Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor

Intel® Core™ i7 processor

Brilliantly fast

With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel® Core™ i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which maximizes performance to match your workload.

Product information

  • 2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz core speed
  • 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
  • 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
  • 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition

Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition

Wield the ultimate gaming weapon

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest performing processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.¹ With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.¹

In fact, you'll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost technology² and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology (Intel® HT technology)³, which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.

Product information

  • 3.20 GHz core speed
  • 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology
  • 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache
  • 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

Features and benefits

Get extreme with your gaming and advanced multimedia.

Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

  • Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload-more performance when you need it the most.²
  • Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.³
  • Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.
  • Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.
  • Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.
  • Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Under Core i7's Hood: Comparing The C0 And D0 Steppings

Whether you're looking at the IT hardware business or automobile industry, products often receive bug fixes, improvements, or upgrades during their active life cycle. Cars get face-lifted once they’ve been on the market for a while, usually at that halfway point between launch and the introduction of a successor.

In terms of silicon devices, we’re talking about steppings, which often incorporate a number of different improvements. When Intel introduced its Core i7-975 Extreme, it started to replace the 965 Extreme's C0 stepping with the more advanced D0 silicon. We found some significant differences between the two.

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New Steppings Don’t Mean More Performance

First of all, we’d like to make clear that modified processor steppings eliminate known bugs, while also improving the production process. Typically, this includes optimization on a transistor level, which may result in extended clock speed margins, lower voltage requirements for standard operation, or even the addition of features.

As a result, the latest processors normally show better energy efficiency, as they may require slightly less power than previous steppings to deliver the same performance results. However, stepping updates usually do not introduce any performance increase, as the processor vendor would rather have you pay for that.

New Stepping Mean More Possibilities

Other publications, such as AnandTech (Core i7-920 D0 Preview) and X-bit labs (D0 Processor Stepping in Action), already reported impressive results with D0 parts over the previous, first-generation Core i7 C0 stepping. Anand looked at a model 920 while X-bit labs tested a 965-Extreme.

We decided to do an apples-to-apples comparison with both Core i7 Extreme editions: the 3.2 GHz 965 and the 3.33 GHz 975. We set both to run at 3.33 GHz in order to compare performance and, surprisingly, we did find differences. Then we tried to overclock as far as possible on air cooling using a Zalman CPNS 10X cooler. Finally, we performed power comparison measurements at the highest clock speed, which both the C0-based 965 and the D0-based 975 processor would support reliably

AMD Claims Twelve-Core Microprocessors to Retain Similar Thermal Envelope.

Even though the forthcoming code-named Magny-Cours microprocessors with twelve cores will feature two times more processing engines than predecessors, its power consumption will remain on approximately the same level compared to currently available six-core AMD Opteron “Istanbul” chip, the company has revealed.

“AMD designed Magny-Cours chips to draw the same power as Istanbul chips,” said Pat Conway, a member of AMD's technical staff, in a presentation at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, reports ComputerWorld web-site.

When asked about the ways of retaining power consumption of Magny-Cours on the same level with six-core AMD Opteron, the representative for AMD explained that the new twelve-core chip works at lower clock-speed and also sports new power management features. Even though Mr. Conway declined to reveal the clock-speed of twelve-core AMD Opteron, it is known that six core chips consume about 75W at 2.60GHz clock-speed.

AMD Magny-Cours processor will be the first chip for the AMD G34 “Maranello” platform designed for Opteron processors 6000-series with up to 16 cores, quad-channel memory interface, 2 or 4 sockets, up to 12 memory modules per socket and some server and enterprise-specific functionality. Magny-Cours microprocessors feature two six-core dies on one piece of substrate.

In 2011 AMD plans to release a successor for Magny-Cours code-named Interlagos, which will be based on Bulldozer micro-architecture, built using 32nm process technology and contain up to 16 cores.

