Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Athlon XP 2100+: AMD Turns Up The Heat - Maxed Out: Palomino Core Up To 1800 MHz

Our test results show that AMD won't have to worry any time soon, even if its arch enemy Intel keeps turning up the megahertz-dial. And why not? Even with its considerably lower clock speed, the AMD Athlon XP 2100+ gets up in the face of its competitor Intel when used with your everyday applications.

Tom's Hardware Guide CPU Guide: Clash Of The OC'd Titans: Athlon XP 2300+ vs. Pentium 4/3000 - Speed Euphoria: AMD vs. Intel - Who's Ahead?

It might sound like a standard topic, but in reality it's quite dramatic: the AMD Athlon XP 2300+ challenges the Intel Pentium 4/3000. We've overclocked these two processors to the extreme, and in the end, they bedazzle with performances that will not be available on the market for another nine months. After all, with their latest offerings, the two manufacturers tout their respective processors as representatives of maximum performance levels. The task of coaxing that maximum performance out of the two competitors presented us with a particular challenge, but it was all done under conditions for absolutely stable operation.

Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into OS X - Frequently-asked questions about Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server

OpenUp

OpenUp allows you to double-click on compressed and archived files and have them open in the Workspace. It supports decompressing PAX, GNUTAR and ZIP archives, as well as arc, arj, atob, uuencode, bzip, toast, gzip, compress, lha, pax, zip and zoo.

Gamecube Europe: News - News: XBox Sales Dissapointing

It appears that things are not going very well with the Xbox. Official reports have come in that huge retailers are already dropping the Xbox price because the console does not sell. MediaMarkt is one of the huge retailers dropping their price. They dropped their xbox price from 479 euro to 399 euro. Is is being said that because of the lack in pre-orders they are trying to clear their stock.

via hbwt - UNIX under the Desktop

Regardless of the technical and religious differences that separate the many breeds of UNIX, expertise at one ports well to another: from Solaris to HP-UX to AIX to Linux to BSD to Darwin and OS X. If you want to hack, the environment is there--so are the tools and the community.

Put another way, OS X gives us the first popular desktop OS that fits into a prevailing Linux environment and also into the prevailing marketplace. On the bottom, it's UNIX. On the top, it runs Microsoft Office and the whole Adobe suite. This has its appeals.

Terry Elliot has some strong views on Extreme Learning. To a certain extent, the fact Terry cites Extreme Programming and provides links to some great XP resources is testamount to the power of the medium we are both using to discuss this subject. I think this is step change in the way we teach and the way we learn.

Terry has also contributed to the SiT thread on Extreme Learning (XL)

Is there any overlap between XP and XL. Are there any lessons to be learnt? I would suggest that the end product of an XP 'project' is both a product - the actual program that satisfies the project requirements - and the knowledge captured in the heads of the extreme programmers and in the source code of the extreme programs (and any documentation of course ;-))

What, then, is the end product of a XL 'project'? I contend it is primarily the knowledge captured in the heads of the extreme learners and a 'product' in terms of the weblogs (documentation) and other online resources that the XL team brought together to construct their knowledge. This symmetry appeals to me.

At the Forge: Zope Products

Last month we took an initial look at the open-source Zope application server. In particular, we saw how you can use Zope's DTML (dynamic template markup language) tags to create simple dynamic sites, as well as how you can manage a web site using nothing more than a web browser.

From The Register | DSL cartographers map Scotland

Business ISP edNET has launched a new Web site so that it can map broadband demand in Scotland.

If those behind broadbandscotland.net can prove there is sufficient demand in areas currently not served by high-speed Internet access, then they will either press BT to enable the exchange or unbundle it themselves.

Those of you, like me, that may live in sparsely populated areas of Scotland with little prospect of BT installing ASDL might want to make your demand known. It only takes a couple of minutes at broadbandscotland.net:

Until now, there has been no way for Internet users in Scotland to let any ISP other than BT Openworld know that there is demand for broadband access in their area. The aim is for us to build up a comprehensive map of demand in Scotland, and actually deliver high quality broadband Internet access in areas where demand justifies it. Unlike some larger ISPs, we can create cost justification on volumes of less than 100 subscribers, meaning we can get it to you faster and better than any other ISP. Just the way the Internet should be!

via Scripting News - Manufactured Serendipity

So why do I blog? Because it works It finds worthwhile things for me to read. It helps me refine and focus my thoughts and be more productive too. And most of all, creates the opportunity to interact with more interesting people That's what's in it for me.

Spot on! Couldn't have said it better myself. Of course, there a few more reasons some of which are mentioned by Sam ;-)

Steve Pilgrim's reasons for weblogging.

Ranchero: Web File Types CM Plugin

Thanks Brent!

Several people have already pointed The Register | Benchmarks demolish Apple speed boasts out to me.

I'm not going to defend/attack the benchmark results other than to say that a the 2nd processor support and AltiVec boosts were not enabled. As someone who has always had a high respect for SPEC I'm not going to belittle/fudge this issue. There's no doubt that it's a setback for Apple. I'll need to look carefully at the results and will not draw hasty conclusions until I have done so.

via hbwt - Eastgate Tinderbox: the tool for notes. Looks interesting.

Well whaddya know - WilliamShatner.com - The Official William Shatner Website is maintained by the man himself. I'm surprised he didn't name it Captain's (web)Log ;-)

When I get into work tomorrow I'll need to download Mozilla 0.9.9 over a fast connection.