Tech o’ the Week
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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International Domain of Mystery
Hello happy reader, OK the title of this week’s post may seem a bit obscure. However, I’ve been watching John Drake in Danger Man, the precursor to I Spy, The Prisoner, Man from UNCLE and Get Smart. Fun stuff…Anyway, today I’d like you to think a bit about the non–English speakers throughout the world and what the [...]
Posted on September 20th, 2008 by OMas
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IDF 08 Pt. 2
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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IDF 08
Hello happy reader, I’m currently at the Intel Developer Forum…Here’s my notes so far: ▼ Opening Forum Keynote — Intel Chairman Craig Barrett • Intro’d with thoughts on making good things happen by leveraging tech. • Stressed the lack of political will in the US to fund education ▼ The first segment featured a Wii remote hacker, Johnny [...]
Posted on August 19th, 2008 by OMas
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LinuxWorld & NGDC
Hello happy reader, Another week, another trade show. This time it was LinuxWorld and Next Gen Data Center: it’s two, two, two shows in one…Nothing earth shaking but, I did finally get to put my paws on Bug Labs’ BUG. For the electro-geek, it’s a really exceptional tinker toy. Can’t say, however, that it will [...]
Posted on August 8th, 2008 by OMas
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MemCon 08 Pt. 2
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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MemCon 08 Pt. 1
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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Cephalopods Unite
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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Discus Maximus
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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Clone Wars
Hello happy reader, OK, I may be the last to hear about this but, I thought I’d add yet one more voice to the bellowing. Today’s topic is Psystar Corp. and their Open Computer. What they’ve done is an old concept, brought back from the grave for the current crop of x86 CPUs that ship [...]
Posted on June 25th, 2008 by OMas
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