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I have a wireless computer mouse I purchased some years ago, a Logitech MX 700. The rechargeable batteries for the mouse are nearing the end of their lifespan–they won’t hold a charge for more than a few days. Worse, the blinking red dead-battery indicator on the top of my mouse blinks constantly, which is annoying. The buttons on the mouse don’t quite work the way they used to and the paint has worn off the plastic wherever it touched my hand. The mouse lasted six years, a respectable time for a computer mouse, but it’s time for it to crawl off to that place all mice go to die.
I decided to go looking for a replacement mouse with a bit longer battery life. I found the Logitech Wireless Marathon Mouse M705 which has a 3-year battery life, and favorable reviews.
Even though the mouse isn’t rechargeable, three years between battery replacements is a huge improvement.
Need more room for your pictures, music, and files? Don’t know how to install an internal hard drive? An external drive is probably the best choice. Here’s what to consider when shopping for external storage.
Third in my series of overviews on containerized datacenters is Rackable Systems ‘Ice Cube’. Rackable Systems boasts the highest processor, storage and rack unit densities of all three systems I’ve reviewed. HP is going to kick themselves, but I found out about these guys by watching the background of the HP promotional video of their POD containerized datacenter solution.
Here are the basics of Rackable Systems’ solution: The Ice Cube
HP has been promoting their containerized datacenter solution as a ‘cloud computing’ solution, implying that this is a datacenter virtualization product as well, even though it is primarily infrastructure and the computers, disks and tape storage devices are all extra. I put together the basic statistics on the HP POD for you.
The HP’s Solution: The Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD)
Containerized datacenters. Take a standard shipping container, outfit it as a datacenter and sell it to the customer as a turn-key, instant-on solution to the problem of providing physical space, power and cooling for equipment. Microsoft proposed this and demonstrated it at a trade show in 2007. HP and Sun have also built commercial products for sale.
I spent this afternoon looking at Sun’s Project Blackbox which Sun is heavily marketing using the Internet Archive for one of their customer testimonials.
Here’s Sun’s solution: Project Blackbox
My Linksys Wireless Router (model WCG200) supports 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g. I’ve never had problems with it. I currently use it exclusively for wireless access around the house with a WPC54G Linksys wireless adapter plugged into the PCMCIA slot on my laptop. I’ve tried a Belkin wireless access point and it just didn’t work–with anything. I’ve tried a Netgear wireless router (WGR614) which is faster in terms of total throughput, but the Linksys router is by far the easiest to configure and manage.
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