Tylers’ Neighborhood

According to http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/534 Intel initially chose not to extend their IA-32 processor family to 64 bits, preferring to promote their own but incompatible HP PA-RISC based IA-64 "Itanium" processor family !

but then Intel adopted AMD's 64-bit extensions into their IA-32 processor family, calling them "Intel 64" (aka IA-32e and EMT64). Final generation Pentium 4 & D, Celeron D, and Xeon processors and all "Core 2" based processors now include AMD compatible 64-bit extensions.

To add to the confusion https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ProcessorArch lists a few dozen Intel processors but doesn't make it clear which type a Pentium DualCore is ! Which is what my Compaq A900 notebook says it has in it !

I have 4G of RAM that I have only been able to access 3G of so far (with 4 different OS's)

Update :
It seems that my Pentium DualCore has PAE (?) support and when I install from the Xubuntu x86 (32-bit ?) CD I CAN see all 4G ! So what benefits if any would I get from using the Xubuntu 64-bit (AMD64) CD instead ?

My SONY PIII says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 13
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
cpuid level    : 2
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bts est tm2

My Compaq Pentium Dual Core says it is:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor    : 0
vendor_id    : GenuineIntel
cpu family    : 6
model        : 15
model name    : Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual  CPU  T2390  @ 1.86GHz
cpuid level    : 10
flags        : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm

A l'occasion de la sortie de son nouvel album, retour 80's de Nena avec l'une des très rares chansons en langue allemande à avoir connu un succès populaire international : 1983 - 99 Luftballons ...

99 luftballons

Nena

La musique a été composée par Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, le pianiste du groupe, tandis que le guitariste Carlo Karges a écrit les paroles de la version originale en allemand.
La chanson est sortie en pleine période d'intensification de la course aux armements dans le cadre de la Guerre froide. Le thème général est l'histoire de 99 ballons qui flottent dans le ciel et qui sont identifiés par les forces militaires comme une attaque. Ainsi toute l'armée et tous les armements sont mobilisés pour neutraliser les ballons et provoquent une gigantesque explosion destructrice qui dévaste la planète.

99 red balloons

Nena

Dans sa chanson, Nena se moque des dirigeants de l'époque qui étaient constamment sur le point de déclencher une guerre mondiale et de la quantité faramineuse des armements avec lesquels on aurait pu détruire un nombre incalculable de fois la planète.
La version anglaise de la chanson, intitulée 99 red balloons, a été écrite par Kevin McAlea qui a donné au texte un ton plus satirique que l'original.
Nena restera dans le haut du chart britannique pendant trois semaines à partir du 28 février 1984 avec 99 red balloons.

Elle a repris la chanson dans le cadre des émissions d'Arte diffusée pendant l'été 2009, Arte Summer 80's ; Nena chante le premier et le dernier couplet de cette chanson en français pour l'occasion. Dans cette nouvelle version, le général qui crie haro aux ballons ressemble tantôt à Vladimir Poutine, tantôt à George W. Bush, et on lui lance à lui aussi des chaussures.

Du bist so gut für mich

Nena

Icône rock du début des années 80, la chanteuse allemande Nena a trusté le sommet des hit-parades du monde entier avec ce tube imparable aux paroles engagées qui fit danser toute une génération, aujourd'hui, deux ans après son album de reprise de Bowie et de Rammstein, elle revient avec " Made in Germany ", de l'electro-techno-pop-rock où l'on retrouve toujours en forme avec une patate d'enfer meine Deutschegirl préférée.

Java EE 6 & GlassFish 3 Virtual Conference

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Bizarre Google OpenSuse Chromium Chrome OS bugs

1. The Chromium Chrome Browser OS doesnt run on the Chromium Chrome OS live cd !
2. After you install to hard disk it does !
3. But then theres still a Install icon left on your desktop after you've installed !

google suse chrome os & chrome browser

Petit dej' ce matin au Starbucks!!!! Malgré la pluie j'aime Lyon et je suis trop bien avec ma Lowine!!!!! Bonne journée à tous!!!!

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This is the latest series in my EPs reviews. I like doing these because I don't think they take that long to listen to these four or five songs. You get the gist of the band, but unfortunately, it's probably not as detailed and explored as reviewing albums.

Also, I am back on reviewing music as I have stopped going out to see live bands. I am still not accepting new music as I still have to clear out what I've already been sent/requested. Apologies to any promises that I may have made.

Sarah Elizabeth Foster - Gardening from the Ground Up

Sarah Elizabeth Foster

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SARAH ELIZABETH FOSTER
sarahelizabethfoster.com ♥ myspace

Sarah Elizabeth Foster's EP, Gardening From the Ground Up Part 1 from Studio Sarah Records, is the first submission I've received for a 2010 release. Generally around this time, I get a ton of Christmas music offers (which, hey, I will be doing a roundup next week!).

