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- Sink
- A device or place that accepts something. See heat sink, data sink and sink device.
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- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air updatedWell, as they sayToo much of a good thing can be bad.Hacker computerThey must switch the CPU with a hacked CPU.Geek-tech globs it on.Thermal grease is only there to fill...any gaps due to imperfections in the heat sink and the cpu...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Federal government, Thermal Grease, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., assembler
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Semi-Oblivious Routing: Lower Bounds
- This paper initiates the study of semi-oblivious routing; a relaxation of oblivious routing which is first introduced by Racke and led to many subsequent improvements and applications. In semi-oblivious routing like oblivious routing, the algorithm should select only a polynomial number of paths between the source and the sink of...
- Tags: Cornell University, Sink, Engineering, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Kitchen Sink Screen Saver (exe)
- Kitchen Sink Screen Saver is designed for fans of undermount stainless steel kitchen sinks. Stainless steel kitchen sinks are becoming very popular in recent years. Durable, timeless, resilient are three good words to describe stainless kitchen sinks. This shiny, sleek metal blends very well with contemporary or traditional kitchen designs...
- Tags: Screensaver, Kitchen, Sink, Kitchen Sink Screen Saver, Kitchen Sink
- Software downloads 2007-12-18
- (Images: HP's nanogrid for chips)
- (Images: HP's nanogrid for chips)Wonder if this affects coolingAs chips have become denser and hotter in recent years, the response has been to use bigger heat sinks, blow more air across the heat sink, and move the transistors closer to the heat sink.It would seem to me that this approach...
- Tags: Semiconductors, Network technology, heat sink, sink, chip, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-16
- Thermal grease theory
- Thermal grease theoryI hope you were kidding...I hope you were kidding with the question "Should Apple have done this in the first place, or is the MacBook Pro designed with the extra thermal grease to keep the fan from coming on?"Let’s see, design a system that won't conduct heat away...
- Tags: Semiconductors, theory, Thermal Paste, grease, thermal grease, chip, heat sink, sink
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- SCAR: Context-Aware Adaptive Routing in Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks
- Sensor devices are being embedded in all sorts of items including vehicles, furniture but also animal and human bodies through health monitors and tagging techniques. The collection of the information generated by these devices is a challenging task as the data results in enormous amounts and the sensors have scarce...
- Tags: Aware, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, Sink, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Vertical Industries, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-04-07
Additional Resources
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?
- Can Ubuntu win the OS beauty pageant?Sure it canIf you are using gnome (Ubuntu's default desktop envrionment) just go to gnomelook.org and look at the screen shots people have posted. There are a lot of creative folks out there. It's pretty easy to make gnome look and act like auqa....
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Desktops, Compiz-fusion, Even Linux, Ubuntu, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-07-23
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economy
- Google earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyGoogle earnings fall short; Says it can thrive in weak economyAnd the ship starts to sink...I hope no one was expecting them to have a good quarter considering their lack of innovation, discontinuing services, and their prized possession of search...
- Tags: Financial accounting, earnings miss, GOOG, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- In America money is life
- In America money is lifeWhat a crock[i]while the U.S. is both rich and powerful, it is “woefully behind when it comes to providing opportunity and choices to all Americans to build a better life.”[/i] OK, let me get this straight. There is someplace else in the world that...
- Tags: Warm-Weather, Woody Allen
- Discussion threads 2008-07-17
- Hammering at cost with open source
- Irregular Bob Warfield riffs on Salesforce.com's decision to ditch Sun/Solaris in favor of Dell/Linux. In doing so, Bob makes the point that: ...for a SaaS company, the cost of service delivery is an absolutely critical factor. Once you have software that runs well and scales horizontally on cheap commodity...
- Tags: Software, Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Oracle Corp., Open Source, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Sales Force Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- Apple founder Steve Wozniak interview, answers your Tweeted questions
- At the San Francisco Social Networking Conference today, Steve Wozniak, Apple co founder and personal computer legend, shared some fascinating insights into the modern world of social networking and mobile phones. I was able to organize a one on one interview with Steve (thanks Marc Lesnick &...
- Tags: Phone, Steve Wozniak, Mobile, Network, Cell Phone, Apple Inc., Steve, Social Networking, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Online Communications, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and wide
- NVIDIA: Let's spread the blame far and widePublically?"Well, since then the company’s stock has taken a serious battering, and the company doesn’t seem to be willing to talk about the problems with its GPUs publically."Publically is not a word. Publicly is.That aside, Nvidea is playing the blame game and not...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., GPU, blame, supplier
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Now I know we're in a recession
- Now I know we're in a recessionPricingYou can't sell coffee at those prices in a mainstrean coffee chain on a long term basis. Certainly not when it's either a coffe or a gallon of regular unleaded :-) A Sophie's choice indeed.Well, Starbucks in Vienna, Austria, EU, does (Starbucks is more...
- Tags: Auto Industry, Starbucks Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Now I know we're in a recession
- OK, this has nothing to do with Ed Tech. Not a thing. There's no tie-in, no hidden message for us Ed Techers, just a feeling of impending doom. Fortune is reporting that Starbucks is closing 600 stores. I'll let that sink in. ...
- Tags: Starbucks Corp., Seattle, Food & Beverage, Construction, Manufacturing, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?
- Would Microsoft ever split itself up?they couldThey could, but they'll never do that. Micro$oft is too greedy. In my perfect world I want to see Microsoft as a software company and another branch as a hardware company for actual computers, Phones and other devices, like Music Players, GPS, and Car-Support.The...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Major Projects, Micro$oft, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Samsung LN46A750
- "The kitchen sink" is a term used loosely when describing a feature set on any product, from cars to countertops, but in the case of the Samsung LN46A750, we're using it in the tightest sense. This 46-inch flat-panel LCD packs more feature punch than any HDTV we've tested yet. 1080p...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Samsung LN46A750, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-06-26
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0
- Fun with openSUSE 11.0Virtualized OpenSUSE 11.0I too am a devoted Ubuntu user, and decided to check out OpenSUSE 11.0. I downloaded the 32bit GNOME LiveCD and loaded in with Virtualbox in Windows XP. I got through the whole setup fairly quickly but when the "system" rebooted it crashed and said...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, desktop virtualization, openSUSE 11.0, KDE, KDE 4, Novell OpenSuse, Novell Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-26
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertising
- Microsoft earmarks another $200 million for Windows advertisingI'd say adress the non OEM market.$399 for Ultimate was crazy. When you can purchase an entire computer with Ultimate for $599, you know the OEMs are getting a huge break. Over time, MS has "encouraged" people to buy from OEMs...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, marketing, Microsoft Windows, WinMobile
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- XP era ends: Will Vista step up?
- The Windows XP era ends June 30 and soon hardware vendors will be shipping you all Vista all the time in most cases. The save XP effort failed. The whining should cease. And now it's time for Vista to sink or swim. Ina Fried has a good...
- Tags: Developer, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-16
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