If you hated all those spam mails you were getting all these days,
here is the chance for you to contribute to anti-spam war. The cleaver thing is they have made it as a
screen server, which will only run when the computer is idle and use few bytes of bandwidth to launch a DoS attack on the known spam URLs.
Download and Install now!
Update: Make Love Not Spam site hacked. It has also brought down two spam sites in China
On a different note here is a very
touching story about a K9 which saved its partner's life.
posted by 88Pro / Tuesday, November 30, 2004
1) If you were always wondering what’s the difference between, Going Out, On a Date, and Hanging Out, here
gumz comes for rescue.
2)
Is your Faith on the Desktop?
3) We all have faced Tech Interviews like what
Mr.Ed has suggested from some hi-fi companies in Sri Lanka. My take on it, don't put sociopathic personalities in the panel please.
4)
Kids and Education, but this is in Singapore though. But think about it, in Sri Lanka too, grade four kids go to tuition because of scholarship exams.
posted by 88Pro / Wednesday, November 24, 2004
I ran
PCMark04 benchmark on my
IBM T42p notebook, so here are the results.
PCMark: 3261 PCMarks
CPU: 3237.0
Memory: 2293.0
Graphics: 1988.0
HDD: 3546.0
Since most of the review sites run the benchmark on a brand new machine without any additional software installed, I tried to simulate that by closing all the applications on my taskbar including virus scanning and firewall. Here are the results once I shutdown most of my application.
PCMark: 3586 PCMarks
CPU: 3494.0
Memory: 2530.0
Graphics: 1993.0
HDD: 3374.0
The Harddisk score has gone down from the previous run, may be becuase I shut down the Active Protection System, will post new results after another round.
I chose PCMark04 because its measures the application performance which is what I will be using my laptop 99% of the time. I am pretty happy with the results because one of my friend also ran the bench mark on a AthlonXP 3000+ desktop with 768 MB RAM, 100 GB SATA Harddisk with 8 MB Cache and here are the results.
PCMark: 3154
CPU: 3374
Memory: 2201
Graphics: 1292
HDD: 4597
Did you notice IBM T42p beats a high end desktop hands down? Moreover did you also notice Pentium M 1.8 Centrino takes down an AthlonXP 3000+ in the CPU performance test? However SATA with 8MB Cache Rules :-)
I know some people who are using HP nc6000 notebooks.
This review shows that nc6000 has a PCMark 2004 score of 3170.
HPs nw8000, which is in the mainstream(above 6 pounds) notebook category, (T42p is in the Thin and Light Category), has a
PCMark04 score of 3776, however if you do a performace/Doller analysis still I have a upper hand considering I spent only 2500 USD on the my T42p.
nw8000 = 3776/2920 = 1.30
T42p = 3586/2500 = 1.43
Me happy and satisfied with how my laptop performed in the benchmark, getting back to work now :-). If you have a laptop or a high end desktop please post your PCMark scores in the comments section.
posted by 88Pro / Monday, November 22, 2004
HP's Linux Vice-President
Martin Fink has posted a blog at LinuxCIO.com titled “
Solaris is from Venus, Linux is from Mars”. Everyone knows Sun has waged war against HP and RedHat, and keeping that in mind, you know what to expect from HP Vice-President for Linux in his blog. He has raised many questions about Sun’s strategy to Open Source Solaris.
Fortunately Sun’s cooperate blog has been its major strength when it comes to refuting FUD created by competitors. Here is the
rebuttal by Alan Hargreave which clears most of the misconceptions Fink is trying to spread.
Here is a post by a non-Sun employee who was deeply pissed off by Fink’s utter stupidity, it’s really fun to read it. I couldn’t stop laughing when I read,
"The beauty of Linux is that the cost is shared by thousands of developers around the world."... Yup, we work for free at night while HP VPs sleep. And guess what we're not sharing the cost model. What is HP doing for us? You hassle us when we try to help out on HP-UX. You don't contribute any amount of code... seriously, SGI contributes huge amounts of code, and wtf is HP doing? Squat! Sun has been contributing code for years, plus they give us Solaris for free via a download, and they have for years. Plus I can even get a 30 day copy of their development tools for free evaluation and no hassle. So, I ask again, wtf is HP doing for us? As usual, HP is all bitch bitch moan moan. The only useful contribution HP has made to the open source community is building kick ass cheap printers that get sold on Ebay for $100 and run for over a year on a single toner. LaserJets rule [source link]
One a different note, this is the
online museum of Google’s holiday logos and
the guy who is behind most of this creative logos.
posted by 88Pro / Thursday, November 18, 2004
What you may already know is that today
FireFox 1.0 has been released. However, did you know there are third party developers who release FireFox optimized for the processor and the instruction set of your machine?
Check this out.
Moox on Slashdot.
posted by 88Pro / Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Intel Pentium M Centrino
I always knew Centrino is an equivalent processor to Pentium 4s but what I didn't know is it almost performs as fast as a Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz.
This post made me look around for performance bench marks between Pentium 4s and Centrinos. Here are some interesting links I found on Centrino Technology. I remember edg showing me the first link some time back though, shame I didn’t take the time to read it then.
This article "
Intel's Centrino CPU (Pentium-M): Revolutionizing the Mobile World" by AnandTech.com gives an insight into architecture of Pentium M.
Dothan is the second generation Pentium M processor and this article "
Intel's 90nm Pentium M 755: Dothan Investigated" is a good place to start.
Pentium M Review: for some more bench marks.
If you are going to buy a laptop, now you know what to look for. By the way, did I tell you I am a proud owner of an
IBM T42p with a Pentium M Dothan 1.8 GHz processor?
US Election
"
How can 59,054,087 people be so DUMB?"
Here's how. (
Source of this Information)
Colas and Pests
In India when Pepsi and Coke are recovering from the
initial attacks of a claim their products contains levels of pesticide residues far exceeded the maximum residue limit for pesticides in water used as 'food,' set down by the European Economic Commission there are new claims that Indian Farmers are using
Colas to tackle pests. Now we know what’s the secret behind the productivity of American farmers, don’t we? :-)
posted by 88Pro / Saturday, November 06, 2004
