Technology

AMD Trinity A10 4600M APU

Well in the light of the release of the first AMD Trinity 4600-M laptop over there in Korea for the low cost of 950,000 Won or so I felt it appropriate to do an entire post about AMD’s A10 4600M series APU.    While there will be the A10 5800k which you can read about
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First AMD Trinity APU laptop on sale at a great price

Gmarket has details on the first AMD Trinity laptop to go on sale, 7 days before teh official release date of the 15th of May.  The price on the page is around 950,000 Won which is roughly 500 Euro’s or so. This laptop has 8GB of Ram on it a 1TB drive and with a clock
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The Accelerated Processing Unit (It is the future you know?)

While you may be thinking that you know all there is to know about the Accelerated Processing Unit or APU, as made famous by AMD, I’m here to tell you that perhaps there’s just a few tidbits that you don’t know just yet.  While it is easy to think that the Accelerated Processing Unit is
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Improving Wireless stability and connectivity in Debian Squeeze with Atheros AR9287

Well ever since moving to my new apartment here the landlords wifi has just been atrocious.  I mean I lived down in Colombia, I’ve piggy-backed off wifi signals in Croatia, i’ve backpacked around the world jerry rigging blackberries as tethers in developing countries in the middle of no where and this wifi here is BY
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AMD’s A10 5800k – Let’s take a look at this hot Trinity APU

So let’s take a look at this hot new AMD Trinity APU who’s release date is looking to be set for May the 15th.  The A10 5800k is the high end of the Trinity APU’s aimed at the desktop market.  While AMD might not be putting up such a huge fight to compete with the
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What is an APU?

Well if you haven’t figured it out by now, May is the Month of the APU, also known as the accelerated processing unit.  AMD’s APUs to be more exact and if you want to get even more precise than that we are talking about the Piledriver core also known as the Trinity chip.  AMD’s Trinity
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AMD_Trinity_Roadmap AMD Trinity Roadmap – 2012 and Beyond

Ready for a ton of cool new code named AMD APUs (like excavator or Trinity)? Well get ready because the maker of the computer industry’s APUs has a pretty exciting Roadmap for 2013. But before we go too deep into the nitty gritty of the AMD Trinity Roadmap and Roadmaps for other lines, let’s start
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AMD Bulldozer vs AMD Piledriver – One AMD APU to rule them all! (for now)

So in case you haven’t noticed May is AMD Month because this month this is the month that the public gets their hands on AMD’s new Piledriver chip’s.  So your going to hear a lot of the words Piledriver floating around and Bulldozer and Trinity and a slew of other words but what does it
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AMD Piledriver Release – AMD’s APUs (Trinity) secrets unlocked

With AMD’s Piledriver release approaching how the hell is AMD going to push the new APU’s used in the new AMD Trinity A10 chip over the 4GHZ mark you ask? Well if rumors are correct the the AMD piledriver chips will use resonant clock mesh technology developed by Cyclos Semiconductor. This came from an announcement
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amd-fusion-apu AMD APUs – Is this APU lineup saying something about the future of AMD?

With the APU’s (or accelerated processing unit) from AMD coming on line in just over 2 weeks it’s important to look at what this means for AMD and what is says about their strategy in the CPU/GPU marketplace, especially when dealing with ultrabooks, laptops and other mobile devices.  AMD has been trying to beat Intel
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AMD_Trinity_Ultrabook_3 AMD Trinity Ultrathin Ultrabook is a thing of beauty

As much as I dislike their policies a lot of credit has to go to Apple and the late Steve Job’s vision for the macbook Air with how sleek and sexy laptops, or ultrabooks as they are being called now, can truly be.   Compaq’s latest designs of the ultrabooks powered by AMD’s new Trinity
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AMD’s Trinity APU Pricing / Cost for Laptop and ultrabooks starting to be revealed

We are seeing more and more talk and speculation about price and I wanted to bring you an up to date report on the pricing for AMD Trinity laptops and ultrabooks as they emerge. I’ll be updating this post so check back for news and the latest in pricing.   $500 The first report is
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Games

All Time High-Score for Overgod’s Time Trial

Well googling ‘Overgod’ and ‘time trial’ and ‘high school’ come up with absolutely zero results, so here’s hoping that there’s actually someone else out there that plays this game as much as I do and will stumble upon this.  Better yet, here’s to hoping there are a few hundred people out there like that Seeing
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Starcraft Single Player Gameplay

Just caught the first video of the single player campaign in detail and oooh mama that gets me hot in the pants.

