Posts by gidi

Toshiba opens curtains, reveals air-cushioned 5-terabyte terror

I still have a 5GB (not a typo) IDE HDD in working order. Alas, the only PC with an IDE interface that I had died on me 3 years ago...

Anybody interested in a fully tested and reliable HDD?

Mozilla takes a page from Google with sync-friendly Firefox Accounts

Whine as much as you must to get it out of your system. Do we have an alternative? Which browser would *you* use instead of the uncunny fox that offers feature parity?

Google pulls Chrome extensions after new owners subvert web tools

Is Chrome somehow special?

How come this isn't a problem on Firefox or Opera? Or is it?

HTTP 2.0 interop tests slated for August

Re: Hmm.

HTML 2.0? Speaking of fat fingers...

Fusion-io server strokers show off 2.6TB RAM extension

Swap-to-memory

Just another swap implementation, instead of swapping to disk (i.e. going through the disk subsystem) it swaps directly to another memory subsystem.

Faster than normal swap-to-disk? Any benchmarks?

Nice marketing blurp though.