Intel Announces Core i7 Mobile (Centrino 2) Availability, Just In Time for Windows 7 Launch

Around the time Windows 7 launches publically, you can expect a new shipment of mobile CPU’s from Intel. Finally, Intel has announced that the Core i7 mobile platform (Calpella) will be shipping in the last part of September. Meaning that when you go to buy a new shiny laptop, you might just find one with Windows 7 and a Centrino Nehalem-based architecture.

MSI will be the first to ship notebooks powered by Intel's new mobile platform. The new line-up consist of the Core i7 7200M, Core i7 8200M, and Core i7 920XM. The Clarksfield version of the new CPU’s will basically be a scaled down version of the desktop CPU. Offering a bit more than just power, the Calpella platform will buff integrated WiMAX as well as entirelywindows-7-logo gigabit networking (Wireless N). Just like the Core i7 desktop CPU, this mobile CPU will have an integrated DDR3 memory controller.

Around the same time, you can expect Intel’s new dual-core ULV processors. The dual core ULV’s (Ultra Low Voltage) are targeted at ultra mobile notebooks, maybe even netbooks. It’s been suggested that this will all happen around IDF (Intel’s Developer Forum). Perhaps hold off on that next notebook purchase for another month or so, and get the most powerful quad-core processor just in time for Windows 7

Intel's Core i5 and Core i3 mobile (Arrandale) are not slated for release until Q1 2010.

Source: Gizmodo

Intel shows off 80-core processor

Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet.

Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the company will present a paper on the project during the International Solid State Circuits Conference in the city this week.

The chip is capable of producing 1 trillion floating-point operations per second, known as a teraflop. That's a level of performance that required 2,500 square feet of large computers a decade ago.

Intel first disclosed it had built a prototype 80-core processor during last fall's Intel Developer Forum, when CEO Paul Otellini promised to deliver the chip within five years. The company's researchers have several hurdles to overcome before PCs and servers come with 80-core processors--such as how to connect the chip to memory and how to teach software developers to write programs for it--but the research chip is an important step, Rattner said.

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A company called ClearSpeed has put 96 cores on a single chip. ClearSpeed's chips are used as co-processors with supercomputers that require a powerful chip for a very specific purpose.

Intel's research chip has 80 cores, or "tiles," Rattner said. Each tile has a computing element and a router, allowing it to crunch data individually and transport that data to neighboring tiles.

Intel used 100 million transistors on the chip, which measures 275 millimeters squared. By comparison, its Core 2 Duo chip uses 291 million transistors and measures 143 millimeters squared. The chip was built using Intel's 65-nanometer manufacturing technology, but any likely product based on the design would probably use a future process based on smaller transistors. A chip the size of the current research chip is likely too large for cost-effective manufacturing.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Product Specification: Server Processor



Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series automatically and intelligently adjusts server performance according to your application needs for an up to 9x performance gain over single-core servers1 at 18 percent less operating power – enabling you to achieve a 9:1 server consolidation ratio, reducing operating costs by up to 90 percent resulting in an estimated 8-month return on a new server investment. Click here to estimate the business benefits of refreshing your server environment.



View the demo

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Go inside the latest innovations in Intel® Turbo Boost Technology, Intel® QuickPath Technology, and Intel® Hyper–Threading Technology.


Features and benefits of the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series

