Hardware info

Kingston s řadičem SandForce

2011-06-04T13:41:00.000-07:00

Společnost Kingston uvádí na trh svá první SSD obsahující řadič SandForce SF-2281. Co konkrétně přináší? Kapacitu 120 a 240 GB. Připojují se přes rozhraní SATA 6gbps, a jsou opravdu rychlé. Čtení umí 525 MB/s, zápis je pomalejší, "jen" 580 MB/s. Z pohledu klasického pevného disku nádherná čísla. A samotné Dlash moduly jsou Intel, takže celková kvalita zaručena. Jen se jaksi nikdo nezmínil, co to bude stát.

Speciální edice pamětí DDR3 od Kingstonu

2010-10-29T05:06:00.000-07:00

Společnost Kingston nabízí exkluzivně Czech Computer, Alza soft, TS bohemia, Mironet, Softcom a Alfa computer speciální edici DDR3 pamětí. Pod označením KHX1600C9D3X1K2/4G se skrývají 2 2GB moduly 1600MHz DDR3 Non-ECC CL9 DIMM za 1867 kč. A jako třešničku na dortu za 457kč chlazení (nejen) na tyto krasavce. Věcička označená KHX-FAN-B jsou dva 60mm ventilátory přidělané na konstrukci, jíž se přichytí přes paměti a následně je ofukují. Hlučnost má být údajně 25 dBA, takže docela tiché chlazení.

Radeon 6xxx

2010-10-28T03:01:00.001-07:00

Ati chystá vydání nových grafických karet, označení je Radeon 6. Co konkrétně tato řada nabízí? Upřímně, není to extrémní výkon, ale spíše vynikající poměr výkonu a ceny. Nové jádro se docela snaží, spotřeba není příliš přehnaná a oproti Nvidiácké alternativě vyjde nová Atina o pár set levněji. Takže pokud vám stačí "jen" velmi slušný výkon, tak berte.

Atom s DDR III

2010-04-11T09:58:00.000-07:00

Intel oznámil nové modely svých oblíbených procesorů Atom. Tentokrát však nejde o mobilní, ale desktopové verze, které budou oproti současným obsahovat podporu pamětí typu DDR 3. Respektive bude i podpora DDR 2 a je tedy pouze ny výrobcích základních desek, které paměti budou chtít osadit. Celkově se toho ale příliš nemění, výkon patrně poroste pouze nepatrně, protože frekvence zůstaly na prakticky stejných číslech jako byly. (1 i 2 jádro si polepšilo o 133 mhz) Spotřeba zůstala na původní úrovni, tj 10W a 13W. Intel sice na procesorech Atom vydělává miliony, ale v zásadě nemá důvod k výraznému zvyšování výkonu, když konkurence prakticky neexistuje. Tedy až na firmu Via, která též vyrábí extrémně úsporné procesory, ale skoro bych se vsadil, že 90% spokojených uživatelů Atomu ani netuší, že nějaká firma Via existuje. (Sám přiznávám, do notebooků a slabých pracovních stanic není nic lepšího než Atom, poměr mezi příkonem a výkonem je nepřekonatelný a na kancelářské aplikace je sám výkon víc než dostatečný.)

iPad

2010-04-06T12:56:00.000-07:00

Ameriku zachvátila nákupní horečka, tisíce lidí čekaly natěšeně ve frontách, na zahájení prodeje nového hitu od Apple, tabletu iPad. I když osobně nevidím, co by to bylo za převratnou novinku, přenosných prohlížečů knih už pár je, na obří mp3 přehrávač se to nehodí, jedině snad na pouštění si filmu při cestování, ale na to je to zase trochu drahá sranda ne? Ale uvidíme, až se bude za pár měsíců prodávat i v čr, tak se určitě zajdu podívat, co to umí v reálu, ono takovým zprávám ze třetí ruky také není dobré stoprocentně věřit.

Nvidia GTX 480, karta nenažraná až to bolí

2010-03-30T20:20:00.000-07:00

|Nvidia představila novinky, grafický čip GTX 470 a 480. Ty byly již delší dobu velice netrpělivě očekávány a tak jsme se konečně dočkali výměny generací. Kterou mimochodem Ati zvládlo dříve, přechodem z řady 4xxx na 5xxx. Co konkrétně vylepšila Nvidie? Výkon, samozřejmě podporuje DirectX 11. Nicméně celá věc má jeden ohromný hák a sice nenažranost karty. PRavda, od herní grafiky se očekává že si bude žádat patřičnou porci wattů, ale 250W je přecijen trochu moc. A následně tomu bohužel odpovídá i rachot větráku, který musí takové neskutečné množství tepla uchladit, přirovnání ke startující stihačce mi nepřijde nepřiměřené. A navíc i s tímto ječákem se karty dokáží přehřát a vynutit si tak restart, což je na dnešní dobu opět poměrně nestandartní. A navíc ten herní výkon není zas až tak zaáračný v porovnání s Ati řady 5870, která stojí mnohem méně. Inu, snad je to jen chybička první vyrobené série, další se snad pokusí na tom zapracovat. A mimochodem, to že jsou oficiálně uvedené karty s těmito čipy do prodeje neznamená, že by byly opravdu ke koupi. Nvidia totiž sahla k oblíbenému kroku výrobců a "prodává" nové Gforcky v relativně minimálních množstvích.

Velké změny

2010-01-03T03:40:00.000-08:00

Tak trochu není čas a hlavně nálada páchat články v angličtině. A navíc se obávám, že to stejně není to pravé a pravopis dostával brutálně zabrat. A tak se mění skoro vše, jazykem bude nadále čeština, vše bude doprovázeno spoustou obrázků atd atd. Jen náplň zůstane stejná, Novinky a zajímavosti z oblasti hardware a software. Mimochodem, chcete vidět, jak vypadá úchylný počítač? Tak toto je fotka mého. Ač to tak nevypadá, fotka je focena normálně za provozu, větráky se točí.

Manufacturing troubles

2009-11-05T02:52:00.000-08:00

Bad news for everybody who wants to buy any from new graphic cards. Ati (and even Nvidia)s manufacturer of chips Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) have big troubles with 40nm process. only 40% of those chips are working,which is really terrible. Such number of course bring troubles. Ati now dont have enough chips to distribute, and shops are empty. And which is worse, they dont expect better production in next few months.

Noctua NH D14

2009-11-03T04:56:00.000-08:00

A long time expected cooler Noctua NH D14 is finally in sale. Looks really great, and big. It weight is 1270g with 2 fans. Mean one NF-P12 and one NF P14 FLX (new model, 14 cm diameter). NF P14 is inbetween two passive parts, heat is being transported by 6 doubled heatpipes. It shuld cost 75 Euro, price in dollars unknown.

New graphic

2009-10-28T00:45:00.000-07:00

Its only few days since Ati intorduced their Radeon 5xxx serie, and simultaneously microsoft released their new Windows, called easily 7. And together with W7 came a new graphic interface, DirectX 11. Now supported only by already mentioned Radeons 5x serie. And what it brings? of course, tons of new graphical effects, games will be more realistic (or unreal, depends on use). Its allways nice to see new hardware is really working, so it was a little trouble, that there wasnt any game using DX11 until now. But now it is real, first game using DX11, brings new details, new effects. Its called Battleforge, and in fact, it was written for DX 10, but programmers made patch to use 11. And it looks really nice, but a bit slow, on videos i seen. But we will still wait for games really build for DX 11, it will took some time to make them.

