User: krumpet

This has been done before

On: Excursions at the Speed of Light

I have seem something similar to this before. Check out:

http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Searle/

and

http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Savage/TEE/

Interesting article comparing display technologies

On: CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs

There is an interesting set of articles over at Extremetech that compare CRT, LCD, Plasma and DLP display systems.

• Part 1 - The Primary Specs
• Part 2 - Gray-Scale and Color Accuracy
• Part 3 - Display Artifacts and Image Quality
• Part 4 - Display Technology Assessments

Re:Faster processors...

On: Intel And AMD's Dual-Core CPUs Investigated

Why do people say that the "vast majority of applications on the desktop are still single threaded"? If I look at the most of the apps I am currently running they are all pretty much using multiple threads, right now firefox is using 10 and my bittorrent client is using 7. Or am I missing something here?

Re:Wow

On: Second International 3D Awards Winners Announced

You can find some more info about this project at cgchannel including a portion of the film here

Some tools

On: Standards and Tools for Computer Network Diagrams?

I have not found a single piece of software that solves this solution for a generic case, most are designed to deal with very specific situations and have a fair number of limitations Some of the more recent ones I have encountered are:

1. Fluke networks have a tool that is designed to map switched ethernet networks (no WAN). It can be found at their website.
2. The opennms project is considering adding this, there is a discussion list for it on their website that talks about some of the technology involved.
3. 3com network supervisor. This can do some basic mapping of the network, see their webpage.

Re:Lazy question

On: Cisco's IP Phones - Seven Digits And Cat5

And that is easily overcome with "comfort noise"