Posts filed under 'Computer Hardware'
To bad there is not a Flash Player 9 for Linux PowerPC distros or I would be coding Flex right now. So I am writing this post on my Playstation 3 using Yellow Dog linux 5.0 (the free version was just released today) as the “Other OS” on the box. The installation process was not that terrible hard. I was not able to install the Flash Player 7 or 9, and am not sure there is any Linux PowerPC Flash Players out there, any one know?
I am running off the wired network port, it would be cool if I could find the driver for the wireless card in the Playstation 3 itself. Other quirks is the whole HDMI to DVI only capable of connecting to HDCP ready devices. I am currently doing a 720p out through component into a VGA box converter into my monitor. Its not bad but nothing like true 1080p would be. Been sick for the last couple of days, what a time to get the flu bug, so I haven’t had all the time I wanted to get messing around with the Playstation 3. Maybe you’ll hear more on it later from me for now I am off to play some games.
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December 27th, 2006
On July 4th Opera release a press item about their new Opera Mobile 8.6 browser for Windows Mobile 5.0 will be the recommended browser for a new device, called Sharp W-ZERO3[es].
There is a bit of information that sparked my attention:
“Opera Mobile 8.6 for PPC is also the first Opera Mobile version to support Flash.”
Continue Reading July 7th, 2006
I have had my 2 new Viewsonic VX2025wm monitors working nicely with my eVGA 7600GT video card. The 2 monitors where hocked up through the DVI connection, but little did I know about DVI connections and the problems with devices. It happened after I played some games over at my cousin’s house. While there I had to hook up my computer to an old samsung CRT. I had to go into Windows VGA mode that night to get that working. When I came home and hocked up my computer the next day I got one VX2025wm working through DVI and the other would not come up on the DVI connection.
I spent an hour and half just trying to figure out what was the issue, and finally just hooked it up through the VGA-DVI connector. Well tonight I decided to really try and understand what was going on…
Continue Reading June 24th, 2006
I have some 5 year old CRTs and decided to make a jump into the LCD world. The two major factors that have kept me from buying LCD’s have been screen resolution and price. These are related because I have become accustomed to 1600×1200 or higher resolution for the past five years and didn’t think I could go lower….
Continue Reading May 8th, 2006
I finally broke down and bought an expensive Intel 670 3.8Ghz CPU. In the past I have successfully overclocked cheaper CPU’s to their more expensive counterparts. Last year I overclocked a Intel 2.4Ghz to 3.2Ghz (I posted this CPU at 3.6Ghz ). Between the 670 and the 2.4Ghz I bought a Intel 630 3Ghz L2 2Mb HyperThreading (HT) CPU where I became found of the higher L2 cache and HT.
I have bought the latest motherboard, RAM, Hard Drive, CD/DVD drive, Sound Card and Video Card, but up to this point I had not bought the latest CPU.
The Intel 670 3.8Ghz cost me $615 at newegg.com. I installed it into a Shuttle barebones as its the machine I take to work every day. The shuttle is running a 915 chipset and 2Gb of Corsair 2-3-2-6 DDR 400 RAM. The Shuttle’s heat pipe and adjustable 80mm fan offers decent cooling ( can’t do much more with a small case like this ). So I applied my Artic Silver 5 and popped the CPU into the motherboard.
After some tweaking and a couple hours of benchmarking I was able to run my CPU at 4.2Ghz, I stopped trying to push it after it would post at 4.3Ghz but wouldn’t go into Windows.
Doing my own tests I found the CPU has given me about a 24% increase in my most common daily task. That daily task was compiling mxml files as I developed Flex an application. Before adding my CPU the application took 13 seconds to recompile every time I made a change (of course different application will take different times). With the new CPU running at 4.2Ghz (old one was at 3Ghz) I was able to compile the application in 10 seconds. This doesn’t seem like a big difference but when you are compiling the application hundreds of times a day it adds up. Mostly the time savings helps me from wondering off while waiting for it to finish.
Was it worth $615 dollars? Probably not. The pros are definitely the bragging rights to be past the 4Ghz bar and I figure within 6 months it will have saved me enough time to almost pay for it self.
August 30th, 2005
