NZXT Switch 810: When Too Much Isn’t Enough

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I think there’s ultimately a market for the Switch 810 for users that can take advantage of all of its customizability, as well as users who want to employ a tremendous amount of custom watercooling. For them it’s going to be worth checking out. If you don’t need to install a 360mm radiator, though, Rosewill’s Thor v2 remains the superior buy. It performs better, costs less, and is quieter to boot. NZXT’s case is a good one, but not great, and definitely not competitive at $169.

via AnandTech – NZXT Switch 810: When Too Much Isn’t Enough.

It seems like the market are calling cases enclosures.  I like the term enclosures better.  It sounds more sophisticated.  🙂

The Opteron 6276: a closer look

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First let’s look at the pricing. The Opteron 6276 is priced similar to an E5649, which is clocked 5% lower than the X5650 we tested. If you calculate the price of a Dell R710 with the Xeon E5649 and compare it with a Dell R715 with the Opteron 6276 with similar specs, you end up more or less the same acquisition cost. However, the E5649 is an 80W TDP and should thus consume a bit less power. That is why we argued that the Opteron 6276 should at least offer a price/performance bonus and perform like an X5650. The X5650 is roughly $220 more expensive, so you end up with the dual socket Xeon system costing about $440 more. On a fully speced server, that is about a 10% price difference.

via AnandTech – The Opteron 6276: a closer look.

LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M

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Revenue from Marketing Solutions products totaled $49.5 million, an increase of 77% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and represented 30% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 34% in the fourth quarter of 2010. Premium Subscriptions revenue totaled $33.3 million, an increase of 87% compared to the fourth quarter of 2010 and was 20% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011, compared to 22% in the fourth quarter of 2010.

By geographic area, revenue from the U.S. totaled $112 million, and represented 67% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011. Revenue from international markets totaled $55.8 million, and represented 33% of total revenue in the fourth quarter of 2011.

via LinkedIn Beats The Street, Q4 Revenue Up 105 Percent To $167.7M | TechCrunch.

Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites

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Critics slam SSL authority for minting certificate for impersonating sites.

Over the past year, security experts have proposed a variety of alternatives to the complex web of trust now used to manage the net’s ailing SSL system. Among them is the Convergence project devised by researcher Moxie Marlinspike. The system, which would have flagged counterfeit certificates used to snoop on some 300,000 Gmail users, has already won the qualified endorsement of security firm Qualys. Google, meanwhile, has said it has no plans to implement Convergence in its Chrome browser.

HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods

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Some drives appear to have been more severely impacted than others. For example, the Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB is currently priced at $429.99, a 138% increase over its pre-flood price of $179.99. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 is selling for double the price at the beginning of October. Let’s check out similar data for mobile oriented hard drives.

via HDD Pricewatch: Three Months Into the Thai Floods – TechSpot Guides.

How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data

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The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data.

The need for this kind of perpetually scalable, durable storage has driven the giants of the Web—Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others—to adopt a different sort of storage solution: distributed file systems based on object-based storage. These systems were at least in part inspired by other distributed and clustered filesystems such as Red Hat’s Global File System and IBM’s General Parallel Filesystem.

And one more blurb…

Google wanted to turn large numbers of cheap servers and hard drives into a reliable data store for hundreds of terabytes of data that could manage itself around failures and errors. And it needed to be designed for Google’s way of gathering and reading data, allowing multiple applications to append data to the system simultaneously in large volumes and to access it at high speeds.

Data sharing with a GFS storage cluster

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GFS saves its file system descriptors in inodes that are allocated dynamically (referred to as dynamic nodes or dinodes). They are placed in a whole file system block (4096 bytes is the standard file system block size in Linux kernels). In a cluster file system, multiple servers access the file system at the same time; hence, the pooling of multiple dinodes in one block would lead to more competitive block accesses and false contention. For space efficiency and reduced disk accesses, file data is saved (stuffed) the dinode itself if the file is small enough to fit completely inside the dinode. In this case, only one block access is necessary to access smaller files. If the files are bigger, GFS uses a “flat file” structure. All pointers in a dinode have the same depth. There are only direct, indirect, or double indirect pointers. The tree height grows as much as necessary to store the file data as shown in Figure 1.

via redhat.com | Data sharing with a GFS storage cluster.

ARM Discloses Technical Details Of The Next Version Of The…

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“The current growth trajectory of data centers, driven by the viral explosion of social media and cloud computing, will continue to accelerate. The ability to handle this data increase with energy-efficient solutions is vital,” said Vinay Ravuri, vice president and general manager of AppliedMicro’s Processor Business Unit. “The ARM 64-bit architecture provides the right balance of performance, efficiency and cost to scale to meet these growing demands and we are very excited to be a leading partner in implementing solutions based on the ARMv8 architecture.”

via ARM Discloses Technical Details Of The Next Version Of The… – ARM.

MagicJack Reviews – You get what you paid for…

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A magicJack is a cheap and small device that allows you to make telephone calls for very, very low costs.

As of June 2011, magicJack costs $39.95 plus shipping and handling. You get a free year of calling to the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Additional years cost $19.95.

via MagicJack Reviews – You get what you paid for… | voipreview.org.

When you follow the easy-to-use installation steps above, you’ll find that magicJack installs software on your computer.

The magicJack software is almost impossible to remove. magicJack software also will display advertisements on your computer, too.