Trees in SQL:
[this is awesome]
don’t you feel safer already? http://www.cia.gov/terrorism/buster.html (cache)
Exponential paper thickness growth by folding. Some more links here
so small
A lot of neat little cameras coming soon:
- Pentax Optio S – 3MP
- Second SMaL Digital Camera – 1.3MP, autobrite, credit-card size
- Casio EXILIM EX-S3 – 3MP, F4.2, ISO 80-640, double exposures (?)
- Casio EXILIM EX-Z3 – 3MP, F2.6 – F4.8 (same lens as Pentax Optio S), ISO 50-200
Minolta DiMAGE Xt – 3.2MP, slightly smaller than Xi
Canon Digital IXUS 400 – 4MP, F2.8 – F4.9, ISO 50-400, 2.5fps
Nikon Coolpix SQ – 3MP, F2.7/4.8, ISO 70-200, AF assist lamp
Also coming soon is the Contax TVS Digital [5MP, F2.8 – F4.6 (similar to a Finecam S5, but with a Zeiss lens]. I doubt the sensor (or image quality) will be very exciting, but it does have a lot of manual control.
Hungry-Man All Day Breakfast. Mmmm… 231% of you daily recommended cholesterol.
[update: more @ Snark Hunting]
Solid State Linux Systems
There are lots of embedded solutions around, but not a lot that sell to consumers. The Soekris units will easily fit in a 1U shelf and two of ’em would make a really good n’ cheap LVS load balancing/HA solution. At $250 a pop, it’s a few thousand cheaper than buying hardware load balancing, even if you’re getting it used.
- Soekris Engineering – relatively cheap, designed for embedded applications (486/133, so you’d probably want the security accelerator if you’re building a vpn
- Hacom OpenBrick
- NEXCOM EBS 1563
Related: LEAF, m0n0wall, JFFS : The Journalling Flash File System
IBM new production of ThinkPad }x{31 back OEM maker me fifty time of war
Banias loading one ThinkPad }x{31 opening to the public! (via AltaVista Babel Fish, Korean to English translation of ThinkPad X31 preview at IDF 2002)
Completely un-related: clearance on ThinkPad X30s
- AC&NC Disk I/O Benchmarks – good listing of benchmarks
- stress – nice little stress testing tool
- Server Conformanc Tester – looks not so useful
Holy crap, forget this hard drive business, the RAM-SAN 520 (by Texas Memory Systems), which uses SDRAM for storage, provides over 3GB/s of bandwidth, 20µs latency, and 500,000 IOPS! (servicing up to 15 Fiber Channel interfaces simultaneously) I’m not even going to ask what it costs.
Hmm, here’s an announcement for their Tera-RamSan (2 million IOPS):
More details are available at www.superSSD.com. The Tera-RamSan costs $1.6 million, making it a great value for those demanding the best performance in a storage subsystem.
A great value. I’ll take two! 🙂
These bullet impact pictures reminded me about linking the Shooting Holes in Wounding Theories: The Mechanics of Terminal Ballistics paper. Related: Kinetic Pulse, Wound Ballistics, Modeling the Wounded Soldier, How a high-speed bullet damages an organ, PETA: The Military’s War on Animals