IPMI Bus

I added three new pages tonight to cover intel's IPMI bus.
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface has been released for a few years now, and I don't know how I've missed it. I'll cover the topic now. The three pages are just a copy of the I2C bus for now, as a place holder. But over the week end I'll gear them up and address the topic. The new pages are located at these page addresses;

IPMI
IPMB
SMIC

The pages are just place holders....

Unrelated ~ I hear AMD is reducing the price of their processors next month. Must be time for a new computer. I think I run a dual core 4800 now ~ still over an AGP interface.

I need a PCIe 16x interface, SATA 2.0, flash hard drive, Windows Vista ~ I'm two years out-of-date......

Gmail

Just in case any one missed it Google has opened Gmail up to every one. I've been using Gmail for about a year, and I really like it. They catch a lot of spam in their filter. A calendar is also available.

The Gmail address aren't so bad either ~ interfacebus.com at gmail.com

You get 2831MB of space with Gmail......

Engineering Links, Employment, and Career Development Resources

A buddy of mine started a web site to cover Career Development
Seneea.com

New grads can start by checking out this page 'Start My Career', people already working can start by checking out 'Manage My Career'

I also listed that link on my Job listing page;
http://www.interfacebus.com/Engineering_Job_Search_Listing.html

My main page is located at:
http://www.interfacebus.com/
Which includes many engineering related topics.

Highest page hits in a month

Jan 2007 had the greatest amount of unique hits; with 148633 hits.
The previous high month was march of 2006, at 143841 hits.

http://www.interfacebus.com

Update; 1/30/2010, I just came across this posting and it needs an update. As of yesterday, Jan 2010 there have been 174,409 unique visitors to the web site, or 20,000 then when this posting which was made three years ago.
Here is one of the recent posts on page data: Web Stats Increasing. [Jan 20 2010].
Of course the data changes all the time, but the data from 2007 is out of date regardless.

Hit comparison

I just posted the hits for the year to the FAQ page of http://www.interfacebus.com
I noticed that the Unique visits up to Jan 7 of 2007 were 32,028 and the Unique visits for all of 1999 were 32,100. So in just 6 and 1/2 days I received as many visits as I did for all of 1999. In eight years the site has increased 50 times over. The FAQ is listed here; http://www.interfacebus.com/Faq-interfacebus.com.html

2006 Web Stats

www.interfacebus.com ended 2006 with 1,550,092 web visits and 3,688,317 page impressions. That's an increase of 381,770 visits from what the site received in 2005.

Over the year I've added a number of new pages, many during the last 6 months, so I expect 2007 to be even better. Of course I'm always trying to enhance the existing pages.

HTML Coding

I just noticed the other day that some of my HTML coding was only working in Explorer and not Firefox.

The code "font face ="symbol"" which I use to display the symbol for Ohm, or what ever, only works with Internet Explorer. In firefox, the alpha character and not the symbol is displayed.

Any how, I'm not going to fix it, because I don't know what the fix is. Not yet sure if this is invalid code or just an issue with firefox.....

Web Site Growing in Size

The web site is growing each day. Currently http://www.interfacebus.com has 1097 individual pages. There are also 68 old or orphaned page adderesses out there. With another 92 pages to redirect people from some of the more common mis-spelled addresess. This blog contains an additional 161 pages of information. My seconday page out on Google has another 30 pages for a total of over 1400 web pages.

Web Spider

Crawed Pages

This picture shows how the Google spider [googlebot] craws www.interfacebus.com over the last three months. It appears that most pages are hit and spidered with-in one day, than are spidered again during the month. The site has about 1040 pages as determined by the cached pages on Google; “site:interfacebus.com”. Those spikes appear to reach 800 to 850 pages.

Page Views

interfacebus.com passed the 3 million page view mark today with 3,004,376 page impressions for the year.

I estimate an additional 700,000 page views for the rest of the year.

