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I know this because last month a little-known company called FXI announced a device called Cotton Candy. Cotton Candy is a full-blown Linux computer about the size of a USB flash drive. The specs are actually fairly impressive: Dual core 1.2GHz processor 1GB RAM Mali 400 GPU (video card) that’s capable of HD video Wi-Fi … Read more
“Find a way to say yes to things. Say yes to invitations to a new country, say yes to meet new friends, say yes to learn something new. Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids.” – Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google
I know I’m really late to the game on this one, but I’ve been itching to write this post since February 22, when Symantec revealed their list of Canada’s Riskiest Online Cities; or, put another way, Canada’s cities that are (allegedly) the least protected from malware, hackers, and scammers. I first found out about this … Read more
For over 20 years, network designers and administrators have been assembling networks that, more or less, look like the diagram below. You have workgroup or top of rack (ToR)/end of rack (EoR) switches at the “Access Tier,” aggregation or core switches in the “Distribution Tier,” and then core switches that connect it all together. If … Read more
The data centre is heading into an era of “fabrics.” When most IT professionals hear about “fabrics” they either think of proprietary technologies, like QFabric, or perhaps of Fibre channel which is a storage technology. Cisco, Juniper, and Brocade have really taken to the term “fabric.” While there are certainly some new developments here – … Read more