rob_ert - Slashdot User

Comment Re:The best Windows laptop (Score 1) 449

by rob_ert on Monday November 13, 2017 @09:25AM (#55539689) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop?

Hi,

After using Apple/Solaris for +/-20 year (love to use HW with the OS coming from the same vendor; meant something in the past
now it is just a false sense of security with a bit of nostalgic.

Anyway switched to MS Surface PRO 4 i7 16GB 256 SSD just before the new ones where available. Costs including 2 pencils and keyboard ~1800 euro's + 2 year warranty, new stuff is all 1 year. I still cannot find anything that beats this machine price/performance wise.

Use scoop.io and conemu and you are done.
Use case: I code mostly Java, configure systems and analyze 4k pictures and movies...

Fun Fact:
My Apple Mini Display port adapter dit not work anymore while connecting to my Macbook Air, SP4 just works.
Another plus point, given that my previous stuff where MacBook Air's I already had most of the accessories, like cables, bags, connectors, usb hubs, covers, bags, etc, etc

Thanks for listening.

Comment who cares? (Score 1) 381

by rob_ert on Friday June 30, 2017 @09:14AM (#54718891) Attached to: Opinion: Google Unleashes Terrible New Update For Google News Upon the Net

After closing Reader and some other stuff which was useful for me (4 or 5 different products), I moved everything I need into my private cloud. For news, I still love FreshRSS, card,- and caldav are baikal based, The rest is just simple smtp, bind and some other core services.

P.S I'm writing a comment but for the love of some uber being can't figure out on what.... I can become a fan of slashdot on Facebook... no just refused a job there. There is some agile SAP to download.... sorry laughing SAP and Agile in one sentence. .

Preview looks good, but won;'t tell me where this comment is going. ... see subject

MIT Scientists Make a Polyethylene Heatsink 153

Posted by kdawson on Friday March 12, 2010 @12:10PM from the just-one-word-young-man dept.

arcticstoat calls our attention to MIT research that has produced a version of polyethylene that can conduct heat away from computer chips. Polyethylene is the most widely used plastic. It's not clear how practical this research is for industrial-scale use, involving as it does an atomic-force microscope. The work is detailed in a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology this month. "The new process causes the polymer to conduct heat very efficiently in just one direction, unlike metals, which conduct equally well in all directions. ... The key to the transformation was getting all the polymer molecules to line up the same way, rather than forming a chaotic tangled mass, as they normally do. The team did that by slowly drawing a polyethylene fiber out of a solution, using the finely controllable cantilever of an atomic-force microscope, which they also used to measure the properties of the resulting fiber. This fiber was about 300 times more thermally conductive than normal polyethylene along the direction of the individual fibers, says the team’s leader..."

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