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February 2006 Archives
Hamachi : Stay Connected. A VPN application that is freeware. Folks on the Network Magic forums like it.
squeetus: books. Amazingly, this is a book that everyone in the family loved. We listened to it for six non-stop hours. Shannon Hale's first effort and it is delightful. Ani is a little slow, but who wouldn't love the ending. It is a retelling of a Grimm's fairy tale and is a classic really.
Talk about a strange problem. Today, everything got really slow. Called up Comcast and they pointed out a nifty tool called the Speakeasy - Speed Test. You plug a machine directly into their cable modem and it measure the real speed from a server. Here in Seattle, I got pretty close to the theoretical maximum (I've always thought that I was on a lonely segment and this confirms it). Got 5.1 MBps (wow!) and 355Kbps upload which compares with the 6MBps and the 384Kbps that they advertise.
Went a step farther and tried it via my D-link 624 router. Everything hanging but lights were OK. When I tried to use the web interface, the box was looking for a firmware reload! Wow, must have been too tough on the little guy. Anyway, fortunately had version 270 on a machine and the firmware reload took. As an aside, interesting to see the overhead that the router box adds. Got 4.4Mbps and 36Kbps upload, so there is definitely overhead in the router and then sometimes got 1Mbps and about the same for the upload, so tells me that all is not well with the router. I then started turning off PCs and it looks like I have the dreaded too many TCP/IP connections and this slows the router down.
Taking out all the machines and starting again, I got back to 7Mbps and 354Kbps, so the diagnostic is to:
- Direct connect one machine directly to the cable modem
- Run the Speakeasy speedtest
- Connect the router
- Check to make sure the web interface and the router is OK
- Run Speakeasy speed test again
- Reboot machines behind the router until you find the one that is slowing things down
SECURITY - MCAFEE SECURITY MANAGER - Comcast.net. This has got to be the worst promoted thing in the world, but bascially you get the whole Mcafee suite of firewall, antivirus and other things are free if you have a comcast account and an email. Check it out. A nice value.
Get there before its all gone...
- Review of: Elliot Bay Book Company
- By: Rich Tong
- Rating:
- Read review on Judy's Book.
What a terrific place. A traditional locally owned bookstore. I highly recommend you frequent it before it really disappears. It like Powell's in Portland are really unique institutions. The cafe downstairs is also wonderful and on a cold winter day, nothing quite beats buying a book and then heading for a coffee downstairs. Truth be told, I hit the Bailey Coy on Capital Hill much more often because it is closer and parking is easier, but if you downtown, Elliot Bay isthe place to be!
It is the antidote to Barnes & Noble in the same way that Greenlake Cycles is the antidote to Performance Cycle or the Bert's Apple is to Safeway.
It isn't the best, but it is convenient
- Review of: Zao Noodle Bar
- By: Rich Tong
- Rating:
- Read review on Judy's Book.
OK, as I mentioned to Katherine, it ain't the best place, but if you've got screaming kids and it isn't crowded (nearly never) it isn't too bad. After all, it is hard to ruin noodles, although truthfully, they do overcook them.
I'll have to give China Village a try. Or go to Blue C Sushi close by.
Tong Family Blog: Sun Peaks Archives. Well we are here again at Sun Peaks and two years later, there are still no real reviews of restaurants. Heard that the steakhouse is busy and slow, but to recap the ones that are still open as listed in the official Sun Peaks website which doesn't seem quite right. We ended up deciding to try Bella Italia, Mantles and Baggio's. Baggio's is now closed and replaced by Bella Italias, so we'll give that a try.
For lunch...
- Bottom's Bar & Grill. Canadian Pub Style. (250) 578-0013. I wouldn't go there for dinner, but get there at 1130AM for lunch and beat the rush. It is ski in so that's the big thing. Chicken strips are great for kids and they get bottomless sodas, so a good place to go. The chili is OK and the chicken burgers are decent.
- Masa's. This place is much larger, but still you should get ther early. Main issue is that the food is just OK. The rice bowls are OK. .
And for dinner which is very crowded on these long weeks, in order I'd recommend:
- Bella Italia. Enjoy fine italien cuisine in the heart of Sun Peaks Village. We went there three years ago, but it was terrific then. 250.578.7316 This is new and I think it is the replacement for Baggio's which was a terrific place.
- Mantles. In the Delta Sun Peaks, it can be very slow, so go early like 5PM as they are quite slow in the kitchen.
