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There was also a showcase of 22nm SRAM fabricated chip. Intel is also working with 32nm for Atom processors to reduce the power requirements to the level of ARM processors.

32 nm Arrandale can run encryptions accelerated by hardware AES instructions. This enables faster encryption without the overheads of software processing of encryption instructions.

I wish they make the execution speed of Atom processor equal to about desktop Core2 series processor.

Ilustration of Nvidia Tegra

It has a CPU i.e ARM 11 processor, GPU, northbridge, southbridge and memory controller all integrated onto a single package with size smaller than a coin. The graphics processor supports Open GL 2.0 and 3D acceleration. It also support 3G, WiFi and WiMax for the ‘always-on’ computing experience. Nvidia is also targetting a subwatt(<1W) power usage for the chip.

Internal architecture of a Nvidia Tegra chip

Nvidia is will release two class of Tegra devices, Tegra 600 Series and Tegra APX series.

• The key features of Tegra 600 series are:Up to 1080p HD video playback
• Ultra-low-power GeForce GPU for intuitive and smooth 3D user interfaces
• Integrated media processor for over 100 hours audio and 10 hours HD video playback
• Image processor with advanced DSC and HD camcorder processing
• Connectivity to support Web 2.0 and social media applications
• Display support for up to 1080p HDMI, WSXGA+ LCD, SXGA CRT, and NTSC/PAL TV-Out

The key features of Tegra APX series are:

• 720p HD video capture and playback
• Lowest power for demanding applications like 720p HD video
• 3D user interface
• HD video playback
• Ability to access visually intensive applications like mapping and gaming

Nvidia is working with Google and Open Handset Alliance to use Android OS on Nvidia Tegra. Microsoft has announced Zune HD that will run on Nvidia Tegra for better video quality and battery life. Samsung annonced that is working on a Tegra based phone. Nvidia is expecting use of Tegra processor in Mobile Internet Devices(MID) and Netbooks.

For more specifications on Nvidia Tegra visit Wikipedia.

The main thing I’m thinking about is will be perfect for an Home Theatre PC (HTPC) setup? Will it be able to replace the Nvidia Ion Platform?

No CSS loading in wordpress dashboard

Though WordPress is among the best blogging platforms on the earth, I have been facing problems with it since quite a long time. Whenever I get to loging to WordPress it starts up, after logging in, nothing works. I have also faced the same problem when I open my blog or any other blog hosted on WordPress.

The HTML of Dashboard loads completely, but CSS does not load. When I press the ‘Esc’ (Escape) key, the page loading stops and everything line up vertically. It’s quite painful to get things that way, and I opt to logout instead of posting anything. I didn’t contact the people at WordPress regarding my problem.

I am using Firefox 3 and face these problems. The problem occurs sometimes and not always. Whenever I have something to post and I face this problem I dont post anything, I just save a copy of it on my hard-drive to post it later. Hey this post has been posted as everything is working fine.

Do you face any such problems with wordpress or are unable to read a blog?? Do tell me so that I can get in conatct with WordPress easily.

As in the browser Chrome, ‘speed, simplicity and security’ will be the key aspects that Google will address. Starting from the basics, the security architecture will be redesigned to prevent malwares and virus attacks.

Chrome OS will work on both x86 and ARM chips. As quoted by Google, Chrome OS will have a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. Thus applications will have to be written using web technologies. It seems that everyrhing in Chrome OS will be running within a browser.

Like their browser, Google aims at keeping the user interface of Chrome OS to the minimal. Maybe this will be the fact that might drive more people to Chrome OS. It seems that it will be difficult to use games in chrome, since applications will be written using web technologies. From the description from Google’s Blog, the OS seems to be targeted at the most basic computer users who just check mails, surf the web and mainly is targeted towards netbooks. Netbooks running on Chrome OS might be available by second half of 2010.

