B Building Lab Upgrades!

So apparently, over here at Langara our lower level computer labs in the B Building got new overhauls for hardware.

New Acer Keyboards.
A nice Samsung Sync Master 22.43" LCD Monitor.

Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.00Ghz) CPU installed with 3gbs of RAM.
Windows XP SP 3.

Quite impressive as the older ones were slower than this. At the moment they don't have monitor resolutions locked up so while most are stuck at the smaller resolution and don't know how to change it, got it to the maximum.

Although Firefox has not been configured yet for the internet which I find funny.

Old Year and New Year

Well, 2010 is here.

It is now officaly one year annivesiry since I broke my ankle.

Damn does time fly...

Some goals are to

-Lose weight,

-Stay productive

-Keep room clean.

-Stay on top of school work

-Get a job/continue.

Went Go-Karting with AFanCorp (Afion Ruki) at TBC Richmond.

Time to beat for me : 32.686.

Afion's time to beat: 30.960.

Hoping to work up another weekly homework meet and maybe a monthly chill off meet.

More to come.

Hoping to keep this update for this year too.

Happy Holidays everyone!

A little bit late for this but the week has been great!

Hope everyone had a great Christmas Eve and have plans set for the New Years and onwards!

As Buzz Lightyear would say.

"To Infinity! And Beyond!"

Take care everyone,

Best of wishes,

Austin

Nvidia and ATI

It's too bad that . only has its foot holds in the gaming industry.

I often see people saying that NVIDIA is not competitive enough and need to worry.

They need to worry? They revoluntized thousands of people's work with CUDA.

CUDA (which is used by CoreAVC video decoder )saved me $500+ on needing to upgrade a computer to watch HD1080p and 720p movies without lag.

ATi has become the past Creative. Trying to concentrate on one market and that is all they can do.

Nvidia is even selling personal super computers now.

Now, before people start telling me how impractical personal supercomputers are, it is the same reason that something like the new ATI Radeon HD 5970 will be. Used for things like simulators and of the sort that will make use of its massive power.

However, I don't recall ATI cards being able to do anything but graphics.

When the Playstation 3 released with its CELL processor, it was used for a lot of scientific work; just like Nvidia's TELSA and

QUADRO cards have been doing for graphic rendering and applying the CUDA language into splitting the work between the CPU

and the GPU.

With that said, ATI does a good job being impressive, but the 5970 is reportedly a foot long.

If you can manage to squeeze that in along with all the cables and ram and everything. Then awesome, but it is a huge hassal.

That is like saying. "I want a tank, I'; just run over my garage with it so I can park it, since it won't fit in their".

But hey, like any market, some will stuck to ATI and some will stick to Nvidia.

So it beings again.

Person says (12:06 AM):

night ^^

-= Austin =- *unicef says (12:06 AM):

: )

Don't sleep too long!

Person says (12:07 AM):

]:

i want to though

-= Austin =- *unicef says (12:07 AM):

er

Don't sleep too late

XDDD

>_<

Yes. I need some sleep too

Person says (12:07 AM):

xD

Consumed by Google Chrome.

Google Chrome has latched onto me.

Will be slowing moving out of Firefox and into Chrome.

Seems pretty fun to use so far. Relativity smooth and quick when it comes to loading pages.

Room is Cleaned! Again.

I have throughly cleaned my room again, dusted, moved things around and reorgainized a LOT of things.
It is a great feeling when you are able to get things done and have a fresh feeling of accomplishment.

Got through my philosophy test yesterday, although I don't feel too well about it.
Did not do well. That is a given. However, my previous two tests were superb so it will hold up, but even then. It's a downer to bomb one. : (.

Vancouver's weather has started to kick up with a storm warning. Buckets and gallons of rain and lungful of wind is being blown everywhere.

Take care everyone, winter break is almost here.