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Computers and Technology. World’s fastest (PC) personal computer, it’s not an Apple! Do you know what happens after you link 24 super fast SSD (Solid-state drives) as a RAID array on Windows Vista? You might have just created your very own super fast computer, possibly the fastest PC in the world! One IT wizard from Samsung shocked the whole world a few months back; he created an amazing PC computer from the following parts: 26 Samsung SSD 256GB MLC (Hey, I thought 24!)
4 Kingston 888MHz FBDIMM 1GB (read RAM)6 1*SAS -> 4*SATA SFF-8087 (Cable/Adapter)6 1 Molex -> 4*SATA Power (Connector)2 Corsair HX1000W Power Supply2 Intel Extreme QS9775 Quad-Core2 Zalman Coolers2 Radeon HD 4870 x2 Graphics1 Intel Skulltrail D5400XS Motherboard1 Adaptec 5 Series RAID (8 channel)1 Areca 1680ix-24 RAID1 Thermaltake Armor case The end results were astounding! Check this out: Ran all 53 programs from the Windows Start Menu in 18.09 secondsRan all Microsoft Office programs in 0.5 secondsFull defrag (defragmentation) completed in just a few secondsRecycled 5.6GB of junk in just a few seconds. Win 7 SSD - config-customize - windows-7. With only 64 Gigs, I probably would not partition it. What I would do is leave your large HDD disconnected until you have completed your win 7 install. Question - Which Kingston 64 Gig drive - Make sure it will support windows Trim command (does it use the same controller as the Intel 80 gig G2).
If not, and you can not afford the 80 gig Intel G2, then look at the patriot torqx, or OCZ Vortex. Not as good as the Intel G2, but they DO support firmware upgrade and win 7 Trim Cmd. DO NOT run Defrag on a SSD, Turn auto run off (win 7 should turn it off by default, but verify) Some tips on using SSD: Increase System Speed Disable indexing Description: Indexing creates and maintains a database of file attributes. Disable defragmentation Description: Defragmenting a hard disk's used space is only useful on mechanical disks with multi-millisecond latencies. Disable Write Caching Description: There is no cache on the SSD, so there are no benefits to write caching.
How Solar Cells Work" You've probably seen calculators with solar cells -- devices that never need batteries and in some cases, don't even have an off button. As long as there's enough light, they seem to work forever. You may also have seen larger solar panels, perhaps on emergency road signs, call boxes, buoys and even in parking lots to power the lights. Although these larger panels aren't as common as solar-powered calculators, they're out there and not that hard to spot if you know where to look. In fact, photovoltaics -- which were once used almost exclusively in space, powering satellites' electrical systems as far back as 1958 -- are being used more and more in less exotic ways.
The technology continues to pop up in new devices all the time, from sunglasses to electric vehicle charging stations. The hope for a "solar revolution" has been floating around for decades -- the idea that one day we'll all use free electricity from the sun. Videos. How to open God Mode on Windows 7 & Vista. National Dahlia Society. Chicken Parmigiana. This is one of the go-to dishes I make for my family of six. Rich, flavorful, and totally satisfying, we all love it, including my big, strapping cowboy of a husband. And that’s a very, very good thing. Break out the good Parmesan for this one, my friends. It’s the right thing to do. Begin with four to six boneless, skinless, trimmed chicken breasts. I’m actually beginning to believe fear of raw chicken is a diagnosable phobia.
Place the chicken breasts inside of a Ziploc bag—either one at a time or, if the bag is gigantic like this one, all at once. I put them inside Ziplocs so that when I pound the heck out of them here in a second, microscopic particles of raw chicken will not end up across the room on my computer’s keyboard. Now THAT would gross me out the door. Pound the chicken with the smooth side of a mallet. You want them to be very thin–about 1/8 to 1/4″ thick. Add the flour to a large plate. And pepper. Then season the other side. The raw chicken is almost over. And butter. Mmmm. Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/SystemProgrammerDanger. My little issue the other day with DTrace makes a nice illustration of a variant of programmer laziness. As I sort of alluded to in the entry, although DTrace's function tracing limitation is documented, I didn't actually find it by reading the documentation. Instead I found it the hard and indirect way, by being a system programmer.
When I ran into a kernel function that DTrace couldn't trace, I wound up: using the Solaris kernel debugger to verify that the function was actually present in the kernel, and then disassembling some of the functions that called it to check that the function hadn't been inlined into its callers (which in retrospect was a silly thing to check).checking several other static functions to see if DTrace perhaps couldn't trace any static function. Only after all the dust settled did I read the documentation and lo and behind, there it was documented for me (twice). (This is far from the first time that I've done stuff like this.
The coolest technology you've never seen | Mobile apps. Here's one you have to see to believe. Autonomy, the largest British software company -- best known for its enterprise search and compliance technology -- has applied its intellectual horsepower in meaning-based computing to visual recognition for smartphones. Soon you'll be able to download its Aurasma iPhone/iPad app, which enables you to point your camera at static real-world objects that, once recognized, magically come to life on the smartphone screen, similar to the way pictures in the Daily Prophet newspaper animated themselves in Harry Potter. Check the video demo. The amazing thing is that the video mapped into the real-world scene stays within the bounds of the recognized object, even as you pan the camera around.
One example shows a movie poster coming to life; another demonstrates a video inserted into a static newspaper photo; the last is a cereal box with a TV commercial mapped in. According to Autonomy, the app will be able to recognize up to half a million images. Help. Photography. Digital Timelapse Discussion - View topic - Shooting Daylight/Regular Exposure DSLR Timelapse. These are some basic guidelines and tips for shooting timelapses on your digital SLR camera. I happen to use the Canon 350D (Rebel XT) camera, so I will use that as the basis for these tips. Specific information about how to make other cameras (Nikons, etc) work is not something I know about. But hopefully the general information contained here will help. • Equipment you need. A Digital SLR camera (shown with vertical battery grip).
Lens. Intervalometer. Tripod. Battery grip. . • How to shoot. Now that you have your equipment ready, it's time to shoot. This is where you have to start being careful and double checking stuff, or mistakes will happen. Load 2 fresh batteries into the battery grip. Once you have your subject and frame chosen, bring up your menu. Format your CF card. Once your CF card is formatted, make sure your white balance is set to a custom level. Now, double check to make sure your lens is set to manual and the shot is in focus. Now it's time to set your intervalometer. Shutterfly. Sandy Stewart. I live on south east of Vancouver Island, B.C., Canada. I enjoy the outdoors and taking photos allows me to capture subjects and scenes that I can keep for memories and also share with others. I prefer to shoot nature in its natural environment and so unless otherwise stated on individual photo information ( right side of each photo) my photos are taken in natural environments and not in confined areas like zoos ect.
I also belong to a local Camera Club, where I enjoy hanging out with others who also enjoy photography! I shoot in raw file format and full manual and aperture settings. I set my own white balance, due to crappy camera white balance settings( sorry Canon!) Lol Visit me at my FLICKR SITE where you can view my photos much larger than available here. “Cameras” Canon 7D, Canon 40D and previously used the Canon 20D ( retired as of Dec 14/10). “Lenses” “Tripod” Active Search Results.