Qimonda introduced SO-DIMM DDR3

2008-01-31T04:46:00.000-08:00

Despite Quimonda send samples of their new notebook so dimm ddr 3 modules to notebooks manufacturing companies more than year ago, they will start mass manufacturing now. They will be available as 128Mx64 (1GB) and 256Mx64 (2GB), used ddr3 chips are manufactured by 75 nm technology. Both memory modulse should contain dynamic ODT technology, allowing to increase throughput when used as dual chanell. Those memories would be available as DDR3-800 with latency 5 or 6, 1066 latency 7-8 and DDR3-1333 with latency 8-10. To be honest, i dont see anything good in using ddr3 memories with latency 6 when you can use ddr 2 memories on same frequency with latency 4, but each product will found his user..

Extremly fast memories

2007-10-07T01:37:00.000-07:00

Elpida introduced new, extremly fast XDR memories. Their 512 mbit chips can run on 4,8 ghz effective speed. Chips run on 600 mhz, but using ODR technology. (Octal Data Rate, transfer data 8 times each cycle.) They will be used in digital cammeras and HD tvs during next spring. Hope such pieces of nice technology will find way into PCs soon. But, i rather wouldnt ask about price, think it will be extreme, same as speed and throughput of those.

AMD and 3 core processors?

2007-09-15T22:33:00.000-07:00

Lately some rumors appeared, that together with 2 and 4 core processors AMD plan to sell 3 cored ones. Of course, nobody want to manufacture this, but its way how to use 4 cores, where is 1 core bad. Just switch that bad off, and use it as 3 core processor. Hm, dont know how much people will buy this, but its interesting idea. At least this can help lower prices of 4 cores, because when you manucacture 4 cores on 1 silicon, there is high probability, that 1 core will be not functional. And of course, it is better to sell such processor at low price, than throw it into thrash.

Toshiba introduced new 1.8" drives

2007-09-08T18:46:00.000-07:00

160 GBs of space, need power input only 0.002 W/GB (0.32W total) and CE ATA interface which should improve performance.. Those are really impresive parameters of new 1,8" drives introduce by Toshiba. They are following trends to miniaturize together with better performance. How long is it from times, when such drive would be top performance device used in desktop? (and 2 years before it would be best drive even for servers heh) Some people may ask: Why use such thing in mobile device, instead of solid flash memories used as drive? Easy answers: A) there isnt solid state drive with 160g of space.. And B) this cost only 1 quarter of SSD price. And because its really small, it can also survive much bigger crashes than normal desktop 3.5" drive. You can kick it hard, than plug back and it will probably work.

New supercomputer from IBM

2007-08-13T23:09:00.000-07:00

IBM announced they have first custommer who want to buy their BlueGene/P supercomputer. Whole machine have top performance 1 PetaFlops. Owner of this computer will be DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) and machine would be placed in "Supercomputing center" in university of Ilinois, near Chicago. Just hope they will prepare better cooling for this one, because others supercomputers there suffer from heat.

A64 x2 6400+

2007-07-23T08:04:00.001-07:00

AMd announced that they will introduce new model, latest piece of A64 X2 family. It should bear name 6400+ and will contain 2 megs of cache and 2 cores running at 3200 mhz each. Just i dont know how much will this heat.. I have now 6000 proc, and it is pretty cool even when outside was nearly 40 degrees C.

11,6 milions of Xbox 360 is malfunction

2007-07-13T00:08:00.000-07:00

Microsoft annonced that 11.6 milions of Xboxes they sold within last months contain "Design defect" (not specified) which may result as fail of entire device. They dont plan to recall xboxes for repair, but of course, repair will be done to people whos machine really fail. Microsoft expect that this problem can cost them about 1 bilion of dollars. Ya, people who have pc can be satisfied. Our machines dont do such things..

Appe want to make butonless mouse

2007-07-05T21:37:00.000-07:00

As strange as was optical mouse just few years ago may sound currnet idea of Apple. They want to create butonless mouse. Oh, it will work as usual, but buttons and wheel are substitued by small camera. Camera which watch moving your fingers on mouse surface, and when detect you push on place where should be button, it clicks, and when it "see" you moving finger, scrolling wheel, it will turn it. Yes, that means mouse surface will be transparent. It sounds pretty interesting, will this be finally mouse, wich dont need any maintenance? My mouse need 1 or twice a year to be opened, and space under buttons cleaned.. But as all new things, i suppose it will be pretty expensive, at least first few months..

DDR III

2007-05-29T08:55:00.000-07:00

Its only few days after introducing first motherboards using DDR III memories, and manufacturers are bidding more and more of those now. Heh, to be honest, first DDR III memory modules were on market sooner than boards supporting them, but now they are finally usefull, because you can put them into right board. What DDR III brings? DDR 3 memories will work on even higher frequencies than current DDR 2, (1000, 1300 and 1600 mhz, and promised are even more faster pieces) but timing is problem. To me seems that old DDR working on 5/2/2/2 timing on 400 mhz have better times than DDR 2 15/5/5/5 on 800 mhz. And new DDR 3 with timing 27/9/9/9 on 1300 mhz (Corsair, which mean, those are FAST.. what terrible timing will have slower ones?) are even worse. But after those say empty cycles, when they start working.. Throughput is nice. But this all force processor to have better prediction, because in moment it runs out of data, it takes a long time to seek them in memory and read. Hope in few months there will be even faster DDR 3 modules, and than manufacturers will cut those latencies..

New Graphic cards for notebooks

2007-05-09T08:24:00.000-07:00

By Nvidia. they are faster than current notebook graphics, but both (8600m GS and GT) are less powerfull that their dsektop brothers. Which is pretty important, becuase those desktop cards are shitty. Only expensive hardware, which brings no output, so what will be their less powerfull copies in notebooks? Hm, people with brain knows, that notebooks are good to be mobile, but really not to play.. And this definitelly confirms this.
8600m GS have 16 stream processors, core running on 600 mhz, shaders on 1200 mhz. 8600m GT have 32 shaders on 950 mhz, core on 475. Both cards are using poor 128 bit memory bus, up to 512 mbytes ram.

Long time

2007-05-03T22:44:00.000-07:00

Sory, it was a long time, since i written something here. I feel bad about it, but i was sick, in hospital, without computer there. And many things happend during that time. For example, Nvidia released their 8500 and 8600 based graphic cards, and? Big surprise, they are overpriced shit, nobody expected this. Yesterday, Sun announced, they have sucessfully working 16 core UltraSPARC processors (Solaris 10 is running on them) which is also pretty important. But of course, not for people running their homemade pc, playing there games under Windows. Those things will be in powerfull (and expensive) servers. Interesting thing is, that such processor have much better power than current PC (Intel and AMD) on lower frequency. Say on 1 ghz, which mean they dont heat so much. And now intel announced, that they are 2 years ahead of AMD with their 45 nm technology. Which seems little strange, because AMD said, they will start 45 nm manufacturing next year. Just hope both of them told truth, because its way, how to have cheap and powerfull computer. Do you remember time, when only processor cost more than $1000? I dont want them back.

Future of game engines, ray tracing?

2007-04-03T18:28:00.000-07:00

Daniel Pohl, german who used openrt library to creating ray traced version of quake 3 (and much later 4) tried to find a job in game development. But they didnt want him, so ho came to Intel. And what will he do there? Discover how to make ray tracing technologies better, and how to add support for such technologies into graphic cards. That sounds really interesting. If they can discover way how to support ray trace, it can bring revolution within gaming hardware. But that can be distant future.

