There is one truth (somewhere)

After reading this i thought about the future of FSC ("Fujitsu Siemens").

I am certain that the FSC joint venture is coming trough an end after
the expiration of Fujitsus and Siemens agreement in 2009.

While Fujitsu makes nice stuff, the Siemens part of the FSC joint venture
only puts his name on it. FSC is a distribution company, a better VAR maybe thats it.
The consumer products like there line of Amilo notebooks and all the other home user
stuff is all bought from ODMs. Nor Fujitsu or Siemens is involved with any technical
design of that products.

The only real product that Siemens brings to the table is there mainframe stuff.
FSC ships BS2000/OSD and VM2000 (an underlaying hypervisor) on three architectures.
The S series is based on mips/risc and the SX series is based on SPARC.
The newest system is the recently announced Intel Xeon (yes X86) based SQ series,
on which FSC ported of BS2000/OSD and VM2000 via Linux-XEN (X2000?).

VM2000 allows FSC to run multiple instances of BS2000/OSD and Linux, or back in the days SINIX,
on there mips based platform. On there SPARC based systems FSC can run  BS2000/OSD and Solaris side by side.
On the new systems of the SQ series FCS can run BS2000/OSD (either directly or with a VM2000 layer),
Linux and Windows on one system.
I think its highly doubtful that a solution based on XEN and X86 can deliver mainframe like reliability.
The performance might be slower then SX series, but i would not be surprised if it could beat the S series.

As you can see in this paper from FSC, the SQ series is supposed to replace there SPARC based SX series by 2009.
For Fujitsu this does not make sense since they earn the most from the SPARC based series.
Siemens actions in the recent past, show there concentration on there core business.
This is reflected in the sale of there mobile phone division, followed spinning by of there telecommunications division,
in a joint venture with Nokia called "Nokia Siemens Networks".

To me the remaining question in the case of the mainframe business is if it stays in the company Siemens
or if FSC will spin it of. I don’t see Fujitsu keeping it or another it-company buying it.

Fujitsus future looks quite clear to me. Fujitsu will keep their hardware brands Primergy (X86 server),
Primepower (there own sparc server), "SPARC Enterprise" (servers in joint venture with "Sun Microsystems"),
Primequest (Intel Itanium) and Lifebook (X86 laptops).

The consulting (mostly SAP?) business of FSC will go to either Fujitsu, will be sold to a company like IBM
or FSC will just it spin off.

What does that mean for "Sun Microsystems"? Fujitsu will stay in the SPARC business which is great, since in the price
range and the field of operation of such machines you want to have multiple vendors down to the chiplevel.

- these are the ingredients for some big big trouble

basically i could not use any OpenType Fonts (otf).

my system installed with Windows Xp sp3 said the fonts are either not there or damaged. i could use normal truetype fonts (ttf) but no otf.

after hours of search i finally stumbled across that on some systems with sp3 and ati cards there could arise these problems.

i had drivers installed from laptopvideo2go.com which are newer then the drivers samsung provides for my laptop (samsung r70) which has a nvidia 8600gs. version was forceware 175.xx.

I resolved the issue with installing the drivers from samsung which are forceware 101.19 from last year. they are freaking old!

i will try some other versions, i read somewhere 16x.xx series should do.

the bug itself seems to be in the driver and in the engine windows uses to render (postscript based) otf fonts witch they licensed from adobe. nice team work guys!

• how the fuck can such things happen and why cant you find anything about it!
• why the hell i can only get drivers from my laptop vendor and why are they so freaking old?

another problem i have (or had) is tearing mostly bad not only in videos.

its also hard to understand why it seems to be impossible to use directx on dual head, means games or movies.

i will certainly look at other operating systems again now…

• my first bag was an eastpack messenger style bag which was designed to carry wide screens up to 17". ill bought it for my old fujitsu 15.4" (3.2 kg). ill got it cheap for 25,- euros instead of 70,-. it had a clamps that attached the strap to the bag.
  after 6 months or so one of this clamps broke out while i was running to catch a train. luckily i managed to hold it, so the laptop did not fell down. i fixed it with cable binders witch i have always on me ( i know why).

• since ill final bought a new laptop i thought it was time to get something real now. ill bought a jack wolfskin "trans city". i liked the idea of having a bag that one could convert easily to a backpack. it is large (25L), offers much pockets and room and has a large two part handle with an magnetic closure for holding it when one uses the bag as a backpack (bad idea, it does not hold and any magnetic parts on a bag for laptops? just dumb). 

it cost 89,99 euros.this week (after 2 months and 2 weeks) i was on the run. and once again, i suddenly heard an crack… it was the connection between the clamp and the strap. now i was pissed, my new laptop weights 2.7 kg, ill had the power supply , some cables a bottle of water and two books in the bag. thats hardly too much, hold in mind the bag is for 25L and i wasn’t nearly full.

• so i went to the jack wolfskin store for complain. they where kind offered me the option to either get the same bag again, another one or refund. ill picked a new one, an "J-BAG 20". its an messenger bag with a second strap, 20L room for storage, plenty of pockets, "hook and loops", zips and the most important thing, the main strap is directly attached to the bag.

i really really hope this is my last entry on this shit. and once again i find it hardly to understand how stupid designers must be to built some shit like that. yes, i am an active person, and yes ill tend to break things just by using it. on the eastpack i thought "hack its crap" but on the wolfskin? i wasn’t expecting such low quality. over all quality was fine but on the most important point weak.

ps: got some stuff to test? send it to me, ill break it for you!

remember when you used to delete the hibernate files under windows xp to gain some temporary extra storage?

well, if you do such under vista, you might be missing your beloved hibernate after it…. so what you do? you search your system control center for the setting and wonder where the f*cking hell they now put it.

its not there.

like in most cases, the ms-kb will give you a solution: "powercfg.exe /hibernate on" in a administrators shell will fix your problems.

while reading the bad as usual windows help (some things never change), i discovered that there is a new "hybrid standby mode" which is basicly standby with a fall back hibernate on disk in case the ram is corrupted from a powerfailure or whatever. sounds nice, will try that…

atm im looking the last minutes of "the rock" on german television. i consider this my preparation for the upcoming bio-test in school tomorrow (for my defence, im only watching tv cause i played a bit with solaris on my lap…)

Starting post for a new categorie, it realy deserv one of its own…

LEDs  : Why does people think a glowing led is needed in every device, being on all the time?! The trend goes to more intense ones, thats light polution to me. Ill wonder how big the impact on power consume/batterie life is.

Captchas : I cant read them and it seems to get worse. The audio captchas are not realy a help since it seems like you realy need to be blind to understand them.