- Mountain High Pizza. Pizzeria. The only one pizza place and the best is their take-n-bake. If you have a cpndo, its an easy thing for a party. You can get the to-be-baked pizza ahead of time. They don't put too much sauce on and the chess is good. The pepparoni is the larger less salty kind. (250) 578-7275
- Powder Hounds. Continental. Quite slow, but not crowded if you get there promptly at 5PM. (250) 578-0014
- Mackers. 250-578-7854. Haven't been there, but a UK Club recommends it and Toro's below. But it doesn't take reservations so beware.
- Toro's. Don't know if this is still around, but quite good for Asian. 250-578-7870. We haven't been there but has been recommends
Finally a little lower are:
- Steakhouse at Sun Peaks Lodge. Heard from some folks it is slow if you get there at 6PM.
Then there are the many pubs:
- Mantles Restaurant & Bar. Casual/Upscale Pacific Northwest Cuisine. (250) 578-6000.
- Masa's Bar & Grill. Canadian Pub Food & Dining. (250) 578-5434.
- Macker's Bistro & Bar Casual/Canadian (250) 578-7894
Finally a place for grownups who aren't too nungry but defnitely not for kids.
- Servus on Creekside. A touch of European Cuisine.
Pacific Northwest and European cuisine in a charming intimate atmosphere..This place is very slow. Only for grownups, not kids. (250) 578-7383 - Mackdaddy's. Go dancing at the club :-)
Iv'e ordered a bunch of Chinese language programs and texts. Wow, things have gotten wayt better than the old days of just learning from a book. Here are some of the tools and an early review:
- Rosetta Stone. This is the most expensive package at $300+ for Level 1 and 2. The program is really nice. Basically, it is a huge Flash applciation that drills you. Takes quite a while and the main issue is retention. Although I love playing a computer game for hours, I do think that the act of actually writing things down helps. So I've done two lessons so far and I think that it is really great for conversational, but not really for writing. Also, I can't for the life of me figure out how writing input works. No documentation at all since the manual and help appears to be generic. It is not clear how to enter pinyin or how to enter simplified Chinese. It is also heavily copy protected, so I can only imagine what happens if the disk gets corrupted. I think you are out $300. Reminds me of the old days of Lotus 1-2-3 key disks.
- Schamers Vocabulary. Recommended on Amazon, I got all the top rated texts. This vocabularly thing is very valuable since it is practical. I do wish Rosetta started with more than here is a cat and here is a dog and here is an elephant. If you are going to teach the basics, we might as well be in the 21st century. Schamers does this, but is just a text, so back to the old school
- Yong Ho's Intermediate Chinese. His Beginners Chinese is 2-3 week backorder on Amazon. This like Schamers is more useful in vocabulary. It also has an audio CD, so you can listen to it in your car or if you rip it on your iPod.
- Clavis Sinica
Do you need an agent, it depends
- By: Rich Tong
- Category: Opinion > Other
- Read the article on Judy's Book.
First off, we've always used an agent for a pretty simple reason, most of the time when we've been buying, it has been into neighborhoods we haven't known that well. While 3% off the top can seem like a lot, if you have a good agent, you can at least know how you are doing value wise. The key is finding a good one. On the other hand, if you are just buying one of 200 condos in a large building, things are less clear.
In our experience, the best agents are those who have been in business a long time and really know their neighborhoods and most importantly the seller psychology. While sites like Zillow are great and you can definitely do it yourself, the process is amazingly complex and you can end up in a confused state.
Still, I would say, if you really know the area where you are, you've bought houses before (uh oh, I think you are first time), I kind of think of a real estate agent, a good one as insurance.
Second point is that it pays to know who the good listing agents are. They are folks who find the high quality homes. Wendy Lister (no pun intended) on the east side, Barbara (I forgot her name, but will remember shortly) in Madison Park and Anne Dover at the very high end in Seattle are some folks who are well known and have a reputation to protect.
Great place and great eggs
- Review of: High Spot Cafe
- By: Rich Tong
- Rating:
- Read review on Judy's Book.