New Camera from Bioscrypt

2007-03-30T12:24:00.000-07:00

But its not usb web camera. Its security device, which should be used (by manufacturer) to identify computer users much faster and better than password or fingerpirnt. It identifies people byt their faces. Camera is using visible and infrared light together, to take 3d map of human face, and it is said, it can even see differences between twins. By manufacturet will this device just log you in, with 100% sure of distinguishing of any attempt to look like you. Hm, its nice, but still on paper i think. Lets wait until first real device will show up

Idemix, IBMs identity destroyer

2007-03-25T03:15:00.000-07:00

Will it be usefull, or only useless piece of technology? IBM thinks, that too many places on internet colecting informations about you. So, they developed piece of software called Idemix (Identity Mixer). It should provide you privacy during online shopping by say checking your account ballance, but other side would only get message that its ok, not whole info about your money. Also it can check your age, without telling it to others. (hm, seems like hackers dream.. i can imagine that sbdy will hack it, and than buy everything from account without money) But to me seems it have a little mistake: What sense has to hide your identity from seller, if you must fill up your adress to take goods? But, may be it will have some sense.. Just wait until it will be completed.

Hynix AND Sandisk together

2007-03-23T04:04:00.000-07:00

Those two big memory manufacturers signed agreement, that they will start new company (of course developing and manufacturing memories) together, they will share their patents, will be friends forever etc. Also Hynix together with Toshiba announced, that they are stopped their conflict about rights connecter to DRAM and NAND flash. They will now share technologies, Hynix will pay something to Toshiba, and Toshiba will buy some parts from Hynix. All that dont sounds good, remember how vent memory prices up, after Taiwan earthquake? Fear that dominnacy on market (which can those make together) will lead only to higher prices.

Microsoft said: If you steal software, steal our

2007-03-14T15:08:00.000-07:00

Microsoft admited, that even those who use non original software are potencial custommers. Many of those people just run computer months or years on illegal software, and than buy original. Its strange, but despite of milions of dollars invested into developing of copy protection is illegal software still available. And really, some people really try it, and than buy. So, why MS critise all of them? Because they want more.. More money, more profit, more Windows copies sold. Incredible.

GeForce 8600 soon

2007-03-03T17:59:00.000-08:00

They should appear on market at april 17th, and will exist in many different types. Modles should start by GeForce 8500GT (will exist in 2 versions: G86-300 supporting HDCP and G86-305 without support)core at 450MHz, 256MB GDDR2 memory at 800MHz, price should be less than $100. Next will be 8600GT, again in versions with and without HDCP, 600MHz core, 256MB GDDR3 memory at 1,4GHz, price between $150 and $170. And last one will bear name 8600GTS, 700MHz core, 256MB GDDR3 memory at 2 GHz, dual DVI and HDCP support. Only problem is that memory will be at 128 bit bus. Price should be between $200 and $250. Seems that 8500 gt can be pretty cheap, but still powerfull card. Just they didnt said if it can be used as Sli, because if its possible, than using 2 cards pricing together less than $200 sounds like great option, because together they would probably have samw power asi one GF 8800, which cost much more.

Bad batteries again

2007-03-02T09:03:00.000-08:00

And this time not from Sony, but from Sanyo. 205 thousands of them are placed in Lenovo notebooks, and need to be replaced. What manufacturers do, where are any checks, before supplying batteries to notebook manufacturers? Ill understand if there will be few bad pieces in series of thousands, but to make hundreds of thousands malfunctioning batteries and not to mention it? Seems incredible..

Even faster Blu Ray writing

2007-02-26T17:12:00.000-08:00

By using powerfull violet laser achieved Japan company Nichia extra fast writing on Blu Ray disc. They were able to burn data at speed near 45 mb/sec, which is much, much more better, than current speed 9 mb/s. Where is tha difference? While normal laser is only 20 mW, Nichia used laser with 320 mW output, which allows to write data much faster, due to shorter time needed to write each dot. Sounds good, but what it will do with eyes, if drive malfunction? Fear that wouldnt be healthy.

InPhase started supplying of holographic units

2007-02-17T14:19:00.000-08:00

Its 2-3 years since company called InPhase announced that they can save data holographic way, so 1 small card can contain hundreds of gigabytes. Than was few years of silence. And now they finally introduced their device called Tapestry HDS-300R onto market. It is using small holographic medias, with capacity 300 GBs, allowing to backup incredible amounts of data. And they are promising, that new version of this device should be able to contain 1,6 TB on a single (not disc, its card size piece of polymer) medium. But, all new technologies have its own problem: Price. Tapestry HDS-300R cost 18000 USD, and price of data bearer itself is unknown. But its really promising way, how to write incredible amount of data on small piece of polymer. Data density is much, much higher than on HD DVD or Blu Ray.

Windows Vista

2007-02-05T15:36:00.000-08:00

Have you ever heard, that vista will damage your music, do you problems when playing movies etc? Did you thought its impossible? Its only way to belittle this new fantastic system? In our little country, there were open chat with local Microsoft chief, so i asked about how it will work. Ya, its true.. When you will have something called premium content (extreme expensive movie or sound) you cant play it on normal monitor or sound card. You will need special digitally secured interfaces to enjoy it in full resolution. Otherwise your picture will be blurred, and so sound. Think best way how to see good quality films will be buy Chinese falsified HD DVD player, without such protection. Its really incredible how powerfull Hollywood is. To dictate microsoft such insane thoughts.. Incredible!

Penryn and Hyper Threading

2007-01-31T06:09:00.000-08:00

Its all about Intel technology called Hyper Threading. Its few years ago, when Intel discovered, that processor core is working only say 30-40% of time. In rest processor is waiting for data from memory or on HDD, and is unused. So, there was nice idea to make second cache and few switching circuits, and 1 core can work as 2, because in moments when first virtual core is waiting for data, second virtual can work, and than switch back. Hm, idea isnt bad, only problem is with scheduler. It dont know that those primary and secondary cores are only virtual, and so can say on first core run game (needing all) and on second video transformation or packing. And this of course leads to moment, when together output is higher, but every 1 application have not enough power. So, Hyper Threading dissapeared. But it is said, that new Penryn processors will contain it againt, but modified. Every physical core should report as 1 core, not 2 virtual cores, and work on those virtual ones will be probably controlled only by hardware. Hm, that may work..

New hard drives from Samsung

2007-01-26T09:59:00.000-08:00

Its 1,8" big, 5 mm thin piece for mobile devices, as UMPC and Notebooks. Drive exists in 20,30,40 and 60 gb versions, and using perpendicular writing technology. Hm, those 5 mm sounds really good, such compact device can be really usable in notebooks. (and think about using 2 of those.. 120 gigs is pretty portion of space. Just lets hope they will spread soon.

HP announced breakthrought, they can make chips at 8* density

2007-01-18T09:02:00.000-08:00

New technology, which will allow to make much more transistors on chip announced HP. They discovered how to make wires between transistors much thinner, than they are now. And because 90% of chip innards are wires, this will help much more than to amnufacture smaller transistors. HP says, that using current best 45 mn made transistors, connected by nanowires, density of all components in chip will grow up 8 times. Which is really, really much. And there is another BIG advantage of this, it wouldnt need new factories to manufacture. Only small modifications of current manufacturing processes, and you can do it. Nice, lets hope this technology will be availabe for mass production soon, because it can create incredible things. Just think about power of 16 or 32 cored processor. It can cumpute everything, but consume same power as current 2 core. Nice..

