What Year Was The First Car Made?

I was just thinking about when was the first car made? After some research I was able to gather some data:

1672 – First internal combustion engine which was fueled by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen and develop the world’s first vehicle to run on such an engine.

Where Was The First Car Made?

=> 1770 – The Cugnot steam traction engine was built this year. This is considered as the year when the first car was made.

=> Around 1860 – The first powerful car dream came true around 1860 with the invention of the internal combustion engine by the Belgian Etienne Lenoir.

=> 1885 – Karl Benz built an automobile powered by an Otto gasoline engine. He received a patent in the 1886 for the same. Mr. Benz is generally credited with the invention of the modern automobile.

=> Around 1890 – Companies or group of people started to building cars for public. For example, Karl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler in Germany, and Albert de Dion and Armand Peugeot in France were busy building cars.

By todays standard almost all early cars considered as primitive and expensive. These early cars produced in limited numbers. The first cars were hand assembled and required skilled engineers or mechanics to build cars. So cars were very expensive as compare to todays technology and standards.

Mass production of cars credit goes to Henry ford in America. In 1908 the first mass-produced car was introduced – the Ford Model T. By 1920, 50-60% care in the world were Model T from Fords. However these days the design of modern cars is handled by a large team of designers, scientists and engineers.

Microsoft to dump 32-bit CPU version after Windows vista

Windows Vista will be the last version of Windows for Pentium 4 and Core Duo owners. Microsoft has used its annual hardware engineering conference to announce that Windows Vista and Server 2008 will be the last versions of Windows to run on 32 bit computing.

According to APC Magazine

After the software giant has gotten over its hangover from partying like it’s 1999 with the release of Windows Server 2008, it will have one last 32-bit hurrah with a “release 2” update to Windows Server 2008, and that’ll be it.

32 bit CPU: if you have one, learn to love Vista — you're stuck with it.32 bit CPU: if you have one, learn to love Vista — you’re stuck with it.There will be no more versions of Windows — on desktop or server — that will work on 32-bit CPUs like Pentium 4 or Core Duo (first-gen MacBook owners, take note, Windows Vista will be the last version of Windows installable on your machine.)

You can use Ubuntu Linux on 32 bit computer. It supports office apps, browsing, IM, email etc.

Understanding Intel and AMD multicore Multiprocessor CPU / processor system

For gaming, hi-end graphics and server you need to use multicore, multiprocessor system. How multiprocessor system works?

This guide provides good information:

Even to the casual observer, it is apparent that the time of multicore computing is upon us. In fact, this shift occurred several years in the past. The first general purpose CPU to feature Chip Multi-Processing (CMP) was the IBM POWER4, which debuted in 2001. Today, there is not a high performance processor family without a shipping multicore design. Even our video game consoles are shifting in that direction. The Xbox 360 feature 3-way symmetrical CMP, while the CELL processor uses up to 8 SIMD Processing Elements. With the shift towards multicore systems, it is more important than ever to understand the additional complexities of multi-processor systems over traditional uni-processor machines.

Multicore designs bring almost all the difficulties that previously belonged to high-end MP systems to our desktops, laptops and consoles. Before the shift to CMP, shared memory system design was an esoteric art.

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Review Sony VAIO Premium Series VGN-UX390N Micro PC line

lunapark6 has published a detailed and nice review of Sony VAIO Premium Series VGN-UX390N Micro PC.

From the article:

This little beast packs the power of a full blown Microsoft Windows Vista computer into a form factor of only 5.91”(W) x 3.74”(H) x 1.27-1.50”(D). When you first look at the palm sized portable device you may guess it to be a souped up version of the Sony PSP, but if you take a closer look at the $ 2,449.99 sticker price, you will probably guess it does a whole lot more. And that it does.

The amount of features packed into the UX390N is impressive in its own right.

Review Sony VAIO Premium Series VGN-UX390N Micro PC line

I want one :D

=> Sony VAIO Premium Series VGN-UX390N

World’s most secure laptop drive with in built encryption

You can use software based encryption under Windows or Linux/UNIX computer. This is useful if you lost your hard disk or entire laptop is stolen.

Seagate debuts the world’s most secure laptop drive called Momentus 5400 FDE.2 drive with native 128-bit AES encryption. The main benefit is you will save CPU power / cycle as drive use firmware based encryption at the laptop drive level.

This is a standard ATA drive that’s encrypting all the time. It acts like a regular drive, you wouldn’t know the difference.

The Momentus is a serial ATA drive that spins at 5,400 rpm, has a 1.5Gbit/sec throughput and comes with pre-boot authentication and a secure data erasure feature, which overwrites data several times to allow repurposing of the drive. The drive comes in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities. The encryption feature will add about 25% more to the cost of standard Seagate SATA drives and will retail anywhere $130 to $175 for an 80GB drive

=> Seagate debuts the world’s most secure laptop drive

World’s first 2.5″ SCSI hard drive with platters spinning at 15k

World's first 2.5" SCSI hard drive with platters spinning at 15,000k

Seagate has announced a 2.5″ SCSI hard drive that spins at an amazing 15,000RPM :D

From the article:
Today Seagate announces the latest addition to its Savvio line, and this one’s rather special. The new Savvio 15K is not only the world’s first 2.5″ hard drive with platters spinning at 15,000 RPM, Seagate also says it’s 10% faster than 3.5″ 15K-RPM drives, making it the world’s fastest hard drive. That’s a bold claim to make, but the drive’s 2.5″ form factor could actually help it on this front. Even with perpendicular recording, Seagate can only squeeze 36GB onto the Savvio 15K’s platters.

Server Computer Configuration for an Internet Service Provider (ISP)

Here is a quick question from one of our reader:

What sort of computer should you buy for an ISP? We need a computer for mailing, hosting customer sites and running games like Quake. We are small startup ISP.

For mailing and webhosting need you need to purchase a dedicated server. You can build one for yourself (a whitebox) or order from Dell and other vendors. A minimum suggested configuration:

Web server
=> Dual Intel XEON or AMD Dual core processor

=> RAID 5 1/2 TB disk space

=> 4 GB Ecc RAM

=> Linux or FreeBSD UNIX operating system
This web server can handle shared hosting load. You can use same configuration computer for mailing with anti spam and anti virus software.

For gaming you can get a Dual core Intel / AMD CPU with lods of RAM and fast hard disks.

Remember an ISP server mean lots of services such as a Firewall, Web, FTP, RADIUS server etc. You should also consider operating system and your own level of handling the same. You can also purchase 3rd party game and management control panel. Basically you need to do good research before making a final decision.