Lets see if Chrome becomes a competition for Linux, Mac or Windows OS or it gets onto your desktop as another option to boot into when necessary. As far as I see the biggest competition to Linux kernel based Chrome OS are Windows 7 (based on Windows NT kernel), Mac OS X (based on XNU kernel) and Ubuntu (based on Linux kernel).

There were some photos of leaked Chrome OS doing rounds on the internet, but all were fake.

See the demo below to feel the capabilities of  a Linux Touchscreen desktop.

The demo code works as follows:

1. It reads input directly from the device file (“/dev/input/eventX”). (The X server is not involved in input handling at this stage.)
2. The demo performs very simple gesture recognition then send DBus messages to Compiz to produce effects.

For more information and for source code visit http://lii-enac.fr/en/projects/shareit/linux.html

Suppliers can still provide customers with IE 8 or other browsers like Firefox, Chrome or Opera installed. But Microsoft will not bundle Internet Explorer in their original package. So get a copy of Windows 7 in EU from stores and see if the below scenario matches yours…

Imagine booting up freshly installed Windows 7 operating system, just to find that there’s no browser to get online. What the heck?? You run to a friend to get on his system running Linux, XP, Vista or Mac OSX. Just to tell the reason you dont have ay browser. You need to download it from his computer. You get the browser in your flash drive get back home and then get installing the latest drivers. Not much of time wasted for me, because I don’t live in the European Union. But those who live, will definitely curse either EU or Microsoft or both.

The login is successful if whenever password is entered correctly upto eight characters (or less for smaller passwords), irrespective of length of password.

Login is unsuccessful if password entered wrong upto eighth character.

Suppose if my password is ‘calculator’

Entering following password will give successful login:

1. calculater
2. calculatexor
3. calculat

Many other combinations are possible. The only condition is that the password should correct upto eight characters or less for smaller password.

I didn’t find any bug in launchpad regarding this. So I have filed a bug. Click here to view the status of the bug at Launchpad.

Graphics powerful small NVIDIA Ion Platform

Advantages? It can run video at full HD resolution of 1080p. Its now possible to play many games at better frame rates on an Atom processor, which were not possible with the older Intel 945 chipset platform. It’s also possible to use Windows Vista on an atom. With Linux based OS you now run Compiz Fuzion with all the 3D effects enabled.How about keeping you friends wondering, how your little machine can do so much with Compiz Fusion on Linux.

The ION platform has hardware accelerated decoding of H.264 and MPEG-2 formats. But all this will come at the cost of battery life. The use of this graphics solution is seen as a bottleneck on the battery life of current netbooks. Definitely, it’s not for those who just do a bit of word-processing, online surfing on their netbooks. Also gaming on an tiny 10-inch screen is not worth it. Though I guess manufacturers will bring in bigger screen based on Atom processors soon.

Ok, after all its dis-advantages that overpower advantages, why am I talking about this platform. May be because you can connect a bigger monitor you an netbook, and go gaming at your relatives house with all the gaming progress saved on the netbook.

The bigger arena I hope to see this platform succeed is the Home Theatre PC (HTPC) market, where low power requirement is big boon, but the requirement are not very high. There’s no need of a power hungry graphics card and processor. You think you will use this combo for you next Home Theater PC? Another competitor for Nvidia Ion Platform is Nvidia Tegra.

Using the hardware the group was able to create fake security certificates that behaved like the actual ones. The website demonstarated was RapidSSL. So now it’s time for websites to do away with MD5. But no need to worry as of now, the details of the attack are still with the researchers. It almost impossible for anybody to do such a attack even though the possiblity is not eliminated. With increased computing power like the CUDA, its possible.

What website should look for is changing their security to a more advanced level. We should hope that researchers create a more better encryption. There’s nothing that cannot be cracked, but improving the security level is the only way to stop the attacks. It time to take security seriously with such increased computing power. What we should do?? See to it the website has a valid security certificate. It is denoted by a yellow lock on your browser address bar.

So be awake with eyes wide open the next time you go shopping. So will you go for online shopping, online banking or any transactions now?? Of course you can.