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- Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt
- Distributed Computing is now180 degrees out of sync with the bandwagon. That means that Murph's ideas are being adopted whilst mine are being ignored. I guess this proves that I am not a mirror of Murph.DumbRays are just as expensive as this Pano stuff. And what do you get for...
- Tags: Wintel, DumbRay, Pano, Sun Ray, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-09-12
- Google reveals secret server hardware
- Google reveals secret server hardwareHow green is that?Every battery goes bad eventually, and having THOUSANDS of them leads me to ask - what happens to them when they die?RE: Google reveals secret server hardwareI am interested in how they hook that 12 volt battery up to the mobo and whether...
- Tags: Engineering, Normal PC, battery, secret server hardware, server, server hardware, Google Inc., hardware
- Discussion threads 2009-04-03
- 29 screws
- 29 screwsWow! Apple has invented an ease of ........ access system that has been in place on their competitor's laptops almost since there has been laptops. What is next? A user replaceable battery perhaps?No wonder you are so enamored with all the Apple useability advantages!How do you...
- Tags: Notebooks, Big Question, screw, Apple Inc., Apple MacBook, laptop computer, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2009-02-12
- The bell tolls for your magnetic media
- The bell tolls for your magnetic mediaWhat are you going to replace your magnetic media with?While I agree that it's good to take old data and put it on fresh magnetic media, users should not fool themselves into thinking that there's something better than magnetic media, and that is even...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, SSD, media, magnetic media, bell toll, disk
- Discussion threads 2009-01-04
- PictureSMS 1.16 (Mobile)
- PictureSMS is the premiere application for the Treo that utilizes picture caller ID on incoming SMS. It implements effective and easy-to-use user interface for sending and receiving text messages while being fashionable and attractive at the same time. Treo�???�??�?�¢�??�?�¢?�??�?�¬�??�?�¢?�??�?�¢s built-in messaging application is so bare and really basic, so it...
- Tags: Mobile, Palm Treo, SMS, Suntzu Software, PictureSMS, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-11-25
- Sony XDR-F1HD
- After years of being priced as luxury items, tabletop HD Radios finally dipped below $200 and even $100 in 2008. However, most of those models still didn't actually sound very good--either the tuner wasn't terribly adept at pulling in stations or the speakers were pretty cheap. That's where the Sony...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Sony Corp., Sony XDR-F1HD, tuner, radio
- Product reviews 2008-11-18
- Thecus N3200
- The Thecus N3200 is an empty, three-bay NAS drive that sells for approximately $330. Though it doesn't provide any storage out of the box, it's still reasonably priced for a device that supports RAID and up to 3TB of storage. The device boasts a useful set of features, including printer...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), RAID, Storage, NETWORKING, Network technology, Thecus N3200
- Product reviews 2008-09-09
- 'World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive' released
- Released today and draped in bamboo and aluminum casing, Fabrik's SimpleTech [re]drive claims its title as "World's Most Eco Friendly External Drive." Why? Well, for starters, it's a low power hard drive with an energy star power adapter and lack of fan (the aluminum...
- Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Aluminum, Fabrik, Backups, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Questioning IT
- Questioning ITConsistencyIn a prior entry, didn't you make the unassailable point that in a disaster Murphy's Law (a tribute to haplessness?) will assure that the best laid plans...So all that practice is like the mouse's "mony a weary nibble" creating a home that was destroyed in the Robert Burns poem...
- Tags: Data centers, Storage, UNIX, data center, traditional systems environment, systems environment, dual data center, disaster recovery, insurance company
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- My 10 favorite Windows programs of all time
- I’ve been using Windows for nearly two decades, and during that time I’ve tried hundreds of programs. Most come and go, but a handful have stood the test of time for me by solving a particular problem particularly well. In this article and accompanying gallery, I list...
- Tags: Program, Folder, Password, Page, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Product, Microsoft Windows Vista, Search Technology, Microsoft Corp., Requirement, RoboForm, FeedDemon, FinePrint Software, Process Explorer, Clipboard, Updates, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Running+naked+%28with+hard+drives%29
- Running+naked+%28with+hard+drives%29Not so much anymore...Like you I used do have I don't know how many drives laying around with different installs on them. Mostly for doing developemtn testing on various platforms and software. But now with VMWare, not so much.Looking at my main dev machine it has almost a...
- Tags: Backups, enclosure, external enclosure, Serial ATA, virtual machine, backup, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2008-02-29
- Putting your HDD on an 80GB diet (Redux)
- (This is a follow-up to my original piece from 16 January 2008â€"Putting your HDD on an 80GB diet). As I pointed out last month: 80GB is not 80GB. It actually formats down to a paltry 74.3GB. Add to that an 11.4GB full Leopard install and you’re...
- Tags: jason D. O'Grady, Hard Drive, GarageBand, Apple MacBook, Adobe Systems Inc., Notebooks, Hardware, MacBook Air, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- To standardize or not to standardize
- To standardize or not to standardizeHappy teachersChoice. Definitely. Always better, because it makes people happier. Of course the options should be reduced somewhat, in order to prevent chaos and keep the hardware situation manageable. But do give them some options. I bet that the hardware will be looked after more...
- Tags: Notebooks, laptop computer, hardware
- Discussion threads 2008-01-18
- Why tech support by chat stinks
- Why tech support by chat stinksYou should try their telephone customer contempt serviceIf you think thats bad, try Dell's customer contempt line. I once spent half an hour on the phone at my cost, trying to get a Dell employee to give me the address of a Dell service centre...
- Tags: Help desk, Call centers, Telecom & Utilities, tech support, Dell Computer Corp., phone
- Discussion threads 2008-01-03
- Mac OS X Leopard installation as a spiritual practice
- There's always been a wide range of opinion in the Mac pro community about how one should install a major release of Mac OS X and even for the Classic Mac OS in the days. Apple offers a range of options for updating to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe PhotoShop, Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Option, Leopard, Install, Apple Mac OS X, FireWire, Apple Mac OS, Desktops, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- Engineering the 10 TB notebook drive
- Engineering the 10 TB notebook driveEvery 2 years?"Disk capacities double about every 2 years"It's possible you're right but I just got my 300 GB drive because prices dropped when the 500 GB drive came out about 6 months later a 1 TB drive came out. That was over a span...
- Tags: Network-attached storage (NAS), Storage management, TB notebook, disk, SATA II, GB Drive, platter, storage, NAS, hard drive, EIDE, notebook
- Discussion threads 2007-09-27
- Embedded virtual machine software
- On September 5th, XenSource announced an embeddable version of their open source hypervisor. Here's a pointer to XenSource's press release. I posted something on that announcement in XenSource Announces XenExpressâ„¢ OEM Edition. At that time, I could see many ways that this technology would make it easier for both suppliers...
- Tags: Software, Hypervisor, Virtual Machine, XenSource Inc., Virtualization, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2007-09-21
- How data gets lost
- How data gets lostOne of the most frequent data loss problemsOne of the most frequent data loss problems that people come to me with: after working for hours on an Excel spreadsheet or Powerpoint slide deck, they get in a hurry when closing the file and hit the "No" button...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, hard drive, malware
- Discussion threads 2007-08-07
- PictureSMS 1.16 1.16 (Mobile)
- PictureSMS is the premiere application for the Treo that utilizes picture caller ID on incoming SMS. It implements effective and easy-to-use user interface for sending and receiving text messages while being fashionable and attractive at the same time. Treo''''''''s built-in messaging application is so bare and really basic, so it...
- Tags: Mobile, SMS, Suntzu Software, PictureSMS, Treo''''''', Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Telephony, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-07-10
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