Computers and Related Hardware/Software

Tu_triky wrote:Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto.

http://youtu.be/3cShYbLkhBc

Man, I hate that song... Don't like the group much, either. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Man, I hate that song... Don't like the group much, either. :beaten:

Now you know how I feel about those headsets... ;)

Clear evidence that the floods in Thailand have affected HDD prices: the 2TB HDD that I bought months ago for $70 is now $150.... :sweat:

I'd guess all computers' (Mac, PC, desktop, laptop) prices would go up accordingly...

bmwracer wrote:Clear evidence that the floods in Thailand have affected HDD prices: the 2TB HDD that I bought months ago for $70 is now $150.... :sweat:

I'd guess all computers' (Mac, PC, desktop, laptop) prices would go up accordingly...

Wow that's proof of a serious price increase.

Rock-steady Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 Z68 motherboard gets a nod of approval

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Not enticed by all that Sandy Bridge E havoc that hit the PC market today? Good for you, because there's still plenty of life left in the first-gen LGA1155 Sandy Bridge processors and Gigabyte has put out another high-end Z68-based motherboard to prove it. The G1.Sniper2 just won itself a HotHardware recommendation, and if you look past the violent branding and color scheme you'll see why: the $360 premium card has the full gamut of ports and connections and delivers rock solid stability even when overclocked right up the limits of an i7-2600K CPU.

Western Digital purchase of Hitachi's hard drive business approved by EU regulators

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Two of the hard drive industry's biggest players will soon be just one company. European Union regulators have given a conditional thumbs-up to Western Digital's plans to snatch up Hitachi's storage division for $4.3 billion. The companies are the second and third largest hard disk manufacturers in the world (respectively) behind Seagate, which purchased Samsung's HDD division back in April. Out of concern for the quickly consolidating market, regulators only approved the Western Digital deal after assurances that the company would sell off some its production assets, including a manufacturing plant, and transfer some intellectual property to the new unit being put on the auction block. As soon as WD finds a buyer it'll be free and clear to take over Hitachi's HDD division. So, anyone interested in a hard drive manufacturing plant?

Modular USB flash drive concept offers a new way to sort your data

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USB drives may come in all shapes and sizes these days, but they all basically give you one of two choices: you can buy one big drive to store as much of your data as possible, or juggle a bunch of drives if you want to keep things separate. Designer Hyunsoo Song has proposed an alternative with this so-called Amoeba modular USB flash drive, however, which let you sort your data on individual drives that can be used both on their own or together as one large drive. The idea there being that you can keep the drives together most of the time, and just detach the appropriate section if you want to share only your photos or videos with someone. Of course, the keyword here is "concept," but it's not exactly as far beyond the realm of possibility as some others we've seen.

Way cool. :victory:

Prototype peripherals incorporate no moving parts, multitouch functionality and freaking lasers

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Full story here: http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/28/insert-coin-prototype-peripherals-incorporate-no-moving-parts/

Eyez 720p video streaming / recording glasses hands-on

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Sure, you may already lead an exciting life, but wouldn't it be great if you could broadcast those daily escapades -- you know, to all of your internet friends? ZionEyez hopes to deliver a method for sharing your point of view -- quite literally -- in realtime, across the web. The company's first product, a set of 720p embedded-camera eyeglasses called Eyez, houses a tiny camera to the left of the standard-size eyeglass lens, with a processor, Bluetooth and WiFi module embedded in the adjacent ear piece. We first read about the inconspicuous specs when the company launched a Kickstarter page, netting nearly $350,000 in pledges from curious backers, but just had an opportunity to spend a few hours with the device, recording the journey to a meeting in New York City.

Sounds fascinating, but I am assuming that you can switch them on and off for the sake of discretion now and then, without removing them.
It sounds very MI5 or Bondish. Do they only work in daylight?

And to think I am trying to find out why I can't speed up my access to my Outlook Express today..... :bonk:

brad2 wrote:Sounds fascinating, but I am assuming that you can switch them on and off for the sake of discretion now and then, without removing them.
It sounds very MI5 or Bondish. Do they only work in daylight?

