Archive for March, 2009

I recently came across http://www.fontspace.com which IMHO is the best free font resource on the web, the planet, and possibly the whole universe… For years I have used GRSites.com as the place to get fonts, which does indeed have thousands. However GRsites only has navigation by font name and it has become slow and in comparison to fontspace in clumbersome.  Fontspace, not only tags each font, but you can choose the preview text and size tthat you want to the view fonts in.  Have a good look round and you’ll never want for a font again.

I read today in Linux Format that IBM are working with the US National Nuclear Security Administration to build a super computer with the following specs: 20 petaflops of processing power, 1.6 petabytes of memory and 1.6 million processing cores ! It will be 10 times more powerful than the current fastest super computer. I am all for super computers but working with the organisation responsible for the USAs nuclear defence is just silly in my book. Have they not seen the films? I am surprised the project is not called Skynet.

The fan on my Thecus N2100 is getting a bit noisy. I am sure it is starting to fail. Trying to get hold of a new one is a nightmare. However, I have eventually found a potential replacement at Maplin.co.uk. I will let you know if it all works.

UPDATE: The above fan from maplin.co.uk works a treat. Fits perfectly (had to tie up the cable to keep it neat and tidy as it is a bit long). It’s brushless, very quiet, has the right connector and works with the two speed settings in the thecus admin interface, even reporting the RPMs. It was a £8 gamble and it paid off

Hope everyone has a great red nose day and raises lots of cash in fun events. I am off work due to illness and will miss the guess the colleague from their infant picture competition, which I am a bit disappointed about.

So good luck everyone. Have fun, and raise lots of cash.

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No news on the bbs2 yet. Got the email yesterday saying it can take up to 10 days, but I haven’t had one saying its in progress. Maybe I will get an email when it is dispatched. I think they should have a webcam so you can see it being born…. it will probably turn up monday as I have an operation under general anysthetic and will be incapable of sweet-sudo after that.

Update : 13th March, got a Stage 1 : Pick and Build email, Shipping on 27th March! Blimey are they soldering on each chip… It better be worth the wait.

The bbs2 has been ordered. 2gb memory, 3 raid plus esata. Takes 5 to 10 business days to arrive! I will let you know when it does and blog the installation.