Town of Dunkirk at East Dunkirk NY No. 1

1951 White/Young

500 GPM - 500 Tank

#51-09

 

The old eMachines eOne and Windoze 98 still boots. For obvious reasons, I do not have it connected to the internet.

 

www.cnet.com/products/emachines-eone-433-celeron-433-mhz-...

Did a little spring cleaning. Those large mountains aren't so large any more. Now, home tree is the largest standing object on the grid. Seems appropriate. =~.^=

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

This is my daughter Julia's PC. It's a IBM 300GL (Intel Celeron Mendocino, 330 MHz) with 256MB RAM.

First we colored it with spray paint (Ciclamino diamantato), then reassembled it and installed Ubuntu 5.04 (Gnome 2.10). It runs surprisingly smoothly!

Julia loves to play Tuxpaint and GCompris, as well as some Flash games for kids we found on the internet.

I've really begun to hate expired film.

Theme: Dancer And The Moon - Blackmore's Night

 

Taken on the internal Home Grid.

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Posted 1909. Sherman Hotel, West Third Street.

The unusual double-deck car "Columbia" was used on summer services from Jamestown to Celeron. This car was built in 1892 and demonstrated at the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It was bought by the owner of the Jamestown Street Railway and entered serviced in 1893. It was reported to have ceased service in 1917/18 and stored until 1923 but then scrapped. Note the driver on the top deck. The Sherman Hotel burned down in 1910.

It has been said that every generation has changes to adjust to and I don’t believe ours was much different than the changes prior generations coped and adjusted to. World War II children had all that murder and trauma, the children of the depression had the poverty and uncertainties of life, children like my grandfather at the turn of the century witnessed the evolution of things like electricity, the coming of age of gadgets to make life easier in certain ways. This is just the nature of the species to be in a constant change. Perhaps for my life this change was in the types of recreational items we consumed in pursuit of what? Happiness, experience, wisdom, knowledge? Time will let us know the results of this experiment.

 

This age, the now, is this the computer age, the beginning of the computer age as it seems those machines change, improve, and expand almost daily. There was a need for me to plug in an old computer system, one with Windows 3.1 as the operating system, it was probably ten years old, and it was like driving an old frail car on its last legs. How quickly the new becomes old and discarded. My current computer gurus laugh when I say I am comfortable in Windows 95, the benefits of 98, 2000, and XP being so superior to this old program I write in. When I was recently forced to examine the possibility of purchasing a replacement unit for this sick PC the number of options was incredible. I had to choose between so many computer variables, memory, ram, hard drive, video cards, speakers, size of screen, wide screen or regular and this was just in the low end category of notebooks. Processors were confusing, I had to chose between, Celeron and Pentium and Centrino all of this with the knowledge that what I purchased was going to be somewhat obsolete in a year or so.

 

Shift back to 1968, the summer of. Hi-jinks continued and one high led to another as young entrepreneurs were everywhere marketing pot and hashish, mescaline, LSD, and MDA, along with speed, heroin, and cocaine. We were still juiceheads having done our time learning this pastime the other items slowly got some of our dollars as we became more knowledgeable of their attributes. There was an acid trip I took early that summer when on getting off I thought I had shrunken to the size of an infant and I tried to get under the bed of the rooming house we called The White House. The guys had never seen this behaviour before, the idea of a “Bad Trip” was something the press always harped on to advance the cops theory that all drugs are bad. We didn’t like cops. That summer a groovy coffee shop opened in the basement of Vic’s’ Meat Pie store that faced onto Weston Rd, Vics was next door to the Black Cat Variety Store named after a brand of cigarettes popular at the time. Vics backroom was a dingy place, poorly lit with several tables set with single candles in coloured dishes giving off a red glow The owner served coffee and cokes and bags of chips. We dropped something, it could have been acid who remembers. Big Vic the owner had a CLOSED sign in his window out front, so we went to the back doors through the laneway that ran behind the shops and found half the kids in the neighborhood down there. Younger kids too, all high on something or the other grooving to some tunes. Two local plainclothes coppers come walking in dressed in ridiculous costumes, a lumberjack shirt for one burly goof named Criscoe and a ball cap and jeans for his side kick Smith, we spotted them right away and razzed them even though we were ripped. It was the original Mutt and Jeff show. We just left and the place emptied everyone had somewhere to go and listen to tunes, and not be disturbed.

 

We hung out at the Place Pigalle on Avenue Road. After the Place closed we’d go to this spot this guy from the States had opened a funky coffee shop on Dupont St not to far from the bar and we would go there half pissed and sit around listening to his eclectic tunes. This spot we called Rocheyz, but if you were to spell it correctly it would be Roches. The owner was like a Vietnam Vet kind of guy who looked like Ginger Rogers, his red hair tied in a pony tail. He was always talking about shitting in a hole, made a good mockery of consumer life and in his small way turned us on to the coffee shop ideology of former beat types like Ginsberg and Kerouac without actually preaching their names. He served weird stuff like tofu and beet juice tea, the lighting was real dim so you could just hangout forever, we heard somewhere that he was a junkie.

 

Most of the guys were still in High School at York Memo except for Billy, he worked somewhere maybe for the firebrick company, everything was going to change for everyone, guys were getting serious about chicks, I just wanted to party, Pete was going to St Lawrence College in New York State on a full hockey scholarship, the brothers Frank and Jack were off to Peterborough to study at the newly opened Trent University. Count was top of the class and doing quite well at U of T. I had my own directions to follow.

 

One day I was servicing the fire equipment at a place called McPhar Geophysics; this was located in Don Mills, a suburb of Toronto with an area that had streets full of small manufacturing plants and warehouses. Don Mills is thought of an upper middle class area of very sharp homes. In the receiving department at McPhar there was a lot of exploration gear, things like, snowshoes, canoes, axes and I guess it was like going on a movie set for me, as my eyes bulged. The closest I’d ever gotten to a pair of snowshoes was by watching the show Eric of the Yukon and His dog King, or something like that. A big swarthy guy with a beard and coveralls ran the shipping department and I wasn’t shy, I asked what this company did as he packaged neat things to be shipped to addresses printed in big lettering on the parcels, exciting names like, Rouyan/Noranda, Quebec, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Sao Paolo, Brazil. This outfit was the leader in geophysical surveying in Canada, maybe the world as the founder of the company had invented this piece of machinery for use in WW-II to detect submarines underwater or something like that, when things get technical, remember Science class I get edgy. They found a use for the discovery in the mining industry, locating ore bodies.