Intel introduced new 2 processor computer.

2007-01-09T13:21:00.000-08:00

It is using two 4 cored (kentsfield) processors. Its obviously answer to AMD Quad FX system. Intel named its own system V8, its using 2 quad cored 2,4ghz processors workinh on 1066 mhz bus and FB-Dimm memories. (As i know, FB Dimms arent usable, they need more power than processor and had to be cooled by big fan.) In machine is installed GF 8800GTX graphic card, and in CPU Mark (3D Mark 06 probably) it done 6089 points. Core 2 Duo E6400 have about 1600. Hm, seems those 2 processors together can compute really fast, but whole machine have to produce extreme heat. From photo it seems, that whole case is made from BIG fans only. But people who can buy such machine neednt to count bills for elektricity.

Samsung introduced 50 nm NAND flash

2007-01-03T08:41:00.000-08:00

New flash memories were introduced by Samsung. They are manufactured by 50 nm process, are multi level cell architecture (which should provide faster reading/writing) and their size is 16 gbit (2 GB). Those new flash memories are being expected to be used in solid state drives used in mobile devices. Mass manufacture should start within this quartal.

Everything dead now

2006-12-24T21:12:00.000-08:00

Its because christmas.. Pre christmas market open big possibilities, nut during christmas self, everything is dead. No people are updating technical servers, no news are coming out, no people are discutting about new things. Only few servers seems working, and those only support useless things. Its like on game screen, i ordered new gäme at 10 th, it should be released 15 th december. But when i showed up in shop, they said me, they dont have it now. It was 22nd when they send me mail, thay have cd ready.. AND WHAT? Which EEDIOT can suppose sbdy will move 2 days before christmas eve (better said 1 day, they mailed me in night 2 nd..) into shop for game? i will say this dont have chance, not mention how expected is that new piece. Ill say to them: USE MIND.. got games faster, than week after oficial releasing, if i want it in few days, i can order it from another country.

New supercomputer named Albert2

2006-12-18T05:16:00.000-08:00

Will from now serve to F1 team Sauber. Its cluster of 512 Intel Xeon 5160 dual core processors, so it posess 1024 cores. In Hinwill (Swiss) will Sauber team use it to simulate aerodynamic characteristics of F1 monopost. Whole computer consist from 512 processors, 2048 GB of RAM, 20480 GB on local drives and 15 TB main Hard drive space on antoher drive cluster. Top performance of this machine is 12 228 GFLOPS. Really incredible, to use such machine for that purpose.

New super hyper 3d display from LG

2006-12-14T17:33:00.000-08:00

Its not long time, since LG announced they have display, which throught many mirrors create illusion of 3d items. And now i had possiblility to see it. First, i will consider, that because of showing more than 1 image at moment, it need specially rendered pictures or videos, and also movie need to be specially taken, it consumes lot of data. And effect? At first look i would say, nice display. Really big, clean, sharp picture, no blur, no fog. But where is that 3d effect? Manufacturer says it works in some distance before display, so i stnad there, and watched. And ya, some times it seems that itam on scene lies in space, but to call this breakthrought technology, and want thousands and thousands of bucks for it? No chance, its only demonstration of science, not usable to mass manufacturing.

Gigabyte united

2006-12-08T08:28:00.000-08:00

That is name of new company, founded together by Gigabyte and Asustek. It should manufacture motherboards and graphic cards, and will be independent on both m¨founders. By Gigabyte it was necessary step to secure their position on market, and it also conteracted Foxxconn activity of taking control over Gigabyte. G owns 51% of stock of taht new company, which gives them control in it.

AGP bus dead? Forget it!

2006-12-02T08:34:00.000-08:00

AGP bus is old, and no today boards contain it, but there are still much users who have it in their computer. (To be honest, including me..) And so there are really few new graphic cards using it. Nearly all are made for PCI-Express x16. But there are still manufacturers aware that even those who have older computers are custommers. This time its GeCube, who prepared new card for AGP. And must say not bad one, its based on ATi RV570 chip made by 80 nm process, with 36 pixel shaders. 256 mb of GDDR3 memory on 512 ring bus, card fully supports HDCP which should allow users to play BluRay or HD DVD discs n full quality. Only problem will be probably high price of this piece.

Intel made first samples at 45 nm

2006-11-28T06:04:00.000-08:00

Intel have first processor samples made by 45 nm technology. That should allow them to be faster, have bigger cache, consume less power etc. Those processors bears name Penrym, and they are in facxt Core 2 duo just made by new process. Samples are now in hands of designers, need to be tested if all work as it is supposed. Intel will probably fulfill promise, that first 45 nm processors will be sold in this quartal. Hope it, because they are promising.

VIA will split into 3

2006-11-24T10:12:00.000-08:00

VIA corporation will be split into three different pieces, manufacturing: cpu platforms, chipsets and multimedias. It should help whole corporation to gain more profits. but its complete different way how to do this, than chosen Intel, AMD etc. All those joint with other corporations, only via wants to split self. Just wait what it will bring, i remember time, when they were manufacturing good chipsets, and cheap processors for office use, maybe that time will return.

UMC created 45 nm memory chips

2006-11-23T10:26:00.000-08:00

United Microelectronics Corporation, one of leaders in semiconductor secto announced that they succesfully created 45 nm SRAM memory chips. They are being manufactured by special technique, using extremly clean water between optics and 300 mm silicone waffer. Also new special materials (low k dielectric) and new technologies (ultra shallow junction) are being used. By UMC that results in 50% smaller memory cells than when 65nm process is being used, and they are 30% faster. Just they didnt said how long it will take to prepare whole technology to be used in mass manufacturing.

22K points in 3dMark06

2006-11-12T12:09:00.000-08:00

People from VR-Zone tried what is possible to do with new nVidia GeForce 8800GTX graphic card. They reported that on system containing of EVGA nForce 680i SLi motherboard, Intel Core 2 processor with 4 cores, overclocked from 2660 mhz to 4550 (incredible) and of course over voltaged, and 1 (and than 2) cards EVGA GeForce 8800GTX ACS3. Of course overclocked to incredible frequencies. Of course such trials you must do with dry ice or liquid nitrogen cooling, nothing else could handle such heat. But after all preparations one single card did more than 17000 3dMark 06 points, which is nice. Two used in sli mode were slowed down by processors, and so together they did only something under 23K points. But its still amazing, how powerfull such cards are, when somebody overclocks them to maximum.

Samsung introduced SIM card with flash

2006-11-09T15:16:00.000-08:00

New type of SIM card introduced by Samsung. It not only fulfill function of phone identity (number) identifier, but also contain 1 GB of NAND type flash. Its really nice, because whole card have size of all normal sim cards, and it will bring nice 1 GB of memory without needing any expanding card (but to most phones you can put 1 another memory card, so it brings nice posibilities). Only thing is, im not sure if it will work with every phone. But why not? think just it will need firmware update, to tell phone how to use that additional space.

Intel quad core, what advantege it will be for user?

