Archive for August, 2008
TreeMark™ Tree Rating - A fresh perspective to green computing
Centaur semiconductors have come up with a very interesting way of evaluating the energy efficiency of micoprocessor products. It is called the TreeMark™ Tree Rating. Centaur defines it as “The number of trees that need to be planted to counter the amount of carbon dioxide created as a by-product of the electricity generated to power the processor over its operational lifetime”.
IPv6 around the corner - APNIC 26
Whether you’re just beginning to think about IPv6 or have been rolling it out for a couple of years, there’s IPv6 content at APNIC 26 to suit you. APNIC is holding their 26thopen standards summit that starts today at Christchurch in New Zealand.
Cuil - The Elegant Search Engine
I was amazed at the relevance of the results. Although the number of results shown at once is lesser than the contemporary search engines, it makes up for it by ensuring two things.
32 bit Floating Point for Micro Controllers
MicroMegacorp have created an FPU that comes in two versions an 8-pin DIP and an 18-pin DIP package. They can be connected via an I²C or SPI interface with virtually any micro controller that supports either of these interfaces.
nLite - Windows Installation Customizer
If you have ever wished that Windows XP / 2000 would install unattended and you had control over which components would install…. there is a tool just right for you
DBSight - The Ultimate Faceted Database Search
I recently came accross such a product that’s worth mentioning here. I was able to set it up on my pc in less than 3 minutes. It comes with a very easy to use web interface. It makes use of JDBC to retrieve data from virtually any database. You can specify an SQL query to specify the search able records.