stuff on hardware

easy things

Sunday, 30 September 2007 10:24 am by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software

i met with a couple of people a few days ago about making e-mail newsletters and maybe some web dev. as the meeting started, two of them brought out their mac books. as for me, the tech nerd that i am, brought . . . nothing. at one time, as [...]

hardware stuff

Sunday, 23 September 2007 6:17 pm by noel
posted in hardware, opinions, stuff

i got nothing much to do today. wet and rainy and not hungry so i surf.
i found a good article on usb 3.0 which will be 10 times faster and expected to have a wide deployment by 2010. that’s not far. by that time, terabyte drives should be common enough as well as quad core [...]

what you can do with linux

Wednesday, 19 September 2007 6:17 am by noel
posted in hardware, linux, software

there are plenty of things that you can do with linux. i’ll make this post simple so that it doesn’t sound so overly technical. please remember that you’d still have to do a lot of reading before, during and after setting up these systems. no spoon feeding here.
linux usually comes in two [...]

7 wonders in tech

Tuesday, 11 September 2007 1:38 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

i came across this seven wonders article in /. and i thought it would be worth sharing. interesting nerd read — the world’s faster computer, the world’s smallest computer, the world’s farthest computer — that sort of stuff.

1tb

Thursday, 6 September 2007 9:49 pm by noel
posted in hardware, stuff

seagate recently introduced their 1 terabyte (tb) desktop drive. i vaguely remember hitachi advertising their 1 tb drive a few weeks ago.
1 terabyte. that’s 1,000 gigabytes. in one drive. one might think that this is enough but i also hear that people have started asking for 2 terabytes. for storing their dvds. people will [...]