It's a little out of the way, but an institution on Madrona. I'm surprised I can't find it with Judy's Book, but here it is on A9 Maps http://maps.a9.com/?mpref=1&mscl=5500,55000&mimg=914aadcf0ce6fffe,1&mstr=34th%20Ave&ypLoc=1000%20Boren%20Ave%2C%20Seattle%2C%20WA%2098104&mll=47.61289954238346,-122.28932241455185,47.60773871693669,-122.29697353730622,47.613178419414425,-122.28932241455185 and here it is with google local
http://www.google.com/local?hl=en&hs=fHz&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=hi-spot+cafe&near=Seattle,+WA&sa=X&oi=locald&radius=0.0&latlng=47606389,-122330833,5377379225633446724
An awesome spot, no pun intended, the eggs are particularly good. Try the baked eggs and the cinnamon rolls are superb.
They rival $1,000 speakers
- Review of: Etymotic 6i
- By: Rich Tong
- Rating:
- Read review on Judy's Book.
Well, on the going deaf part, I think the main thing is don't turn your iPod up to deafening levels. Seriously, its really about not blasting them. The easiest way to do this is to watch and make sure you don't turn it up too high *and* to get headphones that deaden the sound.
Etymotic at http://etymotic.com is a little bit of a niche brand, but audiophiles swear by it. There is a great site called http://headroom.com that explains all this. YOu can get these by the way at http://discountheadphones.com.
The 6i are expensive at about $100, but they are amazing in terms of sound quality. If you really go crazy, the $200 Etymotic 4's have beat $20,000 speakers in blind hearing tests.
I actually got both of these and can say folks are usually incredibly amazed. Why is this? Well, Etymotic is actually a hearing aid company, so the actual speakers fit inside your ears. Makes them phenomenal for working out at the gym or on an airplane. They reduce the noise by 20dB (Ask Jeff what that means, but it is essentailly 99% quiet). And they are super tiny as well and not bulky like the big Bose ones.
!<http://www.2006state.chesschampions.org/images/tshirt2.JPG State Chess Tournament. The Washington State Tournament for K-6 is coming up. It's in the tri-cities this year. We almost forgot to sign up and it is a little hard to find, but the link is at 2006state.chesschampions.org and you can register hopefully quite soon. They say hopefully by the March 15th, so stay close to this.
Also, there is a cool t-shirt and there aren't any tables, so make sure to bring a card table or something. It will be warm, so bring sun screen and a ball to play with. The facility is a very modern convention center. Looks nice!
It's been cooking for a while, but Qiming Ventures is the head geek's latest revenge of the nerds. I've had a terrific change to meet wonderful folks in China. Duane, Edward and Gary are the best. We are in the middle of setting it up, but basically, we are raising $200M to invest in new China companies. A great chance to learn from some of the best about investing, entrepreneurship and China too!
Hey my friends Andy and Chris over at Judy's Book have been hard at work. A good example of how web companies can now do a facelift without changing their whole database. Its a site that's all about local search and reviews. I've got 160 reviews over there :")
Judy's book blog FAQ for MovableType
- By: Rich Tong
- Category: Opinion > Other
- Read the article on Judy's Book.
OK, just a few notes on this for folks who are doing it. First, if you have MovableType 3.2, they added this strange thing called API Password mainly because of spam attacks, so make sure to fill it in with something reasonable as it is a random number generator.
Judysbook code that goes to MovableType will fail somethings with a message something like, "Underlying connection lost" so you have to hit retry.
The biggest surprise though is that if you have 160 entries like me, there is no way to just export all of them. Instead there is an optional radio button that frankly should be checked all the time.
In terms of actual use:
OK, I got this working. I have seen three problems so far:
1. Judy's book can time out and think a post didn't work, but it did, so I usually get two posts for the price of one at on http://tongfamily.com. So you should make sure to check your actual website when it fails. There looks like some differences of opinion between judysbook and tongfamily.com on timeouts would be my guess.
2. The actual HTML sent doesn't have the right carriage returns, it looks like just one massive string when you try to edit it in MovableType is a impossible.
Movable Type Knowledge Base: Invalid Login with Third Party Clients. Hey I am now using Judy's Book for doing all reviews. So I needed to use the so called third party client API. Beware, that if you moved to MovableType 3.2, there is now a new parameter called the API Password which is used for this. It is not the same as the web login.
So you have to set this in profile menu of MovableType and then change it.
Well, I seem to have a growing list of Windows problems that makes me want to reinstall, but just to list:
- First, one machine just blue screen with a Stop 0x00000024. This is an error in ntfs.sys. Sounds like I'd better check the file system. A search reveals that this could be a virus, bad hard disk or even a badly behaved application that opens too many file handles. Sigh. I'll check the disk first
- My laptop has lost the running applications in the toolbar. I've grown to love this feature. Can still see running applications with CTRL-TAB, but I can't figure out how to reset. It was having lots of trouble with toolbars before. Showing two toolbars at once. No obvious fixes from google searches.
