AntimailAdi Oltean's Weblog - Flashbacks on VSS, FSRM, VDS, Storage, XBox, Windows programming, Web Search, etc.Puzzle: create a Pentagon with rule and compass <EOM>- December 27, 2007 The title sums it all. &160; P.S. And, as a Christmas bonus, here is a nice chess puzzle. In the above diagram you must add the two missing kings in such a way that White, who is on the move, can deliver immediate mate, i.e. mate in one move. source: ChessBasehttp://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/12/26/puzzle-create-a-pentagon-with-rule-and-... Flash-based harddisks - the new laptop feature to look for- December 27, 2007 A review in ComputerWorld features the new Samsung's 64 GB Flash drive: Samsung rates the drive with a read speed of 100MBsec and write speed of 80 MBsec, compared to 59MBsec and 60MBsec (respectively) for a traditional 2.5" hard drive. We ran several benchmarks. In our HD Tune performance tests, the drive turned in an average transfer speed of 28.6 MBsec with .3ms average access time. Burst speed was 25.5MBsec with 4.5% CPU utilization. HD Tach tests using both 8MB and 32MB blocks for.http://blogs.msdn.com/adioltean/archive/2007/12/26/flash-based-harddisks-the-new-laptop-fe... |