Mac RumorsKing County Fishing Lakes in Washington State. I think I noted this already, but if you want to fish on Lake Washington, here’s the site to check out.
The other thing to go is to visit Lincs on Rainer Avenue. We never caught a single fish in Lake Washington until we visited them. They just know what lures work and what doesn’t and I’d listen to them.
Freedom to Tinker: What is a Speedbump?. Wow, this guy is sure smart. He’s a Professor at Princeton and I had the privilege of meeting him recently. Good notes on speedbumps as a way to slow down security and privacy issues. _hat tip to Ludwig for that_
a little ludwig goes a long way: Around the web this week. Ludwig has started the tradition of a weekly tour of the web. How useful to see how his mind works. Particularly good references to Ed Felton on security and also the Google file system.
Zagula spells trouble: Great Photographer. Hat tip to Zagula, Tim is a great guy and a good photographer if you need professional portraits and shots done.
MediaWiki development. Well, I loaded this up on “Tongfamily”:http://tongfamily.com/wiki/. Now the question is how to use it. Here are some notes:
* “User Guide”:http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User’s_Guide. Naturally, the documentation is itself in Wiki format, so here it is. The main interesting things are that you can edit any page you want. The default is there is no user permissions at all.
* “Markup Language”:http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User’s_Guide:_Editing_overview. Main advantage of a Wiki is that they have a specialized markup language that makes it easy to add things. It looks a little like Textile, but is not quite the same. For instance pound sign means do a number list and an asterisk means a bullet. The main difference is this idea of an internal Wiki link that you can forward link to with a pair of square brackets.
* “Strange things”:http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki_User’s_Guide:_Using_tables. The table syntax is just amazingly complicated. All this markup reminds me of the old days of LaTEX and nroff. I bet there are Wiki WYSIWYG editors now that I look at this.
_Hat tip to Darryl on this one_ Most of the equipment is overkill for our guys but I have been looking for a good catch net and came across at “baseballtips.com”:http://www.baseballtips.com/
X-bit labs – Articles – AMD Athlon 64 3400 CPU Review Overclocking. A good piece about the latest AMD processor. The net is that the design of the current chip (Newcastle) limits the actual clock frequency to less than 2.4GHz. The folks at Xbit think that this is due to the design of the chip. In this benchmark, they got the thing to 2.37GHz (215MHz FSB from 200MHz FSB).
This means that even with the ACP/PCI buses locked on the 754 pin Newcastle chips, you’ll maybe get to 2.4GHz before you run into trouble.
AMD’s Emma: $200 Internet PC :: AMDZone :: The real #1 source for AMD news, reviews, and info. Est 1998. . Wow, now that’s an amazing idea. That appliance, when attached to a keyboard and a screen and an Internet connection, could deliver Internet access for less than $200
Funny thing about this months computer recommendations is that they are all for components you can’t quite get yet. So, here is the dream system:
* AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 939 Socket. Also known as the Newcastle. It only has a 512MB cache, but promises to be around for longer. Not shipping yet, should be in May.
* Hitachi 7K400 400GB Hard Drive. The next step up in density. A dream for all that video editing. Will be expensive, but the density is awesome.
* Western Digital Raptor “WD740GD”:http://hometheaterspot.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=1733497. OK I lied, you can get this one as a really fast system disk.
* VIA KT800 based “motherboard”:http://www.amdboard.com/hammerchipsets.html. The newest one will use 1GHz Hyperchannel so be much faster. Want to make sure to get one that actually does lock AGP/PCI so you can overclock it well. Candidates are the update to the ASUS K8V and the Gigabyte GA-K8VT800 Pro.
* Double density DVD+RW. These will be 9GB per disk and fast too. Not sure when they are out though.
* 512MB x2 Corsair LLC ram.
Sudhian Forums – Shuttle SK83G. Shuttle announces their next Athlon 64 machine. Uses a variant of the VIA chipset that has integrated graphics. Not clear how well it overclocks. It uses the older 754 pin socket, so most discussion is about whether to wait for the upcoming 939 sockets that will come in May.
So, if you can hold on a few weeks and the 939s should be here.
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