Following up our article: Top 20 Hackers in Film History and Vibrant’s Top 10 Servers in the movies, I felt obligated to dispel some of the notions about programming that these movies endorse. I understand that Hollywood needs to dress things up to make them more entertaining, but in the case of programmers, code, and hackers they’ve done more than dress things up – they’ve morphed a little stuffed teddy bear into a cybernetic polar bear covered in christmas lights and phosphorescent hieroglyphics with a fog machine pumping rainbow smoke out of his ass. In other words, they’ve layered a ridiculous amount of extravagance on top of something that in reality is very grounded.

Drivl.com | What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies)

OOOOOHHHH, so so true!

Nvidia has confirmed that the company has essentially placed its Nforce chipset line on hiatus, given the legal wrangling between itself and Intel.According to Robert Sherbin, the lead corporate communications spokesman for Nvidia, Nvidia will “postpone further chipset investments”.Sherbin also dismissed a report that Nvidia was pulling out of the mid-range and high-end GPU market as “patently untrue”. But Nvidia’s recent chip introductions do imply a shift in graphics companys traditional stance is underway.

Nvidia Halting Chipset Development – Reviews by PC Magazine

I was at GTC and I have to tell you, while Fermi wasn’t meant for gaming display, it is meant for a helluva lot more than scientific development.  Coupled with another GPU, Fermi does the heavy duty work and lets another card ’simply’ handle the display.  With lots and lots of tech companies demanding faster computers, game developers, animators, imaging applications will forever be changed by this change in focus from NVIDIA.

Finally, really fast calculations can be done under your desk… this + CUDA absolutely changes the game plan… including gamers.  Trust me when I say that this market is not small…NVIDIA isn’t stupid, I’m sure they’ve done the math…probably on their own GPUs!  Gamers (me included) need to get over it, for the world GPU market does not revolve around them!

I “fixed” the VPN issue I was having. My built in VPN would also connect but not “ping” other servers within the domain. I manually added the search domains/servers to the VPN connection (Network->VPN Connection->Advanced->DNS tab. When that didn’t work, I also added them to my airport connection and voila, it worked… seems as if Apple is not forcing a routing through he VPN connection… my case I also tried the Cisco 2.4 osx client beta and the old client, neither worked for me despite uninstall/install.

Create two locations (Home/Office) so that you can keep the Airport settings intact for use at home.  Also published this at the Apple Discussions board.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10355054

Hope this helps someone.

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