Data centers worldwide now consume more energy annually than Sweden. And the amount of energy required is growing, says Jonathan Koomey, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. From 2000 to 2005, the aggregate electricity use by data centers doubled. The cloud, he calculates, consumes 1 to 2 percent of the world’s electricity.
Data Center Overload [...]
I’m sure you’ve heard the accolades for Verizon FiOS TV’s picture quality. All well deserved. Bravo.
What you might not be aware of, though, is the quality of their DVR. Here are some features you’ll love:
When recording one show while watching another, and you attempt to fast forward through the show you’re watching, you have a [...]
Poor Microsoft. Vista and Zune took two of the spots in Time’s The 10 Biggest Tech Failures of the Last Decade. At least they keep trying.
1:40 PM: While working on my MacBook, in MS Word for Mac, the screen freezes, but the mouse pointer is still alive. This is the first time this behavior has occurred.
1:41 PM: Control is restored. I immediately click to save my Word file. The MacBook freezes again. I notice an uncharacteristic repetitive clicking sound from [...]
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
- Otto von Bismarck
If that were true, then why is that show on the Discovery Channel, the one where they show, amongst other things, sausages being made, so popular1? Because it’s fun to watch things being made. On that premise, I offer, for [...]
While doing some work at a client site the other day, she told me that one of her computers was experiencing blackouts several times a day. I felt the case and could tell it had a serious fever. It can be difficult to hear breath sounds on newer PCs with variable speed fans, but after [...]