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- RPM
- (1) Revolutions Per Minute With electric and electronics devices, RPM measures the rotational speed of the motor's spindle. Floppy disks rotate at 300 RPM, while hard disks rotate...
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- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
- Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the costYou make sense... I don't usually like your blogs, but you've stumbled into a real gem here.I personally use a laptop with a traditional drive, and store my user data on a 16G SD card. Best of both worlds apparently: my data...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, battery, RPM, Wattage, notebook
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough bite
- Western Digital VelociRaptor - Plenty of bark, not enough biteI definitely want onenot sure I can justify the price. I saw the 750GB WD drives at Fry's for 109.00 on sale. What's the fastest 750Gb I wonder?I want one and i will tell you why.Gaming.When playing a game, you need...
- Tags: Games, Western Digital VelociRaptor, Western Digital Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- I used - and loved - a Windows flash disk notebook for 5 years. The flash drive doubled my battery life and gave me a better sleep mode better than any I've had since - PC or Mac. I've been excited to see flash drives moving into the notebook mainstream....
- Tags: Notebook, Disk, Seagate Momentus, Performance, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., USB Flash Drive, Bottom Line, Seagate Technology LLC, RPM, GB Mtron, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-11
- Easy (sort of) and free (sort of) webcam security
- Easy sort of and free sort of webcam securityI'm surprised no-one has commented yet...Three thoughtsUsefulness depends on webcam quality. If you got rid of your cam for a better one, figure whether the old one will be good enough.Most robberies happen at night.The article mentions the dreaded word 'compile'...
- Tags: Linux, RPM, Webcam, webcam security, security
- Discussion threads 2007-06-28
- Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system drive
- Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system driveWhere do you get your math?How do smaller drives at higher RPM compare to larger drives at lower RPM?Last I checked, overall performance of a 72 or 36 GB Raptor even in RAID 0 was nill compared to pulling from...
- Tags: Desktops, CPU, Memory Speed, RPM, Raptor, PC, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2007-02-27
- Speed up your PC - Fit a 10,000 RPM system drive
- Power uses go to great lengths to tweak their systems in order to experience improved performance but Im here to tell you that all the registry tweaks and killing unnecessary services wont beat fitting a 10,000 RPM drive and loading your OS onto it.The price per GB is high compared...
- Tags: Performance, Hardware, DIY PC
- Blog posts 2007-02-26
- How higher RPM hard drives rip you off
- How higher RPM hard drives rip you offThe other issue...Whenever we installed our "High-end" DB on Servers (One of our E-Commerce customers were told to host their site through Navisite, just because of the load it would have) we used 15k drives with AIX. We got the best performance out...
- Tags: Performance management, Operating systems, UNIX, FIRST PARTITION, RPM, hard drive, performance, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-09-19
- Defending Linux against Wingots
- Yesterday I quoted a bit by someone named "Carlos" from a PC World forum in which he listed the following complaints about Linux: No readily available games and applications; No wealth of supported devices and drivers; No easy configuration No standardisation: "you know, where a patch...
- Tags: Linux
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- RPM Remote Print Manager Select (exe)
- A comprehensive TCP/IP LPD Print Server for all Windows platforms. RPM expands printing capabilities by giving users more control, formatting options, & file management advantages over network server printing. Features include: SCS to ASCII translation & EBCDIC to ASCII translation, Remove PCL codes & convert LF to CRLF, ASA carriage...
