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Yeah, you know those peltier elements that supposedly actively cool your CPU? Time to look at how real men cool their CPU's! Two sites, Kryotech and Armari, build Dual PPro 266 with refrigeration units that cool the CPU to -40 C! The cooling technology costs about $700 from Kryotech, though. Looks kind of neat, doesn't it?
http://www.kryotech.com This is from the section of Dracula's castle called "Outer Wall". Classical in a grand sort of way. Check it out!
The next big key cracking effort is at http://rc5.distributed.net. They've just released the Version 2 clients...I get a 150% speed increased to ~450K keys/sec!
John Carmack's plan now contains some pretty interesting info from his perspective on multiprocessor systems, as well as the one he chose to go with. 8:01 PM Oh man, I almost forgot to mention the big news of the day! Yes, it's unconstitutional, and not only that, but by unanimous decision too! And what's more, they called the government's argument "singularly unpersuasive." Ha! Somebody released a multiplayer cheat utility for Warcraft II which has spread like wildfire and made this game, immune to hacks for almost 2 years, almost unplayable without fear of cheating. Blizzard is supposedly working on a fix to the problem...let's hope it comes out soon and fixes the problem for good. 6:43 PM Kevin's Triton Drivers page has the latest release of Intel's bus mastering drivers for Windows 95. A couple of people have reported problems and others have reported some performance increases. That's right, according to Tom's Hardware Guide, Tom got to speak to an Intel rep who confirmed that a Pentium Pro Overdrive processor for Socket 8 motherboards would be produced. It's pretty much certain to run at higher clock speeds, but it is unclear whether this Overdrive processor will adhere to the Pentium Pro's design, which keeps the L2 cache on-chip at full processor speed or the Pentium II's, which puts the cache off-chip at half the processor speed. In other respects, it should be like a Pentium II, so I expect the cache will probably move off-chip. No idea on the cost yet, but Overdrive chips are typically a little too expensive. 12:06 PM The new IE4 interface due to be released has some really cool looking enhancements to the interface, although they are not much more useful yet. The icons are all high color and look very nice. Also, NT 5.0 appears to have settings to adjust quanta timeslicing settings (as well as the other known things like Directory Services, PnP, etc.) Way to go, Microsoft, now get off your butt and fix up the file cacheing and scheduling so it acts more like Unix/Linux! My system's been stable for about a week and a half now so I decided to try turning on Fast DRAM Leadoff in the BIOS. NT hard locked just after I logged in. Really touchy! Thanks to Bill Hinkson, who mentioned that SuperMicro also produces an I2O motherboard. Here's a link to some info.
http://www.megacom.com/board/p6dnh.htm
I found a great page for Windows NT registry hacks as well as other useful information. Jerold Schulman maintains this page at http://www.jsiinc.com/reghack.htm. 7:26 PM An unauthorized beta patch for Interstate 76 supporting Direct 3D has apparently been leaked out onto the net. I do not take any responsibility for you downloading it, and I haven't had a chance to try it either (because I didn't buy the game). If you are a brave soul, go to http://www.treadwayauto.com/3dfx/ and d/l the patch from there.
Victor S Erbring has a great collection of links to sties about the Libretto and various palmtops. The newest news is the Libretto 60...due to be released soon in Japan, it features a 100 MHz Pentium Processor as opposed to the 75 MHz chip in the Libretto 50 and supposedly slightly better battery life. If this makes the Libretto 50's prices drop heavily, I may get one and o/c that to 100 instead. Hehe! 6:14 PM I found more info on it at Intel's web page. Offloading I/O functions onto a separate processor helps and improves scalability in servers. Here's the link. Also, it appears Micronics makes a server board, the M6DPi, based on this I/O chipset. Cool.
Dunno if you've heard of this new way to handle I/O in PC's, but it's pretty cool, and I've always wondered why it wasn't being done. Well, I guess it can be. Basically, it's a way for I/O devices to interface with computers independently of the hardware or operating system. The way it's being done right now in PC's is the I/O is being handled by an Intel i960 RISC processor, which also happens to offload the interrupts that typically burden the host CPU (that's the part I always wondered about). Apparently these motherboards are available and they have an ungodly number of PCI slots (like 8). They also cost around $1000 or something. Hmm, maybe I'll go try to find out more about it right now. 9:30 PM Now this sounds like a cool game. Sort of a real-time X-Com but with character classes. See, now you're excited.
I think Joel Schumacher sucks. He should be making porno movies. By that I mean, his movies are one big string of flashy sequences stuck together with a poor excuse for a plot. What the hell is with all that neon and flourescent painted guys...I mean, seriously, suspension of disbelief is one thing, but this is really just cheesy. This piece is from the section of Dracula's Castle called "Alchemy Laboratory". Classical and kind of cool. Well whaddaya know, that icon corruption thing I thought I fixed...I actually didn't. Well, it doesn't seem to be affecting anything because my computer has been up for a week so I'll just let it be. | |||||||||||||||||||||
