Mobile Fragfest: Gamers Safely Cram Xbox Live into Their Ride?
You love late night trips to the drive-thru at In and Out. You love your Xbox 360 with all the peripherals. And you most certainly love your online 16-man sessions of Lost Planet. Why not safely unsafely combine these three for pure gamer euphoria? These guys over in Google’s hometown of Mountain View use the…
Google Teaches Us Five Things About Hard Drive Death
Robin over at StorageMojo waded thought Google’s “Failure Trends in a Large Disk Population,” a document that details the search engine’s first hand experience with hard drive failure rates by way of polling 100,000 of their own drives. •First of all, Mean Time Between Failure rates mean nothing. •Secondly, SMART hardware monitoring missed 36% of…
How to Piss off Balmer and Steal Vista
Steve Ballmer is trying to find something to blame Vista’s slow sales on besides Microsoft. His scapegoat for Vista looks to be pirates. Not the scourge of the seven seas, but the scourge of software developers. Billions and billions of dollars and they didn’t take into account Vista being pirated for their sales forecast? I…