Computers (General): March 2006 Archives

   YOu might have heard not long ago, but Skype released their new thingy that allows 10-way conference calling (Yea, I know. Who cares?). The thing is that they said that only Intel processors could handle it, and they limited other processors (pretty much only AMD) to only 5-way calls, or something.
   Apparently, as I read on Slashdot last week, someone had patched Skype so that all processors could use it. This seems to say that it wasn't really Intel optimised. Hmm, comtemplation.

(sorry for the lateness of this entry, i had saved it from earlier and only now got around to publishing it)

   It has been a week or so since Apple released the 10.4.5 update. Personally, I would have updated to it rather quickly, but I have to wait on Powerlogix to get the new version of CPU Director out.
   The thing is that since an earlier 10.4.x update, something happened that caused CPU Director to stop working once an update was applied. The exact why of this, I don't know. Nevertheless, Powerlogix has usually been rather quick to release a new version that will work with the latest version of 10.
   It's not like my processor will stop working if I update. The only thing that will happen is that my G3 will be stuck at 800MHz until I can use an updated CPU Director to set it to 1.1GHz (Hey, its fast enough for me.).
   So, I suppose I'm not really missing anything. It is just a usual update. Aside from some security fixes and whatnot.

   Hazaa