The hard drive is a critical component of every modern computer system. It loads and stores practically everything about the computer, from the OS to all the programs to every data bit and document. Yet the hard drive is based on a mechanical spinning disk system that is ultimately prone to failure, usually due to the stress of heat and motion.
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Saturday, January 06, 2007
SanDisk introduces 32GB Flash-based notebook drive
HOW TO - Ubuntu + MythTV = Free Tivo and an EASY Setup
For the past 4 days I've tried setting up KnoppMyth, Freevo, and MythDora on my Asus Digimatrix. Nothing worked, either wouldnt install correctly, or I would get a black screen instead of the channel I was watching. I finally give the handy dandy Ubuntu a whirl, and it works FIRST try, right out of the box!
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Online Sex Offender Map
Parents can use this tool not only to check their neighborhood, but those of ex-spouses, the child’s friends, school and daycare areas. Some areas will also allow you to view additional details of the sex offenders.
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How Americans Spend Their Time
In 2007 the average adult will spend 65 days in front of the TV; 41 days listening to the radio; a little over a week on the Internet; a week reading a daily newspaper; and another week listening to recorded music.
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The "most connected" Americans watch the most network TV
New findings from CBS Research show that Americans with a broadband connection and digital television are most likely to watch traditional network television.
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Microsoft Crosses 10 million Xbox 360s Sold
Bill Gates and Robbie Bach are expected to announce at the Consumer Electronics Show that Microsoft has sold more than 10.4 million Xbox 360s since the launch in November, 2005. That means Microsoft has also hit its targets for sales of consoles during the holidays.
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Watch thousands of movies and tv shows for free.
Movie Spider, is an awesome **free** movie on demand, web site.. The company has developed technology,, that crawls the net
24 hours a day, without human intervention, looking for the latest movies, tv shows and films..
The site curently has 2000 movies, 6000 tv shows, and 3000 cartoons. their spider's are addng about 500 new shows a day.
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Thursday, January 04, 2007
Listen to 1,001 Albums for FREE
Great list of 1,001 albums that you can listen for free!
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Four out of five smokers 'hate the habit'
I just quit AGAIN. I quit last new years for 8 months but made the mistake of "having just one". I quit again this news years, what a nasty and addictive habit. F you Marlboro.
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Home Depot CEO Gets $210M Severance for Sucking at Job
Robert L. Nardelli, the CEO of Home Depot, who came under heavy criticism for his pay package and failure to lift the chain
’s stagnant stock price, has abruptly resigned. He will receive about $210 million in compensation from the company, including the current value of retirement and other benefits. Who would blame him for quitting?
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Apple to Launch LED-based Notebooks in Q2 2007
Apple and HP are planning to introduce LED backlighting to the displays of their notebook computers. Both system builders are expected to bring portables with the new backlights to market in the second quarter of 2007 that would dramatically improve the image quality of the LCD screens attached to the computers.
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Firefox - A $50,000,000+ Cash Cow
Mozilla Foundation chairman Mitchell Baker on Tuesday disclosed how much money Mozilla made from their Firefox web browser in 2005: $52.9 million. If you're wondering how Firefox makes any money, then this article will tell you.
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TWIT makes Time Magazines Top 10 Podcasts
This Week in Tech (TWIT) made Time Magazines top 10 list for best podcast of 2006. Unfortunately the others don't seem truly representative of the majority of podcast listeners. It almost looks as if the author just took a snapshot of what iTunes shows as their top podcasts. Anyways congratulations to the TWIT cast.
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I want my SED TV
Canon and Toshiba had hoped to start production of SED TVs in early 2008. However, a lawsuit may end up pro-longing the much anticipated SED TV to the market place. SED is like a normal CRT TV, but flat screen and thin like LCDs and Plasmas.
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Video Games Console Evolution
Although this is not in a precise chronological order, this pictorial gives a pretty good idea about the video game consoles evolution in the last decades
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Amsterdam mulls the Linux desktop
Amsterdam has decided to give the Linux desktop and OpenOffice a try. In late December, the city -- previously a Microsoft-only operation -- announced plans to spend 300,000 Euros (roughly $400,000) on testing Linux and other open-source software in its housing department and in the Zeeburg borough office in 2007.
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The OC is cancelled!
Fox.com reports that its canceling its once popular OC. Finale to air February 22. It was never the same after Marissa Cooper was killed off.
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How to go to M.I.T. for free
Online 'intellectual philanthropy' attracts students from every nation on earth.
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Blockbuster Reaches 2 Million Online Users
Movie rental company Blockbuster Inc. said that it reached a year-end goal of 2 million online subscribers. Blockbuster Chairman and Chief Executive John Antioco credited Blockbuster Total Access, a plan that gives online customers the option of returning DVDs through the mail or exchanging them at stores for free rentals.
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Warner Bros. new "Total HD" disc tries to settle Blu-ray/HD DVD war
Warner Bros plans to announce a new single videodisc, called a Total HD disc, that can play films and television programs in both Blu-ray and HD DVD. They hope to make the new generation of DVD entertainment easier on the consumer by making movies and television libraries available in BOTH formats on a SINGLE disc.
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ExxonMobil reportedly paid groups to discredit global warming
ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming
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HD DVD, Blur Ray format war over
LG has ended what could have been a long and bloody battle
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300 TB hard drive by 2010; Entire Library of Congress...No Compression!
It will also be enough to store 6,144 50 GB Blu-ray discs. That would be hundreds of thousands of standard DVD discs, millions upon millions of CDs and probably billions of photos. There are concerns about losing 300 TB of data to a hard drive crash and Defragging tools had better dramatically speed up, or a defrag might take days
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