Arthro Theoreio (The BOX) v.1.0.158

Bye bye DUOs HELLO QUADs (I love AMD!)

Lately AMD has announced the latest addition to their FX series processors the FX-62 and
an AMD athlon 5000+, both of which frying their Intel counterparts in PCmag's Test. In fact most of the leading PC assemblers had used the new FX-62 for their bleeding edge gaming PCs like the Poly 590SLI4 FX-62/DualCore, But these CPUs from AMD are not our real topic these processors are just a part or the two part punch or AMD to Intel. It was not enough for AMD to just kill and fry Intel's P4 Extreme Edition and even Prescott.

The second part of AMD's assault is the upcoming release of a Quad-Core Processor.

Here are some articles that has discussed the Upcoming release of the most anticipated Quad-Cores

• Darkvision Hardware
• Softpedia
• Anandtech

After reading these articles, I got really happy. not becuase I want to have the latest Quad-Core from AMD, but becuase this means that Most dual-cores will become cheaper now. Although I think the deployment of those quad-cores will take awhile becuase rith now there is no MOBO that can support quad-cores yet but then again it's not really a very long time before MOBO makers like ASUS release one of those really cool and powerful quad-core compatible and quad-SLI capable Mother boards.

Again, AMD has prooved to Intel that they are thinking of the future needs of their costumers.

I wonder what bill will think about doing next?

Hey! remember my previous post about all my randoms thoughts about what's going on in the tech world? and how I said that Bill has been trying (over actingly) to recover most of the lost market dominance that Microsoft had? well this also included the web services sector, and lately when I was checkin' out most of the posts in Dvorak's Blog I saw an article that says Microsoft is planning to buy E-bay to integrate the famous auction site to their MSN.com webpage in order to try to challenge Google's dominance in this sector.

I wonder what bill will think about doing next?

Thank God there are Blogs!

A few years back (that's about 4 years) making a personal webpage requires one to have HTML knowledge and one must know how to use web content making applications like microsoft's Frontpage, but now things has changed. Now, as long as you have an idea of what you want your site to be and you know have to use the net there's no stopping you to make one.. well... atleast a Blog that is.

The very first time that I heard the blog I did not really have any idea of what it really was and its use. So what is a Blog?

Blog

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A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.

Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

So, a blog is generally a webspace that can be used accoring to the owner's own purposes, (more like a swiss knife isn't it?) but what is the diff. Between a Website and a Blog?

On an ordinary user's perspective there isn't that much, only that building a webpage is a lot more complicated than making a Blog. and blogs are pretty much less versitile than Websites where you can upload applications and put in some neat stuuf that you can't really do in most blog sites, though some blogging services now have some of the features  that I mentioned, for a price of course.

there are so many types of blogs now, there are personal blogs which contain the user's personal details and sometimes even thier Public diary, there are also newblogs like Dvorak's Blog that posts some of the tech rumors and news there are also corporate blogs where workers can Post things (like their disappointment to their bosses) and some are just blogs for fun and venues for discussion and posting their opinions about a certain topics. Blogs are truly one of the greatest innonvations in the tech world today and they have made having your own webspace a reality.

Thank God there are Blogs!

Random thoughts about the Tech world

I have always been a very big fan of Mozilla's Firefox web Browser and I have been using it as my default browser for almost three years now. I started using it way back when it was only at version 0.x. And now  the current version of the browser is 1.5.0.3 and I've seen many dramatic changes, but lately I have been noticing that the current version (1.5.0.3) which I use has been crashing from time to time. And I found out why, Firefox has been having some trouble in processing Flash objects.

Firefox now has more than 1 million users all around the world and it is currently one of the  most popular web browsers in the Web.

So, maybe you're thinking what the heck is he trying to prove here? nothing really, I just wanted to see the improvements and the flaws that one of the fastest growing web browser in the user's perspective and not in the "techy" point of view, now here is where Microsoft's IE failed.