- Tags: ASCII, Translation, Buffer-overflow, Printing, Brooks Internet Software, RPM, Document Management, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting
- Software downloads 2006-02-17
- FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devices
- FreeBSD 6.0 to target wireless devicesWaste of time...Nobody uses this OS. FreeBSd is one of the most over-hyped operating systems ever. Loser search engines like Yahoo use it, need I say more? I remember when I started here 5 years ago. The old CIO had all of these BSD based...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, wireless, RPM, wireless device, FreeBSD, BSD, Linux
- Discussion threads 2005-08-19
- Thoughts on OpenSUSE
- Thoughts on OpenSUSEPlease don't say DebianSuSE and Debian have very little in common. SuSE follows established UNIX naming and directory structures that Debian does not. Debian has its own software package DEB, while SuSE uses RPM. Debian users are hackers, while SuSE users just want something that works. OK, enough...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Debian user, Novell OpenSuse, SuSE, Debian, Novell Inc., RPM
- Discussion threads 2005-08-05
- Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu Foundation
- Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu FoundationWith any luckDebian will be bought out by the Chinese government, and then SHUNNED by the world - thereby suffering a mortal wound. Since Debian is SO far out in left field, ANY thoughts of combining/merging with the mainstream should be...
- Tags: Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, Debian, RPM
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- Ian Murdock on the Debian Core Consortium and Ubuntu Foundation
- Yesterday, I promised a follow-up on the Ubuntu Foundation and comments from Debian Founder and Progeny Chairman and Chief Strategist Ian Murdock. One of the things that was up in the air yesterday was the possible creation of an "enterprise" Debian distribution. An eWeek story...
- Tags: Debian, Ian Murdock
- Blog posts 2005-07-12
- Faster Fujitsu drive plays catch-up
- Faster Fujitsu drive plays catch-upRPMs and transfer rateI would like to note that RPM of disk have rather influence on latency that is expressed in milliseconds rather than transfer speed (Mbit/second).This is about so called access time.So putting transfer rate in context of RPM speed is not adequate.Transfer rate is...
- Tags: Transfer Rate, RPM, latency, Fujitsu Ltd.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-08
Additional Resources
- 2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X Premium
- Photo gallery:2009 Subaru Forester 2.5X PremiumIn a major update, the 2009 Subaru Forester features a longer wheelbase and a modernized exterior design. And, for the first time, a navigation system is available. Unfortunately, our test vehicle was the low trim 2.5X Premium model, and navigation can only be had in...
- Tags: Digital media, Digital music, Subaru Forester, Subaru
- Product reviews 2008-07-22
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it so
- Saying that Windows "Workstation" 2008 is faster than Vista doesn't make it soPar for the course wrt anti-Vista bashers.They believe that repeating something ad nauseum will somehow make it true.Journalism or Rant?I'm afraid you've followed suit rather than taking the high road on this issue. By even responding to...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, RAM, workstation, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2008-07-22
- Toshiba ups capacity of 2.5-inch notebook drives to 400GB
- Toshiba just added a 400GB model to its range of 2.5-inch, 7,200 RPM drives targeted for notebook use. The 9.5mm deep MK4058GSX model, as it's eloquently called, is also designed for low noise emissions, squeezing the extra storage onto just two platters and consuming 20% less power...
- Tags: Battery, Toshiba Corp., Notebooks, Engineering, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Seagate: Demand is swell, but we're playing catch-up on notebook drives
- Seagate delivered some good news with its fiscal fourth quarter earnings: Storage demand is just swell. The bad news: Seagate is lagging with its product line--especially for notebook drives--and that's killing margins and hurting profits in the current quarter. For the quarter ended June 27, Seagate reported...
- Tags: Notebook Market, Seagate Technology LLC, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California
- Remember the 100% electric 2008 Tesla Roadster? You know, 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds? A 13,000 rpm redline? And, of course, 220 miles per charge, thus costing about two cents per mile? According to a letter from the...
- Tags: Production, California, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- Smart HCCI cars talk to the pump
- Smart HCCI cars talk to the pumpSimplify the problemSticking to a single cylinder engine would make achieving consistent cooling a little easier. Also, used in a hybrid, such engines could spend a lot of their time running at constant load use the batteries to smooth things. Indeed they could spend...
- Tags: Engineering, Smart HCCI
- Discussion threads 2008-07-05
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