So today let's look at how far had drives have come. Let's start with some traditional spinny hard drives with sequential reads: 2006: This is a ThinkPad T60. 100 MB/s. This is my Dell Dimension from 2005. 125 MB/s. Let's fast forward to early SSDs: 2012! Here is 3 Intel X25-Ms in Raid 0 configuration to get max speed. 724MB/ s which was at the upper edge of speed for the time. More typical was my OCZ SSD from ...
I know I've done benchmarks on my various machines in the past but I had no idea how far the rabbit hole goes... Let's start with back in 2003: Benchmarking Dell XPS and Lenovo Thinkpads (littletinyfrogs.com) Device Description Score Frog 2003 Decent Dell Dimension for its time. 132 Turtle 2006 My ThinkPad T60 for business trips in 2006. 150 Turtle 2007 ThinkPad T61 replacing T60, good 2007 laptop. 286 Frog 2007 Dell XPS 710 work desktop, quad core, RA...
Anyone (old like me) remember the Visible Man and Visible Woman models? Maybe they weren't as far fetched as you might think... Anyway, the substance is a common food dye: the one that gives Doritos their orange color...and the skin is on a mouse. Then, using light of a certain frequency, you can see through the skin to the underlying structures. There is a depth limitation of a few millimeters, but still...this opens up avenues for further research. Imagine Doctors could image in...
M$ is bringing ads to W10. With W11 barely scraping 30% of PC users, the reason they're doing this is all too clear: More fish in the W10 pond, and 0Patch will extend W10 another five years at least, maybe more. phantomofearth spotted this first and posted on X: "The Start menu account manager from recent Windows 11 updates is being backported to Windows 10. (present in Beta/RP build 19045.4842, disabled by default.) pic.twitter.com/34Ub68flCt" — phantomofearth 🌳 (@phantomo...
"Perhaps looking at the upcoming change in 24H2 as well as the boot bug, Microsoft has now added a bunch of new guides to its official website regarding BitLocker device encryption. In particular, two of them are certainly the most useful ones which walk users through finding their BitLocker recovery key and backing up the said key. " - Sayan Sen, Neowin The Neowin article describes two ways to access the Bitlocker key: via your MS account and via work/school account. I recommend ...
Does anyone know why, after this long, that WindowBlinds 11 and Windows 11 are not on the upload page when uploading a WindowBlinds skin?
Why don't they leave well enough alone? Answer: They can't. So, thank heavens there's a Stardock and a Start11. So, MS wants the turn the programs on the start menu into tiles in the "All Apps" view...o.k. MS also wants to categorize your apps to help you. Thanks but no thanks. It seems their definition of similar apps differs from what you might want. Again o.k. as long as you can modify that. Also, the program names are missing. This is being tested in the lates...
Not to be confused with Edge's Workspaces. "Here's how it works. To get started, you open up all the apps you want to use at the same time for a specific Workspace. Then, arrange them as you'd like - this includes putting them in halves or corners of monitor space. Once you're done, tell Workspace to take a snapshot of which apps are open and their arrangement." - Simon Batt, XDA The snapshot can be activated anytime you wish...and you'll also be able to make as many Workspaces as y...
Concept creator Abdi, a.k.a. AR4789 has given us amazing videos of W12 , W13 , XP , and W7 2024 editions now gives us W10 2024 Edition. Here's the video: I have to admit, I want it. Now Yesterday. Why hasn't MS hired him, yet?! Just look at W10 2024 Ed.'s appearance and functionality! Have mercy on us, Abdi. Head over to https://betanews.com/2024/08/11/windows-10-2024-edition/ for the screenies. Here's a screen capture from the video showing Wind...
"The increasingly distorted images produced by an artificial-intelligence model that is trained on data generated by a previous version of the model. Credit: M. Boháček & H. Farid/arXiv (CC BY 4.0)" - Nature (ext link) Unfortunately, or fortunately, researchers have found that feeding AI LLMs AI results leads rapidly to the generation of nonsense. This is rather important as there's tons of AI data being generated, and unless we find and apply some sort of watermarking or brand...
This is AI, as well as computing...so, I found this while cruising and figured you all (or at least a lot of you) would be interested in it. It isn't every day that scifi becomes reality, although it does seem that a good deal of scifi is doing just that. "In the quest to train robots for real-world tasks, researchers have created “Holodeck,” an AI system capable of generating detailed, customizable 3D environments on demand, inspired by Star Trek’s holodeck technology. Thi...
Sorry about the picture, I can't figure out how to rotate it properly. I'm running Windows 10 Home. As you can see on my taskbar there is this "News And Weather" widget. I don't want it there. I have tried the right click menu on the taskbar and turned it off. After a few hours in sleep mode it turns itself back on. The widget always turns itself back on after a reboot. I've tried everything I know of to get the widget to stay turned off. Any ideas?