AMD Announces SSE5 Extensions to X86 Architecture
Wow, years after RISC did it, AMD is bringing SIMD to the x86 architecture. They announced their "SSE5"; called extention to the x86 architecture.
Until now, the x86 platform had the major drawback of having a maximum of only two operands in their instructions. The G4 CPUs have an extention called "Altivec"; which is comparable to SSE5 (and has been there for years).
To quote arstechnica:
In a nutshell, a third operand lets a programmer or compiler specify a filter/mod register that can affect the way that a vector operation is carried out on the operands in the other two registers. Such operands are extremely useful for doing in a single instruction a variety of operations that would normally take a sequence of multiple instructions. The use of a third operand register can significantly increase performance for some types of codes, especially in hand-tuned code.
A little information: SIMD means "Single Instruction Multiple Data";
Here is SSE5 in comparison to "other"; SSEs
An article describing SIMD and the x86 shortcomings
A Forum thread dealing with it
via arstechnica
Why I Hate Statistics and Marketing People Who Use Them
A little quote from an article I just read:
Over the next 5 years, Linux is expected to be the fastest growing Smartphone OS with a compound annual growth rate in excess of 75%.
Oh yeah… "growth rates"; usually don't really mean anything if not compared to the actual numbers!!!
If I was to make a phone that runs on horseshit and positiv thinking, wait 2 months and then make another one: BOOM! 100% growth rate!
It's not that hard to grow that much for Linux powered smartphones because there are about 10 on the market today (And I don't know that for a fact!).
friggin spin doctors.
7en.de - Backlinks for Everybody
via aptgetupdate
EDIT: frischgebloggt.de mighty be a good place for receiving backlinks too. (thanks to hobby for the hint)
Seam Carving: Content-aware Image Resizing
[youtube 6NcIJXTlugc]
neet… go Shamir! (and to be just: "go Avidan!";)
The IT Crowd Season 2 Episode 1
Smart2Go Update for the Nokia N95
Go fetch it here (—> http://fpa.smart2go.com/free_downloads/NOKIA_Maps_1_0_S60_update.SIS).
I can't really say anything about the version differences besides how to detect them on first sight:
Old version: satelite in the bottom right corner.
New version: 3 circles in the bottom right corner.
Symbian Freeware: MobiGenie
Mobi Genie acts as an answering machine on your Symbian S60 3rd edition based Smartphone. It runs in the background and can be activated by either profile change or timer on incoming calls ("after 10 seconds answer the call";).
More (german) info on the tool: over here
or here
and you can download this handy tool over here
Instant Mehl?!
TFTP Server for >32 MB Files
If you're searching for a TFTP Server that can handle files that are bigger than 32 MB (e.g. an IOS Update), tftpd32 would be a free and working solution.
p.s. Cisco also recommends it
Typographical Improvements
Just installed another Wordpress Plugin called Typographical Improvements.
Now I can do stuff like this: 1/2 1/4 → :D
I found it in Korsti's blog (which I found over at admartinator.d)