How To Speed Up Wordpress With Nginx And WP Super Cache
We recently moved tech.nocr.at over to a bunch of VPSs in order to achieve some decent load balancing and speed. Even though SliceHost isn’t a sponsor, I’d like to give them a quick plug. SliceHost is easily the greatest VPS provider bar none. You pick the Distro you want, you tweak it, you set it [...]
IR Speeds Hit 1Gbps
Truth be told that the IR (Infared) port on my PDA’s and old laptops never saw much use since it was painfully slow to actually do anything via IR, and with Bluetooth and WiFi dominating the wireless transfer airwaves why would anyone bother with that old IR technology? KDDI R&D Laboratories are about to change [...]
416GB Solid State Drive
BitMicro just announced the new E-Disk Altima, it squeezes 416GB into a laptop friendly 2.5 inch enclosure. The drive will operate 24/7 and can withstand temperatures between -40 to 185 while keeping a sustained read/write speed of 100MB/sec.
Currently the drive is marketed to the Military. A cost effective 640GB solid state drive isn’t going to [...]
Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-Ray Drive
The Asustek BC-1205PT Blu-ray drive speeds up next generation DVD recording, capable of burning in data at 12X DVD+/- write, 4X DVD+/-R (dual layer) and 5X DVD-RAM speeds. This is made possible by a SATA interface that offers users with five times faster data transmission rates compared to DMA33 standards. You will be able to [...]
New standard for Memory Cards
Some of the industry heavy weights in flash based memory have come together to standardize removable memory cards and the technology embedded in them. Micron Technology, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Spansion, STM and TI have passed the chore on to JEDEC Solid State Technology Association with the new spec to be called Universal Flash Storage [...]
USB 3.0 to promise 5 Gbps
Remember the days of transferring data via serial or parallel? Those immensely slow speeds that we dreaded to deal with. Pretty soon we will look back at USB 2.0 and say the same thing. The new proposed USB 3.0 spec, which should be out in 2008, promises backward compatibility with USB 1.1 and 2.0. By [...]
26.25 Gigaflop Super Computer – $1256
I always feel the need to speed up the process of backup my my dvd’s and encoding them with DVD:RIP, I’m sure this bad boy would make it fly. Calvin College student Tim Brom built, from scratch, a 26.25 gigaflop supercomputer that runs off of a single wall outlet for about $1200. The supercomputer, called [...]
