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Archive for August, 2008

TreeMark™ Tree Rating – A fresh perspective to green computing

31 Aug

Recently, we have been seeing lots of energy-efficient products entering our lives, the change has been triggered by factors like rising oil prices, increase in environmental pollution and soaring electricity costs. There has been a significant shift towards energy efficient computers, especially in the data centers.

Centaur Technology have come up with a very interesting way of evaluating the energy efficiency of micoprocessor products. It is called the TreeMark™ Tree Rating. Centaur defines it as “The number of trees that need to be planted to counter the amount of carbon dioxide created as a by-product of the electricity generated to power the processor over its operational lifetime”. The good thing is, Centaur’s processors rate very well on this benchmark when compared with their Intel or AMD counterparts. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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IPv6 around the corner – APNIC 26

27 Aug

Whether you’re just beginning to think about IPv6 or have been rolling it out for a couple of years, there’s IPv6 content at APNIC 26 to suit you. APNIC is holding their 26th open standards summit that starts today at Christchurch in New Zealand. The details of the event can be found here.

Yes, the buzz is getting stronger every day… I still remember buying my first book on IPv6 around 8 years ago. It did discuss the theoretical aspects of the successor of the prevalent IPv4 protocol. I kept wondering what happened to IPv5 though :)

I have started planning my move to IPv6 already,I would suggest we all take it seriously.

 
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Cuil – The Elegant Search Engine

15 Aug



I stumbled upon http://www.cuil.com while browsing for some high-tech stuff. Believe me, it made me forget what I was looking for. An excellent user interface combined with very intelligent search semantics, very impressive indeed. I was amazed at the relevance of the results. Although the number of results shown at once is lesser than the contemporary search engines, it makes up for it by ensuring two things. First, the search results are extremely relevant: Second, the search results carry tabs for each of the related possible suggestions, the user may effortlessly click any of the tabs to get results for that tab. Cuil is a brain child of Anna Patterson and Tom Costello. It has been designed to be the largest search engine on the web.

The two features, namely faceted drilldown and tabbed search for related terms are shown in the figures below. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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32 bit Floating Point for Micro Controllers

09 Aug

There are times in the life of embedded system designers and programmers when the absence of a floating point unit is very strongly felt. The processing power of these tiny, space-saving micro controllers, frequently becomes a limiting factor if some hefty mathematical computation is required. Although we have been seeing chips like Blackfin and dsPIC that combine µC features with powerful DSP processors but the kind of price involved is a hindrence in using them for smaller projects. it looks like someone came up with a superb solution to the problem. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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nLite – Windows Installation Customizer

06 Aug

If you have ever wished that Windows XP / 2000 would install unattended and you had control over which components would install…. there is a tool just right for you. nLite allows you to customize & automate the windows install process with amazing flexibility. nLite comes with the following features:

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DBSight – The Ultimate Faceted Database Search

02 Aug

DBSight Logo

“Information Retrieval” as a science has attained a certain level of maturity and we are seeing a lot of companies offering nice products making use of the most advanced techniques. I recently came accross such a product that’s worth mentioning here. I was able to set it up on my pc in less than 3 minutes. It comes with a very easy to use web interface. It makes use of JDBC to retrieve data from virtually any database. You can specify an SQL query to specify the search able records. DBSight automatically retrieves the records from database, creates the search index and it can automate the process as per a schedule specified by you. The figure below shows the possibilities for search results retrieval once an index has been created.

DBSight Overview

DBSight Overview

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