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- Facebook freezes deceased person's profiles
- Depends on cost to FacebookThere is some labor involved in converting the pages. There is, of course, the storage cost.And by removal of advertising links on those pages, a loss of revenue.On the other hand, if Facebook were to offer the families a "perpetual memorial page" similar to a...
- Tags: Facebook
- Discussion threads 2009-10-28
- AMD's Phenom II shows overclocking potential
- After initial overclocking disappointment with the Phenom, AMD has put effort into giving the Phenom II a fair amount of overclocking overhead. At a demo yesterday journalists were shown a 45nm Phenom II processor running at 4GHz air-cooled, 5GHz using dry ice as a coolant, and well over 5GHz...
- Tags: AMD Phenom, Overclocking, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Deneb, Release, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-11-21
- Your flat screen TV could be killing the planet, read all about it
- There's a research paper being much-touted in the tech and green press: concludes that nitrogen trifluoride is many times worse for the earth's atmosphere than methane or CO2 or the more popular greenhouse gases. That nitrogen trifluoride, also known as NF3, its chemical formula, is used in making...you got...
- Tags: Atmosphere, Carbon Dioxide, TV, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Photos: Cryogenics chilled systems at CeBit
- Amid the talk of green and power-efficient computing at CeBIT this year, in some cases it is all about faster and cooler--and in one instance, that involves liquid nitrogen. ZDNetUK reports from Hannover, Germany. by Andy Smith
- Tags: CeBit, Hardware, cooling
- Image galleries 2008-03-05
- Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses all disk encryption methods
- Computer encryption technologies have all relied on one key assumption that RAM Random Access Memory is volatile and that all content is lost when power is lost. That key assumption is now being fundamentally challenged with a $7 can of compressed air and it's enough to give every security...
- Tags: Software, Disk, RAM, USB, Computer, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-02-21
- Time Machine - Part I: Is it as good as Apple wants us to believe?
- Time Machine - Part I: Is it as good as Apple wants us to believe?This is great news,,,So if Adrian thinks it's great , that's good news for all who wanted to know . I for one did think it was going to be great . Although I'm currently not...
- Tags: Backups, Time Machine, Apple Inc., Part-I, backup
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Photos: Maker Faire fare
- Maker Faire Austin, the alternative do-it-yourself carnival, includes balloon speakers, fireballs, a liquid nitrogen dessert, a camera van and a wooden iPod. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Photograph, Camera, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-22
- The death of single threaded development
- Applications use to get free performance boosts whenever the clock speed on the CPU and memory bus went up at an exponential rate. For two decades, applications just magically doubled in speed every two years without any requirement to redesign the code but the era the "free lunch" performance boosts...
- Tags: Servers, Intel, Hardware, Development, Desktop, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Servers bathed in oil
- Servers bathed in oilCray??I seem to remember a story that Cray was looking for the perfect liquid to cool their super-computers back in the 80s. They had tried everything and what turned out to work best was a saline solution that mimicked blood.Oil-cooled computers? What kind of oil?Most...
- Tags: Tom, saline, liquid, server, OPEC, April Fool
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- New tech offers hydrogen fuel on demand
- New tech offers hydrogen fuel on demandWhat's the mileage?Okay, you want us to pay $18/gallon to run this tech. Tell me, what kind of MPG do you get for that money? At 155 miles to a tank, it doesn't sound remotely likely that ANYONE would use this. ...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, hydrogen
- Discussion threads 2007-03-27
- Sun releases smaller blade chassis
- Sun releases smaller blade chassisGo $un Gomy favorite evil corporation on the move...A full 42U rack of bladesAnd how does Sun intend to cool these with no room for the Liquid Nitrogen cannister in the rack ??Will John Fowler come in and personally blow on them?? Nah .. that...
- Tags: Blade servers, Utility computing, blade, blade chassis, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Mangle those hard drives!
- Mangle those hard drives!Use Eraser or Some other Wiping ProgramThe best thing to do before selling a hard drive that you have used in your computer for a long time that still works, is to use a disk wiping program like Eraser 5.7 to wipe the entire hard drive with...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, policy thing, LLF, hard drive, Eraser, computer, peice, disk
- Discussion threads 2006-08-18
- Oil and water can mix after all...
- It sounds almost too good to be true. Researchers at Queen's University in Canada have found an effective and environmentally friendly way to mix and unmix oil and water. This could help the oil industry to clean up oil spills and extract oil from tar sands. The 'surfactant' (surface active...
- Tags: emulsion, Queen
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
- Intel's stacked with chipmaking options
- Intel's stacked with chipmaking optionsHmm, heat rises.Now does it sound like a good idea to put one on top of another? Even the M series do get hot to some degree ;)FSB based technology is obsoleteThat's why Woodcrest will be 10-20% slower than Opteron280http://sharikou.blogspot.com/2006/03/woodcrest-will-be-10-20-slower-than.htmlEh...Yeah... but... they're designed to take...
- Tags: Processors, chipmaking option, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-09
- Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And Benefits
- Outsourcing: Sorting Out The Hype, Reality, Risks And BenefitsHere's a reality the balance-sheet fanatics don't understand:Short term profits do not mean long term endurance.But moving well paying jobs out of this country, you're not only removing peoples' very ability to live (food and shelter ain't free and we even have...
- Tags: Globalization, Benefits, outsourcing, Short-term, job, benefit
- Discussion threads 2005-07-05
- AMD's new FX chip is faster, pricier
- AMD's new FX chip is faster, pricier5.0GHzHoly sh!t... never knew they could get that kind of boost.I'd pay for the dual cores....right now, but there is so few things I use that could take advantage of it that I wouldn't see any noticable performance gain.64 bit and multi-task is taking...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, Processors, AMD Athlon 64, Apple Inc., chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-27
- Intel unveils new class of Pentium 4s
- Intel unveils new class of Pentium 4smaybe these new oneswon't use 105 watts at full tilt and still be outperformed by AMD's top offering which uses
- Tags: Network technology, Processors, Semiconductors, Intel Corp., 64-bit, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., 64-bit CPU, Intel Pentium
- Discussion threads 2005-02-20
- Intel helps build low-power transistor
- Intel helps build low-power transistorI can wait for the AMD version of the processor......I'm not going for Intel since AMD offers low-cost, high-performance processors.Cool indeed !!If Intel's P5 burns only 25 Watts of power instead of 250, I have more overhead left for my PCI Express 2 video board that...
- Tags: PCI, Semiconductors, Intel Corp., transistor
- Discussion threads 2005-02-10
- Intel to reunite notebook, desktop chip architectures
- Intel to reunite notebook, desktop chip architecturesIntel is working hardI am glad they are in Israel and NOT India with this.Since I am jewish I prefer it.Intel BETTER be working hard as they are getting their butt KICKED !Funny this story doesn't mention that Intel is switching to the M...
- Tags: Processors, Network technology, chip, desktop, notebook, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2004-03-29
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