Category: computing
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Three SSDs? Or One?
So I was thinking about how fast the write speed for a striped set of OCZ Vertex Turbos would be: between 300-435 MB/s. That’s simply awesome. However, there are some drawbacks to my plan: 1) assuming onboard RAID0 will be sufficient 2) onboard RAID0 won’t have TRIM support 3) extra effort and cost of three…
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Are Two SSDs Worth It?
I was just pricing out components for a Windows 7 system for a Photoshop user. My idea was to have two SSD drives, one for the boot drive, a second for ssd for photoshop scratch, and a 1TB drive for finished work. A Core i5 system with 8GB ram seems to price out at $2000,…
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Diffed and Merged…and Ported
“Hard at it,” is how you’d describe me these days. I’ve really learned a lot about programming C# in the last three weeks. There’s some stuff I like, even. I’m still, rather instinctively, feeling hesitant to praise Microsoft for anything…but it’s melting. Consider this latest Tools episode from The Commandline podcast. Thomas Gideon describes a…
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That Much Closer to Jacking In
I heard these articles mentioned on The Commandline podcast: A wearable brain computer interface. And for only 9000E, you can type by thinking. I would have thought that this technology would have made it on the scene a long time ago. It’s very much something that would mesh will well with wearable computers. Just need…
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Well, the Microsoft has Landed on the Jed
I spent all day getting my workstation to build a set of pretty intense C# projects. I’m impressed that we got it working in a day (not counting the four days it took to straighten out my Visual Studio install on my Vista workstation). Having developed projects in Perl, PHP, Java and C, and having…
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More Discussion on Monitor Gamma
This discussion of monitor gamma has some more math about the subject, and different diagnostic images.
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