 

Here’s how it worked. A typical set up would consist of six people, in the woods in an area, a remote area, near a mine site or a potential mining site. The party operator would put his Receiver on the ground, it was like an electronic sending unit, full of numerous incomprehensible to me buttons, switches, graphs and toggle like switches. This operator we’ll call him John Parker cause that was the guys name I trained with at the first place in Val D’Or Quebec in early January 1969. From Parkers’ receiver a number of wires with crocodile clips, each wire about twelve feet long, were unrolled and hooked up to my piece of machinery, the Transmitter. This little baby was my (the second in commands) equipment. It also had a lot of buttons and switches and a place for Parkers six wires to attach to. Maybe there were three positive and three negative wires. The transmitter was supplied power by a portable generator carried on some bodies back in a rucksack type fashion. In turn the wires were attached to longer wires, some a hundred feet long at six stations, three in front of the set up at certain intervals and three behind the set up at similar intervals. These wires were attached to eight foot steel rods which had been pounded into the ground by staff hired locally using big sledge ended axes. The gas generator was fired up and Parker would play with his buttons and ask me to change the frequency on my piece of equipment, like a parrot I would take his directions, then he would take numbers, called readings and write them into a book. Electric current was sent through the wires into the ground and our machinery somehow measured the results and this would give mining engineers the information they needed as to what direction the mineral they were mining was in or if there were any minerals worth mining for. At night it was our job, Parker and mine to take the days numbers and put them on graph paper, we had to use a slide ruler and this was a little tough for my grade nine math, especially since I’d told the owner/boss Ash Mullan that I had grade twelve which he bought since I showed up for my interview in my nice Invictus Football Team jacket, crew cut and all. I winged the night work for quite some time and thought I had invented a better way of doing the radius work, which we’ll get to in a while. After the mining engineers received these reports which I suppose they paid big money for they, if interested would send in a crew to drill the earth and take out what they call core samples that could be studied to determine the worth of the project.

 

For some reason this was a big thing, me leaving town to work away. It was like I was going to war which I tried to do twice, once a few years earlier the Canadian Navy turned me down for service after my final interview when they asked me my opinion on the Americans in Vietnam, I said, “they shouldn’t be there,” oops so much for saying the wrong thing about your allies, and that year 68 Bill and I tried to sign up for of all things the United States Marines. One time when we were down in Niagara Falls getting drunk at the Johns Club, a place where you went in and they took your order and like a man you’d say, “I’ll have a tray please,” and a waitress would bring you thirty small glasses of beer, and in less than an hour you were so pissed and you’d go for a leak and come back to your table and Bill had changed his name to something like Steve McQueen and he was actually on a movie shoot in the Falls and just taking a little time off for R&R and the ladies fell for it a few times! The following week after sobering up we headed back to Niagara Falls on a mission. The marines recruiting office was in a warehousey part of town in an old factory or something and they told us to go sign up for our own armed forces. I removed some kind of emblem, like a bomb shelter sign off the building and along with my other collectibles stuck it on a wall in the White House.

 

So it wasn’t as if this was the first time I tried to leave, it was the first time I actually got to leave. Close to my departing there was a big drunken go away, everyone was there, all the chicks we hung out with, Barb, kind of my date but we never did anything, Debbie , soon to be Jacks wife, Mickey who Pete was spending a lot of time with on the hood of his little mini car, Phyllis this Italian chick who was hounding Frank, Herbie’s girl, beautiful Ruth Hope the ministers daughter, Bill was still stagging it, it was a big thing, a big party. Mom had moved the family up to an apartment on Weston Road near Cadet Cleaners and Sid’s barbershop. Prior to that we had lived at 26 Victoria Blvd forever, the landlord, a Mr.Gowland must have sold the house. Alex was away on some secret mission we don’t really know where, rumour had it he was in the States on a football scholarship, another rumour was he was in Montreal. The younger kids were there, Kevin, Shane, Sue and Barb as well as mom who loved the teenagers coming over. The party got a little loud and out of hand, I recall the yellow cop cars parked on Weston Road, their red flashing roof top lights, then the cops coming in the front door and all of us running out the back door, and through to Buttonwood Avenue or was it Bartonville and then all of us hiding in the hedges at Bala Avenue school. We left the cops with mom who were busy asking her who was still drinking there, we all got away, we were all underage, and that’s just how it was then.

 

McPhar was a generous company, a few weeks prior to Parker and I leaving for Val D’Or they had me in for an afternoon, had me open up a new bank account where my cheque of $900.00 a month would be deposited, gave a start up expense cheque of $300.00 from which I was to purchase, felt lined snow boots, waterproof pants and a below zero parka. This was way before high tech clothing was available. Down on Yonge Street I found an Army Surplus shop that had neat war stuff and I bought a knee length grey parka, down filled, with a piece of dead fur on the hood. Some of the air force crests and badges were still on the sleeves. For pants I picked a pair of blue nylon jobs that were about half an inch thick with insulation. I should have spent more on boots though as the cheap dark blue zipper up snowmobile feltpaks I purchased were no match for eight hours trekking in snow at times six feet deep. My co-worker, trainer, boss John Parker met me midtown, he had rented a brand new olive coloured Pontiac four door for the drive up to Quebec, we didn’t get to far that first night as a winter storm forced us off the road in Barrie where I had a taste of a company bought motel room and a nice steak dinner, I knew right then I was going to love this gig.

 

Next day the snow still fell and I drove for a while giving Parker a break, it was rough driving up around Sudbury and when we turned right up towards Kirkland Lake this was the first time I’d truly been north. Prior to that us southern boys would think of Barrie as being north I would quickly discover that the North was a large area comprised of incredible terrain, long views, kind people, and a coldness that was not at all like the cold of Toronto. We made it to Val D’Or Quebec not to far from the Ontario border, perhaps an hour’s drive. Our hotel was an old two storey wood framed structure a few blocks from the centre of town which was about the size of Gravenhurst. The streets were covered in snow like a postcard. For meals there was an arrangement with the hotel to make us breakfast and a packed lunch, we would tell them how many sandwiches of what type, peanut butter(beurre d’arachide) and jam, or sliced ham(jambon), and so on. Dinners we went in to town and had a hot meal, anything within reason, no alcohol, and the company paid for everything.

 

Walking into town you could better understand the quietness of this village, as some kids skated and played hockey at an outdoor rink with boards, the heat from their breath coming out of their mouths, a pair of incandescent bulbs glared under round aluminum hoods illuminating the ice rink at each end. Nobody was on the streets, thick smoke poured from the chimneys of the tiny homes, some cabin like in size. The smell of burning firewood filled the air with that type of sweetness which a log of apple or some other such wood gives off. In town, I looked inside a few drinking establishments, now and then, had a couple of beers, spotted the older hookers plying their trade at the front of the bars dressed in obvious get ups, black, torn fishnet stockings, rouged cheeks and their breasts busting out from clothing that was meant for younger smaller ladies. In Ontario towns you would not see such flagrant prostitution, Quebec was more lenient, more accepting of mans need for comfort. Being on my best behaviour I mostly observed as I was learning a new trade and I did not want to jeopardize this by acting up.

