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DEMAND OF AKHANDA SUDURPASCHIM
Stirking even women, grandy, and all of the society of farwestern. |
Friday, April 27, 2012
CISCO 2012, SAN DIEGO, EXHIBITION
BEING A CISCO STUDENT I AM FEELING PROUD..AND WISHING TO BE THERE.. :)
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Samsung vs Apple
Samsung is on a tear and dominating worldwide mobile phone shipments, according to two market research firms.
Samsung's smartphone shipments soared over the same period last to easily grab the lion's share of the global market, a market researcher said Thursday. While another market researcher put Samsung No.1 in the overall cell phone market.
The South Korean electronics giant's share went from 12.2 percent in the first quarter of 2011 to a whopping 30.6 percent in the first quarter of this year, according to Strategy Analytics (see chart below).
Apple's growth isn't too shabby either: it jumped from an 18.1 percent share last year (which at that time was larger than Samsung's) to 24.1 percent.
ASUS SABERTOOTH Z77
Introduction
ASUS is the world’s largest motherboard manufacturer claiming around 40% of the motherboard market share. Their website further states that 1 in 3 computers sold today come with an ASUS motherboard. So that number is about in line with the 40% market share statement. Regardless even if you haven’t heard of them, you’ve probably owned one of their boards without realizing it. Now much of their work is in the OEM market, but they command a significant presence in the do it yourself market as well.
The ASUS Sabertooth Z77 is based off Intel’s new Z77 Express chipset. The chipset is largely identical to the Z68 chipset released not too long ago. The main difference is that Z77 Express has native USB 3.0 support. And on that all I have to say to Intel is "about time." For whatever reason the drive controllers weren’t updated significantly so we still only have 2 native SATA 6G ports. Intel Rapid Storage Technology or iRST 11 is supported now. So it’s a slight upgrade at best, but what we really wanted was more SATA 6G ports which we didn’t get.
Another interesting fact is that Z77 finally drops the legacy PCI bus. Motherboards can still be equipped with PCI slots, but they’ll have to rely on 3rd party controllers and adapter type interfaces to do so. So it is very likely, due to cost factors and a lack of demand that the Z77 Express chipset will mark the final nail in the coffin for dated PCI devices. Motherboards that have the legacy interface are sure to be few and far between. Onboard display capability has improved as it now supports up to three independent displays as opposed to only 2. The final improvement is with regard to flexibility of the PCIe 2.0 lanes provided by the CPU. It supports 1x16 and 2x8 lane configurations as before, but now supports a 1x8 + 2x4 configuration as well.
The ASUS Sabertooth Z77 is part of the TUF series. Boards in this series are built to various military testing standards and specifications which are listed on a card included with the board. These include shock tests, vibration tests, moisture tests and more. I’m not sure this is anything more than a marketing gimmick, but one thing you can take away from the marketing speak is that the board is well built. More importantly it uses all solid electrolytic capacitors and alloy chokes. It is also built to Intel’s VRD 12.5 specifications.
As for its actual features, the Sabertooth Z77 has a lot to offer without too much unnecessary fluff. Onboard GPU support, SLI and Crossfire support, along with dual card Quad-SLI and CrossfireX support. Intel Quicksync, LucidLogix Virtu MVP technology, PCI-Express Generation 3.0 support (Ivy Bridge CPU required), eSATA, Intel Gigabit networking, 8-channel audio, USB 3.0, SATA 6G, and more. Among the features unique to the TUF series are the thermal armor and thermal radar features. I’ll get into those in more detail later.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
SpaceX, NASA looking for new Falcon 9 launch date following slip
Following SpaceX’s announcement that their Falcon 9 launch date will be slipping from its April 30 target, evaluations are taking place – in cooperation with NASA – to ascertain when the Dragon spacecraft can make its debut attempt to berth with the International Space Station (ISS). With an unofficial NET date of May 7, Dragon may yet have to dodge an upcoming Soyuz mission.
Falcon 9 Slippage:
Being ready to launch is always a challenge, regardless if one is launching sounding rockets out of Wallops or Space Shuttles out of KSC. As such, any slip prior to launch should not be seen as a negative, but as a necessity of ensuring no stone is left unturned ahead of a launch and its subsequent mission.
Although SpaceX’s growing fan base sometimes treat the Californian company as an invincible force of nature in the spaceflight arena, their need to work within the decades of mission experience – provided by the likes of the Space Shuttle – has at least been proven by their own decision to slip the launch of their key Falcon 9/Dragon mission, not only past the April 30 target, but also the May 3 reserve date, despite some confidence they could have made the latter.
“After reviewing our recent progress, it was clear that we needed more time to finish hardware-in-the-loop testing and properly review and follow up on all data. While it is still possible that we could launch on May 3rd, it would be wise to add a few more days of margin in case things take longer than expected,” noted SpaceX in a short release to the media on Monday.
“As a result, our launch is likely to be pushed back by one week, pending coordination with NASA.”
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