- ATI Control Center won't install. On another machine with an ATI9800, the drivers install fine, but the control center fails with an invalid installation image. I think something is really trashed. I've used the delete ATI setting stuff but nothing seems to help.
SKI Magazine ~ What to Wear: Goggles. Both Alex and my goggles are blown. So time to figure out a set that would last longer. SKI magazine has a good overview of good ones, but it is is in a hard to figure out format with a slide show, so here are some notes from it and other reviews:
- Scott Motive $65. Not the fanciest, but tried and true.
- K2 Aura. $80. Has a fancy Hi/LO Venting system with extra vents to pull out air. This model is designed for women.
- Zeal Detonator. $150. These are high tech so they are polarized and photochormatic so they lighten and darken automatically. Cool, but expensive
- Uvex Corus. $109. Very popular. The Crystal is the woman's version.
- Briko Eyecon. $90. Vented, anti-fog double lens and lots of venting
- Scott Radiant. $75. For small faces, it is basic but very comfortable. Good for Alex probably.
- Carrera Conan Vison T. $75. Has a cool toric lens for better peripheral vision. It's midsized and anti-fog, anti-scratch
- Bolle Zoltar. $90. High style. Has vents and dual lenses.
- Oakley Wisdom. $140. Super range of vision thanks to large lense, dual anti-fog lenses. Super high quality
- Smith Transit. $75. Smaller faces with anit-fog coating and high quality lens
- Market Striker. $85. Strongest lens out there uses special stuff they use for bulletproof windows.
- Smith Prodigy. $95 Spherical lenses for clarity and anti-fog too
SKI Magazine ~ How to Pack Like a Pro. A great piece about packing like a pro. There is a guy named Doug Dyment from onebag.com who is the expert. His main points are that you can rent great skis, but you want to carry your boots.
Also that your boots count as one carry-on, so most folks allow another personal article which is how you sneak on with just a carryon. He likes by the way something called the Tough Traveler Tri-Zip #4032 which is just 20×13×9 for your clothes. A great suggestion is to wear your ski jacket and your heaviest clothes like you fleece and so forth so you can just stuff it into the thing above.
It's hard to find this manual. It is not on the original textile site, but Brad has good documentation. I've found this to be a super useful HTML shorthand. MovableType and Wordpress both have filters for it.
Pendragon - Journal of an Adventure Through Time and Space / Official Website / D.J. MacHale. Another worthy kids series along with the Artemis Fowl collection which this reminds me of quite a bit because it features smart kids as opposed to not very bright ones. Ones with a sense of humor. I just love the back and forth across the worlds. Anyway, Book 1 was good, we'll have to see about the rest.
Chess.FM - Internet Chess Radio. Calvin reminds me that there are some really great online talk shows about chess. One of our favorite topics. Listen to it online. It is a great educational thing where there is audio annotation to a shockwave chess board.
If you have a valuable CD, you might want a way to back it up. We just paid $300 !!! for a program and there is no backup strategy. Here is what you have to do:
- Copy Protected Games - THE DAEMONS HOME. Determine what the copy protection is exactly with A-Ray scanner. You install the program and then do a Scan Directory, it will tell you for instance if SafeDisc 4.00 is installed.
- Backup your CD. Most folks use Alcohol 120% or CloneCD for this. Alcohol 120% handles more types of anti-backup schemes and with these programs you can either create a backup CD or an image you can mount
- With the image made, you then mount them as virtual drives. There is an issue in that many programs won't recognize virtual drives correctly.
Restaurant Reviews :: Shanghai Expat :: Living and Working in Shanghai. This is one of those restaurants where the translation really doesn't come through. But, see Qiaojiangnan.com for a list of restaurants in this sichuan chain.
We've only been to the Shanghai one at the Superbrands mall. It has just an awesome view of the Bund and the menu is terrific. As shanghaiexpat.com says, it is good quality and the view is good as well.
The best thing for big parties is to get one of the rooms. The service is terrific and if you are lucky you can have King Cobra fried up and other great delights.
SmartShanghai.com | M on the Bund - reviews, pictures, map - 7F, 5 on the Bund, Shanghai. Well this restaurant has been open since 1999, so it is an "old timer" as far as fine Shanghai restaurants are concerned.
