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The soothing sounds of silence
Be kind to your servers or they may just decide to slow down and pout. We discovered several years ago that some servers, when placed into racks with extremely noisy fans performed poorly. After a bit of research, we discovered that there is a correlation between drive vibration and degraded performance.
There is now a video on YouTube that shows exactly this. An IT "professional" used a program to monitor disk latency and then he yelled at his drives. There was a large, measurable performance drop.
This is, of course, an extreme case. It does, however, illustrate a very interesting point: low frequency sound near your hard drives will tend to slow down your computer's performance. The louder the sound, the slower the performance. So do yourself and your company a favor. Treat your servers kindly and, if you must play music, pick some soft, classical or smooth jazz. Your computer will thank you.
3D Iphone
Apple has released the new Iphone 3G. There is not a lot of difference between the old Iphone and the new one.
 The new unit is slightly thicker and features a slightly longer battery life. It also sports a built in GPS. This makes the unit more accurate at finding your exact location on a map. The phone also feature 3G Internet access. This feature greatly increases the browsing speed of the phone when not connected to a wifi hotspot. Click here for a list of locations with 3G access.
All in all, the 3G Iphone is a great unit, but it probably isn't worth trading up unless you live or work in an area that has 3G access.
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What is Design and Technology ?
Pace Computing provides professional graphic design services for your web site and marketing needs. We offer general design work, business cards, brochures and magazine layouts. We can even help you get your web site ranked higher on search engines through our proprietary Search engine optimization (SEO) services.
We also offer technical services from basic home computer repair to advanced network system management with support for all versions of Windows, Linux, DOS, Unix, BSD and Mac. We can handle your wiring needs and we have the ability to design and build your network from the ground up.
 For those who need custom programming, we can write the software that you need. We use standards based programming and we can handle Perl, PHP, MySQL, MS SQL, C, C++, HTML, XML, Javascript and AJAX among other languages and standards. Our scratch written software is all based on LAMP programming and offers multi-user, network interfaces with secured communication, even across the Internet.
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Internet Explorer losing market share
Here we are at the end of 2008 and Microsoft's web browser is  starting to lose market share to Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer has dropped to less then 70% of the market share While Mozilla has increased to over 20% of the markert share. Its not just that Firefox is a nicer web browser, but also because it is much more secure than Internet Explorer. With the advent of add-ons, Firefox is becoming even more expandable than Microsoft's entry and it will run on Linux, Mac, Windows, Unix, etc...
Maybe 2009 will be the year of the fox.
Windows 7, in the pipeline
Microsoft is rumored to be working on the successor to Windows Vista. It is supposed to contain the new multi-touch interface that the Iphone.
This comes on the heals of the troubles that Vista has had. While Steve Ballmer insists that Vista is widely accepted and has no real issues, many companies, like GM, are refusing to adopt it citing major software compatibility issues. Many other users are actually installing Windows XP on their Vista computers in order to escape the troubles that they are having.
Hopefully Windows 7 will bring us better compatibility and function. until then, I am going to stick with Windows XP and Linux.
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