How fast can 24 Samsung SSDs in RAID perform?
These guys got 24 SSDs from Samsung and look at what they did with them! Awesome. A 6 TB rig with RAID. And it hits 2 GB/sec. Another awesome for you? We took 24 256GB Samsung MLC SSD’s and put them in...
View ArticleFirefox 3.5 Beta 4 significantly faster in Linux
Let’s face it, Firefox isn’t exactly the fastest browser around. In Linux it’s worse, in fact, Windows Firefox through Wine in Linux is faster than Linux Firefox. Tuxradar benchmark Firefox 3.5 Beta...
View ArticleHow to speed read
In this short video Kris Madden shows you how to read faster. The trick, he says, is to repeatedly say “AEIOU” or “one, two, three, four,” as you read. This prevents you from vocalizing the written...
View ArticleOpera 10 released
Opera 10 has been released, with some turbo charge technology. Opera Turbo, a new compression technology that solves the pain of slow connections. The craftsmanship under the hood Browsing speed is a...
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How to make Firefox address bar faster
Firefox’s address bar, also known as the Awesome Bar, stores all sorts of awesome information in a SQLite database. The SQLite database slowly starts getting fragments and the Awesome Bar just isn’t as...
View ArticleHow to log slow MySQL queries
I haven’t been generous enough to spend money on higher RAM for my blogs. I started to notice slow downs in the blog recent, particularly caused by a particular plugin that does related posts. I found...
View ArticleThe fastest chess game?
Two top grandmasters, Maxim Dlugy and Hikaru Nakamura, battle it out in a 1-minute blitz game after the U.S. Championship. These guys are amazing. They play chess so quickly. Speed Chess Game I hardly...
View ArticleHow to make Terminal start faster
This always annoys me. Mac OS X’s Terminal’s prompt not loading promptly. Sometimes it is something to do with Apple system logs. You can clear them through this: sudo rm -f /private/var/log/asl/* It...
View ArticleMicrosoft proposes S&M
Just learnt about Microsoft’s S&M proposal. Horrible naming — almost like dark humour for journalists. S&M vs. SPDY: Microsoft and Google battle over the future of HTTP 2.0 Lumbered with the...
View ArticleHow to make Gmail faster?
Think your Gmail is slow and you have a lot of emails? It could be that you have too many connected accounts. Connected accounts send out polling requests that were slowing down the Gmail application....
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