Back in Austin, Looking work.
October 16th, 2007
Long time, no post. Just a quick update. I have been living in Austin Texas, since April 2007. I am currently Looking for work in a Help Desk / Technical Support role. For those who might be interested please check out my updated resume at the following link:
Saturday’s movie shoot
October 30th, 2006
A few members of the Praha movie club got together at my flat to make “a helping hand”. In the process I also filmed a “making of” video. I will post them shortly. Eventually I will be getting the Film clubs site online as well.
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Creative Commons music that I like.
June 21st, 2006
These are some creative commons songs that I like. I found them all at podsafeaudio.com. (Except “Storm”)
Storm [0:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (244) Electromooq [3:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (340) Drinkin' Buddies [2:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (388) Love and Affection [1:23m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (548) Hot Sexy Girls (Caliofornia Mix) [3:41m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (401) Put Them In Thier Place [4:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (392)Differences in Intel mobile processors.
March 7th, 2006
What follows is in response to a post at the Expats.cz tech forum asking about the differences between celeron processors and the more expensive offerings from Intel.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but this is my impression of how Intel markets things.
Celeron = As cheap as possible. Hot, Slow, Sucks up batteries fast. They accomplish this by reusing old architectures and reducing the amount of on-die cache (on-die cache is the fastest memory in the computer and thus has a huge impact on certain types of performance.)
Pentium M = The old standard bearer for computers needing a good combination of performance and battery life.
Core Solo and Core Duo = The new standard bearer for those wanting a good combination of performance and long battery life. The Core series of processors has been able to get better battery life by reducing the chips power consumption. This was accomplished by a better power management system and also by reducing the size of all the “itty-bitty wires” inside the chip. Smaller wires take less power it would seem. Again correct me if I am wrong.
As the names imply the Core Duo is a dual core chip, and the Core Solo is a single core chip. Dual core chips basically have 2 processors stuffed in to the space that was occupied previously by a single processor. With two processors the idea is that your computer can do more work in less time. Also the Core Duo chip seems to be able to turn off one core to save energy when you are not doing a bunch of heavy number crunching.
There are manufactures who are putting desktop processors in to laptops. These of course tend to be bigger, weight more, get hotter and have shorter battery life. With all those negatives you get better performance that can be used toward computation intensive applications. (Games, video editing, decoding the human genome etc.)
How to avoid Viruses on a Windows computer
March 2nd, 2006
How to keep your Windows computer virus free is:
1) Update to windows XP service pack 2.
2) Set your computer to automatically install all updates that Microsoft provides.
3) Run an Anti-Virus program. A really good free one is AVG.
4) Use a good firewall program such as ZONE ALARM (Also Free).
5) Practice SAFE COMPUTING (Yep, free again).
6) Keep you antivirus, firewall, and operating system up-to-date!!! These mechanisms are only as effective as they are up-to-date. If a new virus comes out, and your anti-virus does not have the virus signature in its database, it will be completely ineffective at stopping it from damaging your computer. Update Anti-Virus weekly, and Firewall, operating system, monthly, or as soon as new updates come out.