2006-11-07T16:58:00.000-08:00

After possibility of see it, and see some tests i must say: Normal user would feel no advanteges in 4 cores. Its because of 2 cores at higher frequency are faster in most games, better in playing video etc. Its just because most of software isnt optimalized to use more cores, and than only advantege at 2 cores is fact, that system occupy one core, and game (or anything else) have full power of second core. But there is no difference if processor contain 2 more unused cores. Only in really specific situations it will reveal its huge computing power, but.. There isnt much users who need to run 10 applications which need much computing power together. So for normal user is better now save money, because 4 core is only expensive, and wont hepl him.

Rydemark Finally software for benchmarking high end computers?

2006-11-02T07:44:00.000-08:00

Candella Software from United Kingdom announced that they are about releasing new benchmark tool. Hm, there are many benchmarking softwares, so what should be special about new one? This one called Rydermark will use new patented game engine, specially engineered to use more threads and high end pcs. To run it you will need at least dual cored processor, and graphic card with 512 Mb ram and Shader Model 3.0. Hm, i wonder how much time it will take graphic card manufacturers to decompile whole program and "optimalize" (cheat) their drivers for it. Think we all know how this made both, Nvidia and also ATI. I fear, that who made such cheat once, will make it again.

Again Sony

2006-11-01T03:41:00.000-08:00

This time not about batteries, but they still have problems. This time with Us Department of Justice. They want Sony to clear up some things, about selling SRAM memories. Together with Sony wants DoJ talk with representatives of Samsung Electronics Co., Elpida Memory Inc., Infineon Technologies AG a Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Seems they will have problems, DoJ probably thinks there are some cartel agreement between them, about prices of memories. Sony already lost 94% of profit because of bad batteries they supplied to notebook manufacturers, if they have to pay fine for some cartel agreements, they will reach red numbers i think. Not good for them.

Computer news

2006-10-24T17:40:00.000-07:00

Its not funny, Sony have to replace another 35K batteries. This time problems are with pieces used by Gateway in their notebooks.

iPod is being currently used by 68 milions of people. Really incredible number, considering problems with using (better say not using) iPod as data storage.

Firefox 2.0 available. it was oficially released today. It contains advanced protective functions etc. But still seems to me, user know how to get viruses from pages, which even dont contain them.

AMD lowered prices of some thier processors. Hm, but not enough for normal user.

Security in IE7?

2006-10-21T09:14:00.000-07:00

Dont make me laugh, such thing doesnt exist. Just 24 hours after releasing was discovered, that it contains same security hole as IE6. And it doesnt mean newly discovered hole, it was reported more than 3 years ago, and never repaired. And now its clear taht even new version of IE contains it. Sorry, but software which want at least look as secured, cant work this way. Only lucky thing is, that it is not critical hole.. only makes IE to redirekt somewhere else. (But on that new place can be virused page and you have problem..)

Sony screwed

2006-10-18T16:20:00.000-07:00

Not only batteries they supplied to big notebooks manufacturers, but even those they used into their own machines. It sounds incredible, but Sony itself have to replace 300K batteries in Vaio notebooks. Ya, in this extremly small and light notebook can bad battery do much more damage, than in other machines. I lost contact with this whole affair: Did number of bad batteries made by Sony reached 8 milions already? Incredible number, and company will lost much more than only price of those batteries. (most of ingredients can be recykled i think..) Much worse is loosing of their good name. Lets say it openly: Who will buy anything with Sony battery in say next 5 years?

How to destroy CD?

2006-10-17T12:16:00.000-07:00

It isnt easy task.. How to destroy data on CD or DVD, and not damage it, so all problematic molecules from organic colors wouldnt damage earth? Plextor thinks, that they solved problem. Solution is called PlexEraser PX-0E100E, and it looks just as normal optical mechanic. And it is in innards probably similar, but it dont read CDs. Instead of it, they are being burned again, not important by what data.. After few minutes, CD (DVD) contains much more zeroes than before, and all private data burned on it are destroyed. Only one thing is really annoying. That thing which is absolutely similar to any normal CD Writer should cost 250$.

License system for Vista

2006-10-15T06:00:00.000-07:00

How will work license system in Windovs Vista? On older systems we were used to install system at one computer and use it. That if needed uninstall on that first, and install them to another. But this should change. Vista will be installed from original dvd only twice, and after that it should be useless. It is nonsense, when whole system have to be reinstalled after all hardware changes, after virus affection, after year at most? Seems Microsoft thinks all will be ok, and people will pay more and more.

Libya want buy milion of 100$ notebooks

2006-10-14T05:53:00.000-07:00

Such poor country as Libya wnat to buy more than milion notebooks for $100. It will be first country working within project One Laptop Per child. It will cost together with lessons to teachers, servers and internet connections more than 250 milions of $. incredible, they will buy computers, when dont have anything to eat?

Ended support for Windows XP Service Pack 1

2006-10-11T15:12:00.000-07:00

Microsoft oficially announced end of supporting MS Windows XP Service Pack 1 (1a). That means no more security patches, no error repairments will be done for this. All users are now forced to switcvh to using Service Pack 2 or have unsecured computer. (Hm, should that mean SP2 is secured? With all those monthly repair of more and more known critical errors?) SP1 was supported more than 2 years after releasing SP2, which is unusually long. Normally Microsoft cut off all support for older Service Packs after one year.

Intel will release 4 cored processor soon

2006-09-16T23:18:00.000-07:00

Its really short time after Intel started to manufacture and sell dual core processors, and now they anounce 4 core coming soon. How is that possible? Should it mean, that they engineers worked 24/7 for several months? No, fact is much more simple, They just taken 2 conroe chips, and somehow patched them together. Ya, that mean, that on final product, there will be really 4 cores, but its fake 4 core, cause they are connected externaly. Whole thing have to work exactly as if you have dual motherboard and add two Conroe cored processors into it. Those 2 connected together to "new chip" with codename Kentsfield should work on 2,66 ghz frequency, and bus freq should be 1066 mhz. Only problem is, that many applications (and games) arent made for more than 1 core/processor and thus they wont work faster, even on 8 cored system. For such usage is still better one "as fast as possible" processor.

AMD swithcing manufacturing to 65 nm

2006-09-12T01:40:00.000-07:00

AMD should be able to start selling processors manufactured ba 65nm process during october. By Toraf Gueldner, (chief of manufacturing in both AMD factories in Dresden) AMD started to amnufacture chips by 65 nm in june, and since september, they are being manufactured at full capacities. But its still unknown which chips AMD now manufacture by 65 nm process, and which are their specifications. We can only speculate, that if they do it same way as when they were changing 130 nm process for 90 nm, they will first do mobile processors, than desktop ones and server pieces will be last.

Vista RC-1

2006-09-04T00:15:00.000-07:00

Just few days after Microsoft released build 5536 of their new Operation system called Windows Vista, and now beta testers recieved version said to be RC-1. That should mean that system is nearly completed, and Microsoft ecpects only minor problems with it now. RC-1 is available for testing on both 32 and 64 bit computer platforms. Hm, beta testing is nice, but as allways, Mircosoft wil finally test it on custommers, who will need to pay for "honor" to be used as test rabbits.. Price for Vista should be about 200$ for Vista Home version, and about 400$ fro Vista Ultimate. Incredibly high price.. maybe this will slow down spreading of this system.

Trend Micro blog about malware

2006-08-04T22:53:00.000-07:00

Trend Micro Incorporated, well known cantivirus software developer started new service for all internet users. It is say.. blog about malware, articles should be written by developer specialists, and directly in time, they found new form of bad programs, so be really aactual. If this will work as promised, there will be published adresses of spyware, phishing and similar pages nearly instantly. But i see one little problem: Who will know about this service, and who will use it? Yes, its nice, ya its free, but WHO will (when recieve link to nice page) first look there and check, if its not listed as something bad?

