Well it does according to the June 2008 edition of ‘Business Buyer’s Guide’ from DABS.! Here is a scan of page 41
The Core 2 Duo E6550 has a clock speed of 233GHz and the E8500 has a clock speed of 316GHz! Whilst the poor old AMD 4800 only has 2.5GHz clock.
And no, I haven’t been meddling with the image other than to reduce its size.
I was asked to write some basic instructions on how to set up a laptop and projector so that it can be used to display a PowerPoint presentation and here it is.
You can download it as a PowerPoint version or a PDF Version
I’ve got a new toy. Actually its a new PC built by my own hands. The main reasons for getting it are to run a bunch of databases for development work and to have a system to play with linux. Its got an AMD Athlon X2 2300 BE and 4 Gig of memory mainly for all of the Oracle databases I sometimes need to run. I’m using the 64 bit version of CENTOS 5 and the 64 bit version of Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition. The installation went pretty smoothly once I’d got the correct libraries loaded, but then I have put Oracle onto Linux before so I new what to look for.
The new PC is mainly going to run headless so I want to connect from my work PC (which runs Windows XP) and be able to control apps such as Oracle dbca (Database Configuration Assistant). Now I has read a bit about forwarding X windows over ssh so the question was how to get an X Windows session running over ssh on a Windows laptop.
The answer was to use Innotek’s VirtualBox to run Ubuntu on top of Windows XP and open an X Session over ssh to the new PC and then run dbca……and it works! The picture shows dbca running from the server in Ubuntu on Windows XP.
It was one of those days at work and I was about to be involved in a teleconference with some colleagues. This was the third one we had set up, the other two having lasted over 2 hours. Now, when you phone up the teleconference number you are asked to say your name so that when you are connected to the conference your presence is announced :- “Fiery Fred has joined the conference”. It will also announce when you leave the conference :- “Fiery Fred has left the conference”. You know, I thought, that sounds just like the famous “Elvis has left the building”. So when I joined the conference I announced myself as Elvis only to collapse in fits of laughter when I heard 2 other Elvises (is that the plural?) join the conference as well.
I know, its not that funny in the retelling. You just had to be there.
This just made me laugh…
I finally gave in and bought a new mobile phone. The old brick was at least six years old and could be used for phoning people and for writing text messages….slowly. It didn’t have predictive text so it was the old multi key push way of writing messages.
The new phone is a Nokia 3110 classic and the first thing I did after geting it home was download the Nokia PC Suite so that I could use the PC to transfer images and addresses to the phone. The next thing I did was to download the SDK from Nokia because the phone runs Java applications so in theory I ought to be able to write an application. Once I’ve worked out what killer app I should write I may even get around to coding it.
One idea would be to use the phone to talk to a PC via BlueTooth so that is could control a USB missile launcher (I actually bought one from PC World when they were reduced in the New Year sales). Why Bluetooth? Well it saves having to pay expensive mobile internet charges!
Mr. Ben said that I hadn’t posted anything for a while. So here is a post!
I was around at Mr. Ben’s house last night to watch Liverpool beat Marseille and we had to watch it on the internet. It is the first time that I have actually seen live tv over the internet and I was impressed by the quality. I mean it wasn’t up to broadcast standard but it was still pretty good considering it was coming over the wire. However, I’m not sure what it would be like if everybody in the area was watching at the same time and I’m not convinced that using the internet is the best way to deliver real time tv programs.
I had a phone message from one of my workmates at a previous employer about the software that I helped to write whilst I was there. Apparently the current custodians have broken some bits of it and they may as me to help fix it. Which should be interesting if it happens. The code is in C++ which I haven’t done anything serious with in the last 2 years. The bigger issue is going to be looking at the old code and thinking ‘OMG! What was I doing when I wrote this!’
I’d like to think I’m a wiser and better coder than I was when I last contributed to that software which was over 3 years ago. We’ll just have to see.
I’ve setup a copy of this site on one of the PCs at home so that I could play with WordPress without totally trashing the live version. Last night I thought I would have a bit of a play with altering the site on the PC and tried to login….only I couldn’t because I’ve forgotten the username and password and because it is a local version of the site I haven’t set up an email address. No problem I thought, I’ll just access the MySQL database and hack the relevant table..except I can’t remember the password for that either. I’m sure I wrote it down somewhere……