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On one of my visits to the Computer History Museum – and by the way this is an absolute must-visit place if you are ever in the San Francisco bay area – I saw an early Google server rack circa 1999 in the exhibits. Not too fancy, right? Maybe even… a
One question that I have been asked frequently is “do laptop batteries fade faster if they are continuously plugged in?” A reader asked thi...
I spend a lot of my time (easily over 8 hours a day) at a keyboard. As you might have guessed from my previous entries about Vim and Mutt I'm not averse to spending a few hours to improve an environment I'm going to be spending tens of thousands of hours in over the next few years, so it shouldn't be a shock that my…
Back when I started programming computers came with circuit diagrams and listings of their firmware. The early machines I used like the Sha...
When you buy a USB charger, how do you know if you're getting a safe, high-quality charger for your money? You can't tell from the outside...
I woke up from a nap to a loud pop and a smell of burning plastic. The source turned out to be one of the most precious and important to me digital devices: a ReadyNAS NV+, a small silver box with over a terabyte of hard drives that store my backups, music, and photos. Network attached storage (NAS) is an engineering…
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I recently took the opportunity to reboot several pieces of my technology stack. The coolest perhaps is my new 6-monitor machine running Ubuntu Karmic. It is nontrivial to be comfortable that everything (CPU, GPUs, monitors, OS) will play nice together so I’ll detail exactly what I did so that others can repeat it…
NASA's space shuttle was controlled by a computer running on only 1 megabyte of RAM. The hardware was over 30 years old during its last flight.
The new MacBook Air was released today, and it’s a hell of an upgrade. It got much better and it’s at an extremely compelling price.
Over on the 37signals blog , DHH writes Mr. Moore gets to punt on sharding . His argument is basically that if you continually delay fixing your data storage and retrieval layer, Moore's Law will be there to save our ass--over and over again.
the quality of the music is not exactly what you are used to :-) but at least it works!
This morning, Apple updated the MacBook Pro line with new internal components, including new processors, new graphics chips, a higher-resolution screen option on the 15” (finally), and bigger batteries.
Some time ago I wrote an entry that got some attention about the Blu-ray format and why I refuse to release anything on it. It’d be nice to release the text adventure documentary in what Blu-…
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting my parents and getting out an old computer. One of the first computers I used a lot was the Shar...
One of the FogBugz developers complained that compiling was pretty slow (about 30 seconds), which was leading to a lot of sword fights in the hallway. He asked if it would be OK if someone spent a …
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A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an…
If you've been wondering why my project blog has been pretty quiet, I can finally say it is because I have been helping Xbox with Project Na...
Dark Flash Photography To be presented at SIGGRAPH 2009, New Orleans. Download PDF Dilip Krishnan Rob Fergus Vision, Learning and Graphics Group Computer Science Department Courant Institute of Mat…
It has almost been a year since I wrote about the future of computing and how I thought that it was all about Solid State Drives (this was before I became infatuated with the cloud). Well I finally got my hands on one. It's Intel's new X25-M 80GB SSD and it is among the fastest consumer-aimed SSDs o