 

Our first day in the woods was a Sunday our day off and Parker took me to a field to practice snowshoeing, I caught on immediately after falling a few times. It is quite a neat experience as the body is suspended above the snow which was quite deep, perhaps three or five feet deep. Your feet do sink in a few inches depending on the crustiness of the snow but then they stop and you learn quickly to walk like a penguin, that is with your feet intentionally pointing left and right instead of straight ahead so your snow shoes will not catch each other. To me this was like a new sport. Going up hills was a skill as was descending hills and making turns, after a while it became natural. As the day began the leather harness was easy to use as it was warm and pliable. After a day’s work it could be frozen solid and difficult to manage. Complicating matters was the fact that we wore packs to move our gear through the woods, my transmitter weighed in at ninety pounds so the effort required was high and often this would test the abilities of any man. Whoever led the party through the pre-staked areas of survey would have the added burden of breaking fresh snow so the followers had a bit of an easier walk.

 

Our gig in Val D’Or was not very lengthy, about three weeks. I was for the most part able to do the work with pleasure and discovered these long days out in the snow, in nature were much to my liking. There was an eerie absence of wildlife for some reason, I guess I expected to see deer and moose and bears around every corner but this was not the case. Nights in the town were so much like a Cornelius Krieghoff painting, snow covered cabins with smoke pouring from the chimneys the joie de vivre of the townsfolk. My limited French vocabulary was a valued asset as I could in short time communicate my needs in very rudimentary terms, ham of course was jambon, beurre d’arachides was peanut butter, what I then had difficulty with as I do today is the rapidity of the conversations, a smile was always available as well as at times a questioning look.

 

There was a short furlough in Toronto for a week while the next gig was being prepared for, it was to be in Kirkland Lake with a few days here and there in Timmins. These towns were gold mining centres from earlier times. I was flush with cash as there was nowhere to spend money in Val Dor except the occasional biere at one of the many French pubs. My finances had always been precarious. There was the matter of a small loan in the amount of about seven hundred dollars that I owed HFC and I had no intention of ever paying it. Those dupes had loaned me money for Christmas presents one year at their ridiculous rate of twenty percent. Like I was going to buy presents, I drank all the money in about three weeks. A goofy manager at the HFC office in Weston, upstairs from a shop took me in to sign some forms, swear allegiance to pay this debt, he was a Canadian version of Snidely Whiplash, an English born chap who would have been more suited to being a prison guard. Besides this debt I was in the clear and once I left Dyer and Miller and I changed addresses the loan to HFC was not a consideration and I highly recommend every body do this at least once in life, that is get a loan from some rip off organization and stiff them. Get a bogus birth certificate or something, and get a loan.

 

There were parties of course on my return you would have thought I’d been away for years. The following Sunday I was to make my way to Kirkland Lake Ontario via train. I’d never been on a train ride except for the time we came home from Parry Sound all drunked up on the warm Labatt 50s. At the station Frank came to see me off and at the last minute I said why don’t you come along for the ride as I had a bag of grass to smoke and he had nothing to do. It wasn’t long before we were smoking the joints, I had pre rolled them, there were about thirty, the dope was pretty mild, not like today’s killer weed. We smoked between the trains cars. Back in the coach someone was reading a book called Five Easy Pieces and if you stared long enough you could make the letters interchange sort of a mini hallucination. Six joints later and a couple of sandwiches we were in Kirkland Lake. Getting off the train we noticed the temperature was 35 degrees below zero and this was a big thing for us city boys. Parker, the boss met me at the train, I introduced him to Frank and he hired him on the spot to work on the crew which was to start soon.

 

Frank was kind of gangly at the time, going through a growth spurt, he was always bent over because he was taller than everyone else, he had a gentle manner and enjoyed the usual stuff, like, beer, tokes and women. I loaned him some money and he bought a suitable work outfit, some clothes as he had nothing but the clothes on his back. I recall he purchased a better pair of felt pack boots than mine, the ones with the leather uppers bonded to heavy rubber bottoms that were more waterproof especially if you put Dubbin on them at night. At the Parklane Hotel we shared a room, we had management give us an extra roll a way bed and the cost was quite minimal, they ran a tab for Frank. Meals were taken in the hotel dining room and lunches were prepared for us. As I recall the room was quite small we literally had to crawl over each other to get to the can.

 

We had a day off before work started and that first night in downtown Kirkland was like magic. The Beatles new recording Hey Jude was broadcast live around the world and we caught this in an empty shabby store front bar. Outside it was freezing cold but the coldness was different, it was a dry cold, the wind not holding the same sharp bite as a Toronto wind blowing off of Lake Ontario. The women were looking pretty good and I had a new pick up line, “mon petite serpent” at this the ladies would almost instantly run and hide. Doctor Doolittle was playing at the local theatre and one night we went to the show ripped on our mediocre weed, leaving the theatre singing the songs that were sung in the movie.

 

Work was difficult as it was cold and there was a lot of snow. Town was exciting, our hotel had a Tavern in the basement where a stripper appeared in the evenings. Her name was Patty and we affectionately called her the Portuguese Pig, I don’t know why because we never got any where with her, she had a room in the hotel and we’d always be sneaking peeks at her boobs as she changed before shows. A friend of hers named Candy was around now and then and I thought she was pretty special but again it was like we were all Toronto outcasts and this alone made us buddies. Somewhere down the line Patty the Portuguese Pig knew Bil and she had a crush on him. Nights would find us in the Tavern listening to crappy groups who kept playing a Credence Clearwater Revival song called Proud Mary and the Tom Jones tune, Green Green Grass of Home. Parker was sorry he had hired Frank because we didn’t ever have our minds on the job and we were always hung over. Bill would call regularly he was ready to escape his reality.

 

One night we borrowed the company car and drove to Rouyn Noranda for beers with these French Hippies, a guy and his chick whom we met the week previous at the Kirkland Winter Carnival. Rouyn was not far maybe fifty miles and while there we smoked some nice hash that they had and Frank was making a move on the chick. We got pretty high and it was time to get back to Kirkland. Frank started to drive while I was napping, we were half way to Montreal when I woke up and noticed a road sign that said Montreal ahead 150 miles, this was before the metric system had been imposed on us. We assessed the situation and turned around we were about three hours from Kirkland Lake We got back just as the sun was coming up. The boss, John Parker never had a clue. Another time we were hung over and it was bloody cold, we didn’t feel like working, I dropped my receiver climbing over a farm fence and called Parker over, he turned the machine on and had to take it to the little airport and ship it out to have it repaired. That was good for a couple of days off. Of course there were times when we had no days off, we would work fourteen days straight if the crew was willing so it all worked out.

