Yahoo Finance RSS feeds. A couple of months ago, I encouraged Jeremy Zawodny to check out the blog scene. I knew he'd flourish in the environment, and guessed it might have some interesting effects on Yahoo!Finance where Jeremy works. Sure enough, check out this wonderful hack: ... [Jon's Radio]
I already created a feed to one of my holdings. I'll create more later on.
I love Soren Kierkegaard. I've read 4 or 5 of his books. I remember when I was undergraduate, I use to read his books instead of listening to my prof of "Mathematical Physics III" (I pass the class though). I would sit near the back of the room with one of my colleague and we read the book in parrallel and exchanged comments on our readings. Much more interesting than listening to the boring prof we had. Thank goodness he is retired now. Did I say I am sharing my birth date with Soren? ;-)
I’ve been thinking about splitting my system in 2 last night.
One box would contain my Tyan S2466N-4M and all the cards it actually has but the SX6000 in a normal mid-tower case. I’ll keep a WD1200JB as my boot disk to hold the OS and most programs. It would be my main workstation to do Non Linear Editing (using Adobe Premiere 6.01). This system, if it can operate stably, will be a killer coupled to the Sony WV-DR9 deck I just bought. It should be delivered to me within 10 days. It’s a pity Sony stopped its production 4 months ago. I got one of the last unit.
The other one would be a “disk box” based an all-in-one integrated motherboard. For this one I am thinking about using an Elitegroup’s K7SEM motherboard if I can source it in Japan. I used this motherboard for the computer I built for my wife and it has been extremely stable (she does mostly Photoshop, IE and Outlook). This board has a built-in 100Base-T network interface, video card and audio card. I could use a Duron 900Mhz which is AMD’s processor with the lowest heat dissipation. I think this processor would be more than enough to drive this box. 256MB should also be plenty of RAM. No application will be installed on this box: Just the SX6000 and its driver. (ok, maybe SETI@home to use all these unused CPU cycles…) I will probably use either Red Hat 7.3 or Windows2000 as my OS. For this system, the key will be to minimise electrical consumption by the board. It seems that even for a good power supply like the Antec True550 (which I’ll use in this case), it is a bit hard to properly power 7 HDs (6 WD1200JB attached to the SX6000 and one WD400BB as the boot disk)
Yesterday I swapped the video cards of my two main machines (a Matrox G450 LX in the “new” machine and a Diamond Viper770, based on Nvidia’s TNT2 Ultra, in the “old” machine) because after most of the crashes I have with Premiere on my new machines XP tells me the driver of the G450 caused the problem. My new machine crashed again (and again and again…) last night while backing up the data. I couldn’t even reboot it this morning. Tonight I’ll try to open it again to try to find out what’s going on. I am thinking that maybe the drivers for the firewire port of my Audigy conflict with those of my DV500PLUS. I NEVER had any problem with my DV500 in my old box where it was paired with a SoundBlaster Live! I’ll take away the Audigy tonight to see if it will improve things. All the crashes I had in the last 2 days occurred when I was doing work in Premiere (except the one I had last night. Its cause is still unknown as I wasn’t staring at the screen the: I was sleeping). Since Premiere uses the DV500, it leads me to believe that the problems might be there. When I recovered from these crashes, XP told me that there was a problem with a device driver. Before it use to tell me that the G450 was causing the problem. Now it is not there anymore, it has to be something else. I’ll also try to enable ACPI in the BIOS.
