The Inet Report

Well take a look at NASA’s new system. It consists of a 23-foot-wide, by 10-foot-tall liquid crystal display, 128 graphics processing units, 1,024 processor cores with 74 teraflops of peak processing power, and a data storage capacity of 475 TB. NASA said the hyperwall-2’s graphics processing capacity equals that of 600 video-game consoles and exceeds NAS’s original 49-screen, hyperwall system by 100 times. It has a direct, high-speed connection to NAS’s supercomputers.

Imagine how the Super Bowl or your favorite Video games would look on that.

Google announced today it’s Google Media Server. It is a Windows app that finds photos, music, and video and makes it avaiable to any DLNA device (PS3, Xbox360, Media Center PC).

Too use it all you will need is Google Desktop and any UPnP device to share media and youtube videos to your tv connected device. You can get it here.

I will test this over the weekend and report back.

What is your favorite Microsoft product or memory of a product? Mine would have to be MS Dos 5.0 and Windows 95.

MS Dos 5.0 was a great OS. It added new memory management features that allowed you to get the most out of that 640kb of ram that most programs had to reside in. It made memory management tweaking a thing of the past.

Windows 95 was released on August 24th 1995 and I still remember the day. Upgrading my Packard Bell 286 Megahertz 80286 machine. When 95 booted for the first time it was quite an experience for someone who was uses to the command line of MS Dos as well as Win 3.1. Although it was not the OS that Windows is today, it brought many people to the world of PC’s.

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Well then expect some downtime. No it is not another typical Blackberry outage, well ok it is, but at least this time T-Mobile is to blame. Two outages are planned starting tonight, but there will at least be a return when it is complete.

Yes, that is right the BIE/BIS 2.5 upgrade is coming. The outages will start this evening. with another one following on tomorrow evening. Be prepared and plan to be without you BB during this time.

Outages:
The first is scheduled to be 8 hours tonight from 9:00 PM until 5:00 AM PST tonight. The second will be tomorrow for 4 hours between 11:00 PM and 3:00 AM PST.