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Archive for March 15th, 2009

NASA has started beaming live video from just outside the International Space Station, but there's a catch: The online feeds are available only when the station's crew is asleep or off duty.

Arena: Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre Date: Sunday, March 15 Time: 7:00 p.m. Audio Broadcast: B2 Networks or ontarioreign.com streaming audio Webcast: B2 Networks

In an attempt to take advantage of all the hoopla over March Madness, CBS has released an app for the iPhone that will allow users to take the tournament with them wherever they go. Audio streaming of every game is available with a 3G connection, while audio and video can be obtained over a Wi-Fi connection. The application will also offer current scores, highlights and bracket results. The ...

I have a 6-year old computer. It has 1Gb memory (the max it will hold) and an Intel Pentium 4, 2.3Ghz processor. I use a high speed broadband Internet connection. I recently upgraded from Windows XP to Windows Vista Home Premium. After the upgrade, the computer is sluggish and takes a long time to bring up my Internet browser (tried both IE7 and Firefox - both same response time). Like 2 minutes or so. When I attempt to stream media, sometimes the video hangs and sometimes it plays a couple of seconds, then buffers a couple of seconds. None of these happened prior to the Vista changeover. I pulled up Task Manager and see that much of the time the processor is operating at 100% capacity. Sometimes when the only running process is the browser and task manager, it will be at 100%. Now the memory used seldom peaks at over 60%. So I am thinking that I need a newer computer with a faster processor. But when shopping around for computers under $600 (my price range), I see that even though some have dual core processors and 64 bit processors, they all clock (in this price range) around 2.6 to 2.7 Ghz; about the same clock speed as mine. 1. If the processor speed of a new computer is about the same as mine, might I have other problems? I have run registry cleaners and I have Kaspersky Internet Security and did a complete scan of the computer twice with no threats found. 2. I don't want to revert back to XP, because to do so would require me to reformat my hard drive and install the old operating system. There is too much on here for me to take the time to do that. Besides, believe it or not, I actually like the features included in Vista. 3. What else could be using the processor resources that isn't shown in Task Manager? I see that the operating system is not show there unless I just don't know what to look for. But the other 20 or so processes always show 0%, or a couple might show 5% or 6% each. The biggest resource users seem to be the browser and whatever I am accessing (streaming audio, streaming video-mostly). Still if you add up the percentages, it usually only comes to like 85% or 90% even though the "total" at the bottom of Task Manager says 100% And if you hit a web page (like my Road Runner home page sometimes) that has a lot of flash animation on it, you can forget it. That really eats up the processor. So would I benefit from a new computer or can I do something to fix this one. I would "like" to have a new one of course, but times are tough and I don't want to spend money if I can rectify this situation.

Madness, it seems, comes in many forms. In March and early April, it means people painting their faces or bodies in the colors of their alma mater or waving foam fingers for their favorite squad, all over the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, more colorfully known as "March Madness."

Video A computer-animated clip explains the rule changes.

Today, Bernama Tawau is operating at Lot 9, Ground Floor, BA Zhong Commercial Centre, and managed by a local, Nashir Mansor.

Here's my attempt. Please correct any misconceptions or add in any important piece of detail I am missing. Thanks! TCP is reliable. UDP is unreliable but faster. TCP makes sure every pack arrives and each packet is sorted back in order. TCP slows down the flow of information if there is congestion. TCP is good when data integrity is important eg. emails and webpages. UDP (user datagram protocol) in comparison, sends packets rapidly one after another with little checking and no sense of order of packets. Even though packets are sent in an orderly fashion, they may arrive disorderly. UDP on the receiving end does not sort packets that arrive out of order. UDP does have a checksum which can be used for checking packet integrity but in most cases even if the packet has been found to be corrupt, it is too late to re-request that packet. Online audio/video streaming can use UDP because it is fast and quality is not top priority. [Just two side issue I also want to clarify: (1) TCP and UDP both have checksum. So in terms of checking for integrity of packets, both provide enough information to do so. The main difference is TCP has order and UDP does not. So TCP can put things pack in order and UDP cannot. Right? (2) Should I be saying it's the application that uses TCP or UDP that does the checking and re-requesting? afterall TCP and UDP are just protocols and there is no mentioning of re-requesting in either protocols. It is the software that does the re-requesting. Am I right with my wording? Thanks]