Just a quick note on Seagate's new 7200.11 Perpendicular recording drives. These second generation units (at a quick look) appear to be a pretty solid performer. Here's a quick first glance at the unit on our CentOS 5 box's SATA-150 controller.
ZCav - Reading over the surface of the disk as the heads rotate further out:
Block K/s Time
43000 70371 1.455140
43100 60703 1.686891
43200 70344 1.455688
43300 70519 1.452089
43400 70486 1.452756
43500 70663 1.449116
hdparm -t output:
Timing buffered disk reads: 244 MB in 3.02 seconds = 80.79 MB/sec
You may have noticed PCBurn looking a little piqued over the past few days. The problem has been corrected, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
We're going through a chronic staff shortage (hence the lack of recent full length articles) but should be getting things back to normal soon, with a few articles in the pipeline for late first quarter of 2008 and a regular run thereafter.
Another month, another release of everyone's favorite non-emulator API, WINE. New features in the 0.9.55 Beta are:
- Direct3D improvements, including driver version emulation.
- Beginnings of support for OLE objects in Richedit.
- Several fixes to the animation control.
- A bunch of fixes for regression test failures.
- Lots of bug fixes.
Coming to us from Greg KH and the rest of the -stable folks is a mid-week Linux kernel release. What's new in this one? Quite a few bug-fixes, and all users of 2.6.22 are encouraged to upgrade. (2.6.22.17 Changelog) (Patch) (Full Kernel)
Glest, the 3D RTS, has just announced a 3.0.0 Beta build. Windows users can get an installable download while Linux users are (temporarily) stuck compiling from SVN. If anyone can get some builds out with the Loki installer I'm sure they'd appreciate it. (Glest 3.0.0 Release Notice)
If you're not aware, Glest is a nicely rendered 3D RTS where you control troops and build structures. Available for free from (Glest.org), the game was designed by a group of friends from Spain and has quickly grown into a fun multiplayer RTS.
Anonymous writes:"Overall the 245T brings much more to the table than any standard computer monitor on the market and this is directly apparent in its premium price. With industry leading color reproduction, excellent contrast and clarity to take advantage of with a literally a buffet of video connections, the 245T would be best described as swiss army monitor option in the 24" monitor market." (Tweaknews)
The FCC has finally stood up and took notice of data carriers deciding to throttle customer traffic on lines being sold as a certain rate of data throughput. While they might be able to do this, it certainly calls into question their common carrier status. Read more at (PC World)
This time around the -stable team has released a kernel with a fix to a potential file corruption bug. All users of the 2.6.23 series are encouraged to update. (2.6.23.14 Changelog) (Patch) (Full Kernel)
"Overall the 245T brings much more to the table than any standard computer monitor on the market and this is directly apparent in its premium price. With industry leading color reproduction, excellent contrast and clarity to take advantage of with a literally a buffet of video connections, the 245T would be best described as swiss army monitor option in the 24" monitor market." (