• OCZ sells out to Toshiba (it’s been good to know yuh’)

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/03/toshiba_buys_ocz/ Seems like it was only two years ago when OCZ bought out memory controller and intellectual property (IP) holder Indilinx for it’s own branded SSD products. At the time everyone was buying SandForce memory controllers to keep up with the Joneses. Speed-wise and performance-wise SandForce was king. But with so many competitors about using…

  • John Carmack – Oculus Rift two great tastes…

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/22/carmack_goes_to_oculus_rift/ id Software has formally announced Carmack has left the building. Prior to this week he was on a sabbatical from id, doing consulting/advisory work for the folks putting the Oculus Rift together. Work being done now is to improve the speed of the refresh on the video screens. That’s really the last biggest hurdle…

  • Sebastian Thrun and Udacity

    Sebastian Thrun and Udacity MOOCs may not be the future of higher education. But they will be the future of Corporate Training. You can bet money on that. In fact money IS being bet on that right now. Udacity has gone from attempting to create a higher ed paradigm shifting option to a more conventional…

  • Anandtech – New LSI series of Flash Memory Controllers

    May the SandForce be with you Nice writeup from Anandtech regarding the press release from LSI about it’s new 3rd generation flash memory controllers. The 3000 series takes over from the 2200 and 1200 series that preceded it as the era of SSDs was just beginning to dawn (remember those heady days of 32GB SSD…

  • Delia Derbyshire – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr. Who Theme

    Delia Derbyshire – BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Dr. Who Theme It’s 50 years since the first episode of Dr. Who aired on the BBC. How will you celebrate? I’m reading this wonder tract from The Register.com (British Tech website) and marveling both at the detail and expertise that went into original recordings made by Derbyshire…

  • Every new iPhone tool deserves another

    Every new iPhone tool deserves another I note from iFixit.com tear downs in the recent past that an Apple iPhone can sometimes require lots of heating and softening of adhesive. iPhone 5s while it requires a tool, at least shows some sign of requiring less heating/melting of adhesive. The tool I’ve linked to is a special…

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  • With a good autounattend, now have to move to Office Setup

    Desktop Support in the raw (boring!) One of the many things I would set about doing at my old job was getting things updated to install new Windows/Office disk images for rebuilt or newly built desktops and laptops. One of the first tasks was to build a from scratch WIM from the base install media…

  • Fixed on Pages: Long-Term Content on Your Blog

    I’m going to look into this further. I have a home renovation project page, but it’s not well integrated into the rest of the Blog. Might have to restructure/re-factor the blog a bit.

  • How Amazon is building substations, laying fiber and generally doing everything to keep cloud costs down

    Originally posted on Gigaom: If there’s anyone still left wondering how it is that large cloud providers can keep on rolling out new features and lowering their prices even when no one is complaining about them, Amazon Web Services Vice President and Distinguished Engineer James Hamilton spelled out the answer in one word during a presentation…