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Right after the announcement, I could get my very own Dedibox V3.

Nothing to complain of with the speed of delivery, it took me no more than 10 minutes to order the new box, be notified of its availability, and install an Ubuntu Lucid distribution (signaled as beta).

As I was very curious about the performance of the famous Nano processor, I pitted my older Dedibox (the server powering this very website) against the new one using nbench, here are the results:

First, the original dedibox:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :             450  :      11.54  :       3.79
STRING SORT         :          71.765  :      32.07  :       4.96
BITFIELD            :      2.5932e+08  :      44.48  :       9.29
FP EMULATION        :          88.285  :      42.36  :       9.78
FOURIER             :           13993  :      15.91  :       8.94
ASSIGNMENT          :          18.371  :      69.90  :      18.13
IDEA                :          3042.6  :      46.54  :      13.82
HUFFMAN             :          1113.4  :      30.87  :       9.86
NEURAL NET          :          21.175  :      34.02  :      14.31
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          762.56  :      39.50  :      28.53
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 35.427
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 27.756
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU          220  @ 1.20GHz 1200MHz
L2 Cache            : 512 KB
OS                  : Linux 2.6.24.2dedibox-r8-1-smp-x32
C compiler          : gcc version 4.2.4 (Ubuntu 4.2.4-1ubuntu4)
libc                : libc-2.7.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 9.421
INTEGER INDEX       : 8.429
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 15.394
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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Now the new server:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          625.84  :      16.05  :       5.27
STRING SORT         :          72.811  :      32.53  :       5.04
BITFIELD            :      2.9437e+08  :      50.50  :      10.55
FP EMULATION        :            88.6  :      42.51  :       9.81
FOURIER             :          8060.1  :       9.17  :       5.15
ASSIGNMENT          :          13.373  :      50.89  :      13.20
IDEA                :            3123  :      47.77  :      14.18
HUFFMAN             :          1478.7  :      41.00  :      13.09
NEURAL NET          :          13.524  :      21.73  :       9.14
LU DECOMPOSITION    :           772.2  :      40.00  :      28.89
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 37.871
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 19.972
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : CentaurHauls VIA Nano processor U2250 (1.6GHz Capable) 1600MHz
L2 Cache            : 1024 KB
OS                  : Linux 2.6.32-22-generic-pae
C compiler          : gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5)
libc                :
MEMORY INDEX        : 8.883
INTEGER INDEX       : 9.899
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 11.077
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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After a few months of development, FLVmeta 1.1 is nearing completion.

Snapshots can be downloaded on the Google Code project page at: http://code.google.com/p/flvmeta/downloads/list

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FLV is dead.

That can seem like a rather bold statement, but let’s face the truth. After Adobe’s recent publication of updated and open specifications for the FLV/F4V and SWF formats, that seems to be about the most logical conclusion. Continue Reading »

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It will take place the 2nd of June, in Paris, in the “Baroc” (36 rue Sambre et Meuse, 75010) at 20h.
Marie will play alongside Aloÿse and a surprise guest.

For those who don’t know her, Marie is the singer extraordinaire of Katzenjammer Kabarett, a nice Electro/Gothic/Punk/Cabaret… errr well, an interesting band anyways

This is going to be Marie’s first solo concert, so she needs encouragements and a loooot of people screaming her name.

Oh I forgot, the entrance is free !

Links:
http://www.myspace.com/mariedarling

http://www.katzenjammer-kabarett.com/

http://www.myspace.com/aloysuke

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Every software developer out there will have recognized the famous “Hello World”.
For those who are not part of this fantastic corporation, well, this is just a way to make a first try in a new domain you don’t master yet, like, for instance, me and all this blogging thing.

Ok, ok, no digression for a first post. This one marks the opening of my first blog, and website, so I’ll talk a bit about me and blogs. Continue Reading »

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