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Site overhaul

Published on Wed 12 of Jul, 2006

thissite amette

I have been pretty busy lately, even if it perhaps doesn't look like it. This site got rearranged, at least under the hood. What you can see, are:

Search Engine Friendly URLs finally throughout the blog
- /blog - for the blog
- /blog/post### - for post number ### of the blog
- /blog/rss - for the RSS of the blog
a nicelier designed menu in the right sidebar
better hCard support, now also on contact page
context-sensitive modules, hCard module isn't shown on contact-page
RSS now burned by feedburner.com
fancy JavaScript-CSS-hover-link-tool-tips
the bookmarks from dev.amette.eu have a link now in the menu to their temporary migration-test-home migrate.amette.eu
unordered lists for tag listings

and many many more little tweaks. I hope you like it. :)

Moved this site completely to amette.eu

Published on Fri 07 of Jul, 2006

thissite amette

amette.eu is from now on the official domain for this site. I waited too long already with this change and now that it's done - the new short URLs look really good :)

Nice! :)

Also some cleanup on menu on modules was done and now I'm migrating to simple the *lite fix. Just wanted to blog the domain-migration now, before I run the backup.. ;)

MSI NX6200AX-TD128LF in use

Published on Thu 06 of Jul, 2006

doom3 nvidia linux

It's a cute small card, with a nice little heat-sink and was immediately recognized by nvidia-kernel. As 6200 and not 6200AX, but the benchmarks tell, that the power gets used.

DooM3
640x480 - low detail - all effects - 0x AA - 0x AF
41.5 fps - min. 19fps - max. ca. 100fps
640x480 - medium detail - all effects - 8x AA - 2x AF
41.8 fps - min. 19fps - max. ca. 100fps
640x480 - high detail - all effects - 8x AA - 0x AF
26.7 fps - min. 12 fps - max. ca. 50 fps(?)

I think, that's fair enough for a completely silent card. :)

x.org 6.8 KDE with xcompmgr still crashes on me though.

Needed to replace my graphics card

Published on Mon 03 of Jul, 2006

amette nvidia doom3

Yesterday my graphics card died. I came back to my computer and the image was dark, blurry and overall erronous. After some switching of monitors and graphics cards with my flat-sharers computer I concluded, that it's the graphics card. Currently I'm having my flat-sharers graphics card in my computer since he is away this whole week. But I had to buy a new one, since my flatsharer sadly needs his computer, too. ;)

So after some thinking and doing and stuff, I decided to go with an nvidia based card again - MSI NX6200AX-TD128LF. The GeForce 6200AX chipset is an AGP version (indicated by the X)of the 6200 series, which was first only made for PCIe. The A indicates some enhancement over the standard 6200 and that's also, why I decided for this card. I didn't find much tests of those cards, but two DooM3 benchmarks of cards with the 6200(Q?) and 6200A chipsets. And they indicate a serious performance-boost for the A-series. On some russian site I found a benchmark of the MSI-card and it was over 50 frames per second with AntiAliasing and anisotropic filtering. Seems like the not needed PCIe-to-AGP bridge in the X-version really pays off. ;) Since DooM3 is for now the only game of interest to me and around 30 frames with the smaller 6200 without AA and AF are not to guarantee a great gaming-experience, I decided to put the extra 15 bucks in and go with the 6200AX.

Let's hope, that my bang-for-the-buck calculation works. In the nvidia-kernel README-file I don't find explicit mention of the 6200AX....