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  • All-flash IBM V7000 smashes Oracle/Sun ZFS box • The Register

    What would happen if we replaced those 16 disk-based V7000s with all-flash V7000s? Each of the disk-based ones delivered 32,502.7 IOPS. Let’s substitute them with 16 all-flash V7000s, like the one above, and, extrapolate linearly; we would get 1,927,877.4 SPC-1 IOPS – nearly 2 million IOPS. Come on IBM: go for it. via All-flash IBM…

  • 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica

    “I missed the mark with HyperCard,” Atkinson lamented. “I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I’d grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. via 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web | Ars Technica. Bill Atkinson‘s words on HyperCard and what…

  • My current line of work

    There is no end to the amount of stuff I get asked to do. I like the technical aspects and not so much the other bits. There is a lot of communications and expectation setting. And therein lies the rub.

  • 2012 in review

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

  • Attempting to create an autounattend.xml file for work

      Starting with this website tutorial I’m attempting to create a working config file that will allow me to install new Windows 7 Professional installs without having to interact or click any buttons.   http://sergeyv.com/blog/archive/2009/12/17/unattended-install-of-windows-7.aspx   Seems pretty useful so far as Sergey provides an example autounattend file that I’m using as a template for…

  • Apple, Google Just Killed Portable GPS Devices | Autopia | Wired.com

    Note this is a draft of an article I wrote back in June when Apple announced it was going to favor its own Maps app over Google Maps and take G-Maps out of the Apple Store altogether. This blog went on hiatus just 2 weeks after that. And a whirlwind number of staff changes occurred…

  • End of the hiatus

    I am now at a point in my daily work where I can begin posting to my blog once again. It’s not so much that I’M catching up, but more like I don’t care as much about falling behind. Look forward to more Desktop related posts as that is now my fulltime responsibility there where…

  • A Hiatus is being announced (carpetbomberz.com is taking a pause)

    Sadly, my job has changed. I was forced to be re-assigned to a different part of the same organization I have worked for the last 16 years. Luckily I GOT a job, and still have one. Which is more than some people who have suffered through these last 4 years of recession. So I thank…

  • The wretched state of GPU transcoding – ExtremeTech

    For now, use Handbrake for simple, effective encodes. Arcsoft or Xilisoft might be worth a look if you know you’ll be using CUDA or Quick Sync and have no plans for any demanding work. Avoid MediaEspresso entirely. via By Joel Hruska @ ExtremeTech The wretched state of GPU transcoding – Slideshow | ExtremeTech. Joel Hruska does…

  • Facebook smacks away hardness, sticks MySQL stash on flash • The Register

    Does Fusion-io have a sustainable competitive advantage or will it get blown away by a hurricane of other PCIe flash card vendors attacking the market, such as EMC, Intel, Micron, OCZ, TMS, and many others?  via Facebook smacks away hardness, sticks MySQL stash on flash • The Register. More updates on the data center uptake…