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Christ on a stick this chick is hot.

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Intel 34nm SSD's....sort of here and sort of not here

Intel released their new 32nm flash based solid state disk drives (SSD) the other day, then promptly pulled them off the shelves. Apparently a firmware problem needs some correction. The word is that the new flash renders the final drive about 50% cheaper than the original 50nm version.

For those not following the new SSD trend, the drives are rapidly evolving in performance and experiencing significant downward price pressure in cost. The main benefit entails almost zero latency for random read and writes, which translates into a big performance gain when the drive is used to run the operating system. A normal hard drive must move a mechanical read/write head to position for reading and writing data. This translates into a high latency and low average transfer rate for the hard drive when reading or writing small files.

Typically, you'll see a normal hard drive have sub 1MB/sec random read and write performance with 4K files. The intel SSD has almost no latency (no moving parts) and this translates into 60-80MB/sec transfer rate for 4K files. In addition, typical 7200 RPM hard drives can do large file transfers up around 80-100MB/sec. The Intel SSD, which has a common SATA interface, can do large file transfers up near 230 MB/sec, which is close the the maximum data rate for the 3Gb/sec SATA interface once you factor in the overhead.

Statistically, a normal boot drive has most of its files clustered around 4K in size. This cripples mechanical hard drive performance. Below is an example of my C: drive statistics, which shows the large number of files clustered around 4K in size.

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mmmmm...summer

Sort of a dual monitor Summer orgy.

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I went secret shopping and bought you a 12" strap-on.

I grabbed the mail yesterday, and lo and behold! A check. To me. For THOUSANDS! All I needed to do was make some mystery purchases and wire part of the check to some overseas bank account.

Dude, I'm so in.

and [then] the monkey flips the switch

So somewhere in the back of my brain last month the frugal gene became active. Luckily this particular gene, when expressed, isn't as debilitating as the set of frugal genes that allowed a 90+ year old guy from Michigan to freeze to death in his own home (although he had 500k in the bank).

For example, my gene didn't even put up a fight when I ordered a couple of new dell 24 inch flat panels for more money than I care to admit.

Apparently this gene only affects recurring payments based on services. Services such as house cleaning, dog poop picker upper, cable, electric, telephone, etc. So far I've found a way to save about 400/month. Apparently all you need to do to save 60/month on your cell phone bill is to call to cancel. Canceling cable saves you 110/month (soon to replaced by over the air HDTV and tivo for 10/month). 85/month for house cleaning. 55/month for dog poop picker uppper. 100/month by changing your electric habits.

You can do a lot with an extra 5 grand a year. 5 grand a year is a new motorcycle every two years. 5 grand a year is a new HDTV every 4 months. 5 grand is a pretty nice vacation. Putting 5 grand a year into savings isn't such a bad idea either.

The Kindle Swindle

This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a certain famous author had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for—thought they owned.

But no, apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by this author from people’s Kindles and credited their accounts for the price.
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But wait! There is more! Have you downloaded your book one too many times? Don't worry, we'll just make you buy it all over again.
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Overheard

Girl: "We don't use any protection."
Boy: "Don't you worry about getting pregnant?"
Girl: "Not really. I only let him fuck me in the ass. I don't think my ass can get pregnant."

i can give you what you want

"Ice Cream" - New Young Pony Club

2408wfp

This thing looks awesome right out of the box. I haven't even performed any color correction on it yet.

Crap. Now I need to buy another.
Seriously though, it looks better than my 2007FP IPS panel.

Chicks of trance

In my dream I was your favorite groupie.

mmmmaybe not

I'm not sure about this one. It's fine enough as an s-tn panel, but compared to the ips panels it's replacing, it's kind of obvious what the limitations are.

I may try the 2408wfp from dell. At least that is a pva matrix panel.

sweet

I'm trying out this samsung 2443 24 inch (1920 x 1600) I grabbed from ebay the other day. It's like...way bigger than the old 20 inch 4:3 dell.

I may need another.

Random from the web / CL killers

I hired a guy to pull weeds in the back yard (from craigslist). Hopefully he's not one of those CL killers. I hate pulling weeds. That's totally worth the 10 bucks an hour he wants. Of course if I end up dead then it wasn't worth it.

Not sleeping

Bah. I should have skipped the late afternoon coffee.

Anyway, my engine cradle showed up today. I loaded the inline 6, rolled it out to the end of the driveway, and media blasted about half of it.

After I'm finished blasting, I'll pop the valve cover and do a leakdown test. Basically you line up each cylinder at TDC and pressurize it. How fast does the cylinder depressurize? That tells you something. Air out the exhaust? Worn exhaust valves. Air out the carb? Worn intake valves. How about air out of the top of the head? Poor ring seals.

It should be interesting.

かでなれおん （此君終於要復出了啊

Garago 'o Stuff

Transmission, pre-rebuild. Today I loaded it onto my stand and cleaned it up with the media blaster. I'm leaning towards installing the transmission when I change out the engine. I'll have to do it for the 383 I'm building anyway, as the manual transmission in the truck now won't take the horsepower of the 383.


Engine, pre-cleanup. I can't clear the flywheel on my engine stand, so I've ordered an engine cradle to load this into. I've also ordered an engine test stand to run it on. I've already blasted it with the pressure washer to remove the gunk and grease. After I load it into the cradle, I'll media blast it and repaint it. Then we'll run it and see if it's any good.

Al Gore invented global warming

Right before the internet.