 

A job near Timmins not to far away needed us so we drove over got rooms in some el cheapo hotel where Patty the Portuguese Pig and her friend Candy were working and this was great because the girls had now let us tie their bikini tops on before shows and apply the glue to the pasties and then watch as the girls pushed them on over their luscious nipples, still no touching, just looking. This trip would be my introduction to snowmobiles. At seven in the morning we left the rooms and piled into the company car, the same four door Pontiac, Parker always drove. We drove to a remote area, parked the car then a few men would show up with ski doos and drive us the final half hour into the worksite as we sat on sleds pulled by the ski doos. It was a far cry from the glamour and hot rodding associated with today’s snowmobilers. Our work was done on a frozen lake a new experience for me, there were long views of barren landscapes, tree lined lakes not a bird or animal insight. Timmins had more bars than Kirkland as unlike Kirkland it was still a thriving gold mining community while Kirkland had began to lose its roll as king of the gold mining towns. Sid Bernstein an old Jewish waiter I met later in life at the Seaway Beverly Hills Hotel had been to Kirkland in the 1930s and he talked about the boom days, the Gold Rush Fever.

 

Work was an endless day of carrying gear over strange moonscape like terrain, areas where no trees existed; as it was snow covered you never got a feel for the land. Parker took care of the night work being a real stickler for accuracy and a dedicated employee, he seemed content to work all day have a meal, go to his room and do the calculations with the slide ruler and chart the results inked on the special roll of graph paper for this purpose. It wasn’t ever necessary for him to socialize, have a beer with the guys, he was work oriented, I’d never met anyone like this before. John Parker came from Saskatchewan, had a degree from DeVry Tech a technical school and when he wasn’t working he had his head in some learning type book, never a novel or something fun. Yet this mismatch of personalities did not deter us from getting the work done, it was hard work, perhaps the hardest I would ever endure and I have to respect that man from Saskatchewan as he never complained always was a good leader. Later on the job I learned that the preferred employee came from a farming background as this type of person was used to long hard days in adverse conditions, and did not suffer the need of rest and relaxation. The job ended and Frank headed back to Toronto with a few dollars in his pocket and this bonding would keep us friends forever.

 

Figured it's about time for a new profile pic. =~.^=

 

Taken on the internal Home Grid.

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bitTaken on the internal Home Grid.

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

An image of the mighty Clavius. One of the larger craters at 225KM in diameter. A very impressive walled plain that contains an arc of addition craters diminishing is size from 55KM (Rutherford) down to 12KM (Clavius J). Moretus is further towards the pole, and is around 114KM. It has a great central peak rising to 2700m) and numerous terraces. The tops of other craters can be seen towards the horizon, and the south lunar pole. Captured with a ZWO174mm (using a 642IRBP filter), on a Celeron Edge1100HD and CGEMDX mount. Image capture was via OACapture, stacked in Autostakkert2, Sharpened in Registax, finished in photoshop.

   

Inverno 1988, celerone (solo posta celere) Bari - Milano

Theme: Believe - Dion Rowles

 

Taken on the internal Home Grid.

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Inverno 1988, celerone (solo posta celere) Bari Milano

Trying out the cool 3d-plugin, transparent cube -- inside cube, no skycaps

Many, many thanks to Tölgyesi for the link to Gale's gorgeous Photoshop creations

 

beryl version 0.1.3

 

Specs:

Pentium 4 Celeron - 2.0Ghz

ASUS PS533-MX motherboard

768MB system RAM

256MB nVidia Geforce FX5700LE

 

Linux Nvidia IA32 driver version 1.0 9631

kernel-2.6.16.13-4 i686, Xorg 7.2, KDE 3.5

 

Regarding the xgl and compiz tags:

I'm not using xgl and compiz anymore, the tags are added for related reference purposes only

This was my desk in my basement office when I worked mainly from home for 6 months or so. Its a real mess at this point with cabling everywhere... I used Synergy to share 1 keyboard and mouse between all these systems, which is very useful.

 

I have since then trimmed this down a lot, getting rid of the HP P4, put one of the laptops upstairs, replaced MythTV with a TiVo and moved my Solaris platform into another room running on a Sun Sparc server.

 

But really these days my Macbook Pro is where I do 95% of my work, play and other geeky goodness.

 

Detailed Specs for JustSetups.com (screens left - right)

 

MythTV Linux Box:

Compaq Presario PIII 700Mhz, 768MB RAM, 20GB system HDD & 120GB Video HDD, ATi PCI 64MB gfx, Hauppauge WinTV PVR-350 PCI TV tuner connected to Comcast basic cable coax. Samsung 21" CRT monitor. KnoppMyth Linux Distro.

 

Work VPN Laptop:

IBM Thinkpad T30 P4M 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM. Windows XP Pro / Ubuntu Breezy Linux Dual Boot.

 

Mac Mini:

G4 1.25Ghz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM. OS X 10.4.6. Viewsonic 19" CRT

 

Primary Linux Desktop:

HP 764n P4 2.66Ghz 768MB DVD+RW 128MB, Dualhead Radeon AGP, 120GB IDE drive. Connected to 20" Dell CRT monitor (and sometimes a 17" Dell CRT).

 

Work Linux Laptop:

Toshiba Satelite PIII Celeron 700Mhz, 512MB, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM. Xandros Linux / Debian Unstable Dual Boot.

 

Solaris Desktop:

Dell PIII 800Mhz, 512MB, 80GB, Intel PCI ethernet. Sun Solaris 10 x86.

 

Other:

HP PSC 2110 All in one printer/scanner/copier

Altec Lansing Speakers

Harmon/Kardon Speakers

Very small UPS from Staples.

Ikea Desks (Jerker. Nice name. Cool desks though.)

Logitech Wireless Desktop

 

Not in this photo:

Apple Macbook Pro Core Duo 1.83Ghz, 1GB. OS X 10.4.6 / Ubuntu Dapper Drake / Windows XP Pro triple boot. (I do almost everything on this now)

 

Linux RAID5 File server: Compaq Presario PIII 700Mhz, 256MB RAM, 5x 250GB IDE, PCI IDE Expansion Card.

 

About 1771 was prosed as the capital of a new colony, "Vandalia." It was visited by early explorers: La Salle, 1669; Celeron, 1749; Gist, 1750; and Washington, 1770. Daniel Boone had a trading here.

Did a little spring cleaning. Those large mountains aren't so large any more. Now, home tree is the largest standing object on the grid. Seems appropriate. =~.^=

 

The Specs:

 

Grid: Local Host running Opensim 0.8.2.1

Viewer: Singularity Viewer (64 bit) 1.8.6 (6157)

CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60GHz (1599.97 MHz)

Memory: 8105 MB

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Intel Celeron G3930

Kabylake-S DualCore

etched

 

difference picture

 

Microscope: Leitz SECOLUX 6x6 (objektiv: Leitz NPL Fluotar 5x/0.09 oo/- @ 450~ images)

Camera: Sony NEX-5T (16.1MP APS-C sensor)

(resize to 50%)

 

die-size 10,75mm x 8,99mm (96,64mm²)

Showcasing a Celeron D chip.

This is a mini galaga arcade machine I built. Im building a mini street fighter now.

