Hello happy reader, Usually I stick to more buttoned down subjects but today, at the tail of the conspicuous consumption cycle and cusp of the new year, I wanted to let you know about an interesting gadget that will debut at the upcoming CES… South Korea’s LG Electronics Monday unveiled what it described as the world’s [...]
Posted on December 31st, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, Back in August, I wrote a bit about Intel’s IDF here at Moscone. There’s plenty of coverage out there about the then new Larrabee and Atom processors but, at Intel, nothing stands still for long. At the end of last month, the latest IDF in Taiwan played host to a demo of [...]
Posted on November 10th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, A couple of interesting bits about new consumer electronics crossed my desk this week.
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, Well, after that nondescript lunch thang, a turkey sammy, cardboard–tainted sweet and pasta salad, I headed over to meet w/the PCI folks. I sat down with Al Yanes, president and chair of the 918 member PCI-SIG, who met w/me to discuss v3 of PCIe, the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express bus. Here’s what I came away with… The spec [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2008 by OMas
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More from Session 1: OS Optimization: This year the first Solid State Drives or SSDs appeared in end user applications. For many years, DRAM–based SSDs have been in use in enterprise computing where the insane cost and Soviet-era form factor was outweighed by their almost zero latency, incredible access times and sustained data rates. The new [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by OMas
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My notes from Denali Software’s MemCon08, 07-24-08 We all are familiar with dynamic RAM on computer motherboards but most of this conference was concerned with NAND–based flash memory products. NAND storage is widespread in the form of “flash drives,” those little products that have completely replaced small capacity, highly portable sneakernet stuff, along with CompactFlash [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by OMas
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My better half asked me what to do about a plethora of needed wall warts so, while I was on the subject, I thought I’d mention possible solutions to y’all as well… First off, there’s the 1 foot extension cord approach: cheap, effective and ugly as sin. A quick search of Froogle for “power strip adapter [...]
Posted on July 21st, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, On July 10th, Seagate “unveiled the industry’s first 1.5-terabyte desktop and half-terabyte notebook hard drives to meet explosive worldwide demand for digital-content storage in home and business environments.” Don’t need no explosive disk drive but, in the case of storage, more is better. The 11th generation Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB mechanism, “marks the single largest [...]
Posted on July 14th, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy reader, Today we’re talking about engines. Not the “hemi four four two” sort but other, more modern flavors…Before I get to my main rant today, that of so called “laser TVs,” I wanted to mention tweaking another engine, Amazon’s recommendation engine…I just finished shopping for some textbooks and ended up back on the home [...]
Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by OMas
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Hello happy readers, I just came across some PR regarding United Airlines, claiming to be the “first U.S. carrier to offer iPod & iPhone connectivity.” Though we don’t need to any additional evidence to support the claim that the iPod has changed the way content is created and consumed, I was glad to see my fave [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by OMas
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