IT researchers have questioned how long Moore's Law can stand true. They say that without development of new technologies, like light or quantum computers, computing speeds cannot continue to double every two years. But, Dr Stuart Parkin, an experimental physicist at IBM in San José, California, shows Graham Phillips his solid state chips that are about a million times faster than disc drives - using conventional electronics! … [Read more...]
Bittorrent download PC Mini-ITX, Intel CPU
I really don't like having my expensive workstation PC running as a BitTorrent client overnight (or at any time) because let's face it, you are open to hackers for many hours at a time with open ports etc, so I decided to build a power efficient, Mini-ITX box dedicated to BitTorrent downloads, and the result is this video. All went well with some minor issues usual for this kind of build. I have listed all the parts I used with links to manufacturers below. Enjoy! BitTorrent Download Box … [Read more...]
Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes & Terabytes explained
Today I would like to demystify the kilobyte issue and explain why there are sometimes large differences between an advertised devices' capacity, and the capacity that same device displays in Windows and other operating systems. I will also explain the difference between kilobyte, kilobit and kibibyte. If you just want to convert a kilobyte to another value (megabyte, megabit, gigabyte, gigabit etc) then use the Byte Converter further below, but if you want to learn about bits and bytes and … [Read more...]