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Report: Google Glass parts make up 5.3%—roughly $100—of $1,500 price tag. With the expansion of Google Glass' Explorer program earlier this month came more digital-eyewear shoppers—and, not long after, more scrutiny.

Report: Google Glass parts make up 5.3%—roughly $100—of $1,500 price tag

Once Glass' second purchasing wave got its hands on Google's wearable tech, a few cost-curious shoppers didn't wait long to take their new, $1,500 devices apart. Who can blame them? For more than a year, Google has stuck to Glass' massive price tag, making it tempting to pick Glass apart and figure out how much its tiny, custom parts contribute to the sticker shock. Immaterial costs like research surely factored in to the high price, but by what percent? The latest estimate making the rounds came from Teardown.com, a subsidiary of IP consultant group TechInsights, who raised eyebrows last week with a guess for Google Glass' BOM: $79.78. Teardown.com's estimates mostly seemed reasonable, at least on a wholesale basis: $5.66 for a 5MP camera, $13.96 for a processor, $8.18 for 16GB of NAND memory, and so on. The Best Raspberry Pi Accessories. Who makes the most reliable hard drives? It’s the eternal question for PC owners: Which manufacturer makes the most reliable hard drives?

Who makes the most reliable hard drives?

Backblaze, the unlimited online backup company, has been following this story for years now, and its latest 2015 data sheds some new light on the subject. Backblaze currently has over 41,000 hard drives powered up and constantly spinning. And as you can imagine, it is very much in Backblaze’s interests to ensure that it buys reliable hard drives. Every time a drive fails, it takes considerable time and effort to pull the drive, slot in a new one, and rebuild the RAID array. So while it’s generally known how long hard drives actually live for, it stands to reason that some manufacturers make drives that are more reliable than others. Which hard drive manufacturer is the most reliable?

To answer that question, we took a look at Backblaze’s latest numbers. As you can see from the graph above, Hitachi drives are by far the most reliable. Which single hard drive is the most reliable? What to Do When Your Water Cooling Leaks Inside Your PC. Is Building a PC Really Cheaper than Buying One? Top 10 Ways to Beef Up Your Custom-Built PC. Lifehacker.

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Home Media & Servers. Periphériques & Parts. Build. Top 10 Hardware Boosting Hacks. I just did the pogoplug hack this weekend. The LH article is outdated, but the info is available online at ArchLinuxARM.org. I'm not sure rooting a pogoplug is worth the bother now. Rasberry Pi is now available, unless $30, two extra USB ports and Gigabit ethernet is critically important, the RasPi blows the pogoplug out of the water (the additional IO is nice, but the real win is a larger developer community). I did get a pogoplug with the intention of rooting it but realised that its was much more useful to me as it stood. I realize this is article is a few days old, but I just wanted to second this.

Now I've just got to figure out what I want to put on it... It's a fun project. I tried running Subsonic, which I used to serve up media from my old computer, but the pogoplug doesn't seem to have enough horsepower for on-the-fly LAME transcoding. WakeMeOnLan – Réveillez vos ordinateurs à distance. WakeMeOnLan – Réveillez vos ordinateurs à distance Si vous êtes sur un réseau local ethernet, et que vous avez besoin de démarrer des machines à distance, il suffit pour cela d'utiliser le mode Wake on LAN disponible sur la plupart des cartes réseaux.

WakeMeOnLan – Réveillez vos ordinateurs à distance

Ce mode permet de démarrer un ordinateur éteint via le réseau et l'ami Nirsoft qu'on ne présente plus a créé un petit freeware Windows baptisé WakeMeOnLan qui scanne le réseau local, collecte et sauve les adresses MAC des ordinateurs qu'il trouve, et offre la possibilité de démarrer l'ordinateur de votre choix à distance. L'interface est très simple, et sachez que pour les admin réseau, il est possible d'utiliser le soft en ligne de commande dans vos scripts comme ceci (plusieurs exemples) : WakeMeOnLan.exe /wakeup 192.168.1.25 WakeMeOnLan.exe /wakeup Comp01 WakeMeOnLan.exe /wakeup 40-65-81-A7-16-23 Je me suis dit que ça pourrait vous servir. [Photo et source] Vous avez aimé cet article ? SMILE, un système pour améliorer l'éducation. Le système éducatif, qu'il soit français ou non, laisse parfois sérieusement à désirer.

SMILE, un système pour améliorer l'éducation

Avec les technologies d'aujourd'hui, notamment en informatique, il est assurément possible de l'améliorer. SMILE en est l'exemple parfait. Une plateforme open-source et de simples périphériques, et voilà une classe résolument moderne.