200 milions copies of Firefox downloaded

2006-08-02T03:21:00.000-07:00

Mozilla Corporation celebrated BIG event. One year and 9 months since they released first version of their open source web browser Firefox, it reached really nice number of downloaded copies: 200 milions. But this number represents only people downloading it from official firefox servers, how many people downloaded it from another sources is unknown, and also how many people downloaded it more than once. Mozilla is now preparing to release version 2.0, which should compete to Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. Go, go.. everybody can do things working better than Microsoft.. I had one old computer, only used for web browsing. And must say, Firefox runs on it 2* faster than Explorer.

Google will pay $90M

2006-07-28T08:07:00.000-07:00

Before some time Google was accused from selling advertising space (adwords program) in way, which can result in cheat clicks, and 70 companies who paid milions of dollars want their money back. And now court has decided. Google is guilty, their advertising program can really cheat their custommers, and they should recieve back (not in cash, but in more adwertising credit) $3,8 for each $1000 spend in last 4,5 years. That dont sound like high sum of money, but when you count that google use really much people, its (together with payments to lawyers who should also recieve more than $ 30 000 000) sum of 90 milions of dollars. That is prettz big hole in accountancy. Google of course told, they will take measures that will prevent of repeating this situation.

Hitachi-LG BlueRay writer

2006-07-27T08:21:00.000-07:00

Hitachi-LG GBW-H10N is the only BluRay writer capable of writing 4X speed on BD-R and BD-RE disks. That means speed 18MB/s and that is now i would say best possible spped, because of system throughput. Current harddrives read data in speed around 50-60 MB per second, but thats only when readed data are on same track and together. When there are mechanical delays (moving heads to new position, waiting until drive rotates to right position etc..) speed is going down. There are some delays between riding data from one device, and send them to another to write, so i think that real speed will be less than proclaimed 4X. But there is big plus, because this drive can also read and write CDs and DVDs. Price is set to $923, which is pretty fair. (Whoa, after long time first article where is not placed AMD.. but ist really only because AMD make many things those days.)

AMD demonstrated 4X4 platform

2006-07-27T08:19:00.000-07:00

4X4 is based on dual socketed board, capable of running two AM2 dualcore processors simultaneously. They demonstrated on 2 Athlons 64 FX in one board. So in reality it brings extreme power to those who need to run much programs simultaneously. Ya, its really good for multitasking when on one core runs 5 applikations instead of 20, but i would say that people who will really use such system are few. But its can be big advertising, especially because there are rumours taht AMD want to sell for those computers both processors (and maybe even motherboard) for price under $1000. (Now they cost over $800 for 1 piece.) Just hope thet also rumours that even weaker processors should be used in those boards are true.. Because IF.. imagine system containing two 4600+ processors which now cost only $250 per piece.. That will be extremly powerfull, and not so expensive comp.

AMD lowered prices

2006-07-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

ANd there are some good news for those who prefer AMD processors in their pcs. AMD lowered nearly all prices, and this time its not about 1% down as usual. Many processors (including those really powerfull, dual cored 4600+ and 5000+ models went down more than 50%, so dont wait, buy them whenever you can, this is really amazing price drop. For example Athlon X2 64 5000+ cost now only $300. OF course when you take at least 1000 pieces, but this means that in shops they should be available for prices starting somewhere around $350 instead of more than 700 as before.

AMD prosecuted Intel again

2006-07-19T04:54:00.000-07:00

This time in germany. By AMD gained Media Markt high (and unfair) profits from selling only pcs Intel Inside. Intel really did such things in mayn countries. Sellers who dont use AMD processors can buy Intel components at much better prices than others, its really unfair way to promote their processors.

Microsoft ended support for Windows ME and 98

2006-07-12T00:06:00.000-07:00

Microsoft today officially ended all support for those two old versions of Windows. Its mainly because problems with security in those.. They are old, contain too many holes in security (even with all available patches) and are too problematic to be supported. Microsoft also hopes that this step will force users using those old systems to move onto XP, which will bring nice profit. By experts is not probable that many people will do this, because most users who need security on computer already moved to XP, and those others, who have 98 or ME at second or third comp at home (mostly offline) wont leave them.

Office 2007 Will suport ODF

2006-07-08T03:34:00.000-07:00

ODF, Open Document Format will be supported even by Microsoft Office 2007. Just to be sure, not included in Microsoft software, but There are already finished filters (on sourceforge) which will allow to open and write ODF together with Word. Support for another Microsoft office programs such as Excel or Outlook will be finished soon. But that doesnt mean all documents will be ok, there are some features in both formats, which arent included in that second one. Hope some time there will be era without problematic Microsoft software, and Open formats will rule. Or at least they will have support directly in Microsoft products, no that somebody will have to create format converter.

Xbox 360 wouldnt contain HD-DVD

2006-07-04T12:29:00.000-07:00

Microsoft oficially demented possibility, that their new game console Xbox 360 should in special edition contain internal HD-DVD drive. HD-DVD will exist in external version, like exist external drives (not important of which type) for notebooks. Microsoft didnt mentioned price ofexternal drive for Xbox, but it will be probably high. Hm, when Microsoft say something wont exist, and didnt work, its ultimately true.. Worse is it when they promise something will work.

New Sony VAIO TX3

2006-06-13T14:07:00.000-07:00

Sony is introducing new generation of VAIO notebooks. VAIO TX3 will be based on Core Solo processor, 11" display, 512 Mb ram, 40 or 80 Gb hard drive, DVD writer, USB 2.0, FireWire, bluetooth and of course WiFi. Interresant is time which should this all run on baterry, it will be nearly 10 hours. Wieght of notebook will be 1,2Kg, price is unknown. (But probably pretty high)

Woodcrest

2006-05-27T03:27:00.000-07:00

Finally revealed. And it seems that Intel finally made progress in processors, because its really as effecient as promised. Piece which was send to Tech Report worked on 3ghz, and was slightly faster than Opteron 285. It works with new FB DIMM memories, and even with those memories (they are so power hungry, that they need active cooling) is TDP less than with previous processors. And that is good for all, because when dual cored processor eat less than single core, there have to be significant improvement in power consumption. Lets just wait to see, if so powerfull will be all new processors, or Intel released special piece for testing, and others will be significantly worse.

65nm AMDs

2006-05-18T03:49:00.000-07:00

AMD announced that they will start supplying processors manufactured by 65nm process in November this year. This is great, because originally was thought they will be available at January or February next year. All those processors will be dual core, and its supposed that because its overall spece will be about half, they can be sold at nice prices.

ICANN wont create XXX domain

2006-05-14T01:52:00.000-07:00

After many talkings and delays there is finally result: ICANN leaders vote 5 for and 9 against creating domain .xxx which should contain only porn material. Plan was to create special domain for porn only to make it easier to control, not showing to young and children etc.. But it seems its problematic even to its makers, so they decided to at least let it be for a time.

