, etc).
As I was on a roll, so to speak, I decided to put my spare dvd-burner Sony DRU700a to good use by inserting it into my second pc (AMD Athlon XP 1800+ machine). Now I can burn “stereo style” – not that I really need it or something, but this way I can be sure to get almost everything burned regardless of the medium used (my LG had written everything I had thrown at it so far, but today it rejected some grade B media branded “Gate 24” – now I’m happy that I’ve got the second burner, because the Sony likes them).
