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NV40 (a.k.a. nVidia 6800) Released
AnandTech on the NV40 vs. NV3x. A great piece on the differences between the current nVidia family (5900/5700 called the NV3x series internally) and the latest 6800 (called the NV40 internally). My brother works over at nVidia, so its great to see them getting back on their feet. The performance of the new NV40 is…
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Portable Basketball Backboards
Well, the boys want a basketball hoop. Another great example of how trying a sport like B-ball creates a lifelong interest. Anyway, we don’t have room for a full hoop (although I tried lobbying for that!). Instead, a portable one seems like the ticket, but which one to buy? * “Gart Sports Guide”:http://www.gartsports.com/info/index.jsp?categoryId=222829&backTo=686679&savePath=711651.726616&infoType=infosport. Gart is…
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Watching DVDs on Airplanes
So, we are off to Hawaii pretty soon and Connie asked me, how do we get a movie for the squirmy kids. Here are the options: * “Inflight Movies”:http://www.inmotionpictures.com/. This is one of those .com businesses like Netflix that don’t seem to make sense, but we’ve actually used quite a bit. You rent a DVD…
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Call of Duty: 48 Hours Later
Well, I’ve gotten Call of Duty and gone through it. Nice thing is that in single player mode, it is fast to get through. It is one of those games that at first seems just completely amazing, but as I play more, I realize it is a very sophisticated Doom. It is sort of like…
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Cute Digital Cameras: Buying a Pentax S4
Jennie is looking for a new digital camera for her trip to parts unknown. Some amazing ones are around now. She’s been looking at a bunch and as usual Pentax like every other consumer manufacturer has made a complete hash of the model numbers and names, so here is a decoder ring: * Pentax Optio…
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Campaign Contributions
I was curious about how campaign funding works. Here are some fascinating facts and figures. I literally had no idea the numbers worked this way or that so much information was available online: * “Open Secrets”:http://www.opensecrets.org/. A good advocacy site with mainly facts and figures. Most amazing is to see the fundraising differences. Bush has…
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Basecamp
“Basecamp”:http://www.basecamphq.com/. A simple web-based project management system. From a web-design company. There really is a big future in these kind of simple weblications. “Tong’s Basecamp”:http://tong.projectpath.com. I did a quick site, put Ludwig and Zagula on it with the usual user names and passwords. A nnice product that make it possible is from Ruby. An interesting…
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Hitachi 400GB hard drive
400GB Drive Announced. Since I’ve been doing lots of video editing on my little Shuttle box, I need a mountain of storage in a single drive. This 400GB IDE drive certainly fits the bill. It is basically the extremely fast 250GB drive but with two additional platters (each platter is 80GB). Drool, drool.
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Samsung 193P Review
Tom’s Hardware Guide Displays: LCD Comparison: 19″ monitors. Another review of 19″ monitors. This time the upcoming Samsung 193P comes out on top. Its still in preproduction and costs about $780, so it is expensive. One of the few monitors you might think about using for gaming (fast enough) and graphics (accurate enough).
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Why Athlon 64 Doesn't Overclock Well…but Wait, here comes the nForce Pro 250
AnandTech: PCI Speed and Overclocking: A Closer Look at A64 and P4 Chipsets . Connie’s Dad got an Athlon 64. It didn’t overclock very much. Just from 2.0GHz to 2.1GHz. This article explains why. The nVidia nForce-3 150 chipset is supposed to keep the PCI bus stable at 66MHz, but this apparently doesn’t work. The…