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» How higher RPM hard drives rip you off | George Ou | ZDNet.com
A very interesting article dealing with a solution to the percieved slowness of lower RPM HDD’s and how to improve the partitioning scheme to have the OS run faster, and large non frequent seeking scenarios for the slower parts of the HDD.

The 12-Drive RAID Storage Box
Now I’m having storage issues, if this unit had a GigE NIC on the back of it, and sweet management interface, I’d be very happy man running around trying to get on. Solaris + ZFS that would allow for any number of discs being shoved into at any point would be […]

Inventgeek.com - 0dBA Ionic Cooling Gaming System - Overview
Woah! I wants a most impressive cooling system.

Apple - MacBook Pro
Apple have finally announced the MacBook Pro 17″ model - with Spec’s very similar to the 15″ and that lucious 17″ screen. $4600(AUD) is where it starts for this capable machine but I would make the following changes: Drop the ram to 1GB (2×512SIMMS) (subtract $155 - then purchase 2x Kingston 1GB […]

We’ve been operating under the assumption that Apple will call their new consumer line of laptops MacBook, as opposed to the pro line of MacBook Pro. Maybe we just spend too much time thinking about Apple’s naming schemes, and this probably doesn’t change anything.
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These look seriously tempting and will be most temping if they can […]

Will my wireless usb/card device will work under Linux?, sure there are a lot of resources but this simple and straight to the point site will make things a lot easier, hey you can contribute and make it even better.
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Makes choosing a wireless device for use within linux easier. (Hint: Avoid Broadcom based chipsets)
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Sun Microsystems is pushing an open-source copy protection scheme designed to let you listen to your music across a broad range of platforms. Critics say there’s no such thing as good DRM. Here’s why they’re wrong
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For as long as companies persist in shoving DRM down our throats a DRM system like the one described here, […]

After penning this article I realised that it was nearly 10 years ago that I first discussed with fellow students the posibility and the rumors that Sun were investigating placing multiple chips into a single die, and that we now have this technology. It seems like there is some significant lag between things that are […]

I made a video demonstrating the upgrade and reassembly of an Apple 12″ Powerbook G4. Upgrades include a 16X Dual Layer DVD burner, a 100GB hard drive, new speakers with a louder bass response, and a new Apple rainbow logo on the lid. All of this in about a minute and a half! […]

AnandTech: Sun’s T2000 “Coolthreads” Server: First Impressions and Experiences
An interesting article regarding the T2000 from Sun running Solaris 10. (This CPU is an 8 core 32 thread processor that consumes ~ 72W). This machine even with a 1GHz CPU is still capable of keeping up (or near) to a quad core opteron server. Some other […]