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- 2.5" disks to become new standard in 2009
- When I first started selling storage, 14" disk drives were all the rage. Then came 9", 8", 5.25" and then 3.5" drives - where we've been stuck for the last 15 years - even though they have gotten thinner. All this shrinkage is courtesy of drive...
- Tags: Disk, Delta, $/GB, $/GB Delta, Atrato, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
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- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenager
- Vista is "OK", says Ubuntu-converted teenagerInteresting...I find this experiment very interesting. However, there are a couple observations here:1) This wouldn't really be a typical experience for a typical user. Ubuntu has to be installed and configured; would he have done this or been able to do this without...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Windows Vista, VISTA IS, GUI, Ubuntu, typical user, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Tom's Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5" drive on a...
- Tags: Disk, Battery, USB Flash Drive, Tom, Notebooks, Engineering, Flash Memory, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- AT&T details iPhone plans; Rolls out 'iReady' tips (yes we're serious)
- AT&T on Tuesday outlined its pricing structure for the rollout of the 3G iPhone and cooked up one cheesy marketing word: iReady. Just imagine the new uses for "iReady". "Let's get iReady." "iReady, set, iPhone." "Are you iReady?" Ok,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., iReady, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori
- Goodbye, XP. Hello, MidoriHow great would it be-to have a lean, mean system that would do the basics, and leave some of the add-ons to other companies.Microsoft has blown any chance of Vista ever getting any respect, as the timing of '7' seems almost a stopgap measure. with '7' only...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Midori, Microsoft Windows Vista, goodbye, operating system, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- HP Media Vault MV2120 (500GB)
- The HP Media Vault MV2120 is a two-bay network-attached-storage device with 500GB of storage and room to expand. It keeps things simple and serves up basic NAS features, including an iTunes server, remote Web access, and scheduled backups. While the device is a snap to set up, we found the...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage, Media Vault, hard drive, MV2120, Media Vault MV2120, NAS, HP Media Vault MV2120, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Product reviews 2008-06-27
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership
- Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...
- Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home daily
- Firefox and Thunderbird phone home dailyReally? What does Windowssend to MS everyday?IP address?What time you were using the product?What exact version number you were using?If you are using any of the plugins or addons sent in the disabled list?Total number of active users of their software?Problem isother companies like Apple...
- Tags: Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird phone home, phone home, Mozilla Corp., Mozilla Thunderbird, phone
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...
- Giving Windows Vista another chance ...tips? yeahWell first of all i don't suggest using ie for safe browsing, firefox or opera can be much better.Be sure to install an appropriate anti-virus and anti-spyware before anything, for me avira antivir personal and spybot search and destroy worked great.If you do have...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30
- No reprieve: XP phase-out begins June 30But why?Surely if Microsoft remove Windows XP then lazy software developers who don't want to make their apps Vista compatible will be be forced to pull their fingers out!Windows Vista doesn't include many new changes to the software standards that Microsoft introduced with Windows...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- This is a bit of a crazy idea, but it constitutes part of the reason I keep harping on about the importance of full-blown desktop operating systems in cell phones. Yes, it creates developer consistency, meaning that the same skills used to develop apps for desktop computers map directly to...
- Tags: Desktop, Phone, Mobile, Cell Phone, Microsoft Corp., Computer, Desktop Computer, Microsoft Windows, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Mac and PC are at it again
- Mac and PC are at it againBuy Macs and...Use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP not Vista.Set up VMWare in coherence mode so the few Windows apps appear in the Mac OS X environment.Put 4 GB in EVERY computer. Don't even think of less than 4.Ask every user who they...
- Tags: Desktops, PC, Apple Macintosh, X.x
- Discussion threads 2008-06-17
- TextPipe (exe)
- A powerful text-processing tool that combines more than 100 translation, conversion and filtering operations on multiple binary files or text files. Update text using search and replace, which supports perl pattern matching, sounds-like matching, edit-distance matching and search/replace lists. Convert files from foreign computer systems between mainframe fixed-length formats and...
- Tags: Audit, File, DataMystic, Financial Accounting, ActiveX/COM/COM+/DCOM, Finance, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-06-17
- Mokafive Version 1
- Mokafive Version 1Files are too largeWait until the first home user tries to update their VM over their 1.5 Mb DSL, 4-10 Gb should only take a couple of days to get through. ;-) This isn't the way to go for Windows or other large VM's. Not...
- Tags: Mokafive Version 1
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- The 16 TB RAM PC: when?
- The 16 TB RAM PC: when?We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e...We splurged on the 16K RAM for our //e, as well as the 80 column card and Microsoft BASIC card. That was one smokn' Apple II. We even had a data coupler and that new...
- Tags: Server-side, RAM, memory, 32-bit, 64-bit, Web
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- The 16 TB RAM PC: when?
- The next version of Mac OS X will address 16 TB of RAM. Who will ever have 16 TB - 16,000 GB - of RAM on a home computer? If the past is any guide, some of us will be using 16 TB PCs in 2025. ...
- Tags: PC, Storage, RAM, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Intel: Enough with the whining; We're not holding back USB 3.0
- Intel: Enough with the whining; We're not holding back USB 3.0I'll believe it when I see itSATA and eSata is already at 3.0 Gb/s, which is way faster than most drives can use. FireWire 1600 and 3200 will be available by the end of the year, providing competition for...
- Tags: Intel Corp., USB, FireWire, USB 2.0, eSATA, USB 3
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Are all (Microsoft and Apple) sync services created equal?
- Apple's introduction of the successor to .Mac -- a k a, MobileMe -- raises the question as to what's taking Microsoft so long to roll out Live Mesh. There aren't a whole lot of details yet available on MobileMe, other than that it will allow cloud-based synchronization...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Windows Live Service, Microsoft Windows, Team Management, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Hardware, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
- Apple makes its play for the cloud: MobileMe
- Apple on Monday unveiled MobileMe, an Internet strategy where Steve Jobs & Co. takes a little Web 2.0, mixes in some cloud computing and spits out "Exchange for the rest of us." The rollout of MobileMe at WWDC all incoming stories is notable on a few fronts:...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., MobileMe, Ed, Desktops, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-09
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