Quad SLI

2006-05-06T09:04:00.000-07:00

HEy, that sounds great. Within few days (week) there should be first nVidia GeForce 7950 GX2 card, which will allow you to make Quad SLI in your home pc. (If you are milionaire probably, they will be really expensive) Cards will contain 2 nVidia 7900 chips (500 mhz), with 512 mb memory for each of them (ya, really 1GB of graphic memory on card) memory would rum at 1,2 ghz. But there are some problems, first is price. Its supposed cards will cost around 800-900$. Also those who will buy can expect problems with drivers. And that isnt all, each card would consume 143 watts, so for quad sli you can expect 280-290 watts taken only by graphic cards. (Hm, that mean pc with fast processor, big memories, say 4 drives, dvd rw etc can eat about 600 watts + monitor can take 100 more. Need personal own power plant for that..)

Working SLI on ATI board

2006-05-03T11:48:00.000-07:00

SLI can work on any board that contain at least 2* PCIe 8X, but fact that hardware allows it to work is not as important. Problem is, that Nvidia want to be paid for each boar that directly supports SLI, so many manutfacturers ignore it. BUt there are maniacs who want to do things just because nobody did it so far, and they are trying to run SLI at each board. And now one of them (call himself Coolaler) made working SLI on board DFI CFX320 DR. He persuaded drivers that they run on Nvidia board, and it worked. Hm, i dont see any practical use of that, but its interesting of course.

AMD will release socket AM2 sooner

2006-04-19T11:11:00.000-07:00

Than it was expected. Instead June 6th it will be at May 23rd. Its because AMD can now easily manufacture enough processors for new socket, and they of course probably think that Intel processors would loose until releasing Conroe core, so AMD want to use time until it is released to sell as much as possible. Hm, that sounds great, just when will be boards with this new socket available in Europe? I dont think soon enough to satisfy people who now need to buy new comp and so waiting for new technologies.

AMDs new factory

2006-04-06T11:34:00.000-07:00

In Dresden oficially strated manufacturing of processors which should be available on market yesterday. Ya, factory was already manufacturing some processors for few month, but those were samples, used in tests proving that already is ok, and there isnt any problem with equipment or software used to manufacture. It should be really good for all those who love AMD, because those new Fab 36 will more than double its processor production. Old Fab 30 is working on 200 mm waffers, and is (by me) capable to manufacture 90 nm process at best. New Fab 36 should work with 300 mm waffers (twice space on each) and can work also at 65 nm, which should allow to manufacture there also newly developed processors. (I just hope, that soon will be really used 30 nm process, developed by IBM, just think about it, 10 Ghz processor with 8 or more cores.. And in ideal case, this processor translating X86 code for 16 cell processors doing real work..)

Passed time

2006-03-22T15:04:00.000-08:00

And i am here again. Must say sorry, i have problems with health, work and was addict on online gaming, so cant write here anything. But now it changed again, i am able to work, and also bring here technical news. First of them today is announcement mady by Microsoft, windows vista will be available at 2007. Lets hope that promised safety tests arent only blur made over another problems, fact is, that windows allways had many safety problems.

And second today news is very interesting, Nvidia is working on technology calleh Havok FX, which should allow graphic card to compute physical interactions between items and particles. So same work as should do Ageia PhysX, but directly on graphic card. SLI is highly recommended, for that. Engine isnt finished yet, but look very interesting. At least with two graphic card your comp will run better games which dont support any physical acceleration.

Its CeBIT

2006-03-12T09:17:00.000-08:00

One of biggest shows connected with computers and electronics. So try to talk at least shortly about some new technical thingies.

At first, many of us wait for introduction of new AMD socket AM2 processors. They still arent available, but many motherboards for them were introduced, so hope processors will follow soon, and they will really be so powerfull as AMD said.

GeForce 7600 and 7900 officially introduced. They should appera on market nearly instanteously. 7900 should cost about 500$, 7600 200$, which seems to be reasonable price for card with respectable power.

Also Radeon X1800 GTO was officially released to public. Its High end chip X1800 from which were cut some functions, pipelines and lowered frequencies. Those pieces allways bid big oportunities, because when you are lucky, you buy high end card for less than half price, just unlock pipelines and overclock it. (more tommorrow)

Nforce 4 SATA have problems with 3 of 5 drives

2006-03-01T10:48:00.000-08:00

Fact that nforce 4 chipset have problems with some Serial ata drives is known for long time, but there is new and rather shocking disclosure of facts with which hard drives are problems. Its affects many Seagate, Hitachi and Maxtor drives, which together represents 3/5 of market, so before buying any drive you should ensure that its non problematic combination. What are exactly mean by word problems? Facts that board based on that chipset sometimes cant detect drive at all, sometimes it can work sloooowly and even worse, it can lost some data. Sometimes copies of files dont match, what it can cause know everybody who know computer. I think problems is not just in chipset and drives, by me to all this adds also problematic serial ata interface, which wasnot clear from its start. Just remember what problems had drives which were native IDE, and were connected throught Sata. Its not about loving old technology, but when that new is problematic, i will stay at old ones.

Ibm have technology allowing to create chips by 29,9 mn.

2006-02-21T06:14:00.000-08:00

Its almost incredible, but researchers in IBM labs discovered how to make chips by process 29.9 nm, its one third of current 90nm. Nice, that means 9 times more transistors can be printed on same place. It is also already less that was thought to be maximal (minimal) possibility of optical litography, way how are currently made all chips. IBM leads research to discover where really ends possibilities of that (many years old) technology of manufacturing, before all manufacturers will have to start using another, modern but also much expensive methods. It is being supposed, that this technology will be used at least 7 more years, so probably prices of chips wont rise in that time.

bmw.de banned by google

2006-02-08T03:55:00.000-08:00

Google removed bmw.de pages from its index. Is was happend because those german pages used some unclean techniques to rise its pagerank, and to get there more people. By google problem was by using so called doorway pages, which are extremly rich in keywords, but contain no real content. And user cant see them, because he is redirected to another page. He dont know, that something bad had been done to him, but its really dirty to rise numbers of visitors by doing this. But, there is some difference between private persons and big company. And that is in fact, that google will return bmw's pages into index immediatelly after they remove those doorways. Normal user can hope, that his pages will be unbanned in about year. (But this is only, how i interprete official message, dont know if its true, and if for example bmw wont pay some money for its return to google.)

2006-02-05T18:33:00.000-08:00

Jazyk slouží k tomu, aby pojmenovával odlišnosti, ale velmi často je zneužíván k vytváření neférových, stereotypních a manipulativních kontextů. Musíme se mít na pozoru před jejich vytvářením, právě u výrazů a stereotypních pojmů, které byly v minulosti v tomto smyslu hrubě zneužívány. Ve své práci jako computer system analyst jsem musel velmi vážit použitá slova a výrazy, aby vyvolaly stejné pocity u čtenářů mých specifikací. V případě nejasností jsme dokonce používali meta-jazyků k vysvětlení těchto nejasnosti. Jinak se velmi často stávalo že jeden mluvil o koze a druhý o voze. Mnohem vážnější je, že nejde jen o Grebeníčka, ale o celou Komunistickou stranu Čech a Moravy, která bohužel ani na sjezdu ani do této doby nedořešila kádrové otázky. Důsledkem toho je, že ve vedení strany je několik lidí, kteří se nejen nedomluví, ale na veřejnosti vypravuje každý něco jiného a ještě k tomu podle toho pro které noviny či televizi. Včetně několika rozvratníků v pozadí, kteří ještě zapáchají „arogantními aparátnickými manýry“, aby druhé označovali za „stalinisty“ a sami sebe prezentovali jako ty správné a pokrokové. Je téměř výsměchem, když nás žádá o zprávu o průběhu stranického vzdělávání místopředseda ÚV KSČM Dolejš, který by sám nejen toto vzdělávání, ale spíše kurs elementární logiky pro začátečníky velmi potřeboval.