Microsoft has been always trying to beef up and over stuff it's web browser with features that most ordinary users would not even bother to use, at more than 10MB of download size it's such a wonder why IE6 has lesser innovation than that of Mozilla's Firefox. In fact it took Microsoft more than a Year to apply tabbed-brwsing technology in their flagship browser.

Of course as I mentioned earlier, Firefox has its own flaws to. it is not perfect. but it has always puzzled me that Microsoft has been left behind in the Browser war. not only this, Bill has been losing a big chunk of his OS market to Linux and MAC. So, where has Bill's company been spending thier efforts? still I'm having no answers about to this question, But lately I have been seeing over kill efforts to try and regain most of the market that Bill has lost in the past few years, more and more products that aim to make the computing life of Bill's consumers easier. But then again do they really like the products that Bill has been giving? and are we really left to have a choice? MAC? Linux?

Well MACs are great, but they still give lesser performance than PCs, Linux? well that would have been a very good choice but then again just how many users can really install or even know how to troubleshoot a linux box?

In the application aspect, there has been a steady rise in popularity among open-source softwares. but then again are they really that good? are they really that reliable? when they bug down will there be someone to help the users about their problems? sadly the answer is still "No".

Just how long will we consumers be tied to whatever software giants like Microsoft has to offer?
and when will the monopoly of Bill's microsoft end and the freedome to choose begin? I do hope it is very soon.

but don't tell me that did not warn you! (Win Vista)

Lately there has been a type of OS frenzy among the Microsft Windows users, this is because the much awaited and long overdue Windows Vista  has already released its Beta 2, this means the OS is pretty much in the release state of developement in this stage the OS should be very stable and most of the application softwares should already run smoothly on the  WIn Vista.

Also, during this week Microsoft has also released the minimum specs for runnning Vista on ones Rig.
the minimum specs are as follows:

A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

• A modern processor (at least 800MHz).
• 512 MB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable

and the recommended Rig specs should be as follows:

A Windows Vista Premium Ready PC includes at least:

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor.
• 1 GB of system memory.
• A graphics processor that runs Windows Aero.
• 128 MB of graphics memory.
• 40 GB of hard drive capacity with 15 GB free space.
• DVD-ROM Drive.
• Audio output capability.
• Internet access capability.

Yes, that's true. Win Vista requires some of the latest hardware specs so that it would be able to run on your Rig. While for some this kind of setup may not be a very big problem, the hardware requirement issue is a big issue for corporate users.

So, for most of the long-time Windows users the Jump from XP or 2000 Pro to Vista may be a very costly one. Furthermore, not all hardware vendors will be making drivers for Win vista yet.

One more thing to consider is the stability and security of the new OS, we can recall that when Win XP was released there were many major flaws which were found in the OS' kernell.dll. many of the applications that we all use now many not be able to run smoothly under the Vista environment becuase running the OS itself in your PC may already become a burden for your hardware.

For gamers like me, sadly there are no Cool games that will take advantage or atleast be exclusive with Vista. So, why Upgrade?

Here's some common reason that I always see:
1)    it promises a better Computing experience ( yeah but how many times have we heard that from Bill's people?)

2)    it is more sucure. (yeah, like win XP is?)

3)    it's the latest and it has cool features like IE7 that supports tabbed browsing and the new Aero GUI. (yeah like those are new... get firefox or get a Mac or a Linux if you like better looking GUIs)

my conclusion, Win Vista may look good at first glance and yeah I must agree that it is rather fun to play with for some time, it's like buying a new car with all those new bling blings. but then again it all comes down to performance and preference. In my opinion, don't take the plunge yet, don't switch to Vista until all the major flaws have been found and fixed.

Surely as Microsoft's reputation is esp. on their OS they will release Service packs to fix all of those (remember Win 2000 and XP?).

But then again if you don't have the patience to wait for most of the major flaws be addressed first, then do what you want to.

but don't tell me that  did not warn you!