Foster actually has a degree in music, singing French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and, of course English. While this EP is only in English, it does showcase her classically singing abilities. My favorite song is actually the title-track, "Gardening From the Ground Up". There's something about this love song, from rain drops to the up-beat jazzy tempo, that I really like. This is in contrast to the opening song, "Wake Up", for a song that's about waking up, it sounds like "take it easy" evening song.

While people will automatically associate Foster to 60s girl singers, I think her vocal styles, would actually lends itself really well to modern indiepop music. I'm certainly interested in hearing what part two sounds like. If you live in New York, Foster will be playing tomorrow, December 4^th at Pete's Candy Store in Brooklyn.

FERAL CHILDREN
myspace.com/feralchildrenseattle

Feral Children is a "backwoods" band from Seattle, Washington. Their self-titled EP was a free released on Sarathan Records, while their forth-coming album, Brand New Blood, will be available digitally December 8^th, while a physical release on January 19^th, 2010.

As their name suggest, their music seems, I don't know, wild. Like "grizzly bear", "panda bear, "deerhunter" and "animal collective" wild, and this isn't surprising, considering Scott Colburn (Animal Collective's Feels producer) is their producer on the Feral Children album. Compared to previous bands I mentioned, Feral Children seems more melodic and less experimental. I'm not sure who produced their EP (I rarely get liner notes for digital submissions), but they certainly have that collective-like influence.

I did give the EP a few listens, and not entirely impressed with the singer (is it Bill Cole?). His vocals is very rough, voice cracking comes to mind on tracks like "Saint". While this may possibly be the greatest song done live, listening to it on headphones made me cringe.

Who knows, maybe their album will be much better than the self-titled EP. It is, after all, their first release, I'm sure they'll improve over time. Information on the free downloads, head over to Sarathan Records.

MOJORISING
mojorisingband.com ♥ myspace

I keep mis-reading this band as Major/ising, so I'm not sure if other people might have the same problem reading the name (it's OK people misread W♥M as "we love music" all the time...)

Mojorising recently moved from Los Angeles from Australia. So prices for their EP at $12 on the merch page might seem high, until you realize it's in AUS dollars.

My impression is that this duo makes some really funky music, but with classic rock attitudes (think Jamiroquai). The funk soul translate well on a few of their songs, "She Woke Up To Me" and "Sooth Me And Use Me". The later is very dancey, I suspect it will play well to a live audience. Incidentally if you are interested in hearing the first song, it's available as a free download.

The band is playing a few dates in California:

Dec 20 2009 THE MINT Los Angeles
Jan 10 2010 EL CID Los Angeles

SEA OF BEES
seaofbees.com ♥ myspace

Lara dismissed Julie Baenziger, aka Sea of Bees, as being too "CocoRosie/Joanna Newsom", and really - what's wrong with that ? As expected, Baenziger's vocal style is that of a small cute child. And also cute is the title of the EP, called Bee Eee Pee. This is a collection of four songs and one intermission song.

All of the songs are pretty minimalistic, usually with just acoustic and Baenziger singing. The stand-out track for me is "Willis", because it  does feature a melodic backing music (vs just acoustic alone). Also, the inclusion of the random intro is nice - it explained that this particular recording happens to be the third take.

Julie is doing some winter dates:

Dec 4 2009 Fox & Goose Sacramento, California
Dec 15 2009 Sacramento, California
Jan 26 2010 Matadero Huesca, Huesca
Jan 30 2010 Tanned Tin Festival Castelo, Castellón
Feb 10 2010 TBA w/ Mountain Man, Chelsea Wolfe and Dead Western Sacramento, California

Bee Eee Pee is out now on Bot Bot Records/Digisquad Records, you can find it on iTunes and Amazon.

PS, That's all I can manage today. Check out Ryan as he's retweeting on twitter/weheartmusic. You can see some of the tweets on the right-side of this page. The account is kept active by live blogging by myself, Ceji, and Ryan. Not just a robot account!

 12/03/2009 22:55:52 ♥ vu () ♥weheartmusic.com♥twitter.com/weheartmusic♥news.weheartmusic.com

Grizzly Bear + Michael Mc Donald =

While you wait for the others (f Michael McDonald)

Grizzly Bear

JF

Aliénor nous conseille un peu de poésie, et Sergio nous renvoie chez Aliénor. Althazagora nous conseille un peu d'humour, et Maya un peu de viande. Enfin un peu de mode chez Miss Patchouli, et de la musique chez Omillou.