Next-generation Intel® microarchitecture
  • Intelligent next-generation Intel® microarchitecture adapts to the workload, automatically increasing processor frequency for greater performance
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology
Intel® Intelligent Power Technology
  • Lower energy costs while minimizing impact to performance by automatically putting processor and memory into the lowest available power state
Integrated power gates
  • Individual cores are reduced to near-zero power independent of other operating cores
Intel® Virtualization Technology (Intel® VT)
  • Virtualize different generations of Intel® Xeon® processor–based servers in the same pool to deliver peak performance during high-use periods and automatically reduce energy cost during low-use periods
Intel® Virtualization Technology FlexMigration
  • Integrates multiple generations of Intel® Xeon® processor-based servers, improving flexibility for failover, load balancing, and disaster recovery
Intel® 64 architectureΨ
  • Flexibility for 64-bit and 32-bit applications and operating systems
DDR3 memory support up to 1333 MHz
  • Up to 64 GB/s for three times the memory bandwidth over previous memory technology
  • Up to 144GB supports higher performance for data-intensive applications
  • Enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability features
Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT)
  • Moves data more efficiently for fast, scalable, and reliable network performance
  • Ability to significantly reduce CPU overhead, freeing resources for more critical tasks
Enhanced reliability and manageability
  • Many memory controller features, together with PCI Express* RAS features, combine to help improve platform reliability vs. previous-generation platforms
  • New features include Error Correcting Code (ECC) system bus, new memory mirroring and I/O hot-plug

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Product Specification: Macbook

Processor and memory

Intel Core 2 Duo
  • 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache running 1:1 with processor speed
  • 1066MHz frontside bus
  • 2GB (two 1GB
    SO-DIMMs) of 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM; two SO-DIMM slots support up to 4GB

only at the Apple Online Store.


Storage

Hard Drive
  • 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard disk drive; optional 250GB, 320GB, or 500GB 5400-rpm drive4
  • 8x slot-loading SuperDrive (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/
    CD-RW)

    Maximum write: 8x DVD-R, DVD+R; 4x DVD-R DL (double layer), DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD-RW, DVD+RW; 24x CD-R; 10x CD-RW

    Maximum read: 8x DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-ROM; 6x DVD-ROM (double layer DVD-9), DVD-R DL (double layer), DVD+R DL (double layer), DVD-RW, and DVD+RW; 24x CD

    slot-loading SuperDrive

Battery and power5

Battery and power

55-watt-hour lithium-polymer battery

60W MagSafe Power Adapter with cable management system

MagSafe power port

Electrical and operating requirements

  • Line voltage: 100V to 240V AC
  • Frequency: 50Hz to 60Hz
  • Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C)
  • Storage temperature: -13° to 113° F (-24° to 45° C)
  • Relative humidity: 0% to 90% noncondensing
  • Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet
  • Maximum storage altitude: 15,000 feet
  • Maximum shipping altitude: 35,000 feet

Installed software

  • Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard (includes Time Machine, Quick Look, Spaces, Spotlight, Dashboard, Mail, iChat, Safari, Address Book, QuickTime, iCal, DVD Player, Photo Booth, Front Row, Xcode Developer Tools)
  • iLife ’09 (includes iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, iWeb, iDVD)

Audio

  • Built-in stereo speakers
  • Built-in omnidirectional microphone
  • Combined optical digital input/analog line in (minijack)
  • Combined optical digital output/analog line out (minijack)

Input

MacBook showing keyboard.
  • Built-in full-size keyboard with 78 (U.S.) or 79 (ISO) keys, including 12 function keys and 4 arrow keys (inverted “T” arrangement)
  • Solid-state scrolling trackpad for precise cursor control; supports two-finger scrolling, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities

Graphics and video support

NVIDIA

NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor with 256MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory3

Extended desktop and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 1920 by 1200 pixels on an external display, both at millions of colors

iSight

Built-in iSight camera

Mini-DVI port

Video output options

DVI output using Mini-DVI to DVI Adapter

VGA output using Mini-DVI to VGA Adapter


Display

MacBook showing display.

13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy widescreen TFT display with support for millions of colors

Supported resolutions: 1280 by 800 (native), 1152 by 720, 1024 by 768, 1024 by 640, 800 by 600, 800 by 500, 720 by 480, and 640 by 480 pixels at 16:10 aspect ratio; 1024 by 768, 800 by 600, and 640 by 480 pixels at 4:3 aspect ratio; 720 by 480 pixels at 3:2 aspect ratio

Size and weight

Height:
1.08 inches (2.75 cm)
Width:
12.78 inches (32.5 cm)
Depth:
8.92 inches (22.7 cm)
Weight:
5.0 pounds (2.27 kg)1
MacBook with dimensions.

