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 [...]
Categories: computer hardware,linux
I had written earlier about my experience with Microsoft Surface. I’ve captured some videos of me using it. Here they are …
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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 [...]
Categories: computer hardware,text processing,veveo
Tagged: computer, gadget, interface, microsoft, surface, touch, unboxing
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 [...]
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Tagged: apple, hardware, laptop, macbook air
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 [...]
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Tagged: benchmark, computer hardware, core duo, linux, motherboard, ram, server