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Friday, December 28, 2012

When Kickstarter Delivers: Thanks To Simple, Effective Design, Supr’s Slim Wallet Exceeds Expectations DARRELL ETHERINGTON

When Kickstarter Delivers: Thanks To Simple, Effective Design, Supr’s Slim Wallet Exceeds ExpectationsDARRELL ETHERINGTON I’ve backed an embarrassing amount of Kickstarter projects, almost all of them in the hardware/gadget categories, and I’ve been disappointed more than I’ve been delighted. The Slim wallet by Supr however bucks the trend, delivering a front-pocket wallet that finally and truly deserves the honor of actually being carried in that place. Minneapolis-based Supr Good Co. initially launched the Slim in August, with a funding goal...

How To Hack Gmail Account Password

How To Hack Gmail Account Password Learn how to hack Gmail account password using Phishing Previously i have posted How to Hack Facebook Password. In this article i'm going to show you how to hack a gmail account password using the same method - phishing. Now i'm shure you know what is phishing and why it's used for, but if you don't check Wikipedia to read more about it. How to hack gmail account password: 1. First of all download Gmail Phisher 2. The downloaded file contains: gmail.html log.txt mail.php 3. Upload all of the files to any...

Burn a CD/DVD on Windows 7 or Vista without using software

Burn a CD/DVD on Windows 7 or Vista without using software Burn a CD/DVD on Windows 7 or Vista without using software CD/DVD burning capability has been added to Windows Operating System since the release of Windows XP. However, the steps to burn CD/DVD on Windows Vista and Windows 7 are a bit different (and somewhat simpler) comparing to Windows XP. For details on how to burn CD/DVD on Windows XP, click here You can use this built-in feature to create a data CD/DVD or an audio CD. The steps below will guide you through the procedures. Although...

Basic PC Shortcut Keys

Basic PC Shortcut Keys Powered by Translate Basic Shortcut Keys The followings are some basic PC shortcut keys that are supported in most IBM compatible computers. They are also supported in most application software. Use at your own risk. Shortcut Keys Supported Window Versions Description Alt + e 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista Pull down the top Edit menu. Alt + f 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista Pull down the top File menu Ctrl + a 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista Select all text. Ctrl + c 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista Copy selected...

New memory technologies generate attention as successors to NAND flash

New memory technologies generate attention as successors to NAND flash Although NAND flash might thrive in enterprise solid-state storage through the end of the decade, potential successors are already starting to generate attention. These include phase-change memory (PCM), magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) and resistive RAM (RRAM). The past couple of years have brought breakthroughs in these new memory technologies that could lead to boosts in performance and endurance far beyond the current state of the art. IBM Research, for instance, turned...

World’s oldest digital computer brought back to life

World’s oldest digital computer brought back to life The Harwell Dekatron, a pioneering computer built from 1949to 1951, has been fired up after 20 years in storage and a three-year restoration project. The world's oldest original working digital computer will now go on display at The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire. The Harwell Dekatron was first used at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Oxfordshire and later in computer lessons at Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Technical College. It was built...

CIO interview: Tom Baker, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council

CIO interview: Tom Baker, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council’s datacentre. It is not a bad place to have an office because the datacentre has been somewhat rejuvenated, thanks in part to modern IT that takes up far less space than the old mainframes that used to be housed there. The modernisation has made Sunderland City Council's datacentre something of a profit centre, and strategic to the council's goals of digital equality and community ICT. With a background...

Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance

Whiptail promises four million IOPS all-flash array performance All-flash array maker Whiptail has announced an upgrade to its Racerunner operating system that will allow its Invicta NAND flash arrays to scale to 30 nodes and up to 360TB of storage. The all-flash array company claims that scaling to such capacities could bring up to four million IOPS (input/output operations per second) and throughput of around 40GB per second. Currently such levels of performance represent an extreme that is only required by a handful of organisations worldwide....

Charityshare gets Violin flash array for 2,000 seat VDI rollout

Charityshare gets Violin flash array for 2,000 seat VDI rollout IT consortium Charityshare has deployed a Violin Memory 3000 Series all-flash array to support the roll-out of up to 2,000 virtual desktops for its Age UK operations. Violin was chosen on grounds of cost and the company’s backing from HP over Whiptail and Texas Memory Systems (TMS). An all-flash array approach was chosen over mixed flash and spinning disk because of concerns that automated storage tiering features in the IBM V7000 array would not provide the availability required...

Nutanix supports Red Hat KVM in upgraded storage stack hardware and OS

Nutanix supports Red Hat KVM in upgraded storage stack hardware and OS Converged storage and server maker Nutanix has announced upgraded hardware and a new operating system (OS) version with support for Red Hat's KVM hypervisor in addition to existing VMware support. Nutanix debuted in 2011 with its NX-2000 Complete Cluster storage stack aimed at server and desktop virtualisation use cases. This comprised 2U blocks with Intel Westmere processors, plus PCIe and SATA flash drives and hard disk drives (HDD) with the VMware hypervisor built...

Top 10 server virtualisation stories of 2012

Top 10 server virtualisation stories of 2012 The benefits of server virtualisation are indeed quite impressive for today's server and datacentre administrators, but what about you – the storage manager? While everyone else is reaping the rewards of their newly virtualised servers, you are realising that your job just became a lot more complex and time-consuming. We feel your pain. For that reason, Computer Weekly has compiled a top 10 list of tips and guides to server virtualisation to help you address the variety of storage-related challenges...