Connections and expansion

MacBook ports
  • MagSafe power port
  • Gigabit Ethernet port
  • Mini-DVI port
  • FireWire 400 port (up to 400 Mbps)
  • Two USB 2.0 ports (up to 480 Mbps)
  • Audio line in
  • Audio line out
  • Kensington lock slot

Communications

802.11n

Built-in AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi wireless networking2 (based on IEEE 802.11n draft specification); IEEE 802.11a/b/g compatible

Bluetooth

Built-in Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate)

Built-in 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet (RJ-45 connector)

Product Specification: Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition

Highest performing desktop processor on the planet for extreme gamers and demanding enthusiasts.1


Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme

Overview
Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest desktop processor on the planet: the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.1 With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that dynamically accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask faster and unleash incredible digital media creation.2 In fact, you'll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo Boost Technology (Intel® TBT)7 and Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology),8 which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.

Wield the ultimate gaming weapon
The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition not only can take on today's most complex and immersive games, but it's also powerful enough to handle tomorrow's gaming advances. Experience smoother and more realistic gaming made possible by distributing AI, physics, and rendering across four cores and eight software threads. For added flexibility, overspeed protection is removed allowing technical enthusiasts to tune the system for maximum performance.5

Breakaway performance for digital media creation
Take digital content creation to a whole new level with the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition. Enjoy up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and photo editing.3,4 Experience total creative freedom that's limited only by your imagination.

Gear up to extreme processing power
Unique Intel® Turbo Boost Technology accelerates performance dynamically to match your workload and maximize speed for demanding applications.7 New performance-maximized memory access technologies work together to reduce latency and more than double memory bandwidth for faster memory access.6 Achieve up to 25 percent faster multitasking performance by handling multiple applications simultaneously so you experience less wait time.2

The Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition offers unprecedented bandwidth and memory performance, including an integrated memory controller with 3 channels of DDR3, 2 DIMMs per channel, and up to 25.6 GB/sec bandwidth for DDR3 1066 MHz.



Processor Comparison Table
Intel® Core™
i7-975
Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9770Intel® Core™2 Extreme QX9650
Number of simultaneous threads8 (with hyper-threading)44
Processor integrated memory controllerYesNoNo
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology3YesNoNo
Number of memory channels322
Intel® Express ChipsetX58X48X38/X48/P35/P45


Features and Benefits of the Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition
FeatureBenefit
Intel® quad-core processorProvides four independent execution cores in one processor package. Four dedicated processing cores help operating systems and applications deliver additional performance, so end users can experience better multitasking and multithreaded performance across many types of applications and workloads.
Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology)8Delivers two processing threads per physical core for a total of 8 threads for massive computational throughput. With Intel® HT technology, highly threaded applications can get more work done in parallel, completing their tasks sooner. With more threads available to the operating system, multitasking becomes even easier. This amazing processor can handle multiple applications working simultaneously, allowing you to do more with less wait time.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology7Dynamically increases the processor's frequency when needed by taking advantage of thermal and power headroom when operating below specified limits. Get more performance automatically, when you need it the most.
8 MB Intel® Smart CacheThis large last level cache enables dynamic and efficient allocation of shared cache to all 4 cores to match the needs of various applications for ultra efficient data storage and manipulation.
Intel® QuickPath InterconnectIntel's latest system interconnect design for increased bandwidth and lower latency. Achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Intel® Core™ i7 processor Extreme Edition.
Integrated memory controllerAn integrated memory controller with three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz offers memory performance up to 25.6 GB/sec. Combined with the processor's very efficient prefetching algorithms, this memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data intensive applications.
Intel® HD BoostIncludes the full SSE4 instruction set, significantly improving a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.
Digital thermal sensor (DTS)Provides for more efficient processor and platform thermal control improving system acoustics. The DTS continuously measures the temperature at each processing core. The ability to continuously measure and detect variations in processor temperature enables system fans to spin only as fast as needed to cool the system. The combination of these technologies can result in significantly lower noise emissions from the PC.
Intel® Wide Dynamic ExecutionImproves execution speed and efficiency, delivering more instructions per clock cycle. Each core can complete up to four full instructions simultaneously.
Intel® Smart Memory AccessImproves system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth from the memory subsystem and reducing the effective latency of memory accesses.

Product Specification for Compaq C751NR

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Hardware
Product Name C751NR
Product Number KC590UA#ABA
Microprocessor 1.60 GHz Intel Pentium dual core processor T2330
Microprocessor Cache 1 MB L2 Cache
Memory 1024MB (2 x 512 MB)
Memory Max Up to 2 GB DDR2
Video Graphics Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
Video Memory Up to 251MB
Hard Drive 120 GB (5400 rpm)
Multimedia Drive Super Multi 8X DVD±R/RW with Double Layer Support
Display 15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen (1280 x 800)
Fax/Modem High speed 56K modem
Network Card Integrated 10/100 Ethernet LAN
Wireless Connectivity 802.11 b/g WLAN
Sound Altec Lansing speakers
Keyboard 101 key compatible
Pointing Device Touch Pad with dedicated vertical and horizontal Scroll Up/Down pad
External Ports
  • 3 Universal Serial Bus USB 2.0
  • 1 VGA (15-pin)
  • 1 RJ-11 (modem)
  • 1 TV-Out (S-video)
  • 1 RJ -45 (LAN)
  • 1 headphone-out
  • 1 microphone-in
Dimensions 14" (L) x 10.11" (W) x 1.29" (min H) /1.58" (max H)
Weight 5.71lbs
Security
  • Kensington MicroSaver lock slot
  • Power-on password
  • Accepts 3rd party security lock devices
Power
  • 65 W AC Adapter
  • 6-cell Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Software
Operating System:
Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
Security and Support:
Symantec Norton Internet Security 2008 (including 60 days complimentary live update)

HP Help & Support Center

PC Recovery (Softthinks Restore Solution)

HP Wireless Home Network Setup

HP Total Care Advisor
Multimedia:
Vongo

HP PhotoSmart Essentials

HP Quick Play

Muvee AutoProducer

Cyberlink DVD Suite

HP Games Powered by Wild Tangent
Productivity and Finance:
Microsoft Works

Microsoft Office 2007 Student and Teacher Edition: 60 Day Trial Version
Internet Solutions:
AOL Instant Messaging Service

Microsoft Internet Explorer

HP Easy Internet Signup (part of HP Easy Setup)

Adobe Acrobat Reader
Service and Support
Warranty and Support
1-Year Limited Hardware Warranty

Toll Free Support (NA)

1-Year Free Hardware Technical Support

30-Days Free Software Support

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

BathTub Test

During a visit to the mental hospital, I asked the Director 'How do you determine whether or not a patient should be admitted to the hospital.'

'Well,' said the Director, 'we fill up a bathtub, then we give a
teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him to empty the bathtub.'

'Oh, I understand,' I said. 'A normal person would use the bucket because it's bigger than the spoon or the teacup.'

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Interesting Facts...

Here are some interesting, but true facts, that you may or may not have known.



The Statue of Liberty's index finger is eight feet long



Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile


A 75 year old person will have slept about 23 years.


A Boeing 747's wing span is longer than the Wright brother's first flight. the Wright brother's invented the airplane)


There are as many chickens on earth as there are humans.


One type of hummingbird weighs less than a penny


The word "set " has the most number of definitions in the English language;192


Slugs have four noses


Sharks can live up to 100 years


Mosquitoes are more attracted to the color blue than any other color.


Kangaroos can't walk backwards


About 75 acres of pizza are eaten in in the U.S. Everyday


The largest recorded snowflake was 15in wide and 8in thick. It fell in Montana in 1887


The tip of a bullwhip moves so fast that the sound it makes is actually a tiny sonic boom.


