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Archive for January, 2009

1 Ton Hard Drive

Monday, January 26th, 2009

And the capacity? 5 MB. That’s right. But that was more than half a century ago. This is the world’s first hard drive. In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

These disks are mounted so [...]

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Vista to XP Downgrade

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Even with all the Vista marketing .. we at myshop encounter a *lot* of clients who almost hate Vista & want XP. And for obvious reason .. people have gotten comfortable with the interface & most of all .. they know that their set of programs work on XP whereas they might encounter problems with [...]

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Its all about Cache!

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

…Doubling the L2 Cache from 1 MB to 2 MB would give you a performance boost of about 5-10%. But it also may mean that you’re going to chuck out extra Rs.10,000! Have a look at the graph below…

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