Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Decommission of 'Stan Learns Digital Storage'

THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2008

DVD Sizes

The following information was gleaned from this site.
http://dvr.about.com/od/dvdrecordableformats/f/faq5.htm

There are currently 4 different size of DVDs:
  1. DVD-5: Holds 4.7 GB and is supported by DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW formats. It is known as Single-Sided Single Layer.
  2. DVD-10: Holds 8.75 GB and is supported by the same formats as DVD-5. Is is known as Double-Sided Single Layer
  3. DVD-9: Holds 8.5 GB and is supported by DVD+R and DVD-R formats. The official names are DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL. It is also called Single-Sided Double Layer or Dual Layer.
  4. DVD-18: Holds 15.9 GB and is supported by DVD+R format. Is called Double-Sided Double Layer or Double-Sided Dual Layer.

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Tech Review: Monday, April 29, 2013

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Friday, April 26, 2013

Tech Review: Thursday, April 25, 2013



Look out, Oracle: SkySQL and MariaDB join forces
  • non-Oracle MySQL
  • interfaces with NoSQL system like Cassandra and LevelDB



Ubuntu Touch betas are ready for testing
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Tech Review: Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Gluster.Org

http://www.gluster.org/

Create your own high-performance NAS using GlusterFS
  • well suited for high performance access to large files.
  • enterprise- or scientific-research-grade storage up and running in minutes
  • gives a simple example for setting up
    • I think I can use this with my old HP



Use your laptop as a wifi router under Linux
  • ad-hoc wifi router
  • Android cannot connect to it



squirrel sql client
  • uses JDBC driver
Open Source SQL Clients in Java




Extracting the Contents of a JAR File



Universal SQL Client Version 3.4




Kaser  Net'sGo2 7'' Android 4.0 Tablet Bundle with 84-key USB Keyboard & Pouch




Refactoring SQL Applications




Learning SQL, 2nd Edition




Google Glass and the emerging Glasshole culture
  • $1,500



Want the most reliable Windows PC? Buy a Mac (or maybe a Dell)
  • BSODs



3 Understanding mod_plsql




Cascading Style Sheets




MVC Tutorial





TECHNOLOGY: PL/SQL
Working with Strings



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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Tech Review: Tuesday, April 16, 2013




Parallella: The $99 Linux supercomputer
  • sending out this summer
  • Linux number one supercomputer OS
  • credit-card sized parallel-processing board
  • 90 GLOPS
    • like 45GHz CPU
  • Ubuntu 12.04

Parallella – Supercomputing for the masses
  • Epiphany 16 and 64 cores
  • Parallella
    • ARM Cortex-A9
    • Epiphany based co-processor
  • Releasing all specs under opensource
  • C and C++

Fast, Faster, Fastest: Linux rules supercomputing
  • Beowulf was first a NASA
  • 90% of the top 500
  • supercomputers are running linux

Adapteva

  • Nice video 
  • host machine through USB port
  • goal of 100TFLOPS by 2017




Xen becomes a Linux Foundation project





Amid great expectations, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has arrived
  • both cameras at once
  • 25 pics per second
  • common phrase translator that works off line
  • 100Mbps download and 50Mbps updloads

Samsung Galaxy S4 up for preorder in U.S. today
  • $639

Toshiba Excite 10.1" 16GB Tablet w/ Quad-Core Processor, Android 4.0 OS, 1GB RAM ($200)
  • Tegra 3 Quad core
  • Refurb
  • very nice for price
  • 1.3 lbs
  • 14 day return policy
  • 1 Sale A Day
    • 98% positive rating

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Monday, April 15, 2013

Tech Review: Tuesday, February 12, 2013


How to Enhance Your Router With Open-Source Firmware

how do I see the gateway address in ubuntu?
  • route -n
how can i tell if my wireless router is going bad?

how fast should my ping be to my router?

how do I test my router speed?

how do I ping my linksys router?
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Monday, April 8, 2013

Tech Review: Friday, April 5, 2013




SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 TI OMAP4430 1.00GHz 7" 8GB Tablet PC
SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Tablet PC TI OMAP4430 1.00GHz 7" 8GB Integrated Graphics ($150)
  • referb
  • Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
  • 1 GHz
SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) WiFi TI OMAP4430 1.00GHz 10.1" 1GB Memory 16GB Tablet PC - Titanium Silver
SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) WiFi Tablet PC - Titanium Silver TI OMAP4430 1.00GHz 10.1" Wide SVGA 1GB Memory 16GB ($265)
  • referb


LG Optimus S ($30.00)

Polaroid Android 4.1 Dual Camera 7 in. Tablet
Polaroid® Android™ 4.1 Dual Camera 7" Tablet ($80)
  • contains trojan apps in 1 Mobile Market

rooting device?  Yes

Comes with Netflix, but the Netflix cannot be updated
  • look for the developer's name
There a Google Certified version for $110


Riak-Logo

Riak
  • opensource
  • NoSQL database
  • build in MapReduce
  • written in Erlang
  • distributed

Erlang logo.png

Erlang (programming language)
  • functional
  • concurrency


Refactoring SQL Applications
  • 2008
  • Ste'phane Faroult with Pascal L'Hermite




Learning SQL, 2nd Edition

Image1 for post Our Mac Chromium Updater: Stay Up To Date On The Best Versions Of Chrome For Mac

The real reason why Google forked WebKit
  • post-PC era
  • mobile systems



System on a chip (SoC)




China, Korea instability may make 2014 the year tech stands still




Fujitsu STYLISTIC M532 (FPCR351071) Tablet PC NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30S 1.30GHz 10.1" Wide XGA 1GB Memory LP-DDR2 800 32 GB eMMC Flash memory NVIDIA ULP GeForce















































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Friday, April 5, 2013

Tech Review: Tuesday, April 3, 2013



AMD sees the era of Moore's law coming to a close

Moore's law



Apple's key claim in 'rubber band' patent rejected


Rather Than Pay Off Yahoo, Facebook Built A Fortress 1,400 Patents Strong
  • Started with just 56 patents in 2012
  • Spent $550 million for 650 AOL patents from MS
  • 750 patents from IBM
  • can not fend off attacks
  • trolls


good command line for windows
  • installed
  • very nice


Build Test Automation Without Scripts


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Testing Anywhere



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