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Belated Happy Birthday!

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:22:01 -0700

Sorry we missed it, Poly! Hope you did something for yourself.

Hex core time two = 12 physical cores and 24 threads.

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:53:43 -0700

Your main page feed of ZDnet catches me right before I pull the trigger on another MacPro Tower. I was going to get the 2xquad but zdnet says Apple might have 2hex on Tuesday. I think I will wait.

2x6 cores is 12 which can run 24 threads. I got a program that needs those 24 threads. And it runs at 3.3 Ghz? This could be a significant boost in speed. 1.46 X in speed plus half again more cores comes to 2.2 times faster than my twenty minute iteration which gets it to nine minutes. And my over two day crunch goes down to one day. I know I am dreaming if my software can eek out that increase but more is always better. Just got back from an egyptian tomb and the hieroglyphics said,"more is more". Putting sixty walking sticks in the tomb was better for the dead person than 30 walking sticks. More is more. But not really better, just more. Same hieroglyphic.

One hopes you can get more than 8 times 4GB of memory into it.

Thanks for the feed, hope the rumor is true.

Talk dirty to me Jessica

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:08:11 -0700

Damn, I probably won't make it. Jessica Dolphino is playing in my new favorite town, Gloucester, Massachusetts tonight. Ten bucks! That's all!

I might have to just spend the night viewing Youtubes of her songs. Boy, that's lame.

four blades X 12 TB X 192 GB RAM

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:01:25 -0700

" four blades, each blade has dual Intel Nehalem quad-core processors and 12 Terabytes, with a total of 192 Gigs RAM."

The biotech I am involved with got a new box announced today with the above specs handling the data. But tomorrow another company is announcing something that is going to blow it out of the water.

Sometimes it sucks to be cutting edge. The Mac I have under my desk has that processor. OK I don't have 12 TB and 192 GB of memory times four but 32 GB of RAM does it for me now.

45th Anniversary of Moore's Law is April 19. Glad to see it is alive and still working.

ps. Hmm, bad reporting. Can't be sure there are 192GB on each blade or that is total for four blades. 48GB RAM per blade is less impressive.

They've Gottcha' Covered!

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:43:19 -0700

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For anyone who digs getting the Newest Gadget but also digs "roughing it"

the makers of THE INVISIBLE SHIELD ...have already Got You Covered...
(as well as your iPhone & iTouch)..and just about everything else
but now they come in colors & patterns (even your favorite photo)

Check It Out...

No.. I don't get Kick-Backs ..but I'm so glad someone turned me onto
the Invisible Shield for my iPod (3-4 years ago) that I swear by the stuff!

.:.Installation Instructions.:.

Hunter Thompson Customer Support Call

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:16:11 -0700

Quote:Hunter S. Thompson shares the love with an AV dealer. The voicemail was given to Jeremy Burkhardt at SpeakerCraft by the dealer Thompson called.

Might as well buff this joint

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:14:22 -0700

Dog-sitter fell through, and the pet motel at Tenaya Lodge is filled up, so I get to stay behind while my family gets to spend a few spectacular days and inviting nights at Yosemite. Cosmo is a lover, lap dog, Skye-Westhighland White Terrier mix, perfect for our pet-loving girls, but requiring a lot of human companionship.

So I'll futz around with updating the software, Celandine's request for more/better smilies, MYcode for multimedia-video embedding/spoilers/whatever/etc.

So, sometime in the next 24-30 hours or so, this will come offline for a few minutes for the update; with the smilies, Mycode and whatever else done live on-the-fly.

Maybe add a new forum, maybe something like The Living Room, since that's where a lot of computing, communications and entertainment stuff comes together, so that bucket seems to make sense insofar as getting the discrete chunks right, demystifying stuff/technobabble/misconceptions/etc, and getting it right in unison as an optimal unified user experience (sort of the Apple way).

So, this is a good opportunity to get off my duff and get this out of the way, so I can jump off onto working some too long neglected low hanging fruit stuff to harvest.

Ed

Baba Bing Maps just got better.

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:11:51 -0700

Bing maps with Birds Eye View has always been a bit better with the close up views. They just got a bit better. You have to download "Silverlight", quit Safari, and go back to Bing maps but it is well worth it. The coolest thing is it will automatically select the best view from the distance you click on. Find your house and the spin around it at closeup view. If you have done any yard work you can tell when the shot was taken. I have been building rock walls for the past two years and can tell exactly when the shot was taken by where my granite is.

Got to http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/# bing maps and download silverlight.

http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#/rwk4pnt91jy8xqo4

Have You Ever Heard This ???

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:51:07 -0700

Hi to all.....
I have some jokes and I am sharing that with you all.
My father is so old that when he was in school, history was called current affairs.

Teacher : "Now, Sam, tell me frankly do you say prayers before eating?"
Sam : "No sir, I don't have to, my mom is a good cook."

Patient : "What are the chances of my recovering doctor?"
Doctor : "One hundred percent. Medical records show that nine out of ten people
die of the disease you have. Yours is the tenth case I've treated. The others all died."

I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.

Sometimes the apple DOES fall far from the tree

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:31:52 -0700

Chris Wallace hopes Sister Sarah sits on his lap.