First bug in IE7 discovered within 15 minutes

2006-02-02T18:51:00.000-08:00

15 minutes after IE 7 beta 2 version went out of Microsoft, was discovered first bug in it. Its nice, because Microsoft announced that 7 version should be much more safe than previous. Much better is fact, that this bug is absolute new, wasnt in any previous version of IE. What is it? When IE meet src=// and very long char chain within, it crash.. And more than crash, when used proper code, attacker may take controll of computer. Really nice little thingie, dont you think?

Windows vista will be late

2006-02-01T05:54:00.000-08:00

By Jima Allchin, president of Microsoft division Platform Products & Services will Windows Vista appear in shops in day when he will retire. Its not joke, he want to retire in few coming months, but it also mean that already really late Vista will be even later than expected. It is (as said) because Microsoft want better stability and security of their new product. Sad is, that Vista (under codename Longhorn) is being developed since 2003 (maybe some parts even sooner) and still not complete. Just hope this time will be at least truth that system will work and will be compatible with older applications.

IE 7

2006-01-31T11:41:00.000-08:00

From Microsoft escaped unfinished version of Internet Explorer 7. It support CSS, and also some RSS. It should finally open certified pages without problems. BUt its still unfinished, and unknown thing is, how much is this version similar to final? Microsoft of course dont say.

New Google toolbar

2006-01-30T22:33:00.000-08:00

Google released new version of toolbar, this have number 4.0. It bring some new features (as expected) and also is first which comes in two defferent distributions, one for home, second for companies (hmm, where is difference? that your chief will recieve your mails before you?). New function is about bookmarks, which will be now stored on google server, and you can access them from any computer. There will be also advanced searcheing, rss feed functions and also possibility to send somebody page throught mail, sms or directly to phone. Nice, but seems to me that shared bookmarks can do problems. Just remember Us government is trying to force Google to give up search database, when they will demand all bookmarks?

New AMD platforms will support 4 core processors

2006-01-27T06:55:00.000-08:00

By Marty Seyer, Vice president of comercial business and Performance Computing division of AMD will new platforms (socket M2 and 1207) support 4 cored processors. It is same, as 939 and 940 sockets support dual cored. But, msot exciting on that message is that AMD is going to show 4 cores together with those new sockets, which means that AMD also have prepared working 65 nm manufacturing technology, and can introduce it any moment. Both new sockets (and processors into them of course) are expected to be shown on CeBIT. Nice, more power is allways needed.

Intel demonstrated chips manufactured by 45 nm process

2006-01-26T13:10:00.000-08:00

Intel made another step in chip manufacturing technology and demonstrated SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) made by process 45 nm. Which should probably be demonstration of their manufacturing superiority over others, its not long time since they demonstrated first processors made by 65 nm. THat sounds good, but there are also news, that 65 nm processors heat only few percent less than its current P4s.

Dirk Meyer became new president of AMD

2006-01-24T06:15:00.000-08:00

Former president of AMD Hector Ruiz is no more president, but only Chief Executive Officer and also Chairman of the Board. Dirk Meyer cames to AMD in 1995, year leter was promoted to director of team working on Athlon processors. In his carrier he also worked some time for Intel and Alpha. And now, when 44 years old, he had been named as president of entire AMD, lets hope it will be change to good.

AMD prices changed!

2006-01-22T12:45:00.000-08:00

AMD announced new prices of their processors, so lets look. Prices of opterons will rise, (only which goes cheaper is most powerfull model) but prices of all X2 dual cored processors and also FX series will go down, for Athlon FX 57 and X2 4800 is it about 20% price down. So those new prices will probably glad those who want buy powerfull processors, those who want low end opteron as cheap and powerfull variant wont be pleased.

First cards with G-Force 7300

2006-01-21T09:29:00.000-08:00

It was supposed they will bear name 7200, but (probably due to X1300 ATI cards i think) Nvidia finally named those cards 7300. Those chips are first first Nvidia desktop pieces made by 90nm technology, and run pretty fast (for low end of course). They should work on 550 mhz, with memories on 800 mhz, which allows pretty good throughput, even with 64 bit memories (which seems to me are only problem, if that cards will be able to use 128 bit memory, they will be very good.) But it still should have pretty good output for reasonable price.

AMD with more cache?

2006-01-20T08:30:00.000-08:00

AMD is duscuting with Innovative Silicon Inc about using their memory which is described as zero-capacitor memory, (Z-RAM). It allows much more density, because it doesnot contain capacitators which in normal memory takes lot of space. AMD wan to use that memory as processor cache, which can give then much more power.

80 nm chips

2006-01-17T11:57:00.000-08:00

TSMC, one of leaders in manufacturing of chips is now starting using new manufacturing process, which will allow them to reduce size of single chip by 20%. That is only minor change, but it will probably bring slightly lower prices, cause from same waffer will be manufactured 20% more chips. Also they will probably heat slightly less, so they wont make too much noise from cooling etc. 80 nm process is not completely new, its only optimalization of 90 mn, but it still can bring some good. (Remember, first pentium was only optimalised 486.. And also when Intel have pentium on 60 mhz with problems when counting, AMD have 486 on 133 mhz fine working..)

Acer introduced new notebooks

2006-01-14T11:54:00.000-08:00

Acer introduced some new notebooks based on Intel Core Duo processors. They all are made from carbon fibers and contain webcamera as support of video conferences. of course all of them contain also wifi, clasical network interface, sound..

Intel Merom probably in September

2006-01-13T07:53:00.000-08:00

Probable time when Intel Merom processors will appear on market is September. They will be manufactured on 65 nm, and contain new architecture (not like P4) which bring 64 bit instructions, high computing power and low power consumption. Just hope that it will be really true, not like P4s which are much more owen than processor.

Apple introducing computers based on Intel processors

2006-01-12T06:29:00.000-08:00

Before some time Apple shocked by announcing that their new computers will be based on Intel processors. Although that message seems unprobable, it is true, now Apple really introduced computer based on Intel DUo processor. By Apple even one core is faster than IBM chips, two cores should be aprox 3 times more powerfull. Strange, when Apple used IBM, all said that their chips are much more powerfull. Just wait how it will look in reality, and how much power will consume program called Rosetta, which should allow run aplications made for IBM processors on x86 architecture.

Asus and Lamborgini

2006-01-08T01:35:00.000-08:00

Planning together special serie of noteboks manufactured by Asus and designed by Lamborgini. Serie will exist in two colour versions, yellow and black and it should represent connection of two companies, each of it top in its domain. No technical specifications are known, but that should change soon, probably in this week. Hm, i think it will be expensive because of those big names, cheaper notebook will probably do same work.

Rambus and AMD

2006-01-05T02:16:00.000-08:00

Rambus and AMD have made deal that for next five years they will share DDR2, DDR3, FB-DIMM, XDR and PCI Express technologies, and also its about technologies coming. This is pretty importand, because it will allow AMD to use much faster memories. By Rambus deal is very good, and after those years it will be probably prolonged. Price of that deal was 70 milions dollars.

Google will present its own pc

2006-01-04T12:50:00.000-08:00

No they arent going to start manufacturing thousands tons of pcs, but they are going to mount many of them together as google's own pc, together with their software. This should be extremly cheap pc, used to browse web, and be sold in US by Wal-Mart