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Comment on Commandline into a DS box by wyzzi

wyzzi — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:11:06 +0000

*grin* cheeky one there …
but here’s interesting pub trivia – all three major game consoles have ibm chips inside
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/17/nintendo_signs_ibm_for_nextgen/

Comment on Commandline into a DS box by Widget

Widget — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:01:52 +0000

does teh IBM DS have the same range of games as the Nintendo?
What about trademark violations? Surely two games consoles cant carry the DS tag?

Comment on Size up the DACstore by srg

srg — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:17:20 +0000

Thanks for the brief detail wyzzi, this is exactly what I was looking for..

Comment on Getting Techie in LA by Exchanging Technology Leadership « pragmatic ramblings : izzy’s procrastination

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 02:21:59 +0000

[...] 11, 2008 by wyzzi The vastness that is IBM is made smaller by events that encourage the exchange of ideas and concepts. The ‘Technical Leadership Exchange’ is one such event. This is [...]

Comment on IBM Forum on a roll by wyzzi

wyzzi — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:48:34 +0000

yups … im looking at putting a more human touch to things i interact with

Comment on IBM Forum on a roll by Sally

Sally — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:46:09 +0000

You have this on your blog? Oh dear!!

Comment on 32 into 64 by wyzzi

wyzzi — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:44:15 +0000

hi Rolly!!!

i have been blogging for a while (under different locations), but i thought of formalizing things and having a human face to ibm technology (although i try to blog not just on ibm but all technology i find interesting in general and in an unbiased way)

i have short bursts of blurbs at http://twitter.com/wizzy if you are inclined that way.

thanks for the comment, as always your insight is brilliant.
hope to see you at the Forum! I’ll be there all day.

Comment on 32 into 64 by Rolly

Rolly — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:43:06 +0000

Belated comment, but I’ve only just found your blog Izzy !
(Hopefully by now), most server manufacturers have actually implemented “hacks” to help with the recovering the lost memory when running 32bit OS’s.

For example, using Windows 2003 standard, 32 bit, on a server with 4Gb RAM, you’ll end up with with 3.5Gb ish (I’ve actually seen as little as 2.8Gb !). Both IBM and HP (at least) introduced BIOS features, which when used with the above combination and the /PAE switch, will move the lost RAM above the 4Gb boundry, and make it accessible to the OS again. Good stuff !

Check the HS20 BIOS for an example of such hacks:

“Fix to improve allocation of the memory required by PCI devices so that more memory is available as usable system memory with 4GB of physical memory installed. For OS kernels that can support PAE(Physical Address Extension) mode and the mode is enabled by the customer this is a non-issue”

Comment on Air time by wyzzi

wyzzi — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:35:07 +0000

yups, im pretty sure that http://tvnz.co.nz/view/business_insight_minisite_index_skin/tvnz_business_insight_index_group has the stream

alright, its going to be a great trip, get intouch with me so that we can organise flights together then!

Comment on Air time by Antony Stubbs

Antony Stubbs — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:46:32 +0000

I won’t see it Wednesday either… Do you know if there’s a stream anywhere?

P.s. looks like I’m going to TLE as well hurumph