Monday, May 17, 2004

Pondering the Imponderable -- 6:37 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

I just got back from a brief trip for a graduation in the family. I was good to see so much of my family and drink beer that other people paid for (for the most part). Now I'm just tired and I've lost a day's worth of time for work. Oh well.

While I was gone, I was reading an article on NVIDIA in the latest Computer Power User (CPU) magazine. There's a couple of paragraphs from it on their website. While there is a bit of "rah rah" in there, they are surprisingly candid on what went wrong with the NV30 series of chips (GeForce FX) and how they used what they learned to their advantage for the recently-announced NV40 series. If you've never read CPU, I highly recommend it. They have columns by people who should be familiar: Kyle Bennett from HardOCP, Alex "Sharky" Ross, Slashdot's Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda, and others. I've been a subscriber for several years.

Regarding the UT2K4 patch, I'm hearing that some Windows users are starting to experience the KIntersect crash that has been plaguing Linux users for some time. I hope this means that find out where the problem is in the Karma physics code more quickly.

In one final completely unrelated note, I'm beginning to hate my Audiovox SP11CDS 10-disc changer in our Windstar. We got it because we could use our OEM head unit to control it. That would allow us to use the rear controls in the van so that the kids could be listening to something on CD via headphones, while my wife and I could listen to a tape or the radio. Great theory. The problem is that the changer is very finicky. It refused to play my Stevie Ray Vaughn Greatest Hits 2 CD. It is very particular about homemade CDs. To top it all off, it was expensive. If I had to do it over, I'd just get another Kenwood MP3-capable head unit and forget about the rear controls. Oh well.

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