It finally arrived! Designing interfaces
from Jenifer Tidwell. Did have time just to very quickly look through, but looks definitely promising … when, why and how to use different methods of displaying, organizing and interacting with data. Stay tuned for a review later.
Guys at ESO created a monstrous 9000×8000 pixels image of same kind of huge object – Tarantula nebula. Tarantula is 160 000 light years far, but has 1 700 light years in diameter! Check out zoomable version rather then original 211Mb monstrous TIFF.
A few posts before I mentioned “green” computing and wished to appear more and more. There is a Guide to green electronics from Greenpeace. Unfortunately it shows very bad score for one of my favorite electronics makers – Apple, see following score chart …
Fortunately Sony Ericsson and Dell whose products I also use are much better. Anyway there is already Green my Apple campaign to push Apple be more environment friendly. So take action and …
… to get your Apple green!
I was glad again to see excellent performance of DSPAM spam filter. Although the documentation says I should train the filter with 300 spams to have best performance and I was prepared to do so, 42 messages were quite enough as I don’t receive almost any spam, because everything is stopped by dspam. And I got no false positive as well. See those impressive stats yourself:
DSPAM rules!
VIA launched Clean computing initiative by releasing first component to “Carbon free system” – carbon free C7 CPU. Hope other will follow and we’ll see these logos more and more.
At last! Apple introduced new 24″ iMac with nVidia GeForce graphics cards. The wait for ultimate desktop machine (small but powerful, good looking, capable to run Linux with OpenGL acceleration, with as least wires as possible) is over. Now least popular task to get the money begins …
Do you know how web pages die ? The process is: a decay with no updates for a long time, new version maintained by somebody else, complete abandoning, deletion from server with having no backup, server shutdown and then …. then there is only virtual copy in the web archive with broken links missing images etc. Just like UFO – our old-school Quake 2 clan.
And then … then the page dies …
WTF! IBM and Georgia Tech have demonstrated a 500 GHz Silicon-germanium (SiGe) chip, operating at 4.5 Kelvins. The chip was fabricated by IBM on 200mm wafers, and, at room temperature, the circuits operated at approximately 350 GHz. More info here.
I couldn’t watch the match from world championship yesterday as czech team played poorly. So I decided to play some computer game … and the only one I have installed on my brand new Ubuntupowered system was Doom3. I played with some borrowed hardware a long time ago and stopped it because of terrible performance. But yesterday I lowered the resolution to 640×480, turned off the details and keep on playing even if I had something like 10fps many times.
I went through Delta Complex and Central processing to Site 3 and Caves and it was in-fucking-credible to play those dark tunnels, industrial sites and ancient caves. I finished the game … but I heard something about strange signals coming from Mars :)
