Hardware developments
Hardware news. Lots of stuff today. We'll take it one at a time. The post Hardware developments appeared first on The Silicon Underground.
View ArticleI’m back.
Very interesting. Just as everyone's proclaiming Linux dead, Red Hat goes and turns a profit for the first time. Yes, there are too many Linux companies. Yes, there'll be consolidation. No, I'm not...
View ArticleFirst impressions of VMWare
I've been setting up VMWare ESX Server at work, and it's quirky, but I like it. I shut it down improperly once (logging into the console on its Linux-based host OS and doing a shutdown -h now resulted...
View ArticleIf the AT&T/T-Mobile deal is dead, good riddance
If you haven’t seen, the Department of Justice voiced its lack of support for AT&T’s buyout of T-Mobile USA. I find myself agreeing with Sascha Segan’s analysis at PC Magazine. A leaked letter a...
View ArticleKids these days, not knowing the name Grace Hopper
The guys at Hackaday dug up a video of the late Commodore Grace Hopper (the rank is now called Rear Admiral, but the rank of Commodore just seems appropriate for a computer science pioneer) and the...
View ArticleSSDs might be getting less interesting, but that’s not necessarily bad
Ars Technica has a story about SSD news coming out of CES. Basically, they’re predicting that the big news this year will be consolidation and lower prices. That may be bad news for someone who writes...
View Article90s computer brands
Some 90s computer brands are the same as today, but a lot more companies played in the field than now. Profit margins were higher then, so industry consolidation wasn’t the matter of survival that it...
View ArticleCentral Hardware, St. Louis history
St. Louis-based Central Hardware was one of the first big-box home improvement chains. It peaked in 1993 at 39 stores in six states in the midwest, employing 3,700 people. It was once the 19th largest...
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