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  • Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground

    I watched this program this past Tuesday and I noticed Slashdot and some other vetted link-sharing websites are picking up on it too. My own feeling about this is it’s bad form for any government contractor to allow their computers to fall into the hands of anyone outside their own IT organization. If the folks…

  • Intel ready to launch new 34nm SSDs?

    Between Toshiba’s ultra flat, stacked Flash chip running on the new Apple iPhone and this announcement from Intel, things are heating up. Hopefully this will help erode the prices of ‘normal’ or ‘practical’ sized SSDs.

  • Samsung develops mini-card SSDs may drop 1.8″ HDD

    Industry insiders in Taiwan today have claimed Samsun is dumping it’s 1.8″ Hard Drives in favor of providing devices like the Mini Card based Solid State Disk drives. The Mini PCI Express or Mini Card form factor is available as an expansion slot on many PCs. Samsung is manufacturing Flash Drives in the Mini Card format…

  • Moore’s Law to take a breather • The Register

    Intel is touting Extreme UV for it’s new silicon production lines. But whether or not they can do it cost effectively is another question. Moore’s Law is ending soon.

  • Sugar Labs-Making computers useful

    Walter Bender, formerly of the One Laptop Per Child project is making full OS and application environment that runs off of a 1GB flash drive. The idea is to provide an OS and set of apps that allow people to taste the OLPC environment and possibly get more use out of those old computers lying…

  • links for 2009-06-24

    iMovie & iDVD Visual QuickStart Guide Jeff wrote this book, and has kept up with the new features added with recent maintenance releases like 8.0.3 which added some cool new features (tags: imovie osx) Engelbart and the Dawn of Interactive Computing, 12/09/08 – Event Video SRI celebration of the 1968 Western Joint Computer Conference in…

  • vReveal uses GPU to accelerate video fixes

    vReveal is trying to take advantage of nVidia GPUs to clean up poorly shot video in the consumer/video sharing market. Accelerating video processing is always going to be a killer app for anyone trying to leverage a PC with a beefy GPU available.

  • Patriot Torqx Vs. Intel

    Now that Windows 7 will support the TRIM command on SSD disk controllers, the defragmentation slow down will go away. But what else is there in store for suffering SSD owners? Well maybe the disk controllers need to be re-architected too. Enter Indilinx in the Patriot Torqx SSD

  • iPhone ships w/Toshiba 32GB flash memory

    Going back a few weeks I dug up this article about Toshiba’s groundbreaking 32nm/32GB stacked flash memory module. Toshiba on Monday revealed that it has started shipping its 32 nanometer NAND flash memory ahead of schedule. Originally planned for the fall, the higher-density storage is already being sampled today and should be in mass production…

  • ‘Wait For Me’ : Moby @ NPR Music

    David Lynch inspires Moby and returns the favor by letting Lynch create a music video. Now I’m inspired by Moby and inspired by David Lynch. It’s a gordian knot of inspiration these days.