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Winchester and nForce4 Ship
AnandTech says there news on a couple of fronts that are going to change recommendations quite a bit for this month, so if you haven’t bought wait a small tick AMD is announcing Winchester 90nm socket-939 low-end Athlon 64s! That is pretty amazing. According to the “board”:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1400299&enterthread=y newegg.com has them for $170 for the 3000+…
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Blackberrys and XP SP2 don't get along
Support – Protocol Error appears and BlackBerry Desktop Manager closes unexpectedly on a computer running Windows XP Service Pack 2. Heck, folks say going to SP2 should work. I’m sure glad I just have one machine there. There are certainly issues with it and here’s another gotcha. There is a very arcane thing you have…
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Blackberry T-mobile Web Client
It is nearly impossible to navigate through the t-mobile UI to find the web client interface for the blackberry. I don’t know who designed the interface but it is terrible. Here’s the link to the “Web Client”:http://www.t-mobile.com/bwc/ if you need it.
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Full Spectrum Warrior
It’s Full Spectrum Warrior Madness!. There is a God. Full Spectrum Warrior is the Xbox game based on a real simulation sponsored by the US Army. Its finally out now and Gogamer has it on sale for 20% off even. Also “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com points out Call of Duty United Offensive is also now available. Wow, get…
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A9 Traffic and Google Page Ranks Compared
A9 has a different scheme for page rank. Amazon actually lists all the sites in the same Amazon catalog. Pretty clever. They seem to be using Alexa to do this, so it isn’t really a ranking like google that is used to figure out what sorts to the top (the real use of such rankings).…
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A9
Zagula has been raving about this toolbar. I’ve also been bad and not been looking at other people’s blogs. As you can see most time I’ve had has been spent building computers and doing computer geek stuff, but I’m getting back to the basic blogging job. So A9 is cool and I hear ebay is…
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Elite Scanning Tips
OK, I’ve been putzing with this film scanner for a while now. I have to say the Minolta site is just awful in terms of finding things and this is one case where google queries don’t work well at all. So here is what I’ve found out: h4. Scanning software There are three basic choices.…
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Colorvision Spyder2
Colorvision Spyder and Optical Review. More reviews of this little gadget. As I’ve been doing some printing, they are right. The monitor color and the printer color doesn’t really match. The original Spyder got good reviews. “Spyder2”:http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/news/articles/story_1813.html. They are just now launching the Spyder2 ($179 list) and the Spyder2Pro ($279). The sensor is upgraded. The…
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Maxthon is great
Maxthon Plugins @ TaraPages.com. Been trying a bunch of alternative web browsers. IE progress has just been so slow. Maxthon seems to be the best of both worlds, its IE compatible since it uses the IE engine, but it has all the features like tabbed browsing, popup blocking, mouse gestures and plugins that I love…
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SR-520 BRIDGE OPPORTUNITY SLIPPING AWAY
_A quote from “Cascade Bikes”:http://cascade.org_ The good news is that no matter how many lanes wide, the new SR-520 bridge will make room for bicyclists and pedestrians. However, if a few noisy NIMBY’s get their way, getting to the bridge from the south won’t get any easier. For years, the State and other stakeholders have…
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Kryptonite locks are not…
I have one of these Kyptonite locks for my bike. How depressing when this happens. Here net is from “Kryptonite”:http://kryptonitelock.com Kryptonite U-locks with a typical cylinder lock can be opened in seconds with a common BIC plastic pen. Videos of how to do it have been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times from websites in…
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A great tutorial on monitor calibration
Monitor calibration and gamma. I printed my first photos via the Minolta Dimage 5400 through Photoshop and then Canon i9900. Thought I did job on color calibration, but the printout was way more washed out than the screen. Sigh. The above is a good site that explains how to do color calibration. I thought I…
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Trip Advisor
TripAdvisor. An interesting site. Was acquired by Expedia.com. What they did a great job getting content and then getting readers. It shows what you can do when you have a focused audience.