Not sure.

Here's the complete article: http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/07/eyez-720p-video-streaming-recording-glasses-hands-on-video/ :)

Seems to have a long way to go before retailing.

Why do comments always seem to be written by amateur comedians and detractors?

Wonder if they laughed when Nelson used his spyglass? Especially when he put it to his blind eye and went full sail ahead....to a victory.


thanks for link BMW

Hitachi outs a pair of 4TB HDDs for your storing pleasure

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We here at Engadget believe that, while keeping data in the cloud is certainly convenient, one can never have too much local storage space. Hitachi shares our enthusiasm for commodious HDDs, and has rolled out a pair of 4TB drives to keep all your movies, music, and photos close to home. For those wanting to up the ante in their desktop machine, the Deskstar 5K4000 should do the trick with a SATA 6Gb/s connection and 32MB buffer. Its stablemate, the Touro Desk External Drive, brings the same HDD in an onyx enclosure and connects to your computer via USB 3.0 -- plus you get 3GB of cloud storage free from Hitachi. (Who says you can't eat your cake and have it too?) The 5K4000 is available now for a penny under $400, while the Touro will cost $420 once it hits the market in January.

Caltech sets 186Gbps Internet speed record, makes our 5Mbps look even more inadequate

Did you know that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has already produced 100 petabytes of data that needed to be sent out to labs across the world for analysis? Pushing that amount of information across the Internet is a gargantuan task, which is why Caltech teamed up with the Universities of Victoria, Michigan and Florida (International) amongst others to try and break the internet speed record. Using commercially available gear (including Dell servers with SSDs), it was able to push 98Gbps and pull 88Gbps down a single 100Gbps fibre-optic connection between the Washington State convention center in Seattle and the University of Victoria computing center in British Columbia. Head on past the break for a video that shows you how it was done and why it probably won't be commercially available in time to super-size your Netflix queue.

bmwracer wrote:Caltech sets 186Gbps Internet speed record, makes our 5Mbps look even more inadequate

Did you know that the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has already produced 100 petabytes of data that needed to be sent out to labs across the world for analysis? Pushing that amount of information across the Internet is a gargantuan task, which is why Caltech teamed up with the Universities of Victoria, Michigan and Florida (International) amongst others to try and break the internet speed record. Using commercially available gear (including Dell servers with SSDs), it was able to push 98Gbps and pull 88Gbps down a single 100Gbps fibre-optic connection between the Washington State convention center in Seattle and the University of Victoria computing center in British Columbia. Head on past the break for a video that shows you how it was done and why it probably won't be commercially available in time to super-size your Netflix queue.

Dayem that's ridiculous. You could have everybody in L.A. on one fat free public Wi-fi pipe and it would even slow down...:P Just kidding I'm don't that to be true....:hehe:

Tu_triky wrote:Dayem that's ridiculous. You could have everybody in L.A. on one fat free public Wi-fi pipe and it would even slow down...:P Just kidding I'm don't that to be true....:hehe:

Hehe. :hehe:

Funny thing is that there are no routers, switches, etc. that run any faster than 1Gbps, so that data comes to a 405-at-rush-hour bottleneck when it reaches your doorstep. :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:
Hehe. :hehe:

Funny thing is that there are no routers, switches, etc. that run any faster than 1Gbps, so that data comes to a 405-at-rush-hour bottleneck when it reaches your doorstep. :beaten:

Ah yeah that's right! 405...haha.

For the past couple of days, my computer has been giving issues of not turning on. I've had to unplug the power cord a couple of times before it started up. :sweat:

Jav_sol wrote:For the past couple of days, my computer has been giving issues of not turning on. I've had to unplug the power cord a couple of times before it started up. :sweat:

Power supply? I know on my old desktop it went kaput once and I had to change it.

Tu_triky wrote:Power supply? I know on my old desktop it went kaput once and I had to change it.

Yeah, that's what it seems like. I've never changed a power supply before, so I'm afraid that if I do, the computer might not turn on again. :sweat:
It was also discouraging to look at the HP support site and see that my computer is no longer supported. :beaten: