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Engadget's Black Friday giveaway, part three: win an Aliph Jawbone prime!

Nov 27th 2009 11:50AM on Engadget

You couldn't have chosen black, eh?

Ubuntu 9.10 'Karmic Koala' released, could decide your OS fate

Oct 29th 2009 11:41AM on Engadget

PulseAudio is layered on top of Alsa, it doesn't replace it. OSS would be the alternative to Alsa, and Ubuntu most definitely doesn't ship with OSS.

Unfortunately no, I don't know which version 9.10 is using, but I can check tonight when I get home.

Microsoft's Midori -- a future without Windows

Jul 30th 2008 11:12PM on Engadget

"Try Linux, and you're there."

No, not really, but we're getting there. OpenAFS is a pretty good distributed filesystem, but nobody really uses it. It handles things like grouping shares from many machines into a single share, and concurrent writes of the same data to different machines across the network.

But it sounds like Midori is going to do something like clustering, too. Right now, beyond remote compiling and running daemons on one machine and a front end on another (mpd rocks, and so will deluge in 0.6!), Linux just doesn't have that for home use. But, if MS starts talking this up some more, I'm sure someone will tackle this. I think the infrastructure is there, but we'll probably need some more specialized governors/schedulers, whatever is involved.

Sandberg intros wireless keyboard / touchpad combo for HTPCs

Jul 26th 2008 3:51AM on Engadget

If it stays connected reliably and has crisp key travel, not at all.

Sprint Nextel sells off "nearly all" of its towers to TowerCo for $670 million

Jul 25th 2008 11:16AM on Engadget

You need an employee CID now.

OCZ Core SSD vs WD VelociRaptor: the early performance numbers are in

Jul 20th 2008 6:07PM on Engadget

You're not all that likely to have a total drive failure like with traditional HDDs, so as long as the wear leveling is working, he'll be fine.

I think he's referring to the fact that non-volatile storage is currently the biggest bottleneck in systems. Of course, we've designed technology around this fact (we wouldn't need so much system RAM if hard drives had been faster), so until we adapt our software, the effects of faster storage won't be as drastic. That said, it definitely helps the feel of a system with boot times and program loading, and that's coming mostly from the access time. So an SSD should feel faster than a Raptor.

OCZ Core SSD vs WD VelociRaptor: the early performance numbers are in

Jul 20th 2008 2:10PM on Engadget

http://www.google.com/products?q=OCZSSD2-1C64G&btnG=Search+Products&scoring=p

Danamics debuts liquid metal-based LM10 CPU cooler

Jul 18th 2008 10:21PM on Engadget

Why for? It's enclosed, and it gives a few lucky souls the opportunity to make Darwin proud.

How would you change the Samsung Instinct?

Jul 18th 2008 7:50PM on Engadget

I'd much rather pay Sprint's up front rates than AT&T or Verizon with all their additional charges.

As far as improvements... port Opera and/or Firefox Mobile for starters...

Ask Engadget: Best LCD monitor under $400?

Jul 17th 2008 11:57PM on Engadget

$401.36 shipped to AZ

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"

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