Lenovo Flex 2 in 1 Convertible Tablet-Laptop 11.6 inch Premium Touchscreen, Intel Dual Core N3050 Processor, 4GB DDR3, 500GB HDD, HDMI, 802.11AC WiFi, Windows 10

 

Lenovo Flex 2 in 1 Convertible Tablet comes with Intel Dual Core Celeron processor N3050 Processor (2MB Cache, up to 2.16 GHz), Intel HD Graphics.

360 degree flip-and-fold design (Laptop, Tablet, Tent and Stand), 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3L SDRAM, 500GB Hard drive. 11.6 inch 10-point Multitouch Screen (1366 x 768) with 360 degree hinge, HD Webcam, HDMI, no optical drive.

802.11 AC Gigabit WiFi, 1G LAN Ethernet, Bluetooth 4.0, Card reader, 1 USB 3.0, 2 USB 2.0, Windows 10 preinstalled, Measures just 0.86 inch thin, Weighs only 3.06 pound.

  

11.6 inch 10-point multitouch screen: Capacitive display responds to finger touches instead of pressure, recognizing a light swipe but not a standard stylus. Antiglare complete reduces eyestrain. 1366 x 768 HD resolution, LED backlight.

360 degree hinge design: Provides multiple modes for use like a Tablet or Laptop computer.

Built-in 1.5W stereo speakers: Dolby DS 1.0 home theater audio delivers immersive sound and maximizes volume output without distortion.

  

Weighs 3.06 pounds and measures 0.86 inch thin: Ultrathin and ultralight for optimum portability, featuring a smaller screen size and omitting the DVD/CD drive to achieve the compact form factor, 2-cell lithium-polymer battery.

Voice assistant capability: Software preinstalled so that you can type by talking and control the Lenovo Flex Tablet via voice commands.

Bluetooth 4.0 interface syncs with compatible devices: Wirelessly transfer pictures, songs and other media between the Tablet and your Bluetooth-enabled cell phone or Mp3 player, or connect Bluetooth wireless accessories.

  

HDMI output expands your viewing options: Connect to the HDTV or high-def monitor to set up 2 screens side by side or just see more of the large picture.

Built-in media reader for easy picture transfer: Supports SD, SDHC, SDXC and MMC memory card formats.

Next-generation wireless connectivity: Connects to your network or hotspots on all current WiFi standards. Connect to a Wireless-AC router for speed almost 3x faster than Wireless-N. The Ethernet LAN port also plugs into wired networks.

Built-in HD webcam with microphone: Makes it simple to video chat with friends and family or teleconference with colleagues over Skype or other popular apps. 720p resolution.

Additional ports: Microphone-in/headphone-out combo jack.

  

Technical Details

Brand Name: Lenovo Flex

Series: flex

Item model number: flex-11-80LY

 

Hardware Platform: PC

Operating System: Windows 10 preinstalled

Screen Size: 11.6 inches

 

Display Screen: 11.6 inch 10-point Multitouch Screen (1366 x 768) with 360 degree hinge

Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768

Max Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768

  

Processor: 1.6GHz Intel Dual Core Celeron N3050 (2MB Cache, up to 2.16GHz)

RAM: 4 GB SDRAM DDR3

Memory Speed: 1600 MHz

 

Hard Drive: 500 GB HDD 5400 rpm

Graphics Coprocessor: integrated graphics Intel HD

Chipset Brand: Intel

 

Wireless Type: 802.11b/g/n

Bluetooth: 4.0

Processor Brand: Intel

 

Processor Count: 2

Computer Memory Type: DDR3 SDRAM

Hard Drive Interface: Serial ATA

 

Hard Drive Rotational Speed: 5400.00

2-in-1 Convertible Tablet

360 degree flip-and-fold design (Laptop, Tablet, Tent and Stand)

  

HD Webcam: Yes

HDMI: Yes

no optical drive

 

802.11 AC Gigabit WiFi

1G LAN Ethernet

Card reader: Yes

 

USB 3.0: 1

USB 2.0: 2

Measures just 0.86 inch thin

 

Item Weight: 3.06 pounds

Item Dimensions L x W x H: 11.77 x 8.23 x 0.86 inches

Power Source: AC

 

Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Date First Available at Amazon.com: January 19, 2016

  

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This is my Netbook review...

 

What's a netbook? It's a sub-notebook sized laptop, originally designed for net surfing. They are extremely portable, and usually sell in the US$200-$400 range.

 

I have been in the market for a netbook for well....the last 8 months. Every time I think I have identified the one I want, a better model comes out. This is especially true of ASUS, who seems to introduce a new model every other day.

 

I first saw the first tiny ASUS netbook more than a year ago, I imagined how nice it would be to be sitting on the beach in Bali or Phuket, sucking down beers (can't make a martini at the beach without ice) and keeping up with my emails. In my profession, you are never really "on vacation". I typically get about 100 emails a day, and just 'answering" an email from a cellphone is often not enough. I might have to open a spreadsheet or write a formal document while sitting on that beach, so that means running back to the hotel and opening the laptop. This rules out "Blackberry" type devices, and my Nokia smartphones as well. I need a real computer with a real keyboard and Microsoft Office. Anyway, the IPOD and cellphone will be there on the beach with me anyway...

 

I already have a full-sized Sony laptop already so I wanted something that was so inexpensive and portable that I wouldn't mind carrying it along. Also, I figured that I spend about 20 hours a week either sitting in a plane, sitting in airports or waiting in a hotel lobby to go to the airport. I hate dragging out the big laptop and booting it up. A small netbook in standby mode would be very productive.

 

IDENTIFYING THE REQUIREMENT

 

When choosing any gadget, you need to first decide on what features you really need.

 

I decided to give in to the hidden desire for "cool-looking" as one of the criteria.

 

The danger is that you can get sucked into the "Apple Syndrome"...picking something because it looks good and seems to be popular, even if the functionality is limited. Case in point - The IPOD. Beautiful design, but poor function. Many people buy one just to "follow the crowd" and hope it will make them "popular". Some of these same people don't even have music content to load on the machine...just wanna be seen with an Apple product.

It's a big joke that people have IPOD's with 160GB drives that are 1% full.

 

And the software is crap...that's why I replaced the IPOD firmware with the free, open source ROCKBOX (www.rockbox.org). Goodbye ITunes s/w.

 

Anyway, back to Netbooks...

 

The other key criteria that I was looking for are:

 

Not bigger than the ASUS 901 series.

 

Windows XP pre-installed.

 

Should support Photoshop

 

At least 5 hours battery life

 

VGA output so I can use an external monitor (but not on the beach!)

 

Should be easy to upgrade, add memory, etc. without major disassembly of the computer

 

Today, all netbooks have the same basic features, which are built-in webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth and the Atom processor.

