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The end of Moores Law

12/02/2018 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on The end of Moores Law

This post was originally written on December 2, 2003 Today, ZD Net sent the following paragraph in their daily email news blast: Moore’s Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to […]

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Are we there yet?

02/01/2018 Dr Wingnut 1

The IEEE Spectrum magazine of February 2008, in an article on 60Ghz silicon transceivers, said: The electronic devices in our homes and offices will be chattering furiously and wirelessly in another five to 10 years.  […]

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Cyber-crime – the growing threat

09/29/2017 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on Cyber-crime – the growing threat

“It’s growing so quickly that we’ve got to run to stand still” – that is the sobering assessment of the battle against cyber-crime from Steven Wilson head of Europol’s cyber-crime centre. via BBC.com

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ROT

05/22/2017 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on ROT

Took the following out of some IT vendor’s email that I got: ROT – redundant, outdated and trivial data – routinely clogs servers making it hard to distinguish the good data from the bad without […]

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A Visit from Old St. Geek

12/24/2015 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on A Visit from Old St. Geek

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the houseNot a hard drive was whirring, nor clicking of mouse;The PC’s were unplugged from the network with care,In hopes that a new version soon would be […]

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How many Apple Watches?

12/08/2015 Dr Wingnut Comments Off on How many Apple Watches?

A year ago today, 2014-12-08, the Motley Fool predicted that Apple could sell between 22.6 to 30 million Apple Watches. How did Tim and company do?  As I’m writing this on 2014-12-08, I think that […]