Jul
30
2005
AnandTech has a nice review of Gigabyte’s i-RAM product. It’s a card that plugs into a PCI slot that has 4 DIMM slots in it. You buy the card for $150 and then have to buy up to 4 RAM modules to populate it with. So, for about $500, you can buy yourself a 4GB solid state storage device that could be used for a number of things including your operating system’s paging file, your boot device, your favorite game’s storage area, or a number of other things where the increased I/O performance would give you the greatest benefit.
Hell, with Windows installed on your i-RAM device, you could boot up in 9 seconds!
AnandTech article
Tags: Computers
Jul
29
2005
Alex sent this along…it’s funny!
System Administrator’s Appreciation Day
In essence, I’m the system administrator of our webserver (Filias Consulting) as well as a system administrator for some servers at work (Instant Messaging and Video Conferencing).
Tags: Computers
Jul
25
2005
Pixoria makes a product called Konfabulator, a widget system that used to be exclusive to the Apple Mac OS.
Yahoo!’s very quick and already has a site up and running with their new acquisition:
http://widgets.yahoo.com
Seems like they are like Google, but not as fast. They recently bought Flickr, too, a photo sharing system.
Tags: Computers
Jul
25
2005
I recently signed up with Vonage and called them to find out if I could use a Telephone Adapter that I bought on eBay with my existing account. After going to research this issue twice, the 2nd time being asked how I’d get a new MAC address attached to my account, he came back and said:
“Your best bet would be to return your telephone adapter to the store…yup, that’s your best bet.” < -- is he for real?
The way the system works is that each telephone adapter (as well as every networking device in the world) has its own MAC address (like its unique signature). Vonage ties that MAC address to the phone number they have for you in the system. This is how it works when you take your telephone adapter with you on vacation, plug it in, and you can make and receive calls the same way you did when you were at home.
Tags: Technology
Jul
25
2005
Well, not really:
He’s all full of “ooos, cooos, eeeessss, aaahhhhs”. More and more. I’m so happy. It’s hard to leave for work when I see and hear him in the morning, after his early feeding!
Tags: Benjamin