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by azim 16y ago
For an always-on device you would actually fare better with an SSD than a 2.5" laptop hard drive. Laptop hard drives are not meant to be always-on. The bearings tend to wear out very fast unless they spend a fair amount of time spun-down. 3
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by azim 16y ago
I believe Microsoft charges OEMs $15 for XP and $50 for whichever edition of 7 which goes on netbooks. Though it wouldn't supprise me if larger vendors had a little negotiation room. Also, security companies like Mcaffee and Symatec also pa
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by azim 16y ago
An alternate method I've used is building an antenna on the computer side if you can't build it on the router side. You can get wireless adapters which are in the from of a usb thumb stick. Coupled with an extension cord to connect to a PC,
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by azim 16y ago
There has been some pretty interesting research in to storing energy in molten salts. This is a bit different than the photovoltaic cells which I believe this map is referencing; It involves capturing heat and turning it in to electricity r
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by azim 16y ago
While the potential for extra data usage with 3rd party apps may be there, Apple's FaceTime video-conferencing software is wifi only and won't run over the 3g network.
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by azim 16y ago
I think if you were so inclined, you could probably consider Internet Explorer the same. It's only made available to Microsoft's own Windows customers.
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by azim 16y ago
If you disliked HT in the Pentium 4, take another look at it today. The Pentium 4 had four dispatch ports and not too many execution units - a single thread was able to exploit that. The i7, in contrast, has 6 dispatch ports feeding 12 exec
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by azim 16y ago
I've done a lot of work on similar topics, building real-time messaging systems in C++. The author's findings are not unique and are very common to any producer-consumer messaging system. Essentially the issue is that you want your L2 to st
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by azim 16y ago
Thanks for the tip. I asked a rep at the AT&T store about this and was told by them it wasn't possible. Would be nice if they knew their stuff.
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by azim 16y ago
Works for me in Firefox 3.59 on OpenSuse 11.2. OpenSuse for some reason also seems to have more compatibility with my workplace's web-based internal tools than other coworkers running Ubuntu or Fedora.
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by azim 16y ago
With the exception of takeoff and landing, electronic devices are generally permitted in flight. The radio can't be switched on, but many smart phones including the iPhone have an "Airplane Mode" which turns the radios off.
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by azim 16y ago
I'm not at all surprised that their troubleshooting steps have different instructions for people using different operating systems. That seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. http://earth.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=20
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by azim 16y ago
If by "exploding" power supply you mean the potential for a power supply to explode with eruptive force and destroy other equipment in the rack, I believe that the other equipment being destroyed would be considered an multiple failure. It'
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by azim 16y ago
Nvidia introduced a standard called MXM a while back for notebook graphics cards. However, hardly anyone actually uses it. As you said, space/power/thermal issues still exist, and notebook manufacturers would rather have a custom board whic
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by azim 16y ago
One thing that's actually extremely common, however, in C code is using ints for bitmasks. I'm not sure how operators like &|! would be implemented with doubles, but they'd need some fancy software implementation.
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by azim 16y ago
One thing the author of this post is doing here is calling gettimeofday() in every iteration through the loops. That's an awful way to benchmark something. gettimeofday() issues a serializing instruction, which can potentially flush the ent
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by azim 16y ago
The balloon driver, as others have pointed out, is used in an overcommit scenario as a way for the hypervisor to reclaim memory from a guest OS. There's a balloon driver loaded in to the guest which can communicate with the hypervisor. When
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Virtualbox 3.2.0 Beta 1 released, experimental OS X Guests(forums.virtualbox.org)
58 points by azim 16y ago|33 comments
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by azim 16y ago
You're right, they are massive, and I will admit that the only division I'm intimately familiar with is HP Software. At about 13,000 employees it's is a relatively small part of HP. I can speak only to that division, you may be more familia
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by azim 16y ago
Been there, done that, and HP is not capable of developing a product from the ground up that will be competitive in the marketplace. For them the best option is definitely to buy. I hate to say it, but they're a company that's out of innova
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by azim 16y ago
The fact that you're here means your computer is working, but just in case anyone you know needs the instructions to disable McAfee: Boot the affected client into Windows Safe Mode with Networking (Hit F8 During the system boot phase.) Disa
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Intel demos Meego 1.0 on a variety of devices(engadget.com)
3 points by azim 16y ago|0 comments
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by azim 16y ago
If this is the fabled Zune phone, I'm extremely disappointed. I'm not sure what they mean by "social slant." Maybe they mean it's a great conversation starter. Imagine busting it out at a bar, people wouldn't be able to resist commenting on
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by azim 17y ago
I've heard stories of employers who have told employees shut down your side project or you're fired. I don't mean to be pessimistic, just make sure your project is non-competing and in line with their standards of ethics and values.
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by azim 17y ago
Actual case of an approved App-store app making premium-rate phone calls without informing users: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/27/iphone_admob/
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by azim 17y ago
If memory serves correctly, I believe the typical calling convention for x86 is returning ints in %eax. So the caller will interpret whatever happens to be in %eax at the time as the return value.
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by azim 17y ago
The difficulty is how you define "most restrictive" in a strongly typed language. If I have classes which implement multiple interfaces which aren't subsets of each other... maybe cloneable and serializable? Which is more restrictive? Does
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by azim 17y ago
One thing to note: HP has been in the networking business for almost a decade. Most of 3com's products aren't necessarily new to HP but will instead augment the existing portfolio. http://www.procurve.com/
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by azim 17y ago
I believe Nvidia's Fermi will enter the market this year with 512 cores.
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by azim 17y ago
I'm a Linux user with Open Office 3.0 by night and Win XP with MS Office 2003 by day. A friend recently sent me a .docx file from MS Office 2k7. I was unable to open it in OO 3.0 but it worked fine in Word 2003 (it's supposed to work in OO)

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