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Date: 11/1/2005 | I miss the dual CPU days so much I'm researching my options for getting into back into it again. My last dual system for a dual celeron 400, which was built to run BeOS. It was a sweet system for it's time, ran Windows 2k really well to boot. But time marched on and I got given an Althon 1.4ghz by my best bud. Which works fine, but it's only 1 CPU, and I'm doing a lot of video crunching these days, and it takes forever.
Now after my previous rant about the sad state of AMD64 dual motherboards and their prohibitive cost I've done some more reading and well, they need "Registererd" RAM don't they. For the uninitiated this "special" type of RAM has extra registers that buffer the bits in and out of the RAM chips, making sure they arrive safely. This allows the system to scale up to 16 sticks of RAM safely. However it does run slower. Now AMD64 CPU's are frickin' cool. Lots of the stuff we love, new instruction set, more registers -> same code runs faster, better memory bandwidth etc etc. All good reasons to run AMD64, but the motherboards are like 50% more expensive that the equivilent Intel board and the Registered RAM is more expensive and slower. The chips themselves are same-ish in price, but I havn't been able to find any direct comparisions in speed of the AMD64 (socket 940 + 939) and Xeon CPU's at the various clock speeds I'm looking at. Mind you all this is still cheaper than a dual G5: A$ 3,199.00. I priced out a dual Opteron 242 system at $2,642 and a single Althon 64 3500+ system at $1,825. Having to start from scratch with PCI-X cards doesn't help either and both systems are sans monitor or peripherals which I already have. |
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| Howl's Moving Castle In Australia? | |
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Date: 7/1/2005 | After the almost 2 year wait we had for Spirited Away (an all time fravorite of mine), it's cheering to see that MadMan seem to be planning a 2005 release for Howl's Moving Castle.
The cynic in me reckons it'll be "December" before we see it but maybe it won't be that bad. I'll be sure to post something when actual dates become available. Howl was released in Japan on Nov 20, 2004. The movie broke the Japanese box office record for ticket sales in the first 2 day period. So people seem to like it ;) |
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| Scribe Plugin SDK | |
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Date: 7/1/2005 | If you are interested in writing plugins for Scribe then I've just released a new build of the SDK for windows. It includes all the files required to build your own plugin and some limited documentation to get you started. There is also a template plugin that compiles (VisualC++ 6) and loads in Scribe. It doesn't do anything but you can see how it's structured and it'd be easy to take that and add some functionality.
Someone mentioned the possibility of an IPv6 plugin, which is entirely possible using the transport layer plugin type. This is how the SSL plugin works, by providing a new type of connection at the plugin level. If your serious about developing a plugin I'm prepared to make adjustments in the Scribe code to work with new plugins. Or fix bugs that new plugins uncover. |
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Date: 6/1/2005 | This site is comming up to a million hits (scroll down).
Thats like gotta be a milestone or something... |
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| File Search App | |
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Date: 5/1/2005 | 5 hours of coding and I produce this from scratch:
5 freakin hours. Not bad I reckon. |
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| New(ish) InScribe Only Feature | |
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Date: 5/1/2005 | Well some time ago someone contacted me about adding some features to Scribe and putting it on a USB key for a modest price. They got their features and then stopped responding to my emails, and of course I didn't get paid as per our agreement. And I wouldn't be surprised if the software is going out on USB keys without my knowledge or permission either. Damn stupid of me not to timebomb the test builds. Oh well...
So what to do? Well I've put that feature they got me to implement (and test to the nth degree) into InScribe for all those loyal supporters that DID pay for the software. In the last few releases of InScribe there is a full Outlook (MAPI) export function in the export menu which is fairly robust and featured. It's been tested on most versions of Outlook/Windows and it does a replicate instead of a straight export, so you can mirror the Scribe folders onto your Outlook mail store. Can you see how handy this could be for people that use Scribe on a USB key? :) Also you can export a sub tree of the mail folders if required as well. A late Merry Christmas to all you InScribe users! |
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