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Ghost Recon
Ghost Recon Jungle Storm. Got Ghost Recon as part of my video card bundle. Wow, how much these tactical first person games are using the machines. Amazing how graphics and so forth. Its an old game, but here are some links to folks modding it: * “Walkthroughs”:http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/recon.htm#wt. A detailed walkthrough of all the missions. Missions…
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Amazon Sales Categories on Business
Fascinating to see what books are actually selling right now: * Amazon.com: Top Sellers in Business and Investing. Of the 10 top books, 7 are about getting rich quick, 1 is about leadership (Jim Collins), 2 are about specific industries (baseball and fast food) and 1 is about dealing with life change. Not surprising, investing…
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Marketing and Positioning
A quick troll through the various marketing treatise on the Internet. Kind of interesting to see what is up there when I type “market positioning”: * Target Markets & Segmentation. Dan’s powerMpoint slides from business school. Basic definition of terms * “Hourglass 1998”:http://www.hourglass1998.com/. Interesting methodology from Mark Smith. Nice to have everything reduced to one…
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Memory explained with benchmarks
Tom’s Hardware Guide Motherboards & RAM: Ups and Downs: Memory Timings Put to the Test – How Memory Access Works. Another great piece over at Tom’s Hardware. A nice refresher for those of us with old computer science degrees. They explain how memory works and what timing means. There is a sequence to access memore…
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Prime 95
How GIMPS works. A great machine torture test. Runs in the background doing calculations. Since it checks results, its a good test of stability particularly for the memory and cpu of an overclocked machine.
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Yet Another MPEG4 Codec: 3ivx
3ivx D4 4.5 – MPEG-4 Audio and Video Compression. Recently got a Mac encoded file in 3ivx format. It’s another MPEG4 encoder. You need to download a plug-in to have it work with Windows. Or use Quicktime. Amazing how many codecs I now have loaded on my machine. 3ivx, Divx, xvid, Windows formats, etc.
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More on Overclocking…
Seems like everyone is got something on this. Here are some links: CPU overclocking: * “Dev Hardware FAQ”:http://www.devhardware.com/c/Hardware/HowTo/Overclocking_Your_P4_800FSB/. A guide for Pentium 4 800MHz FSB machines. A great guide. Basically says, you can overclock a 2.4 or 2.6GHz to about the same as 3.2GHz one. Also that cooling is the firs timiting factor to get…
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Mars Explorer Rover
Both Alex and Calvin are fascinated by the Mars missions. Here are some amazing web sites: * “Mars Exploration Rover Mission”:http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/. The official site. Some cool videos and images. Lots to explore. * Maestro Headquarters. Wow, you can look at the imaging applications they are using at the JPL to piece together all those photos…
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Aquamark Benchmarks
AquaMark ARC – Overview. Kind of a cool site. These use a Aquamark, a benchmark based on a real game. You submit your ratings up there and see how to tune. For instance, Alex’s new Athlon went from a score of 36693 (this is really 36.693 frames per second in the benchmark) to 40145 by…
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nVHardpage
nVHardpage. On to tweaking the new video card. Wow, these new ones are incredibly powerful. This seems like the best utility for nVidia. Basically, it turns on some pretty complex menus you find in the advanced display menu. Also has a mode where you can test your video memory to make it go faster. In…