It serve Mediterranean cuisine which in China means everything from Greek to Italian to Egyptian.
The main attraction is the view. While I'm sure it is great at lunch, at night, the view of the Pudong nightscape is amazing. It is one of the few places in the world where you can watch 20 story high television. Reminds me of Blade Runner more than anything else.
The gnocchi by the way is just fantastic and creamy and not rubbery like lots of folks like to make it. It is on par with Tulio for that. I had a seasoned lamb which was also very good.
Afterwards, take a walk on the Bund or for real fun, go across the Huangpu River in the touristy underground train thing.
Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai Jade on 36. Oh my goodness, thanks to Gary and Yucca, we've been astonished by the quality and excitment of dining in Shanghai.
Jade is in the brand new tower of the Shangri-La (itself one of the top hotels in Shanghai and it competes with the Grand Hyatt for being the best on the Pudong side).
In this case, there is an amazing thing that you can do. Go at about 5PM or near sunset and head for the bar. They have some terrific drinks and the door is worth the price of admission. It is a gigantic steel and iron thing that looks like it comes out of a James Bond movie. Then you can see an incredible view of the Bund. The only problem is that Tower 1 does get in the way (the lights are too bright), but you'll get the idea.
At about 7PM, you can belly over to the main restaurant. You can book a private room with a terrific view of the new Pudong buildings or in the main area you can see the Bund the historic part of Shanghai now turned into a Tokyo light landscape.
The food is just amazingly inventive and interesting. For instance, we had pate that was seared with Apple caramel with a Champagne foam. Amazing flavors. Their most famous dish are "french fries" which are really incredibly light potatoes and a tomato sorbet. Yes, it really works. Reminds me of the inventiveness and the determination to take risks is what eating should be all about. It is so much like The Herbfarm
So if you are in Shanghai, check it out. It is probably the best dining experience I've ever had. It is not for folks who want steak and potatoes, but for folks willing to try something new and different.
Apple - Batteries - iPod. A good section on iPod battery life. Basically it says that an iPod can go through 400 cycles before you get to 80% of maximum battery life. All batteries have a life and these definitely do.
A cycle by the way is a complete all the way and all the way down. It is a little confusing, but if you listen half way down and then recharge and then go down half way, that is a full cycle. Also mentions that you should cycle through the battery at least once because the battery is chemical thing and needs to be cycled.
Takes by the way 2 hours to charge to 80% of capacity and then another 2 hours to trickle charge to 100%. Net, net, when you buy a used iPod, you may have something that won't go as long as the 20 hours for the Ipod, 14 hours for the nano and 12 hours for the Shuffle (personally I've never gotten anywhere close to any of these figures, but maybe others are luckier).
Apple - iPod nano. Wow, Apple just cut their prices again. With a 1GB Nano so cheap at $150 list, there ain't much reason for a Shuffle IMHO.
The screen is great, but there you do need to have a nice case for this (I currently love Invisible Shield as the simplest way to protect it).
This is now at the level that every well-to-do kid could get one.
Rosetta Stone: Support - Knowledge Base. Got this program to learn Chinese as some folks said it is the best and since it costs a fortune, maybe it will even work for me. However, it does have a bug if you use Asian fonts, which is kinda sad given it is to learn Chinese.
The Rosetta Stone Application CD-ROM has been installed, but when the language CD-ROM is started there is no picutres or sound.
Cause:
This can be caused by one of two reasons:
1) You have an illegal copy of Rosetta Stone
2) You have an Asian operating system or you have a program on your computer that uses an Asian character set. If this is the case, please utilize the following workaround.
Resolution:
A) Access the Control Panel by clicking Start -> Control Panel
B) Open "Regional and Language Settings"
C) Click on the "Advanced" tab.
D) Check the language listed in the drop-down list at the top of the window. If "English" is not the language listed, change it to "English".
E) Click OK.
F) Allow the computer to restart when prompted.
Note: If you need to change this setting in order to use another program, you will need to change this setting back to English and restart your computer before you will be able to use Rosetta Stone.
Additional Tech Notes:
This is scheduled to be fixed in next version, scheduled for release in Spring of 2006.
