The EfficientPC company, best known as a seller of energy efficient good-looking quietly operating Linux-based laptop and desktop computers, has just announced sad news:
After many happy years of service to the Linux community, EfficientPC Limited is closing down.
The reason of this decision is interesting:
our goal of bringing Linux to the mainstream has succeeded, so we gracefully retire
Happy retirement!
Pantera, my way better half, has installed Linux on her new gadget Asus Eee PC 901. The Linux comes from Eeebuntu distribution based on Ubuntu, EeeConfigure system and Array kernel – custom Linux kernel for Asus Eee PC hardware – kudos to Adam McDaniel!
Another happy customer ;-)
The singular processing is dead. Long live the multiprocessing.
I can not even imagine effectiveness of exploitation of such a power by issuing little gdalwarp command. GDAL, libLAS, are we ready to squeeze out this CUDA’ny juice?
Co za CUDA! Yes, indeed!
Today, during a short trip to Watford, I was testing my new gadget brought to me by weihnachtsmann called eBay (but he asked for ten pints of proper lager, what a tank!). It is prime lens SMC PENTAX-A 1:2 50 mm. It’s an old lens but it’s a superb piece of optical craft dated between 1985 and 1998. No modern rubbish plastic. Pure metal classic!
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After first five shots taken in darknesses of the night and the Underground, my conclusion is quite simple, the kit lens Pentax SMC-DA 18-55mm that comes with Pentax K10D body belongs to a trash bin. Pentax prime lens rock and it’s not British, it’s Japanese :-)
Today, I sent a post to OSGeo Discuss mailing list asking for help with finding new home for my Mac Pro workstation. I’m trying to use all possible channels to spread my call, so here we go:
Folks,
I have a pretty powerful workstation that I’d like to connect to OSGeo infrastructure, somehow. It is: Mac Pro:
- 2 x Intel Xeon 2.66GHz (5150, “Woodcrest”, dual core)
- 16 GB RAM
- 1.5 TB HDD
If I’ll manage to find a new home for my machine, I want to extend the RAM to 16 GB and get one or more TB of HDD.
I’m looking for possibility of collocation my machine somewhere in UK (not necessarily in London), so it can be permanently connected to OSGeo infrastructure. Unfortunately, I am not able to connect this machine from home and keep connected 24/7.
I would be delighted to make it available for OSGeo projects and their development purposes like Buildbot, scheduled builds, software testing, etc. The only personal use of this machine I would like to be able to do is…development and software testing of OSGeo software I work with plus I’d like to keep some personal backups there (disks are getting cheap, so it shouldn’t be a problem to extent to tens of TB in near future). OS X Leopard and license for Parallels VM software is included.
I tried to find collocation service in Poland or UK but prices like ~100 GBP/month are too high to pay for the purposes I’d like to dedicate my machine to.
So, if anyone knows a data centre in UK that would be interested in “rescuing” the wasted CPU cycles of my machine resting in the box please let me know. I think providing collocation could be a nice way to sponsor OSGeo by contributing this reasonably good hardware option :-)
Currently, the machine rests in box in my flat in Poland (I live in London, UK). If I find a place for it, I’ll ship it from PL to UK quickly.
A few pictures of the hardware:
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Please, contact me if you can help!