Former president Bill Clinton only sent 2 emails in his entire 8 year presidency


Koalas and humans are the only animals that have finger prints


There are 200,000,000 insects for every one human


It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery had in it to begin with.


The world's largest Montessori school is in India, with 26,312 students in 2002


Octopus have three hearts


If you ate too many carrots, you'd turn orange


The average person spends two weeks waiting for a traffic light to change.


1 in 2,000,000,000 people will live to be 116 or old


The body has 2-3 million sweat glands


Sperm whales have the biggest brains; 20 lbs


Tiger shark embryos fight each other in their mother's womb. The survivor is born.


Most cats are left pawed


250 people have fallen off the Leaning Tower of Pisa


A Blue whale's tongue weighs more than an elephant


You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. Keep Smiling!


Bamboo can grow up to 3 ft in 24 hours


An eyeball weighs about 1 ounce


Bone is five times stronger than steel.

Fastest Thing....

University were to be interviewed for a prestigious job. One common
question was asked to all 4 of them.


INTERVIEWER: WHICH IS THE FASTEST THING IN THE WORLD?

YALE guy: Its light, Nothing can travel faster than light

HARVARD Guy: It's the Thought; because thought is so fast it comes instantly in
your mind.

MIT guy: Its Blink, you can blink and its hard to realize you blinked

SANTA SINGH: Its Loose motion

INTERVIEWER: (Shocked to hear Santa's reply, asked) "WHY"?

SANTA SINGH: Last night after dinner, I was lying in my bed and I got the
worst stomach cramps, and before I could THINK, BLINK, or TURN ON
THE LIGHTS, it was over!!!!

BOLO TARA RA RA HOYE.....

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?

The notion that bigger is better has taken a beating lately in all aspects of society.

Once the pride of the so-called upper middle class in the United States, McMansions and SUVs have now become symbols of excess and waste--at least the reminders of an era past. Green movement proponents should certainly be happy that so many “earth abusers” are beginning to see the light, but what about performance-computing fanatics? With memory prices near record lows, is there any good reason not to fill every slot with low-cost 2 GB DIMMs?

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Aaeon has announced a Subcompact board - Gene-9155 - that adopts the Intel 915GME+ICH6M chipset and supports the Intel Embedded Pentium M and Celeron

The Gene-9155 supports one 200-pin DDRII 400/533 SODIMM up to 2GB and includes the Intel 82573L 10/100/1000Base-TX Ethernet chipset for high-speed network communication support.

The storage and expansion interfaces make the Gene-9155 flexible and developer friendly.

The Mini PCI socket and the ECX proprietary expansion connector allow for the inclusion of a wide range of peripheral devices, while four USB 2.0 ports, one EIDEconnector, one SATA I connector, and one Type II Compactflash socket provide storage options.

One RS-232 port, one configurable RS-232/422/485 port and the 8-bit programmable digital I/O present options for interfacing the Gene-9155 with industrial devices.


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High Tech Recall History: What Dell Learned From Intel

Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:47AM EDT

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Hard to believe that it was more than 20 years ago, but Michael Dell was still just a kid when the computer industry saw its first jaw dropping recall. As Wikipedia tells it, in 1994 Professor Thomas Nicely, then at Lynchburg College, reported a bug in the Pentium floating point unit. His original memo to Intel reported that certain division operations returned a value which was wrong by a very small amount. This result was quickly verified by other people around the Internet and became known as the Pentium FDIV bug.

The Internet (a much smaller, but no less contentious place) buzzed with angry folks corroborating Nicely's findings. Intel was caught by surprise with no guidebook or disaster communications plan. The company's first reaction? Deny the problem existed.

