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Calculate expected IOPS per disk

hardaway — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:28:21 GMT

Quoted: We are often given the following specifications from a vendor:RPM - Revolutions Per Minute. The number of rotations completed in one minute.Seek Time - The time required to position the head over the target track. (less for read than write)Average Latency - (Rotational Latency) Average time after head is over the track for the target sector to rotate

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Others Online Blog: Online Advertising 101 - For Web Sites

mohit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:48:02 GMT

Helpful article if you plan on starting a business that intends to make money via advertising.

Quoted: As a result, I believe the vast majority of this ad inventory is being monetized by arbitrageurs via ad exchanges. Ad exchanges such as Right Media differ from ad networks primarily in their pricing model, which works like a stock exchange. This facilitates an arbitrage model where those who know something about your audience will buy your ad inventory at very low rates and resell at higher rates. Of course, this doesn't always work well for you the publisher -- they don't share what they know about your audience with anyone, because the lower their price the more money they make.

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"Ply Phone" by Hideo Kambara » Yanko Design

inozo — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:16:24 GMT

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“ER” Spoilers and Episode Guide

hardaway — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:30:12 GMT

Quoted: ER! Major 10.1 & 10.2 Spoilers! - Ain't It Cool News: The .I am Hercules! The Valentines Day ER in which everybody Kovac, Corday, Weaver, Romano, Chen, Green, Benton, even hot new med student Abby Lockhart worked to . Re: ^Er, spoilers?Re: ^Er, spoilers? Posted By: John_117 Date: 6/3/07 9:47 p.m. In Response To: Re: ^Er, spoilers? (The Cancers)

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The 3 Loops of Designing for Audience ··· dsp · by gregor hochmuth

mohit — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:03:14 GMT

This is great. It neatly captures what we've intuitively been trying to do with Blue Dot / Faves from day one. Having said that, we don't close the "3+1 loops" nearly as well as we should/could.

I think it also helps explain why Twitter can and do Facebook coexist.

Quoted: 3 + 1 + You
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Feedback loops contribute greatly to a user’s sense of Audience within a service. I talked about four such loops here. What other loops exist? What else builds and supports a sense of Audience?

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The four barriers to the genetically modified–food revolution—and why no one is talking about them. - Slate Magazine

shiwani — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Some really good points explaining why genetically modified foods haven't caught on...

Quoted: Could this be the turning point for genetically modified food? As food prices have soared around the world, agro-industry companies like Monsanto and Syngenta, along with their allies in Washington, have been carefully positioning GM technology as our last, best hope against a global food catastrophe.

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SEOmoz | Whiteboard Friday - Live's New Webmaster Tools and More with Nathan Buggia

mohit — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:56:48 GMT

Interview with Nate re: the Windows Live Webmaster Center launch and some other topics.

Quoted: What a day! It's our first Whiteboard Friday interview from our new Whiteboard Studios at Mozplex 2.0 (or the Mozoleum as our guest suggest). Who do we have? None other than our good friend and MSN Live Webmaster Center honcho, Nathan Buggia. As many of you know, Live just rele...

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Downloadziphone.org: The Website Nr.1 in iPhone World

askripko — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:18:17 GMT

All you have to do is to click on the image below to download ZiPhone 2.5.

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There’s a method behind StumbleUpon’s madness » VentureBeat

mohit — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:04:53 GMT

Some insight into how StumbleUpon works. Not too surprising.

Quoted: As you can see in the chart below, there are three key parts to the Recommendation Engine. There are pages from the topics you marked that interest you, socially endorsed pages and peer endorsed pages. Socially endorsed pages are the ones that users you have befriended on the site like, while peer endorsed pages are ones from users who have similar voting habits (giving a site the thumbs up or thumbs down) as you.

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Edison PC Power Management Software | Edison

mohit — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:11:46 GMT

Sounds like a great idea. Haven't tried it out myself.

Quoted: Download Edison, an easy-to-use energy-monitoring application, absolutely free. Edison puts you in control of your PC energy usage by letting you...

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