The FAQ for interfacebus.com is located here;
http://www.interfacebus.com/Faq-interfacebus.com.html

Site Visits

I missed the day, but www.interfacebus.com passed last years unique visits of 1,168,322 for a new total of 1,200,959 unique hits so far this year, with two full months to go. The page views for this year so far are 2,870,317 different pages.

The difference is unique views are from different people, page views include the number of pages those people may have seen. Or, one person may click to another page on the site to double the page views....

So 1,200,959 people came by and looked at a total of 2,870,317 pages.....

Dual PCs

Now that I have the HP computer connected to the 28" LCD TV I started to use it more.
Having the two 19" monitors in front of me and the 28" TV off to the right is working out. I don't have to switch views as much with 3 screens.

More than once I have started to type on the wrong keyboard....

CableCARD

CableCARD from what I have found so far is a 16-bit PC Card in a PCMCIA format. CableCARD was designed to replace the cable box from the cable company; any company could produce a CableCARD from the standard so you were not locked into renting from the cable company. This was a government thing, I guess the FCC.

CableCARD appears as a PCMCIA slot on the back of HDTV sets.

Any how version 1.0 came out last year from I understand and it has a few draw backs. Information only flows one-way with CableCARD. So with CableCARD you are not able to use Pay-per-view because the card only receives signals from the cable company it does not send information out to them. Seems like a lot of people are already waiting for CableCARD 2.0 to come out to address the short comings of version 1.0.

So CableCARD from a hardware view is just another implementation of the PCMCIA card. Why they used the out-dated PC Card interface escapes me.

Here is the new CableCARD listing.

PCIe Card Size

I added this page which shows the dimensions of the PCI Express Board
http://www.interfacebus.com/PCIe_Card_Dimensions.html

New Posts

More new pages added to www.interfacebus.com

The ZigBee page is blank, but I should get to it this week end.
http://www.interfacebus.com/IEEE802-15-4_ZigBee_Description.html

The Protocol Analyzer page also only has a few companies.
http://www.interfacebus.com/Test_Equipment_Protocol_Analyzer_Manufacturers.html
http://www.interfacebus.com/COTS_InfiniBand_Board_Manufacturers.html
Many of the InfiniBand products I'm finding are server boxes and not boards.
http://www.interfacebus.com/WaveGuide_Manufacturers.html
http://www.interfacebus.com/High_Definition_Audio.html

I should be up-dating each of these pages this week, or as I have more time.

Computer/TV interface

So I spent the day checking the computer in safe mode, defag, virus .... and did not find anything so I went ahead and did a HP restore.

It booted ok but with a bad video driver, so I put in an ATI CD. It turned out to be the wrong CD, so now when XP loads it a blank screen, and will not go into safe mode...

New Page Additions

I've been adding some new pages over the last few weeks;

http://www.interfacebus.com/HTX_Daughter_Card_Manufacturers.html

http://www.interfacebus.com/COTS_VPX_Board_Manufacturers.html

http://www.interfacebus.com/COTS_VXS_Board_Manufacturers.html

http://www.interfacebus.com/Test_Equipment_Thermal_Imagers_Manufacturers.html

http://www.interfacebus.com/GPS_Receiver_Manufacturers.html


http://www.interfacebus.com/WebCam_Manufacturers.html

Site Hits are down

Hits to www.interfacebus.com are down again this month. That's four months in a row. In most cases it's just droping 3000 a month, so it's really just down by a few hours to a day out of the month.

The issue is that it's down 4 months in a row.

PCI Express Cards

Manufacturers of PCI Express cards now has its own page;
PCIe card manufacturers. Most cards are video cards, but are few are not.

Those listings were on the main COTS board manufacturers page.

The site home page is here; interfacebus.com

Battery Manufacturers

In addition to the main listing for battery manufacturers, a new page was started that just covers Industrial Batteries

I also added a new page to cover Circuit Breaker Manufacturers, which is off the main Mechanical Fuse Manufacturers page.

I up-dated this page to show the new address for Circuit Breakers.