http://www.michaellarabel.com/ The official blog of Michael Larabel en-us http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=292 AGEIA still is refraining from responding on whether PhysX is delaying Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux? However, next month at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas, I will be asking them in person and see what they say... Hopefully the UT3 Linux client will be out before then though.... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=290 This morning at Phoronix I published a preview of Blue Heron Network's Reside@HOME. This solution that will be introduced in Q1'2008 is Linux-based and designed to help those with Dementia and Alzheimer's (among other conditions). In the interest of disclosure, in addition to my Phoronix roles I also serve as the Director of Software Development for Blue Heron Network LLC. More information to come... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=289 As an update to my last post there is now a growing gap between 1st and 2nd place for the most Diggs and front-page stories in the Linux/UNIX section. Thanks in part to the AIGLX-bearing 8.42 driver and GIMP 2.4. Right now we've have 57 front-page stories and a little over 38,000 Diggs. In addition to the Digg goodness, the Phoronix rank in Technorati broke the top 3,000 last night (that is, if y... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=288 We've had quite a number of Digg front-page stories over the past couple of days, which has resulted in Phoronix jumping to the number one spot for the Linux/UNIX section at Digg! Though we're currently tied with HowToForge. At present we've had 53 front-page stories with about 34,400 diggs. We still have some more interesting (likely front-page articles) coming out in a few days.... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=287 Back during JavaOne 2007 one of the companies I had met with was Pervasive Software. One of the interesting products they were working on at the time (and still is in beta) is Pervasive DataRush. Pervasive liked what what was said about their Java multi-threaded framework and the Phoronix coverage even appeared in their Company's Annual Report :)... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=286 While BulletProofX is nice and all especially for new users that would be petrified of editing the xorg.conf manually, I am personally not liking this feature. BulletProofX starts if X fails to start up, and then a screen that is basically their new displayconfig-gtk is shown. This is excellent for new users, but when X fails to start I really just want to see the X log and not this displayconfig-... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=285 In the next month or two, we will be rolling out our next generation Phoronix Content Management System (PHXCMS-7) and with that it will lay the framework to support some very exciting expansions in our eventual road to producing Linux-related podcasts and other forms of media. Aside from PHXCMS-7 sporting a slightly redesigned interface, we are looking to introduce more bloggers. That's where you... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=284 ...take it to 120%! This morning's daily LiveCD build of Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" goes up to 120% completion while configuring hardware and simultaneously installing language packs. Looks like there's a few new bugs in the Ubuntu LiveCD installer.... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=283 One exciting day on the ATI/AMD front! All of the questions on the 8.41 driver are being answered in the Phoronix Forums so please ask your questions there instead of emailing me, but here's three e-mail answers already. Hi Mike! Great articles, but where's the CrossFire 8.41 benchmarks!? Very ecstatic about all this news today but would like to game in multiple gpus :D :D Great job with the... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=282 It's been a long 18 hour day preparing for this horde of articles and articles that will be published in the coming days along with other work, but the new ATI Linux driver has been announced! Well, AMD has issued a press release on it and let Phoronix open up the gates with five articles looking at the performance and other aspects of the driver. The driver will be available to the end-user next ... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=281 Last week some blog spam site (that has two RSS subscribers according to FeedBurner and basically just steals articles), copied the entire Phoronix article entitled New Google Linux Apps Coming Soon and posted it on their blog. This blogger even was hot-linking the images off of the Phoronix image server. Then it hit the front-page of SlashDot... It's bad enough that SlashDot apparently doesn't... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=280 In the publishing queue for September are a number of interesting articles... Below are some of them that you can expect to find next month at Phoronix. Nouveau Driver Q&A -- Those on the Phoronix Forums have been asking questions of the Nouveau developers and in September we will be publishing all of the answers. This will definitely be an interesting read. AMD 8.41.x fglrx Driver -- We... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=279 If you've been noticing slow load times over the past few days on Phoronix, F-Secure over the past week had decided to start eating up our CPU cores severely. We've since switched out F-Secure so any connection or load problems you may have been experiencing should now be gone.... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=278 On one page load of Phoronix I noticed the "Show More" link appearing on the bottom of a Google AdSense ad. Clicking this link will take you to a page that lists additional (but related) advertisements.... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=277 Today I came across a store in the United Kingdom that is selling a Phoronix Razer eXactMat. The eXactMat is a mouse pad made by Razer that Phoronix had reviewed about two to three years ago. Though this UK online store has both the page title and product title as the "Phoronix Razer eXactMat". It's interesting nevertheless...... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=276 In addition to what I previously shared with you as to our August 2007 outlook, there are three more graphics articles to add to the batch. NVIDIA Linux SLI Revisited -- Is Linux Scalable Link Interface (SLI) performance still in the gutter? ASUS HD 2600PRO Preview -- There are no supported fglrx drivers yet, but there will be a hardware preview of the ASUS HD 2600PRO. Similar to what we had... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=275 While at Technorati a few minutes ago (August 4 14:27 EST) I noticed Technorati seems to be broke / going through some upgrades or maintenance. Right now if you go to a blog's page on Technorati, you will find that they are rated to be the number one blog in their system and will even show a "Top 100" tag. Even for pages that have no authority and are filled with spam, they are all ranke... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=274 When in Portland at the Intel Threading Building Blocks 2.0 event among those I had met with was Jim Kobylecky of Chip Design Magazine. He has posted an editorial entitled Linux and Tweeters and Blogs. While discussing various technologies at the table, Jim became very interested in the latest Web 2.0 fads, namely Twitter. But as much as the group puzzled me, the individuals fascinated me. To m... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=273 What's on the platter for Phoronix this August? Below is a short list of the articles planned. SilverStone Milo ML02 -- An extremely nice microATX case that is designed for MoDT (Mobile on Desktop) computers. This without a doubt takes the Milo ML01 to the next level. Linux Mobile on Desktop Performance -- Along with the MoDT Milo ML02, we will be featuring a performance look at mobile compo... http://www.michaellarabel.com/index.php?k=blog&i=272 The Tyan Tempest i5000XT was a really great motherboard tested at Phoronix and used in a number of articles with dual Intel Xeon Quad-Core Clovertown processors. This motherboard was great along with Tyan's other LGA-771 motherboards. Unfortunately, over the weekend the Tempest i5000XT decided to take a permanent dump. It's death was evidently caused by what I'll call Oktoberfest. Hopefully Tyan w...