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		<title>BSN* Repost &#8211; The Coming War: ARM versus x86</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2011/05/bsn-repost-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 22:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a month or two after it was published, a detailed report that I wrote was wiped out during a BrightSideOfNews* hard drive crash. That exhaustive report, praised by many throughout the industry as the finest of its kind yet produced, examined the emerging and inevitable ARM versus x86 clash. It took a little while <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2011/05/bsn-repost-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GodLikeProductions is back up</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2011/02/godlikeproductions-is-back-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular Internet conspiracy discussion site, GodLikeProductions (GLP), is back up after about 24 dramatic hours of down time. As we mentioned last night here, GLP closed operations yesterday, leaving only a vague, enigmatic statement as a farewell. According to the site&#8217;s owner, who posts under the handle &#8220;^TrInItY^&#8221;, the outage was due to &#8220;internet <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2011/02/godlikeproductions-is-back-up/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>GodLikeProductions Shut Down?</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2011/02/godlikeproductions-shut-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 07:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most popular Internet message boards in the world appears to have suddenly and unexpectedly shut down. GodLikeProductions, a nexus of Internet conspiracy discussion, has disappeared and in its place is a somewhat mysterious message: The Kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you, not in mansions of wood and stone. <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2011/02/godlikeproductions-shut-down/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Get Well, Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2011/01/get-well-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get well, Steve Jobs. We hope to see you back soon.]]></description>
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		<title>The ViewSonic G Tablet is Awesome, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/the-viewsonic-g-tablet-is-awesome-but/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/the-viewsonic-g-tablet-is-awesome-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After many months of trying to wring something out of NVIDIA, I have finally obtained a Tegra 2-based device.  It is in the form of the ViewSonic G Tablet, a 10&#8243; Android 2.2 (Froyo) based slate computer.  We bought it from Sears, of all places.  Oddly enough, Sears has one of the largest selections of <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/the-viewsonic-g-tablet-is-awesome-but/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Last Minute Christmas Gift: The B&amp;N NOOKcolor</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/last-minute-gift-the-bn-nookcolor/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/last-minute-gift-the-bn-nookcolor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are Jonesing over the Apple iPad but can&#8217;t afford half-a-grand for a baseline 16GB WiFi version, the $250 Barnes &#38; Noble NOOKcolor is a good alternative. Sporting twice the amount of RAM (512MB) along with 8GB of flash memory (expandable to 40GB thorough a microSD slot), the well-designed NOOKcolor has hardware features that <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/last-minute-gift-the-bn-nookcolor/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>FBI &#8216;Conspiracy&#8217; Infiltrated OpenBSD, Created Backdoors into Internet Networking Code</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/fbi-conspiracy-infiltrated-openbsd-created-backdoors-into-internet-networking-code/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/fbi-conspiracy-infiltrated-openbsd-created-backdoors-into-internet-networking-code/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open source operating system lauded for its security features appears to have been infiltrated by the FBI over a decade ago resulting in the covert injection of eavesdropping code allowing the U.S. Government to snoop certain types of commonly used encrypted network traffic. Security expert and OpenBSD leader Theo De Raadt forwarded to the <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/12/fbi-conspiracy-infiltrated-openbsd-created-backdoors-into-internet-networking-code/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror: The Coming War: ARM versus x86</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This report was originally published at Bright Side of News* on April 8, 2010.  After their server crashed, BSN* has not yet been able to recover the article after several weeks.  We are reposting the report here to serve as a mirror of the original article.  There are likely to be minor editing differences <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/08/mirror-the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Legend of Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs: The Elevator Encounter</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/07/the-legend-of-apples-steve-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/07/the-legend-of-apples-steve-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many people, Apple Computer&#8217;s co-founder, Steve Jobs, exists on a higher plane than the one mere mortals occupy. It&#8217;s a peculiarity of our modern world that a gadget designer can find himself at the center of a personality cult. Certainly, Steve Jobs&#8217; uncompromising direction has played a huge role in Apple&#8217;s success.  However, out <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/07/the-legend-of-apples-steve-jobs/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Netbook Internet Connection Sharing &#8212; Despite Windows 7 Starter</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/06/netbook-internet-connection-sharing-despite-windows-7-starter/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/06/netbook-internet-connection-sharing-despite-windows-7-starter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 04:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sure sign that a company is on its way out is when it starts needlessly defeaturing its products to create artificial market segments rather than innovating new features to add value.  Windows 7 Starter is a good example of this sad phenomena. Microsoft originally planned to impose a three application limit to Windows 7 <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/06/netbook-internet-connection-sharing-despite-windows-7-starter/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>EEMBC interviewed me about CoreMark</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/06/eembc-interviewed-me-about-coremark/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/06/eembc-interviewed-me-about-coremark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was interviewed recently by EEMBC, the embedded computing industry&#8217;s foremost benchmarking consortium.  You can read that interview here.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Am Not Van Smith So Stop Sensoring Me&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/05/i-am-not-van-smith-so-stop-sensoring-me/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/05/i-am-not-van-smith-so-stop-sensoring-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A user at the Inquirer complains about censorship in a comment he made to this article. Van, while an avid reader of the Inquirer, has not posted there since this piece in 2002.]]></description>
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		<title>ARM miniBench project is ready for download</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/arm-minibench-project-is-ready-for-download/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/arm-minibench-project-is-ready-for-download/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A central component of my ARM versus x86 report published last week on Bright Side of News* was my miniBench benchmark.  For that analysis, I ported miniBench to Linux for both x86 and ARM ISAs. The ARM project can now be downloaded here.  You will need the Code::Blocks IDE to manage the GCC C++ project. <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/arm-minibench-project-is-ready-for-download/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>FAIL! Internet Explorer 8 Makes Atom Slower Than iPad A4</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/fail-internet-explorer-8-makes-atom-slower-than-ipad-a4/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/fail-internet-explorer-8-makes-atom-slower-than-ipad-a4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BSN* has posted another of my articles. In it, I compare iPad browsing performance against an Intel Atom N450 netbook using the four most popular web browsers. While the Atom-based systems pretty much trounces the iPad except when using Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. IE8 on the Atom makes the iPad look fast. Additionally, Opera 10.51 <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/fail-internet-explorer-8-makes-atom-slower-than-ipad-a4/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Coming War: ARM versus x86</title>
		<link>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/</link>
		<comments>http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Van Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The popular technology website Bright Side of News* has published an in-depth report I authored comparing an ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor, used in the Apple iPad&#8217;s A4 chip, against a trifecta of x86 CPUs typically found in netbooks, small notebooks and embedded devices.  My report particularly focuses on compute performance. A major component of that comparison is miniBench, an <a href='http://vanshardware.com/2010/04/the-coming-war-arm-versus-x86/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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