Game Industry

A Shout out to Kelowna and Okanagan Video Game Developers

At the last OK Game Developer Cluster meet-up we discussed the need to get more people networked and involved in the local Game Developer here in Kelowna.  It is a wonderful blessing to have Disney and Club Penguin in our beautiful city as they has no doubt inspired many people to pick up the trade
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The Uncanny Valley

Was just showed this video today and started to look for more resources on the topic so I thought I’d share 7 Part Series:

Inspiring

Mozilla Seabird: Best tech concept of the decade (Get a towel)

You can read all about the concept here but to be clear this is simply a concept, mozilla has stated they have absolutely no intentions of entering the OS nor the hardware market. The Mozilla Seabird, part of the Mozilla Labs’ Concept Series, is an experiment in how users might interact with their mobile content
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Netvibes – This will change your life, your virtual one at least

HTTP://WWW.NETVIBES.COM In my experience with talking with folks that are much more tech savvy than I, one of the most surprising things is how few people know about Netvibes, even more surprising is how few people in the world actually use this brilliant free resource.   I’ve had this post in draft forward for well over
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Internet

How to remove the double dash / two dashes above the signature in Thunderbird

Well as you will be told all over the place the double dash is the industry standard indicator of the beginning of a signature.  Well guess what? It messes with my uber ascii art signature that I created today out of a need to reduce my x-spam score and stop getting blocked by spam (Blogged
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Ever get this message when running apt-get update: The following signatures couldn’t be verified ?

Well I just did, infact the full message is: GPG error: http://us.archive.ubuntu.com lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY ########### With the #’s being replacing by whatever key number you are given.. obviously this means that you need to update or get a new key.. Easy
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Random Musings

MapMyUser.com wordpress ‘hack’ means new theme for the site!

I call this a ‘hack’ but in reality there was no breach of security, it was a clever little trojan of sorts put into my old theme by it’s creators.   What I’m talking about is the sudden appearance of a little tab on the right hand side of the page that messed up my
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Color erase not working in GIMP?

So after wasting oodles and oodles of people’s time assuming this was a bug and not a human fuck up, as it usually is, I’ve learned that you need to have an alpha channel for this to properly work. The problem was the paint brush’s ‘color erase’ mode wouldnt’ actually erase colors, it just acted
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Science

Microsoft making incredible gains with Virtual Reality and 3D Television

From a bit of research this is an area that microsoft has been toiling hard in for a few years now but it looks like this year it’s all coming together for them.  There are two videos below that show just where this could be going and in my opinion could do for the xbox
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Science Fiction as a tool for human survival

It was like film directors and authors realized this magic lamp where they could very surreptitiously put these unquestioned injustices into peoples minds and make them question them for the first time. I wouldn’t call this a ‘golden age’ of sci-fi but it certainly was a purer age.

Technology

AMD Trinity A10 4600M APU

Well in the light of the release of the first AMD Trinity 4600-M laptop over there in Korea for the low cost of 950,000 Won or so I felt it appropriate to do an entire post about AMD’s A10 4600M series APU.    While there will be the A10 5800k which you can read about
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First AMD Trinity APU laptop on sale at a great price

Gmarket has details on the first AMD Trinity laptop to go on sale, 7 days before teh official release date of the 15th of May.  The price on the page is around 950,000 Won which is roughly 500 Euro’s or so. This laptop has 8GB of Ram on it a 1TB drive and with a clock
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