 

Additional, nice-to-have features would be :

 

battery life up to 9 hours (what they call "all-day computing" in the netbook world)

 

3G support - A place to insert a SIM card....nice, but not necessary, as I could just use a USB air card for a cellular connection. Sorry to my friends back in the US, but with the cellular provider monopoly there, you still can't get this. In Thailand, I can walk into 7-11 with $5 and buy a SIM card for my phone or 3G laptop, plug it in and have internet, free incoming phone calls, international SMS ... oh well, don't get me started on the sorry state of wireless services in my home country...!

 

USB ports that can function as a charger for the phones and IPODs, even with the computer turned off.

 

Keyboard should be resistant to martini spills (just kidding!)

 

After months of evaluation, here is what I have come up with.

 

ASUS

 

The company that started it all. The ASUS 901 is so cute, and now comes with 3G support so you can use it where WiFi is not available. Also, a nice battery that gives more than 5 hours of life.

 

I have been following the ASUS S101 model for several months now, and I thought that this would be the one to get. It is almost as thin as a Mac Air, has all metal construction and a 64GB SSD drive, which makes it one of the most expensive netbooks. But the annoying factor is that it only comes with Linux. I would have to install Windows XP myself. It is very difficult to find a legal copy of XP here in Bangkok nowadays (pirated copies are in the stores at $3 but I want a legal copy) and Vista is crap. I have heard that Windows 7 Beta works ok on this platform, but I really don't want to have to tinker for weeks to get all the drivers working on a new computer. Having a solid state drive is cool (like in a Mac Air) but it's really not that important to me.

 

Last weekend I gave up on the S101 and decided on the ASUS 1002HA, which is metal like the S101 but has a 160GB hard drive and XP pre-installed.

 

I also looked at the latest version of the ASUS 1000 series, the 1000HG. It has the super 8000mAH battery that should let it fly for more than 9 hours (!) and a place to plug in a SIM card for 3G support. Wow! It also has a "chicklet-style" keyboard like the Macs (in Thailand, the stores have mistakenly printed their brochures to say it's a "chocolate-style" keyboard!). But the 1000 is just so chunky-looking and still has that EEEPC plastic toy appearance....even though the quality has been confirmed.

 

TOSHIBA

 

Toshiba was late to the market with their netbook offering.Their NB100 looked like my 2001 Toshiba laptop shrunk down to a netbook size. Also, the battery lasts only 2 hours.

 

But now they are releasing this month the NB200, which may be a killer. It has all the usual netbook features, but has a 9-hour battery and a 160 GB hard disk with an accelerometer. and it looks very classy. It's USB ports can be used to charge your phone or IPOD even if the computer is turned off, which is nice.

 

So right now, i'm waiting for the NB200 to appear in Bangkok.

 

Some other models that I had evaluated...

 

HP

 

HP's original 2133 netbook looked great, but used a Celeron processor and was so hot on the bottom that you could iron your clothes with it. Most stores have them turned off in their showrooms for that reason. And to really kill it, it came with Vista pre-installed which made to perform like maple syrup. They are coming out with an Atom/ 2140 model that looks pretty good, but I can't help remembering all the problems my colleagues have had with their HP and Compac notebooks over the years. They just seemed to fall apart. However, the keyboard on the HP's is probably the best of all netbooks.

 

LENOVO

 

The Lenovo S10 and S9 are really good looking but the battery life is below average. If it weren't for that, I probably would have one for the S9.

 

SAMSUNG

 

The NC-10 is famous for its battery life, but i'm not convinced about the build quality.

 

MSI

 

One of the original netbook leaders, but 2 hour battery life !

 

ACER

 

I have heard that you have to dis-assemble the computer (and void the warranty) just to upgrade the memory from 1 Gb to 2 GB. Also, I heard that the battery life is not that impressive.

 

FUJITSU

 

Their entry looks too plastic and toy-like. Usually I respect Fujitsu because they still manufacture in Japan.

  

Because they are so cheap, I have decided to get two netbooks..one for the real requirement, and one to play with (and maybe the "beach" model). Some of the original netbooks with small 20 GB SSD drives and Linux are getting really cheap...less that 7000 baht (about US $200).

If they get REALLY cheap (just before they are discontinued), I may get one and install Windows 7 (free evaluation from Microsoft until June 2010) or an optimized version of XP.

There are free utilities that lets you strip many unnecessary features from XP to a final installation size of only 700 MB and 20 second boot up time! The SSD drives are solid state so their are no moving parts. This would be almost a disposable netbook. Also, the ASUS models let you plug in an SD card with becomes part of the logical C drive. For example, the computer has a 20 GB SSD (basically flash memory) which appears as the C: drive. But if you plug in a 16 GB SD card (included free with the 901 model), you C: drive now appears as 36 GB. You can get 32 or even 64 GB SD cards nowadays, but 36 GB is more than enough for a netbook.

 

On the "beach" model, I may even stay with Linux (to avoid the world of viruses) and use the free Linux Office alternatives for Excel and Word.

 

I looked at some of the websites of US retailers...looks like they are still trying to dump the unpopular models on the public (The Asus 900, which doesn't have the Atom processor, or HP models with Vista (yuk!).

 

Vista is so terrible in a netbook that many computers are shipped with a XP "downgrade" pre-installed !

 

As usual, Asia is the place to get the latest and best hi-tech gadgets.

733 MHz Intel 'Coppermine' Processor, basically a regular Pentium III with half of the L2 cache disabled, here on a 2003 (v1.5 Made in China) Xbox.

 

The Westboro Protesters Run-in!

I was coming out of Cha-Bellas Restaurant and was greeted by a small group of protesters.

Nothing unusual for me I am used to protesters almost everywhere I go, but these people were a little strange even by my standards! So much so that I stopped, read their signs, looked confused and decided to talk to them. It went something like this:

 

Ballmer: Hey, what is this all about?

Curly Haired Freak: We followed you and these heathens here! God hates you Jews and your Zunes!

Muskie Woman: You must repent! God does not want to hate you but he does ya knooooo!

Cute Kid: Amen to dat!

 

Ballmer: I don't know where you guys get your info, but me and the Big Guy are on speaking terms and I can assure you he loves Zunes!

 

Curly Haired Freak: Microsoft, America, comeputter'n for the Devil, being a Jew are all evil! God hates you!

Muskie Woman: You must repent! Stop all that evil fake blogg'n!

Cute Kid: Amen!

 

Ballmer: Hey! You must be some of those wack-jobs who go around protesting at soldiers funerals! That just isn't cool people!

Curly Haired Freak: Neither is HELL and that is where you and all o-yo peoples be going!

Muskie Woman: It's off to hell you go! Staight there! No detours! Straight there!

Cute Kid: Amen!

 

At that moment I realised I could not reason with these people but I had to do something so I said,

 

Ballmer: You know what, I appreciate your spreading the truth here, I want to help!

Curly Haired Freak: We take donations from even those God hates ... indeed haleujah yeah Lord!

Muskie Woman: Another one saved!

