Entries by Scuzzmonkey

you know what? Fuck cars, this is going to be so much more fun - let alone cheaper and easier.

This guy has built a 24 - TWENTY FOUR - Core Linux Cluster to dramatically decrease rendering times. At the bottom of the page he mentions;

I'll do a better page as soon... or I build the Red Helmer II Would be fun to use the AMD 16 core Bulldozer cpu x 6 = 96 core in a box ))

I was thinking, there are 2 ways I can go about this, either, build a very low-power cluster that has the highest speed:power ration possible, or jam 128 cores into this mother fucker, just for the sake of it. In all honesty, the former sounds a better - not to mention cheaper - idea, but that would be regulated to about 12-18 cores, depending on how it is put together. Most likely dual-cores on dual-CPU boards, with 2GB/core. If configured correctly, it should be able to be done through one boot drive, and the other boards booting using network (PXE/NFS). Not sure what I would use it for though - probably add it to my BOINC account.

Time to start working out how this monster would be put together. Will mention it again once I get somewhere with it.

Scuzzmonkey.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ct027/

Come on Britain, fail harder!

Scuzzmonkey.

this will be the last post from me for the next few days, as it's festival time!

Going to be getting on a train within the next few hours, to meet up with the Mrs, to be leaving for Leeds early tomorrow morning, meaning I shall have no access to any sort of computer.

Come on mother fuckers, I better not get back and see that this post is still at the top of the entries, you managed it for 2 weeks before, 4 days is gonna be a peice of piss.

I should be back on monday night, and depending on the want for articles, you may get a very late/early post from me sometime around midnight then, what it will be on...fuck knows, but probably festival antics - unless we get nuked or whatever.

Have fun you cunts, especially anyone reading this that is going to either Reading/Leeds.

Scuzzmonkey.

Looks like Mozilla have got sick and tired of IE fucking up the web.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080819-mozilla-drags-ie-into-the-future-with-canvas-element-plugin.html

Definitely something to watch out for.

Scuzzmonkey.

posted this before, but if I have, it deserves a second outing.

Some people have far too much time on their hands.

Scuzzmonkey

You all will have heard about the current conflict between Russia and Georgia, but when they signed a deal yesturday to cease fire, everyone (well, I say that) believed that this was a crisis averted. Of course, the obvious nature of what is really going on here - the US fighting a proxy-war against Russia within Georgia - and so we have got even closer to WW3 than we did even during the Cold War - seeing as people have actually died this time.

Not to mention of course the West's support of Georgia, even though they started it in the first place, and Russia simply moved in forces as a response. I can assure you that if it had been between anyone else, and Russia, the West would have supported the others, hell, even if it was Afghanistan.

Oh wait - that already happened.

Surely it can't get any worse?

That being said, the graphics are/were the second oldest componant in the machine, behind the processor, and that is only because the CPU was installed about 5 minutes before it.

Luckily, I am now getting to a point where even a comp-whore of my standing can't see much place for improvement. Of course the CPU would be upgraded, but that would costs hundreds and hundreds for just a few extra megahurtz, and not even I can convince myself to spent such epic amounts on so little. All that I can see now is learning a lot about advanced cable managed to hide all the wires/cables, and water cooling, both will be some time yet - if ever.

As always, hit the jump for the pictures.

But no, the fuckers decided to tax me (even though I had filled out all the paper work over 6 weeks ago, it is only meant to take 2 weeks to get processed) almost £300 - when you include Nation Insurance - which leaves me enough money to pay off my over draft, and then buy the graphics cards...

And then be £2 BACK INTO my overdraft.

I really didn't want to have to go back to work after the fucking festival - but at the rate they are cocking up my pay - and the amount of money I'm going to waste on dodgy food and beer over the weekend - it is certain I'll have to go back for at least 2 weeks, probably 3 - which means the Mrs is not going to be best please when I arrive in Newcastle in an almost comatose state after being on a train for 6 hours after a 10 hour shift, and not sleeping on said train due to the shear amounts of changes such a trip takes.

FUCK YOU JUSTIN AND YOUR ENTIRE FUCKING COMPANY.

Hopefully the call to HMRC will get me my money back sooner than April.

Scuzzmonkey.

Scuzzmonkey.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7556955.stm

You'd never get those sort of problems over here....

Scuzzmonkey.