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Red River Paper and ICCs
Inkjet Paper by Red River Paper. I’ve noticed folks on Nikonians and other enthusiast sites like to use Red River for their paper. They are a specialist site and even include ICC files so that when you print to their paper, you can use the exactly correct color matching. They have a nice “tutorial”:http://redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/aug04.htm that…
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Gamma and Other information
Gamma. This whole monitor calibration thing is very confusing. You essentially have to get the calibration right on your scanner, your monitor and your printer so that colors don’t shift and so you don’t lose anything. Adobe Photoshop includes an Adobe Gamma calibrator for this purpose. You can also buy a device that is like…
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Blue Sky in Adobe Photoshop
Lonestardigital.com – Better Blue Sky (Photoshop Tutorial). I’m learning how to use Photoshop Elements now that I’ve got my 35mm scanner working. Wow, its a hard product to learn. Very powerful, but very difficult. Current thing I’m learning is how to make the sky more blue. I wish I had used a polarizing filter on…
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PC Recommendations
Well, its somehow the end of September, as you can see I’ve been experimenting with PCs like crazy. Here once again is the PC buyers guide based on the AnandTech guides that I find so helpful. The main modifications have to do with learnings from “SilentPCReview”:http://silentpcreview.com to make the machine decently quiet. h4. High end…
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Mobile Athlon Alternative
Right now the chip to get is the “mobile Athlon”:http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=1321894 as this great thread describes. There are four flavors so it is very confusing. There are: * 1.2V Mobile Athlon 2800+ and 2700+ running at 1.8 and 1.6GHz Newcastle respectively. These both have 512KB cache and should overclock OK to 2.4-2.5GHz. The 2800+ looks like…
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Athlon vs. Intel Power Consumption
Athlon 64 for Quiet Power :: SilentPCReview.com. A good review of the power consumption differences. Has a great slide on actual power consumption of CPUs: !http://www.silentpcreview.com/files/images/column/seti.png!:http://www.silentpcreview.com/article169-page3.html Basically shows that the new Intel Prescotts and Northwoods really burn up lots of power. Quite a reverse from the Athlon XP which was way hot and the original…
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Chaintech Quieting Continues
Now that I’ve figured out how to get the Chaintech to overclock, the next question is how to get the thing to run more quietly. The stock fan that comes with the Athlon 64 is incredibly loud. Runs at 3500 rpm and sounds like a vacuum cleaner. The Chaintech unfortunately doesn’t support voltage control from…
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Blackberry Desktop Manager doesn't like Outlook 2003
Forums – Desktop Manager crash. Sigh, I still get crashes from my Blackberry even with the latest software on the 7230 (v3.7) and the latest desktop manager (3.6.2.29). I get messages like uncaught exception and yesterday while dialing the phone kept crashing and going through a 5 minute reboot and reverify cycle. Arrgh. Sigh. Others…
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Elipse is cool
Eclipse.org Main Page. Pretty amazing IDE that the folks at “mFoundry”:http://mfoundry.com are using. Its amazing. This was an IBM project that they then made open source.
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Old Product screenshots
windows history. Beenlooking for old products shots. Amazing what is on the web. Here are old Windows boxes and screenshots.
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Minolta Dimage 5400 Software
Now that the Chaintech is essentially running, its time to start doing some editing with it. Main issue is to get my film scanner working. There is a dedicated Dimage 5400 “marketing”:http://konicaminolta.com/products/consumer/digital_camera/dimage/ that doesn’t link to any support site. Arrghh. I just hate these companies without integrated website. Instead, you have to go to the…
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ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Overclocking
Now that I’ve got the Chaintech and the Athlon 64 about in the right range. That is maximum memory overclock to DDR500 and maximum CPU overclock to about 2.45GHz, the next question is how fast can the Radeon 9800 Pro go. First some data on the Internet: * “Extremeoverclocking.com”:http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/video/Sapphire_9800Pro_4.html. My ATI Radeon Pro comes stock…
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XP SP2 Problems
Got my first call from someone that has SP2 causing them problems. Actually I’ve heard of two other folks with issues. Some folks think 1 in 10 will have problems with an upgrade, so beware. At my house, I have one SP2 machine that I installed as a greenfield installation, so I’m experimenting myself. Here…
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Brother HL-5170DN Truetype quirk
Brother HL-5170DN. Been using the printer. It is great with both duplex and network port. Main thing not covered in the FAQ is that it doesn’t do TrueType correctly, so printouts over the network fail. For some reason the default is to load TrueType fonts as graphics. This is fine at 300 dpi, but at…
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Flash Reader
Newegg.com – WOET TSERN ICR-A2 Beige Card Reader/Adapter. For $15 how wrong can you go. This thing lets you read just about any type of flash plus it has a USB 2.0 port as well. Great for upgrading a case that doesn’t have a flash reader.
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Crucial Ballistix Overclocking
I was able to get the Crucials to run to 217MHz before I had stability problems. This was running at the very aggressive 2-2-2-10 settings Anandtech recommends for Athlon 64. To get farther, you have to relax timings, I was curious to see what others folks experience was. The Crucial Ballistix 512MB Low Latency PC3200…
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Gigantic Fan
Thermalright XP-120: 1st 120mm fan CPU heatsink :: SilentPCReview.com. Well, if you really want to be cool and quiet get this monster. This is absolutely massive heat sink that can take a gigantic 120mm (that’s about five inch wide fan). “Newegg”:http://www.newegg.com/app/SearchProductResult.asp?DEPA=0 carries it for about $65. It is expensive, but worth it for the quite…