Cute Kid: Amen!

 

Ballmer: Here .... put your church's address on the back of my card here!

Curly Haired Freak: Just what are you sending us brother?

 

Ballmer: One hundred Celeron computers running Windows Vista Home edition!

 

Muskie Woman: We will be comeputter'n for the Lord!

Cute Kid: Amen!

 

Ballmer: Amen indeed!

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733 MHz Intel 'Coppermine' Processor, basically a regular Pentium III with half of the L2 cache disabled, here on a 2001 (v1.0 Made in Mexico) Xbox.

 

Heinz Historical Center: Queen Aliquippa. Shrouded in mystery, Seneca leader Aliquippa's life reveals itself only in brief accounts by French and Britsh envoys. They confirm that by the 1740s, Aliqippa lived in Western Pennsylvania and led a group of about 30 Seneca families. Fiercely loyal to the British, she met twice with conrad Weiser in 1748. He reported a Logstown visit where Allqsuippa requested gunpowder and shot to "send out the Indian boys to kill turkey & other fowls... whilst the men are gone to war against the French." Celeron, a French commander, attempted to pay her homage in 1749 but she rebuffed him. He noted, "The Iroquois inhabit this place and it is an old woman of this nation who governs it... She is entirely devoted to the English." George Washington's short journal entry of his 1754 visit provides the best known account of Aliquippa and inspires the figure: "I made her a Present of a Match-Coat: & a Bottle of rum, which the latter was thought much the better present of the two." Aliquippa must have trusted Washington; she, her son, and their followers joined him at the Great Meadow and witnessed the battle ot Fort Necessity. After the defeat, they fled to George Croghan's homestead where she died on December 23, 1754.

The new statue in Celeron is a great image of Lucille Ball.

Acer Convertible Chromebook R11, 11.6 inch HD Touchscreen Notebook, White (CB5-132T-C32M)

 

Acer Convertible Chromebook R11 CB5-132T-C32M 11.6 inch HD Touch Notebook (White). Acer Chromebook R11 comes with these advanced specs: Intel Celeron N3150 Quad Core Processor 1.6 GHz with Intel Burst Technology up to 2.08 GHz.

The Chromebook That Bends Over Backwards: Get the Chromebook R11, and open this elegant touchscreen Chromebook all the way, until it becomes a Tablet.

Along the way to 360 degrees of Tablet entertaining, you can stop to configure it as a stand-up display, or a tent-shaped display that you can place on narrow ledges.

Created for 360 Degrees of Entertaining: You weren’t designed to sit still, and neither was the Acer Chromebook R11.

  

The 360 degree hinge features a dual-torque technology with the ideal combination of flexibility and strength so that you can easily open the cover with just one hand yet have enough torque for a wobble free touch experience.

Use the Acer Convertible Chromebook R11 as a Tablet on-the-go, optimize productivity in its comfortable notebook mode, and pivot the screen in multiple ways to share and create with others.

The Chromebook R11 detects the mode you are in and automatically adjusts the sound when display is flipped over, as well as the content of screen display.

  

4 modes to fulfill different demands:

- Notebook: Efficiently utilizes productivity with fully functional keyboard.

- Display: Brings the screen closer for enjoying any entertainment content.

- Tent: An ideal mode when area is limited such as in an airplane or kitchen.

- Tablet: The ultimate way to play, share and browse.

Created for Style: The Acer Chromebook R11 sports a premium aluminum top cover with a beautiful imprint using Acer nano-imprint technology creating a special textured metallic finish that helps you grip the laptop strongly but looks cool too.

  

The Chromebook R11 11.6 inch HD IPS touch display enables you to browse, organize, swipe and edit with the tip of your finger while Zero Air Gap technology assures visuals pop and images are sharp by reducing frustrating reflections in the sunlight.

Store and access your pictures, songs, videos/movies, documents and more from anywhere with Google Drive. It’s easy, and all of your files are backed up automatically online, safely and securely. In addition, enjoy 100GB of free storage on Google Drive for 2 years.

Created for Fast Connections: The Acer Convertible Chromebook R11 provides speed to another level featuring the latest MIMO 802.11ac wireless for a smooth and dependable Internet and video streaming experience, at up to 3 times faster connection speeds than previous generation wireless technologies.

  

Additionally, it outperforms most other Chromebooks with its amazing Intel processor based on Braswell architecture, giving it the power to support another rarity for a Chromebook, a super-fast USB 3.0 port.

As the Chromebook OS is made for efficiency and simpleness, your Acer Chromebook 11 starts up in just a few seconds, so you can spend less time waiting and more time doing.

Having a long-lasting battery life, you can keep the full Chrome OS experience when you need it. Move all day long at school, the library, or even home – all without recharging, with up to 10 hours of battery life you can extend your productivity and enjoy lifetime on-the-go.

Watch movies, play games or get work done (if you really have to). The Chrome Web store offers thousands of free applications, themes, and extensions to help you make the most of your Chromebook. In addition, automatic updates help to keep your Chromebook secure with the latest virus protection.

  

Technical Details

Brand Name: Acer

Series: CB5-132T

Item model number: CB5-132T-C32M

 

Operating System: Google Chrome

Screen Size: 11.6 inches

Display Screen: 11.6 inch HD 1366x768 resolution, high-brightness, LED-backlit IPS (In-Plane Switching) technology with integrated 10-point multitouch screen, supporting finger touch and image auto rotation (16:9 aspect ratio)

 

Max Screen Resolution: 1366 x 768 pixels

Processor: Intel Celeron N3150 Quad Core Processor 1.6 GHz with Intel Burst Technology up to 2.08 GHz

RAM: 2 GB DDR3L SDRAM

 

Graphics Coprocessor: Intel HD Graphics

Wireless Type: 802.11 A/C

Number of USB 3.0 Ports: 1

Number of USB 2.0 Ports: 1

 

HDMI port with HDCP support: 1

HD Webcam (1280 x 720)

Color: Denum White

 

Processor Brand: Intel

Processor Count: 1

Flash Memory Size: 32GB

  

802.11ac WiFi featuring MIMO technology (Dual-Band 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz)

Bluetooth: 4.0

Intel HD Graphics

 

High-Definition Audio Support

Two Built-in Stereo Speakers

Secure Digital (SD) card reader

 

1.25 kg (system unit only) (NX.G54AA.001)

Item Weight: 4.2 pounds

Item Dimensions L x W x H: 11.57 x 8.03 x 0.76 inches

 

3-cell Li-Ion (3220 mAh) Battery

Average Battery Life (in hours): 10 hours

Batteries: 1 Lithium ion batteries required.

 

Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Domestic Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.

 

International Shipping: This item can be shipped to select countries outside of the U.S.

Date First Available at Amazon.com: October 6, 2015

  

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This chip has been a long time coming. When I originally tried opening it and scraping away at it like a traditional Intel chip I was greeted with this: flic.kr/p/2kx95ss

From past experience I know that when you see that kind of structure it is game over and it cannot be removed via the razor method without destroying the chip.

