teh TODDtastic webLog-a-majig

I love Hulu.com, but lately it seems they have some capacity problems. I guess it can be taken as a sign of rapid growth, which is good. However, I find myself constantly having to pause and wait a few minutes for the buffer to fill up. I hope they get that fixed soon.

Edit: On second thought here…. It might be that my ISP is throttling things. Time Warner… the sucky service millions are forced to use.

I was browsing through my old posts… when I came across this post from over a year ago.

It was interesting to see what I was planning and hoping for back then. Interestingly enough, even over a year ago, my idea of my next system was not too unlike what I’m still picturing. Avoiding the fact that I will probably not have the budget to build one this summer, either… if I were to do such, the specs lined up in the linked post, are not too far from what I would build these days.

Core i7 is here now, so in terms of server chips… we can now get 6 cores on a chip, 12 cores in a dual socket system. While this type of build may not be within my future budget, 8 cores on one chip should be once Intel releases 8-core Core i7 chips. Triple channel RAM is here… so the projection on that front for 12GB of RAM was not bad, and is still perfectly reasonable for todays systems.

I was hoping my idea of a really great system would have changed more substantially by now… but it hasn’t. This makes me wonder if the technology has not improved significantly enough in a year (possibly due to the economy?) or if perhaps I was just looking far advanced of a possible system at that time. Maybe it’s a mix of both.

With that said, I have to say that pretty much any system you can build for $500-1000 these days is definitely plenty powerful for most people, as in… I think technology is finally starting to really be great in all price ranges.

Yay!