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• July 4th, 2008: A trip down memory lane
• 1 day ago
• A 1 question civics quiz Today American’s celebrate the Declaration of Independence, the legal foundation of the USA and, after the failure of the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution of the United States. I revere the Constitution as a magnificent piece of political engineering. But it takes people who remember what it says to make it work. Here’s [...]
  

• Notebook SSDs REDUCE battery life at 50x the cost
• 3 days ago
• Tom’s Hardware is reporting test results that show that costly notebook flash drives actually use MORE power than hard drives - shrinking battery life by up to an hour. How could this be? The test Testing 4 SSDs against a 7200 RPM 2.5″ drive on a Dell Latitude D630 notebook they found . . . the power savings [...]
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• Why computers fail
• 4 days ago
• Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National Labs. Among the surprises: new [...]
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• Microsoft’s manycore strategy
• 10 days ago
• The post on Apple’s Grand Central multicore support in OS X.vi had some commenters claiming that Microsoft had already solved the multicore software problem. Far from it. And Microsoft knows it Microsoft has a multi-pronged campaign to get in front of multicore. They’re hiring smart people and spending real money. They will have a response to [...]
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• Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard
• 16 days ago
• Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren’t enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn’t have years to respond. The formal announcement is for Snow Leopard server, which is how Apple introduces new file [...]
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