Recent computer hardware

• On setting up USB RAID

  I bought two Dane-Elec 8GB USB drives recently. Flash memory (as opposed to Hard disk storage) has faster “seek” capability. This is inherent in the design as flash memory is solid state whereas hard disks are electro-mechanical with a “head” that needs to be moved around using a “drive” mechanism. Since seek times are better [...]

  August 7th, 2009

• Microsoft Surface: Some Videos

  I had written earlier about my experience with Microsoft Surface. I’ve captured some videos of me using it. Here they are …

  April 22nd, 2009

• Microsoft Surface Unboxing

  Today, we received the shipment from Microsoft at Veveo. If you have not heard of Microsoft Surface before, It is a touch screen based computer embedded in a table. The surface of table is illuminated from underneath by a projector (rear-projection) and touch input is implemented by reflecting IR radiation off the fingers and then [...]

  December 30th, 2008

• Apple’s MacBook Air compared to a Sony Vaio TZ

  A couple of months back, a colleague and me were looking around for the thinnest ultra-portable laptop around and landed on a Sony Vaio. We however felt unconvinced after checking out the specifications. We thought “There is only so much you can fit into that space”. Apple astonished us today with the introduction of “Macbook [...]

  January 16th, 2008

• Building a low-cost bad-ass “server” machine

  I have been playing around with Wikipedia data and tried doing some byte pushing on my Dreamhost web space. Since this is shared web space, the processing power and memory available are limited. I was able to create database tables in mysql by parsing the wiki xml dump and some extra processing as well to [...]

  November 27th, 2007