*Words of Wisdom From The Elder

Do you remember the Jetsons? Da da da da! If so you will remember all of those cool gizmos and thingies they would always come up with. Like Geore would wake up and have a computer shower him, brush his teeth and then a conveyor belt would shove him out the door. Basically it was a brainless act waking up every morning and driving to work. Well let me introduce you to Smart Home, read on.

A story carried by Cnet and released on Yahoo tells us about the new battle heating up between Intel and Transmeta. Last year Transmeta released the new Crusoe chip which brought us a chip that consumed much less power than today’s chip giving notebooks about 6 hours of battery life. Intel Tuesday released its new chip, PIII 500MHz, which according to Intel is “the lowest-power-consuming PC processor that has ever been built”. Some may remember IBM dropping the Crusoe line of Thinkpads last year due to marketing, testing and other things. Well, it turns out that IBM has adopted Intel’s new chip in the Japanese market and is getting about 5 hours on a single battery. If anyone is going to win this battle it is the consumer.

It seems that Compaq is trying to bring a little more redunacy to Linux through SteelEye’s clustering software. Some of you may know that clustering technology is already available for Linux however the different is that SteelEye’s software extends the failover capabilities from one machine to another. This is great for those companies looking at high end web and database servers. It is also kinda bad for companies like Sun Microsystems who are currently striving in this type of business. It is a about time that Compaq steps up and makes some noise as IBM has been stealing all of the thunder lately.

Today I was locked in my house due to having a slight case of the flu. During the times I wasn’t sleeping and drinking Nyquil by the gallons I actually got my Visor USB device to syncronize with Linux. Follow my easy setup tips and join in on the fun.

Talk about a turn of events. Just when you thought 3DFX was about to make a come back with their new release of the Voodoo 5000 we get hit with news like this. Today 3dfx announced a move to be purchased and absorbed by nVidia. All I want is a 100% compatible Linux video card that is 100% supported for gaming. I really don’t care who makes it as long as it works. Hopefully something good will come out of it but we will not know for another few months.