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Google’s Street View cameras get an upgrade after eight years

Google has upgraded its Street View cameras after a period of eight years. According to Wired, the company has started rolling out updated cameras to its fleet of cars to capture photos that are clearer and higher in resolution. The moving vehicles will now feature seven cameras, down from the 15 mounted on the old version. � Continue reading "Google�s Street View cameras get an upgrade after eight years"

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Upgrading an HP ML330 G6 server

Last weekend I purchased a second hand HP ML330 G6 server off eBay with the intention of setting up a machine with a decent amount of RAM and CPU cores to run a set of Virtual Machines in VMWare.

In this post I will provide an overview of what I bought and in a forthcoming post I will describe how I have set up the machine to run VMWare.

The ML330 G6 is a tower server which was released in 2009 and contains Xeon CPUs which are based around the Nehalem architecture - the same as that found in the first generation Core i7. The age of the machine means that both the machine itself and RAM / CPU upgrades are remarkably cheap. After the upgrades, the machine is plenty powerful enough for my purposes.

I deliberately chose a server with 2 CPUs - many only come with one installed. The motherboard itself only has 1 CPU slot, with a second processor requiring a mezzanine board. Having a second processor also increases the number of DIMM slots from 9 to 18.

My purchases were as follows:

HP ML330 G6 - �150
 - 2 x Xeon 5504 (4 core, 4 thread)
 - 8GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC
 - 4 x 250GB HDDs, RAID 5

64GB DDR3 Registered ECC - �65
 - 16 x 4GB modules

2 x Intel Xeon 5645 - �51
 - 6 core, 12 thread

Total cost: �266

RAM

Having 18 DIMM slots meant that I could get away with using the cheaper 4GB Registered modules. These worked out to be only around �1 per GB. Interestingly the (4x2GB) Unbuffered ECC memory modules that came with the machine cost around �30 second hand - �3.75 per GB.

CPUs

The fastest CPU that the ML330 can take is the Xeon X5650 (2.66Ghz, 6 core, 12 threads). These cost around �45 each on eBay, although can be imported from Aliexpress for around �37.

I chose the E5645, which is the third fastest 6 core CPU that the ML330 can take (2.4Ghz, 6 core, 12 threads) as it offers the best price/performance. I got a good deal at �51 for two, but generally they can be had for around �30 each on eBay.

Benchmarks

I quickly benchmarked the system before and after the upgrade using Geekbench.

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Tips How To Charge Your Phone With An Onion

Do you consider that it is impossible to charge your mobile phone with the help of an onion? Well, you are wrong!
For this weird trick you will need one large onion, some energy drink and a screwdriver.

If you are one of those who want to watch interesting videos from which you can learn something amazing new and useful, you are on the right place.
In today�s post you can see one trick that will help you to solve with one problem that many people have probably very often.
Take a Look on this video Below and see how:

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Google Cast is the next evolution of Chromecast now with an accent on third party support

Googles own video and audio casting platform seems to have undergone a significant image change. If you are currently using a Chromecast device, you might have noticed that after its last update, the Chromecast app is now called Google Cast. Not much has changed withing the update in terms of functionality, but the re-branding is definitely more than mere cosmetic work.



Like the new name suggests, Google is now branching out and trying to convey the message that its casting solution is no longer a proprietary thing. Besides its own dongles, the platform is now supported by a growing number of smart TVs from vendors like Sony and Sharp, as well as speakers. The list of third-party partners is also growing, Philips, B&O PLAY, Harman/Kardon and Raumfeld are all lined up to release audio equipment and VIZIO is the latest company to join in the Google casting ranks with both audio and video offers. Its new P-series TVs are now filly compatible with the streaming technology and some of them even come with their own little tablet-like remote device that can be used to stream content. Neat!

This, actually looks to be indicative of what is going on behind the scenes and it is really quite natural. All these third party partners simply seem to be integrating the Chromecast hardware within their systems. It is elegant and cheap and makes quite a lot of sense when you think about it.



And if the VIZIO TVs just happen to spike your interest, they will be available in a wide range of sizes, starting at 50 inches for $1,000 and moving up to 55 inches at $1,300, 65 inches at $2,000 and finally a 75-inch one that will set you back $3,800.

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Download large files from Baidu quickly with resume but without requiring an account

If you find yourself in the position of having to download a file that is only available on Baidu, but you live outside China, then you will find yourself in a difficult situation - its very tricky to get an account outside of China, due to the requirement of having a Chinese mobile phone number.

With the help of a Tampermonkey script inside Google Chrome, however, you can bypass the requirement to have an account and simply download the file you are after!

Install the Tampermonkey extension

1. Open Google Chrome on your PC
2. Go into Chromes Settings
3. Click on Extensions and tick the Developer mode check box at the top right of the page
4. At the bottom of the page, click on the Get more extensions link
5. Search for, and install, Tampermonkey Beta

Install the Baidu Download Script

1. Go to the BaiduPanDownloadHelper script page
2. Click on Install this script

Once the script is installed, you should be able to click on a Baidu download link and the file will download without prompting you to install the Disk client

Speed up the Download with a Download Manager

Downloads from China are notoriously slow, due to the lack of bandwidth between China and the outside world. To speed things up, we can use a download manager, which will create multiple concurrent connections to the file, each downloading a separate chunk of data.

While there are multiple download managers available (e.g. Free Download Manager), there is another consideration to make when downloading large files - downloads from Baidu will time out after a couple of hours and cannot be resumed (unique URLs are created for each download).

What is needed is a Download Manager which allows us to continue to download a partially downloaded file with a new URL.

Add Resume from a new source capability with the uGet Download Manager

uGet is a primarily a Linux tool, but a Windows Portable App is also available, which is what I tend to use.

uGet is an Open Source project and can be downloaded from their website here:

http://ugetdm.com/

When initiating a Baidu download from Chrome, open the Download tab where we can find the URL that has been generated for our download.

Open uGet, click on the "Create a new download" button and paste in the URL from Chrome. Note that the Max number of connections cannot go above 16, so the default is likely the best option for our download.

If the performance of your download drops off significantly or stops, it is likely that most or all the download threads have timed out. This is when we need to reconnect the download to a new source.

Initiate a new download of the file from Chrome and copy the new URL into the Windows copy buffer.

Pause the download in uGet, open the Properties of the download and paste the new URL into the URI field. This should re-initiate a download to the new source, keeping all existing file data.

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