EWWWWW, just EWWWWW.

Edited for a typo, nothing to get excited about.

Reading List

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:00:20 -0700

2/6/10

Woz freeform four day jag, acid trip, whatever: ". . . sometimes, you're not sure if it's going to work because it didn't follow all of the methodology, all of the science that's in the books... but in this case it did." Interesting creative process.

Motion graphics examples-resources

Digital Nation

More Digital Nation: Reshaping Warfare

The Chinese don't need 60 votes

Greenwashing crackdown

Texas rancher unlikely environmentalist

Flash death spiral

Melting glaciers' impacts

Valley solar and smartgrid p0wn

Flood Burma - Power China

Clever: Turbine Light concept uses passing cars' wind

Google: We will bring books back to life

iTablet launches from UK company

Gizmodo-Inhabit Week in Green

Ten economics pieces worth reading

Re Novel and Citrix stuff: iPad displace netbook?

Ed

Hello Everyone need help

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:16:35 -0700

Hello Friends,
I want to go on vacation in this summer vacation. I want to go for two to
three weeks and I want to enjoy that place. Can anybody suggest me any
places there I can enjoy nature , culture , food and many other amazing
things.Thanks in advance.

Customized Currency

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:51:40 -0700

AIGA: A Modest Proposal: Customized Currency

Great idea. Really fitting for the best goddamned government that money can buy (Supreme Court ruling).

Proposed hundred dollar bill. I'm looking forward to the Exxon thousand dollar bill issues.

Ed

Physicist Discovers How To Teleport Energy

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:10:50 -0700

Pointed from Ray Kurzweil's site, KurzweilAI.net

Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy

Quote:First, they teleported photons, then atoms and ions. Now one physicist has worked out how to do it with energy, a technique that has profound implications for the future of physics.

I can find my iPhone

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:21:46 -0700

Sure enough the mobilme can find my iPhone. It's actually kind of freaky how well it does. It centers on the correct end of my house. And then I can make it twiddle some music. That's peachy but I want to do more.

I am going to be in a kayak challenge paddling 21 miles around Cape Ann. I am telling a certain number of people who will ridicule me mercilessly if I chicken out or bail half way through the race. But I want them to see the little iPhone dot of me making my way around the Cape. They can go to the proper breakwater at the right time and scream catcalls out at me or drag me out of the coffee shop if I stop in Rockport.

But how do I do this? I can give my wife the keys to my mobilme account and she can watch where I am. This will be very cool for all my training runs too. If I get stuck on Thacher Island she will know exactly where. But I have searched high and low for software that would patch the GPS signal out so anyone that day could tune into my web page and see where I am.

http://mbcf.dfci.harvard.edu/docs/blackb...timer.html

Anyone know if this is possible? No rush, I have 162 days, 11 hours, 42 minutes. If you figure out how I can do it I will give you the URL and you can laugh at how slow I am going too.

Pretty Cool Art Web Apps

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:55:27 -0700

Aviary

Checked out their Phoenix image editor and Raven vector editor. Nice features, snappy enough. On Amazon S3 (powerful, redundant across multiple cloud datacenters). Impressive gallery of stuff done, some pretty cool trick stuff.

Will have to try out their other stuff other time. So far, so good.

Oh, and it's free. Well, with free, your files are public ( you retain exclusive rights to them, as source they are not editable by public, although they are subject to usage in derivatives {with the derived art citing you as the source creator} ). However, for $20/year, you can make them not publically available, i.e., private, or editable by whitelisted contacts, etc, etc.

Oh, earlier demo'd stealth web-based CADCAM where stuff processed on commercially hosted paralleled multi-processor computers, with some client-side applets interfacing/whatever. Now, of course, I just uploaded a massive dataset to avoid the massive amount of manually building a dataset (involving a lot of modeling). Blew me out - Buffered preview rendered in seconds - The time was probably mostly in HTTP negotiations, buffer, and browser render. With GBs / the-inevitable-someday TBs of core RAM, this is the way to go for heavy lifting. Now, stuff like Intel's 48-core chip with each core discretely programmable, is the stuff of today - Tomorrow, that kind of processing power will be a commodity chip in a multi-processor supercomputer in a parallel processing grid.

Ed

Brain Teaser Repost

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:27:02 -0700

Quote:This is really interesting. It's kind of a brain teaser.

Condition : You must do this in your head. Don't use paper to write out the problem.

Take 1000 and add 40 to it. Now add another 1000.
Now add 30. And another 1000.
Now add 20. Now add another 1000. Now add 10.

What is the total?

Did you get 5000? Most people do, but the correct answer is actually 4100. If you don't believe me, try using a calculator or writing it on paper.

iPad thinks it has a camera

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:22:23 -0700

Hahaha . iPad has no camera but thinks it does

Ed

Neverending iPad thread: Dave&Friends

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:36:01 -0700

Good thoughts and good questions

Good Joe Hewitt read

More iPad thoughts.

iPad: DRM Storefront

Ed

still alive, still crazy!

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:19:58 -0700

hey all!
still in SWFL... almost went homeless... 2 nights in the toyota last week.
still jammin.

i happy, hope you are!

GO SAINTS!