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January 2008 |
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Setting up remote monitoring and despatch facilities is at the core of our business plan for 2008. We believe this will increase the efficiency of the use of resources in the Compucon channel significantly and will earn our partners more customer recognition. This is a slow boat nevertheless as we need to resolve a lot of technical, administrative, financial and mental issues. Another major agenda relates to continuous professional development for channel partners. We have done reasonably well in 2007 but we see room for improvements. We are all experiencing an information overload for the last couple of years because information appears to be in abundance and free of charge to access. We need to capitalize on this and to convert it to real life benefits to the channel and customers. Green IT, Virtualization, Computing Fabric and Information Life Cycle are the subject matters we will work on in 2008. Below the water level is an effort to build an engine to support the CPD program. This engine is about information and knowledge management. It is a new agenda for the 12 months and we will see how this idea goes in the New Year.
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December 2007 |
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After 2 years of procrastination on Diamond, we have decided to upgrade the chipset from VIA P8M900 to an Intel chipset and it is 945GC. This is the surprise- 945 is a 2005 vintage. It is the chipset that supports the first Pentium D and most people dislike the pair due to high wattage and low performance. Two years down the track, Intel has since released 965 and 035 chipsets and has phased out NetBurst to Core 2 generation CPU. Is there a place for 945? Not for 945 but yes for 945GC! This chipset has been modernized and has official motherboard vendor support to run Core 2 Dual & Quad CPU with 1333MHz FSB. Its VGA engine is lacklustre but is fine for running Vista. We can add a PCI Express VGA card if Vista Aero Glass is wanted. This new Diamond has started in production.
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December 2007 |
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If a total of 4GB memory is installed, the system will detect less than 4GB of total memory because of address space allocation for other critical functions, such as:
- System BIOS (including motherboard, add-on cards etc.)
- Motherboards resources
- Memory mapped I/O
- Configuration for AGP/PCI-Ex/PCI
- Other memory allocations for PCI devices
Different onboard devices and different add-on cards (devices) will result in a different total memory size e.g. more PCI cards installed will require more memory resources, resulting in less memory free for other uses.
This limitation applies to most chipsets and the Windows XP 32-bit operating system. This does NOT apply to 64-bit operating systems or chipsets that support the memory swap function e.g. Intel 975X, 955X, Nvidia NF4 SLI Intel Edition, Nvidia NF4 SLI X16, and AMD K8 CPU.
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November 2007 |
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As the year approaches the end, every man and his dog in the IT industry has spoken out about their view of the market and industry in 2008. The Tech Guy of the PC World magazine, who is a good friend of Compucon, gave 9 forecasts including one that CPU speed does not matter any more and remarked that he was always wrong. Intel also gave 6 predictions and one of it is that the 1.2 billion of school age children is too big a market to be ignored. After a filtering process, we have decided to stay with Gartner’s top 10 technology list as the basis for review. Gartner has its agenda too but since Gartner is a market and industry research company, its list suits our purpose well. The list includes topics as diverse as Mesh Up on one end and Server Virtualization on the other end. We shall pay attention to them.
At the same time, let us look at what has actually happened on our home soil. There is good news, bad news and neutral news. The good news is that a Kiwi with a previously debatable role has succeeded the Father of IP Vincent Cerf as the chairperson of the high profile ICANN. While this piece of news is easy to read, the others such as Xero, OpenEye and Digital Summit may not be. We will discuss them at the Tech Briefing.
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November 2007 |
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IPMI View client software is written in Java for cross-platform support and will allow you to communicate with the IPMI controller/BMC (baseboard management controller) through UDP port 623:
Windows: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/Windows/
Linux: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/Linux/
User Manual: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/IPMIView/IPMIView20.pdf
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Legacy Version 2.6.34 build 071024 here: http://www.compucon.co.nz/files/ipmiview.zip
Simply extract the ZIP file and run the IPMIView20.bat. If you do not have Java RE installed you will need to install it first. This can be downloaded here: http://www.compucon.co.nz/files/jre-1_5.exe.
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