Well, so what if you actually wanted to ride your bicycle in Shanghai, a city of 18M plus people. Most folks take a day trip and go from there. Some resources noted at Moveandstay.com include Bohdi Bikes which sponsors various trips
Shanghai Bicycle Club
Description: Organizes regular weekend ridings and biking activities in great Shanghai area. Supplies quality mountian bikes, sporting accessories, equipment rental, bike maintenance. Actively Pursuing Enlightenment
Address: Rm 406, No 59, Alley 710, Dingxi Rd, Shanghai
URL: www.bohdi.com.cn
Phone: (86-21) 3226-0000, (86)139-1875-3119
Email: bohdi@bohdi.com.cn
There is an old piece in Shanghai Star about Wang Shaohua who does mountain biking
Wolf's Mountain Bike Club
Description: Organizes weekend bike trips out of Shanghai.
Address: Shanghai, China
Phone: 13801953000
Performance Bike - Home for all your cycling needs!. There is a special if you used to be a "Supergo"http://supergo.com lover. Enter the code 66298151 and get 10% off.
It is kind of sad to see the various discount outlets and other online places dry up on the web. Right now, Excelsports and Colorado Cyclists are probably the two best. I used
Overclocking, Stress Testing & Benchmarking Tools - AMD Processor Support Forum. A good review of stress tests. I use Prime95 mainly.
Most notably, Stress Prime 2004 uses the same code but has a better user interface.
AnandTech: Investigations into Athlon X2 Overclocking. This is a wonderful overclocking guide particularly since it uses essentially the same board and cpu that I have.
The net result is that it has a nice chart showing where your voltage should be:
CPU Clock CPU Voltage CPU Temp Chipse Voltage Chipset Temp System Power Draw
2000 1.300 34.00 1.50 38 248
2100 1.350 36.00 1.50 38 260
2200 1.350 36.00 1.50 38 262
2300 1.350 39.00 1.50 38 266
2400 1.400 44.00 1.60 39 275
2500 1.475 47.00 1.60 39 290
2600 1.500 48.00 1.60 41 298
2700 1.700 72.00 1.70 47 369
Net, net, at 2500MHz, you should be at roughtly 1.475V and the Chipset voltage should be 1.6V, so slightly up from stock.
It also shows that at about 2.5-2.6GHz, that's your sweet spot. Most chips can't get to 2.7GHz. And also from the data, it isn't clear how really stable this was.
Well, I've been busy on other sites posting things. Eventually, all my local reviews will end up on Judy's Book and then will get pumped here.
In the mean time, I've got about 110 entries on different restaurants, hotels and other places that I've been up there. If you need some help in Seattle, its a good place to check out.
Overclocker Cafe - OCZ EL DDR PC4000 Gold Edition 2GB Kit. I got this memory mainly because I just couldn't see paying $400 for the higher end Platinum. Also, there was a $23 rebate from newegg.com, so couldn't resist a $200 2GB kit. It won't go as fast, but let's a least make it go as fast as possible.
OCZ Technology has chosen some very nice Samsung chips to be the heart of their PC4000 (DDR500) package. The K4H510838C-UCCC chip's full data dump is available here at the Samsung website. These chips are actually designed to run DDR400 at CAS 3, tRCD 3, tRP 3 settings. By loosening up the timings, OCZ is able to offer their unit at DDR500. I'd say they are fairly confident in their product because it comes with a lifetime warranty that is valid even with the memory being over volted up to VDIMM of 3V ± 5%
As UCCC chips, they are different from the Infineon CE-6 chips used in the OCZ PC4000 Platinum EB, so will overclock differently. These can run stably at 3-3-2-8 up to 270MHz FSB. They didn't get much overclock above 250MHz FSB, in fact got to just 254MHz when running at the default 3-4-4-8 1T timing at 2.8V.
Insanetek found that the actually date code of the memory makes a difference. With the date code of 528, he got to timings of 225MHz at 2.5-3-3-7 1T 2.8V, 230MHz at 2.5-4-3-7 1T at 2.8V. Maximum was 265MHz at 3-4-3-8 at 1T 2.8V. So that is quite a bit better probably because of the later chip date
PCStats.com found the same thing, with 2.5-3-3-6 timings, they only got to 212MHz FSB at 2.8V and with the default 3-4-4-8 timings, they got to just 253MHz at 2.8V.
They also have BTW, a good list of fast overclocking with not surprisingly the OCZ PC4000 Gold DC VX at 2-2-2-4 running at 263MHz FSB (wow!).
Dining Guide for iPod (Seattle Weekly). I wish this were a WAP site too, but you can download the Seattle dining guide as notes on your iPod. Check it out!