Google’s Android celebrates fourth birthday on Sunday, September 23. Android version 1.0 ‘pushed out’ ion 23 September 2008 (Android origins go back years before that). Android has turned to be huge success in those four years: Android had become the world’s leading smartphone platform with 500 million Android devices activated. Platform versions page provides data →
There has been a debate going on for some years if the traditional AC or new DC power distribution is best approach to power a data center. The DC power side has been pushing their technology with claims of quite considerable power savings. In many published articles, expected improvements of 10% to 30% in efficiency →
Rasberry Pi has given a ‘Turbo Mode’ by The Raspberry Pi Foundation, thus enabling overclocking. Raspberry Pi Clocks 1GHz with Official ‘Turbo Mode’ Patch article tells that the new ‘turbo mode’ will bump up the processor’s frequency to as high as 1GHz as long as the temperature stays below 85°C. The patch would dynamically up →
Internet Explorer users have been told in many sources many times (including my blog): ditch the IE application and switch to another browser, pronto. There is a a new serious hole that’s exploitable by visiting a malicious Website: The site owner can take possession of the computer used for surfing. This critical zero-day bug in →
Intel finds dunking a server in a bath of nonconductive oil may be an ideal cooling solution. Of course, this “new” way of cooling a server isn’t exactly novel. →
All of Europe’s data in US servers? We’re OK with that – EC bod ‘It shouldn’t matter where your files are held’ article tells that there is a new data protection legislation currently making its way through the European Parliament (expected to be in use in 2-3 years and replace the old one). The rules →
Printed circuit board are found in computers and other digital electronics. Besides electronics there are other uses for the circuit board material. Rather than tossing them into a landfill and contributing to the problem of waste management, consider using old circuit boards in creative ways. Unusual Uses for Old Circuit Boards page gives some ideas →
Computer security is hard and is getting harder. Costs are high and rising. It is not enough to have up-to-date antivirus software on the PC. Traditional anti-virus software is based on the fact that they are looking for well-known software “fingerprints”. Virus fingerprint database is maintained, and software is updated with new fingerprints constantly. This →
Raspberry Pi is not the only cheap educational computer. When going to lower end on the performance there is Arduino, but it lacks display output and network (if you add those to it it gets easily more expensive than Raspberry Pi). FIGnition Rève describes itself as the definitive £20 educational DIY computer! It works like →
I saw an interesting writeup 100GbE To Slash the Cost of Producing Live Television at Slashdot. It tells that today live-produced TV is still largely a circuit-switched system. But technologies such as 100 Gigabit Ethernet and Audio Video Bridging hold the promise of removing a lot of of cable and thousands of connectors from a →