Spril - Slashdot User

Comment Re:why flash? (Score 1) 271

by adisakp on Saturday September 05, 2009 @06:35PM (#29327021) Attached to: Intel's Braidwood Could Crush SSD Market

"unless you have a battery backup for the DRAM"

You say that like it is not a given....

It's not a given... not to mention that such batteries don't last a long time (i.e. only hours or a day or two - not a week). The HyperDrive RAM Drive requires a DC adapter to keep the DRAM running and uses it's battery only in case of powerfailure to backup the DRAM to Compact Flash.

Comment Re:No thanks (Score 1) 235

by Spril on Saturday September 05, 2009 @03:22PM (#29325241) Attached to: Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Wants Struggling Industries To Stop Slacking

> Nuclear power has a far lower cost of operation.

Only by spreading their costs to the rest of society!

The nuclear industry gets huge payments from the federal government to deal with their radioactive waste because they created the idea that society should be responsible for dealing with it. Even my house insurance has an exclusion saying I get zilch for losses caused by nuclear power accidents. Neither of these is a problem for coal, gas, wind, or hydro power.

Submission + - How to test wifi?

Submitted by grilled-cheese on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @07:04PM

grilled-cheese writes: I'm working for a growing university's IT department and we are growing more and more concerned with our wireless network. While we have managed to feel pretty good about our security solution, we don't have a good method for planning, analyzing, and troubleshooting our existing infrastructure as it grows. How would you go about troubleshooting your wifi problems, or surveying the current setup? Is there a published standard for wifi coverage or utilization? What would be some important factors in your wifi planning such as Signal-Noise-Ratio and Multipath?

Submission + - Hanging with fat people will make you fat too.

Submitted by lottameez on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @05:54PM

lottameez writes: Pretty interesting article in the Washington Post (Registration Required) describing how social networks can promote obesity. From the article:

"The study, involving more than 12,000 people tracked over 32 years, found that 'social networks' play a surprisingly powerful role in determining an individual's chances of gaining weight, transmitting an increased risk of becoming obese from wives to husbands, from brothers to brothers and from friends to friends."

Basically the article says that if you hang out with fat people, you're more likely to let yourself go since it's socially acceptable within that group.

Now...let's go get that donut!

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