 

So, I bought an ultrasonic cleaner, ferric chloride and glass etching paste and after experimenting of some sacrificial chips I dunked this one into the ferric chloride. After several rounds a lot of material had been removed but there were some metal layers which were not budging.

 

After discussing with Martijn Boer, it seemed like I should be able to use the glass etching paste to attack the silicon layer underneath this metal layer. I placed the chip into a beaker with some water and dissolved some paste in it and let it run for about an hour in the ultra sonic cleaner. This is the result, I may have gone a bit too long on this since unlike ferric chloride, glass etching paste attacks the silicon, which happens to be what the layer we are interested in is made of >:(. As you can see it started to eat too deep into some spots on the chip.

 

This chip is HUGE, so I had to get funky with how I captured it. Similar to the memory controller I posted previously, I switched my camera's grid to 6x4 which means I pan a greater distance in the x axis every time I switch to a new column. Still had lots of warping which was corrected in Photoshop using a tool called "perspective crop" which worked wonders.

 

Die Size: (W) 14.79mm x (L) 10.35mm

Camera: SONY A6000

Number of Images: 240

Panorama Y Axis: 16 Images

Panorama X Axis: 15 Images

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 1.3"

Light Source: Led on side of objective

DIC: No

Overlap: ? (Not sure, I changed grid to 6x4)

Microscope Objective: 5X

Microscope Eyepiece: DSLR Mount

Grid Used: 6x4 (Panning Movement Aid)

Capture Motion: ZigZag

Stitching Software: Microsoft ICE

Other Software: Photoshop for de-skewing

Image Type: PNG

This is a 15" LCD touchscreen with a Celeron 633MHz board with 128MB RAM in a wooden case of my construction. The case also contains the PSU. The bottom part of the screen surround hinges down to allow access to the monitor controls. The button mounted on the base is the power button and indicator light.

 

It has no hard drive and boots using PXE from my server, then mounts its filesystem over NFS. It runs Debian Linux, xorg, XFCE4, Metacity and Firefox. The button on the left of the panel at the bottom of the screen pops up a screen keyboard.

 

Currently I'm a bit concerned about the amount of heat that builds up from the PSU (reaches 75°C after a while), an external PSU might be required. Also it tends to run out of RAM when viewing stuff on google video (no swap, no hard drive).

 

Update: I've done some work on the insides, see here. It still looks the same on the outside.

 

Further update: I've switched from the above described software to running KDE. More details here.

Decay Hardware HDR INTEL Celeron 2GHZ (2000)

 

Nikon D5000

Nikkor 18-200

 

HDR 3 scatti

 

Dati Scatto

Aperture: f 11

Speed: 1/4

ISO 200

Focal length: 70mm

  

☠ ℍⓐℂⓚ¥

Back-side of an Intel Celeron LGA775 CPU.

-Inside cube-

 

Many, many thanks to francesbean for her excellent photo

 

beryl version 0.1.3

 

Specs:

Pentium 4 Celeron - 2.0Ghz

ASUS PS533-MX motherboard

768MB system RAM

256MB nVidia Geforce FX5700LE

 

Linux Nvidia IA32 driver version 1.0 9631

kernel-2.6.16.13-4 i686, Xorg 7.2, KDE 3.5

 

Regarding the xgl and compiz tags:

I'm not using xgl and compiz anymore, the tags are added for related reference purposes only

a metric ton of storage, literally.

 

Shown are all 3 generations of the HP MediaSmart EX-series servers - EX470, EX485 (2) and the latest EX495. The EX470 had a 2.6ghz AMD proc (which I upgraded here), the EX485s sport Intel Celeron 2.2ghz procs, and the EX495 sports a much more powerful Dual Core 2.5ghz proc.

 

There are 7 servers visible in this photo if you look closely. 6 are dedicated file servers serving up many terabytes of photos, videos, music, etc all over my home to various Media Centre Extenders (XBOX 360, PS3, Asus Nettop) or just laptops & computers in general.

 

With Windows 7 and libraries, I no longer need to map network shares - everything is easy to find all over my home. I love it.

Intel Celeron G3930

Kabylake-S DualCore

 

Etched to polysilicon layer, reflected microscope light (brightfield) gives a very bad result and shows many scratches from cleaning. External light sources expose hidden circuits.

  

Microscope: Leitz SECOLUX 6x6 (objektiv: Leitz NPL Fluotar 5x/0.09 oo/- @ 450~ images)

Camera: Sony NEX-5T (16.1MP APS-C sensor)

(resize to 50%)

 

die-size 10,75mm x 8,99mm (96,64mm²)

my bid to win wildlife photographer of the year.

Quem ama um Intel Celeron, Intel Core lhe parece!

 

♥ Continue lendo.

This is an Intel Celeron D 340, it has a base clock of 2.93GHz, uses the NetBurst architecture, SSPEC of SL7Q9 and 256KB of L2 Cache. I suspect that this chip actually has 1MB of cache onboard, but 3/4 of it is disabled since my old die-shot of the same architecture flic.kr/p/2iQ3Xw1 has 2MB of cache and the cache is only twice as big.

 

This chip architecture is capable of executing 64bit instructions, but this particular chip only runs 32bit. From what I can gather online it seems Intel did not want to compete with their 64bit Itanium processors which are server CPUs. Intel knew that AMD was about to switch to 64bit so they made sure they had something on hand to compete with them when they did.

 

Camera: SONY A6000

Number of Images: 117

Panorama Y Axis: 9 Images

Panorama X Axis: 13 Images

Individual Image Size: 6000x4000, all images rotated 90 degrees prior to stitching.

ISO: 100

Shutter Speed: 0.5"

Light Source: Side LED Flood Light

Overlap: 50%

Microscope Objective: 4X

Microscope Eyepiece: DSLR Mount (2X)

Grid Used: 4x4 (Panning Movement Aid)

Capture Motion: Zigzag (Right->Left)

Stitching Software: Microsoft ICE

Other Software: GIMP for scaling, white balancing, and sharpening , XnConvert for rotation of each image.

Image Type: JPG

JPEG Quality: 85%

-- 57 Licensed arcade games*

-- Hardware supports over 3000 games

-- Perfect arcade look and feel: genuine arcade controls, colorful backlit marquee, T-molding, illuminated coin door

-- Huge 27" Arcade Monitor

-- ArcadeVGA video card perfectly reproduces original game graphics complete with authentic flicker

-- Embedded PC with 2.8 gigahertz Intel Celeron processor is completely hidden inside cabinet

-- Versatile control panel with two joysticks per player, dedicated four-way joystick, trackball, and spinner

-- Formica laminate finish for durability and easy cleanup

-- Coin door is functional and works in games*

-- External volume control knob allows easy volume adjustment

-- Speakers are built into the cabinet