Anand Lal Shimpi
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I'm engaged!!!
...to the most beautiful woman in the world :) Goodnight everyone :-D → Read More
Goodnight
I just got in after driving for a loooong time, more stories to tell in the morning (or afternoon or whenever I wake from my slumber). Zzzzz... :) → Read More
Happy New Year
I just wanted to drop by to wish you all the best in the New Year. Please be safe as you enjoy the holiday, but hopefully you're already in bed partaking in one of the best forms of enjoyment possible - sleeping :) Take care and goodnight. → Read More
The year winds down
Christmas was fun, we had the usual dinner at my parent's place with family and friends over. New Year's will be at my place, it'll be a small deal with Vinney and a few of our friends. I've never been much for going crazy on New Year's Eve, although I would like to be in Times Square on December 31st one of these years. We're all pretty much taking it easy these last couple of days in 2003, as… → Read More
What a day
It has been a tremendously long day but luckily it is winding down quickly. I've been testing hard drives since 8:30AM and I'm still no where near completion. Although testing the Raptors and most of the newer drives goes quite quickly, since I've decided to include some older drives for comparison's sake benchmarking them takes forever. For example, I threw in the Western Digital Expert 205BA,… → Read More
Happy Holidays
Between getting back from New Haven and packing and heading down to the keys for Derek's wedding, I didn't have much time to drop in and say hello - for that I apologize. We just got back last night and the wedding was beautiful. I'd never been down to the Keys before but now that I have I can say that it is one of the most beautiful/relaxing places I've seen in my short life. Unfortunately the… → Read More
Last Day in New Haven
First and foremost, I'd like to thank everyone for all of the congratulatory emails and posts both here and in the forums, they haven't gone unnoticed and I really appreciate them all :) Vinney and I went to go see Return of the King last night; yes it's long, yes it's good, and yes there are times when you want to strangle Frodo. Since there were no theaters showing LOTR in New Haven we made… → Read More
AMD Opteron 248 vs. Intel Xeon 2.8: 2-way Web Servers go Head to Head
The launch of the Athlon MP was a bittersweet victory for AMD just under two years ago. AMD was able to deliver performance that was significantly faster than Intel’s brand new Xeon, but despite performance leadership, the CPU never really took off. AMD had limited success in the server market with the Athlon MP, with most of their sales going to HPC customers for large clusters, but very few… → Read More
The miracle of grading
In my last blog I mentioned that I had to contest a grade I got on a program, and when I mean contest I mean *really* contest the grade. There were around 15 of us out of the class of 40 - 50 who showed up on Saturday because we were given 25s (yes out of 100 points) on our programs that we turned in something like 2 months ago and just now got back. It turns out there was a pretty big issue… → Read More
Why is it cold?
I reached New Haven at around 2AM this morning. It is cold here. Why is it cold here? Anywho, I arrived in one piece and the drive didn't take nearly as long as it has in the past. I think the trick to missing all traffic is to leave Raleigh around 4PM. I'll get to work on the Raptor stuff on Monday while Vinney is in class, I don't anticipate it taking more than another day or two of testing to… → Read More
Raptors on I95
I just finished my last exam and I'm ready to get outta here. I've got the car packed with my hard drive test bed and I'm off to New Haven to spend the week with Vinney. I'll be publishing my 74GB Raptor review from up there (studying for tests prevented me from finishing all the benchmarks down here), but still expect it sometime next week. Thanks for all of the wonderful responses to my last… → Read More
Ouch, those poor Celerons
First things first, yes it has been entirely too long without a blog update. You know how one thing always leads to another and you end up putting something off for way too long? That's where updating the blog got and I apologize for it, that's something I'm hoping not to do again. I'm quite hard on myself so sticking to updating it on a consistent basis shouldn't be a difficult thing. With that… → Read More
Saturday afternoon on campus
Classes are officially over but I do have to head over to campus this afternoon to contest the way a program my partner and I turned in close to two months ago was graded just a couple of days ago. It's something that could have been resolved via email but that only works if the person you're emailing actually responds to you :) Anywho, that's unfortunately what I'm up to this afternoon. I got… → Read More
The new Raptors have arrived
Thanks to my good friends at Atacom I've got a pair of the new 74GB Raptors waiting to be tested. Unfortunately because I got them in the middle of the week it's going to be tough to find time to thoroughly test them as I've got two exams (one on Thursday and one on Friday) that I need to at least attempt to study for. My exam tomorrow is for this data structures class that all Computer… → Read More
2004 Storage Benchmarks
If you'll remember back to my article on WD's Raptor, I managed to put together a more updated set of storage benchmarks than what's been commonly used. I was still caught up in the CPU and GPU worlds at the time and had no one else to pass the storage reins to so the return of hard drive reviews to AnandTech was short lived. With Derek around however to play around with the CPUs and GPUs, I've… → Read More
Off to take my exam
I'm starving and in 3.5 hours I'll have my first and only exam for the day. When I get back I'm going to take a break from studying by working on the Raptor review a bit more, but then a good deal of the night will be spent studying. So far the new 74GB Raptors are offering an appreciable performance improvement over the first generation Raptors, at least in raw disk performance but I have yet… → Read More
My Life, from A to V
I remember something a reader wrote around the time I started this blog, saying that he/she felt like they were a part of my life during the first few years of the site but during my years in college they didn't feel as included. The story of AnandTech and how this place came to be has been written about countless times, and I know I've recited the story from back in 1997 so many times that it… → Read More
I hate programming
So what have I been up to this weekend? Let's see, working on a project for my data structures class...and more of working on a project for my data structures class. Since my partner doesn't know Java, I was the programmer out of the group (which is a shame as he is the much better programmer out of us two) so things took slightly longer than expected. I program for necessity, definitely not for… → Read More
More video
I swear one of these days we'll get around to doing a CPU review :) We've got stuff planned but this month is turning out to be very GPU intensive. We tried to incorporate as many of your requests as possible, I hope you enjoy the review. I saw Kill Bill btw; I liked the movie, it was very gory and it made me want to watch something funny or happy afterwards, but I still thought it was a good… → Read More
Fall 2003 Video Card Roundup
Fourteen days ago we introduced our brand new GPU test suite composed of a total of 18 games, and as shocking as it may be, we tested with more than first person shooters. Unfortunately we launched the new test suite on quite possibly the least important set of cards for such a suite the ultra high end $500 solutions from ATI and NVIDIA. Ever since the release of the Radeon 9700 Pro we have… → Read More