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QUAD CORE CHERRY MOBILE TABLET FOR $99!

Feb. 18 | Tweet Guess what! No longer are those quad cores going to cost you a pretty penny! Now in the Philippines, you could soon pick up a Cherry Mobile Fusion Bolt with a quad-core CPU for $99. The tablet has a smashing 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and...

CHINA BEATS USA IN SMARTPHONE MARKET!

Feb. 18 | Tweet Today it was reported that China is not the global leader as the world’s largest smartphone market. It is evident with the low costs of manufacturing in China + the huge population market that they can sell to! Based a report from Flurry,...

7 Minutes of Terror! [Video] [Mars Update]

Jun. 27 | Tweet Enjoy the 7 minutes of terror! via Discovery

Wow! Facebook Reading Your Text Messages

Mar. 15 | Tweet Okay so get this, Facebook may be reading your text messages from your mobile devices. Looks like everytime I update their app, I am allowing more ways for Facebook to spy on me! It was revealed that Facebook can access a user’s text messages...

How to read vmkdumps?

Mar. 15 | Tweet So the other day a hypervisor PSOD’d on my. The infamous pink screen of death! A reboot made me believe that it was fixed but it really wasn’t, the PSOD happened again! So I rebooted the hyp for the third time and did the following...

No HA over two separate ip subnets?

Mar. 9 | Tweet So as I was working, my colleague who was fairly new called me and wondered why he can’t add two hypervisors into the same cluster and get HA to work right. Hypervisor 1 had HA ok but hypervisor 2 had a HA error. Now on further looking...

Don’t forget that Snapshot!

Mar. 6 | Tweet So I was working on a config and suddenly noticed that the disk was full and the vm halted! Now I was stunned to notice this. Usually I like to keep my disks at the 20% buffer that vmware recommends. On examining the log, I see that a clone that...

How to really understand %Ready time

Mar. 5 | Tweet So today I had a customer complain of some slow performance on his vms. His cluster was not over subscribed on its resources but I saw his database vms having ready times of about 80ms. I quickly concluded that it was high CPU Ready time. Oh and...

Google To Sell Heads Up Display Glasses by Year End!

Feb. 22 | Tweet Google's rumored heads-up display glasses should become real this year, insiders maintained Tuesday. Multiple staffers told the New York Times that the Android-based glasses would go on sale in 2012 and cost as much as typical smartphones, which...

Proposed type of solar neutrino spotted

Feb. 10 | Tweet In a technical tour de force, physicists have spotted long-sought low-energy neutrinos zipping from the sun. The discovery confirms one of the first possible steps in the fusion cycle that helps power the star, says Cristiano Galbiati, a physicist...