Thursday, June 7, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
Tech Review Computers: Monday, May 1, 2012
Nvidia unleashes $999 GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU graphics card
- Dual GK104 GPUs
- 3,072 Nvidia Cuda cores at 915 MHz
- 2 GB of 6 GHz GDDR5 RAM for each GPU
- 300W TDP
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Tech Review Hardware: Monday, April 9, 2012
- 15.6 "
- refurbished
- $698
- 8 GB memory
- expandable to 16 GB
- 750 GB drive
- DVD Burner
- 1000 Ethernet
- HD webcam
- Win 7 Home Premium (sic.) 64-Bit Edition
- 90-day parts/labor
Intel® Core™ i7-2630QM Processor
(6M Cache, up to 2.90 GHz)
- # of cores
- 4
- # of threads
- 8
- clock speed
- 2.0 GHz
- Max 2.0 GHz
- memory
- Max 16 GB
- Type DDR3-1066/1333
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Tech Review: Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Western Digital 4TB My Book Studio Edition II - Quadruple Interface (USB 2.0, eSATA & FireWire 400/800) External Hard Drive - WDH2Q40000N
- $331
- Guessing that it has 2 TB drives in it
Western Digital My Passport Essential 500 GB USB 3.0/2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Midnight Black)
- bought for $65
- hope to install linux on it
DISA OKs secure Android mobile system for DOD
ZAGGkeys Flex Bluetooth keyboard for iOS and Android (review)
- $80
- Nice blue tooth key board for both android and iOS
- $15
- Need the extra space for my Android
- Looks like the good deals are about $1 per GB
Boss Electric 2802 8" Android Tablet
- $110
- I have been very disappointed with the bargain Androids. I wonder if it is even worth buying them at all.
- runs Android 2.2
- gives access to a large segment of apps
- 1.1 GHz CPU
- should run most apps
- really
- 800 mhz CPU
- 300 mhz DSP
- this could be a problem
- Which way is the camera facing?
- Can it run Skype?
- Another China Android
Why Ice Cream Sandwich won't be able to save Android tablets
- kind of a dumb article
- I didn't know that Android tablets needed saving
- His complain about interface in comparison to Apple might be correct, but I don't think his conclusions are
Should Amazon, Google & Wikipedia "nuke" the Web to stop SOPA?
- How big of a threat is the SOPA?
- does it hurt us competing internationally?
- is there danger of it law being used inappropriately
- strong arm for political reasons
- ?
- blocking Web sites that share media
- what are the ramifications?
- would be use to kill personal use
- like iPad
- Article simply says it it bad and everyone hates it without saying why is bad and why everyone hates it
Get a 1.5TB external hard drive for $99.99 shipped
- I missed the good old days when I could find a 2TB drive for $80.
- USB2
- eSATA
Dell Precision M4600 Mobile Workstation
- $3009
- Extreme Quad Core 2.70GHz
- Win7 Pro 64 bit
- 16 GB memory
- 32 GB
- $5,000 more
- slower memory
- DDR3-1333MHz SDRAM
- AMD FrePro M5950 Pro Graphics
- 750 GB 7200 rmp Drive
- Blue tooth
- Camera/mic
- Can add Mobile Broadband for $125
Monday, December 5, 2011
Tech Review: Laptops, Monday, December 5, 2011
HP Pavilion dv6-6135dx Refurbished Notebook PC - AMD Quad-Core A8-3500M 2.4GHz, 6GB DDR3, 640GB HDD, Blu-ray, 15.6" Display, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
- $500
- 15.6"
- AMD Quad-core at 2.4GHz
- 6 GB memory (max 16 GB)
- 640 GB disk space
- Win 7 Home Premium(sic.) 64 Bit
- Blue Ray
- Refurbished
- AMD Radeon HD 6750M
- 2 USB 3.0
- 2 USB 2.0
- 6.01 lbs
- Webacam/Mic
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tech Review: Thursday, July 21, 2011
How to build your own 135TB RAID6 storage pod for $7,384
- About $54 per TB
- With Raid 6, that is really $63 per TB
- This is a single unit.
- Speed within it is good
- Raid 6: 1-2/15= 85%
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID
- 85% of 135TB is about 117 TB
- $7384/117 = $63 per TB
- Redundant
- 45 3TB drive
- groups of 15 drives grouped together using RAID6 to create 39TB partition
- ext4 has a 16TB limit
- used logical volume manage (LVM) to access the full 39TB as a unit
IBM's Watson charts new frontiers for computer science
- David McQueeney, VP of software
- keynote speech at FOSE
- "a long-standing challenge in artificial intelligence to emulate a slice of human behavior"
- Understanding unfiltered language hard for computers
- Jeopardy
- statistical analysis approach
- did not work
- uses structured data only 15% of the time
- built-in temporal reasoning
- find data through time and geospatial calculations
- weight evidence
- pre-loaded data
- not connected to internet
- Watson in 2007 could only answer Jeopardy questions 50% of the time
- DeepQA
- massively parallel probabilistic evidence-based architecture
- made of off-the-shelf components
- not technically a supercomputer
- 80 teraflops of processing power
- Won 71 percent of the time in 55 sparring matches
Mono, open-source .NET for Android, Linux and iOS, lives on
- support for SUSE-Attachmates' Linux Branch
- given mono new life
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