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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…
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Bicyling in Hawaii
Well, I’ve been to Hawaii a bunch but never figured out how to really get a good ride in there. Here are some resources: * “The Bike Shop”:http://www.bikeshophawaii.com/. The big multi store chain. There is one right in Kailua on Oahu. They “rent”:http://www.bikeshophawaii.com/Rentals.htm the Specialized Allez for $110/week and you can also pack and ship…
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Backing up Games
Once you start spending dollars on games, I have to wonder what you do when you realize that your 4-year-old could easily destroy the CD and then you lose the game. Unfortunately, game vendors are so intent on preventing copying that it is actually quite hard to make a backup for yourself. Here are some…
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Intel Changes Naming conventions
Tom’s Hardware Guide Processors: Welcome The Latecomer: Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4 GHz – New Processor Nomenclature To Come. To add more confusion, the clock rates of various Intel chips don’t seem to correlate to performance, so they are going to introduce model numbers. Right now, a mobile Pentium 4 running at a lower clock rate…