Scaling

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• What Layouts Should a Dual Video System Support?

  
  VoIP Survivor — Authority: 120
  [This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series . Be sure to check it out!] In my last post, I discussed the different layouts that are required by a video endpoint, focusing mainly on the basics - single video source, single display. This leaves a lot to be desired, both on consumer videophones ...
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• Burj Dubai – Scaling Record Global Heights

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 172
  Already acknowledged as the world’s tallest tower, Burj Dubai achieved another global first on May 12th 2008 when it was officially recognized as the tallest building and the tallest man-man structure in the world. Glass panels that were installed at a dizzy height of 512 meters took the building up to 636 meters ...
  4 days ago

• Totem Talk: On unique gearing and gear consolidation

  
  Warcraft Bloggers Aggregation — Authority: 159
  Totem Talk is the column for shamans. Matthew Rossi is a vampire robot from beyond the stars who came to Earth to learn the true meaning of love and to write columns about shamans. Seriously, it was in my alien creators first lines of code when they programmed me. "Drink human blood, write shaman column." The love ...
  5 days ago

• How to handle 1000’s of concurrent users on a 360MB VPS

  
  startups, technology and fishing — Authority: 406
  There has been some recent confusion about how much memory you need in a web server to handle a huge number of concurrent requests. I also made a performance claim on the STS list that got me an unusual number of private emails. Here’s how you run a highly concurrent website on a shoe-string budget: The ...
  1 week ago

• Treatments for Gum Disease

  
  Yodle Local Articles — Authority: 155
  In the past, getting rid of gum disease was a long and arduous process that could be challenging for the patient, at best. But new technology means that curing people of this problem is getting a lot easier, says Dr. Kirk Petersen, DMD, who runs Hemet West Dental Office in Hemet, California. Here he explains why… ...
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• What Layouts Do You Need in Your HD Videophone?

  
  VoIP Survivor — Authority: 120
  [This post is taking part in our Designing Hardware for HD series . Be sure to check it out!] Last week I tried to cover the video inputs and outputs , which are necessary in videophone design. This time I want to talk about what types of video feeds you would want to see on your monitor(s) and how they would ...
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• Circumvallation

  
  Franois Schiettecatte's Blog — Authority: 118
  I am have been reading Steve Arnold’s weblog on search, I have known Steve for over ten years now and he likes to challenge the status-quo and pushing people to see beyond the status-quo. So it was very interesting to read his post about how Google is challenging Reed Elsevier and Thomson by indexing legal texts: ...
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• Global Geek News Podcast #45

  
  Global Geek News — Authority: 109
  &t; html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook Here are the shownotes for episode #45 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Global Geek News #45 Podcast Feed: ...
  2 weeks ago

• Patches enable Palm Pre CPU scaling, power savings

  
  PreCentral.net — Authority: 681
  While every update to webOS has brought speed improvements in the form of cleaned up code, Palm Pre phones across the globe have been limited to running at 500 MHz. That is in spite of the fact that that these phones pack a beefy Texas Instruments OMAP3430 processor rated at 600 MHz. What gives? Mostly it’s power ...
  2 weeks ago

• OCZ’s Colossus desktop SSD gets reviewed: oh yeah, it’s fast

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  It’s been a long time coming, hasn’t it? OCZ Technology’s Colossus is the outfit’s first in the desktop SSD space, and with capacities scaling as high at 1TB, it’s certainly tempting for performance junkies who just can’t pry themselves away from their tower Originally posted here:  OCZ’s Colossus ...
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• OCZ’s Colossus desktop SSD gets reviewed: oh yeah, it’s fast

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  Its been a long time coming, hasnt it? OCZ Technologys Colossus is the outfits first in the desktop SSD space, and with capacities scaling as high at 1TB, its certainly tempting for performance junkies who just cant pry themselves away from their tower. The benchmark-minded kids over at PC Perspective were able to get ...
  2 weeks ago

• eBay Search Down

  
  Technology Pundit — Authority: 168
  If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ll know that Twitter isn’t the first startup to have suffered scaling issues: the auction site had significant problems keeping the servers humming in its early days. Today eBay is giving users a small reminder of that era: eBay’s search engine is down, meaning goods ...
  2 weeks ago

• InnoDB Compression

  
  Franois Schiettecatte's Blog — Authority: 118
  I had a few hours to spare a couple of days ago and decided to check InnoDB Plugin 1.0’s support for data compression . In a project I work on from time to time, there is a table which contains three blobs which contains text data. To store the data efficiently I was using the COMPRESS() function in MySQL and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small firms scrapping, scaling back health plans

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 958
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Faced with high health insurance costs, a North Carolina brokerage passed the buck on to its employees, a Texas public relations firm switched from group insurance to stipends, and a Missouri travel agency let its workers walk away instead paying for insurance.
  2 weeks ago

• HD Video Chip Case Study: TI DM6467 Analysis

  
  VoIP Survivor — Authority: 120
  This post is part of our Designing Hardware for HD series . Be sure to check it out! [While Ive done my best to cover the various options for HD video chips and the trends in the market, I also wanted to take a deeper dive and explain how we analyze such a chip. In this case, the TI DM6467, which we have ...
  3 weeks ago

• Polaroid Pix

  
  InDesignSecrets — Authority: 123
  As weve learned from the new user forums, theres more than one way to make a placed picture look like an old Polaroid. Heres a nifty one, and you can apply an object style to "develop" it faster.
  3 weeks ago

• In-depth study of Twitter: How much we tweet, and when

  
  Royal Pingdom — Authority: 640
  There’s been talk about Twitter being the “pulse of the web”, and there is no doubt that the real-time web and real-time search are burning hot trends. At the heart of Twitter are its status messages, more commonly known as tweets, where people express opinions, share links and let people know what they are ...
  3 weeks ago

• (Videos) Homegrown Terrorists – Islamist Training Camps in U.S.

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 150
  Soldiers of Allah – responsible for over 50 attacks on U.S. soil* * *The six foreign-born Muslims accused of planning a shooting attack at the U.S. military base included four Kosovo Albanian Muslims affiliated with the KLA, or the Kosovo Liberation Army, a Terrorist Jihad Wahhabi group. The U.S. officials say their ...
  4 weeks ago

• Introducing SaniFOAM : a framework to analyze sanitation behaviors

  
  Sanitation Updates — Authority: 469
  Devine, J. (2009). Introducing SaniFOAM : a framework to analyze sanitation behaviors to design effective sanitation programs . (Learning to scale up. Working paper). Washington, DC, USA, Water and Sanitation Program. 28 p. Download paper SaniFOAM is a conceptual behaviour change framework that can be used both ...
  4 weeks ago

• Africa: Water for People announces investment from Case Foundation to scale-up innovative rural water service models

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 114
  Expanded effort to be based on social entrepreneurship, local involvement to provide multiple, sustainable water solutions. Water For People has announced a transformative investment from the Case Foundation to accelerate and expand its efforts to provide innovative, sustainable water solutions in Africa. This ...
  4 weeks ago

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