Later, as the fervor increased, Intel announced a recall and extended an offer to replace all flawed Pentium processors. It could have been a very expensive recall, but the reality was that very few people took Intel up on the offer. The kick-off of the recall came from Andy Grove, then president of Intel, who sent one of the greatestmea culpas of all time. In his sincere apologies came redemption and a rise in Intel's stock price. Ultimately Intel gained a huge thumbs up for the public admission of error, even though it was determined that most users would never be affected by this bug.

Dell's laptop battery problems echo Intel's chip problems. Both made enormous noise on the web and would in fact probably not affect all that many people. Dell's faulty battery stands the chance of costing the companies a great deal of money.

IBM aims to bolster partnerships amid weak economy

NEW YORK (Reuters) -

IBM said on Tuesday it is seeking to bolster sales partnerships to boost revenue in a weak economy and compete more effectively with other large technology firms.

International Business Machines Corp, which sells computer servers as well as software and technology services, said that more cooperation among equipment and software vendors can help corporate customers invest in technology more efficiently, such as by preventing the duplication of hardware.

Rivals like computing and software maker Hewlett-Packard Co and network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc have also announced myriad partnerships in recent months, from licensing deals to stronger sales tie-ups to offer clients more comprehensive, "one-stop shop"-like services.

"Clients' needs are clear: save money, preserve capital and reduce costs," Chief Executive Officer Sam Palmisano said in a speech to the company's business partners. "With your partnership, we help them do that ... You are critical to IBM's success."

Around 30 percent of IBM's sales go through its 100,000 channel partners, who he

SKorea pinpoints 20 illegal NKorean bank accounts


SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea has informed the U.S. of up to 20North Korean bank accounts suspected of being involved in counterfeiting, money laundering and other illegal transactions, a news report said Wednesday.

The move came as Washington considered punishing the North with its own financial sanctions apart from proposed U.N. sanctions. Seven key nations neared agreement on a new U.N. resolution that would toughen sanctions against North Korea for defying the Security Counciland conducting a second nuclear test.

South Korea gave the U.S. the information on some 10 to 20 North Korean bank accounts in China and Switzerland at Washington's request, South Korea's Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported, citing an unidentified government official.

Separately, South Korea's Finance Ministry has imposed sanctions on three North Korean companies for helping the country's April 5 long-range rocket test. The move was largely symbolic because the firms don't do business with South Korea.

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What is Foreign Exchange?
For active traders and investors, foreign exchange should be no different than other investment products such as equities, commodities or fixed-income. Because of globalization in the economic world and consolidation of whole economic regions (i.e., the European Union), including currencies in a portfolio helps to diversify assets and can reduce risk.Just like other investment alternatives, foreign exchange offers traders/investors a market where they can buy or sell an investment product. In this case it is a specific Currency Pair. The currency pair may be the Euro versus the US Dollar, the US Dollar versus the Japanese Yen, the British Pound versus the US Dollar, the Euro versus British Pound, or a number of other currency combinations.
The different currency combinations represent nothing more than the value of one currency versus the value of another. That relationship is represented by a single price. In foreign exchange, the price of a currency pair is the market’s expectations (at that time) of the value of that currency measured against another currency given the current and expected economic and political situation in the two economies. In equity terms, it is the price of the stock.
If, for example, an economy’s inflation/interest rates are low and stable, if its output is growing strongly, or if its politics are stable and expectations are for more of the same, then one can expect (in general) for that country's currency to remain strong versus a less fundamentally favorable currency.Contrasting that with an equity, if the domestic and global economy is strong, if inflation is not rampant, if competition is not taking away market share or eating into margins, if product demand and growth are strong, of if the companies internal "politics" are such that the workers are happy and productive, and expectations are for more of the same, then you can expect that company’s stock to remain strong versus a company with less favorable fundamentals.
Similar to equities there are other factors that determine the short term value of a product including technical analysis, short term supply and demand, seasonal capital flow patterns, the current price of the instrument, etc. It is these universal dynamics that will move a currency’s value up or down. By analyzing the pricing dynamics and combining that with sound money management and discipline, the investor can ensure greater success in his or her foreign exchange trading.