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Cruzer Crossfire 1.0GB -This is my newly bought 1GB thumbdrive at sgd23. Isn't beautiful?




What is more beautiful is that it can support Windows Vista new feature - ReadyBoost!
So what is this ReadyBoost about? ReadyBoost is a technology built into Windows Vista that caches disk reads onto a flash memory device. It can work with USB memory keys, flash memory cards, such as SD and CompactFlash, and other types of flash devices. It caches all types of file reads, not just the working set, nor just DLL's or other persistent operating system data.

ReadyBoost does not cache file writes—it's a write-through cache. That way, you never lose any precious data that's meant to be written to a hard drive. After all, a flash memory key can get yanked out of a system at any time. The cache itself is encrypted using AES-128 encryption, so no one can steal your flash memory key and casually browse through the cache file to see what you've been doing.

The minimum requirements for a USB memory device to be ReadyBoost capable is 2.5MB/sec for 4K random access reads and 1.5MB/sec for 512K random writes—and that rate has to be achieved across the whole flash memory space. When you plug a USB memory device into the system, Vista actually does a performance check to see if the device meets the standard. Vista won't allow you to use a device it thinks will slow the system down. Note that USB hard drives won't work.

Microsoft's general recommendation for maximum benefit from ReadyBoost is to match the capacity of the flash device to the size of your system's main memory. So if you have 2GB of system RAM, use a 2GB USB key. Note that some benefit is gained from using any flash device, and the capacities supported for ReadyBoost range from 256MB to 4GB.

So can it really speed up the system and how much?

"Well, that depends. On average, a RANDOM 4K read from flash is about 10x faster than from HDD. Now, how does that translate to end-user perf? Under memory pressure and heavy disk activity, the system is much more responsive; on a 4GB machine with few applications running, the ReadyBoost effect is much less noticable", Matt Ayers, Program Manager of Microsoft Windows Client Performance group, says.

So WWW is part of us, no doubt, no argument. Who actually made this happen or contribute to this great phenomenon. A top 50 names (actually 62 people) that shape what we read, what we watch, what we hear, what we write, what we buy, what we sell, who we befriend, practically everything we do online every minute everyday.
[Source: pcworld.com]

1. Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, and Sergey BrinExecutives, Google
2. Steve Jobs, Apple
3. Bram Cohen, BitTorrent
4. Mike Morhaime, Blizzard Entertainment
5. Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia
6. John Doerr, Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield & Byers
7. Craig Newmark, Craigslist
8. Peter Levinsohn, Fox Media
9. Marissa Mayer, Google
10. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Youtube
11. Kevin J. MartinChairman, Federal Communications Commission
12. Brad Templeton, Electronic Frontier Foundation
13. Henry Chon, CyWorld
14. Shana Fisher, InterActiveCorp
15. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, Joost, Skype and Kazaa
16. Matt Mullenweg, WordPress
17. Philip Rosedale, Linden Lab
18. Jon Lech Johansen, DeCSS decryption program
19. Jerry Yang, David Filo, and Terry Semel, Yahoo
20. Jack Ma, Alibaba
21. Brewster Kahle, Internet Archieve
22. Ray Ozzie, Microsoft
23. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Daily Kos
24. Jeff Bezos, Amazon
25. Robert Scoble, PodTech.net
26. John Battelle, Federated Media Publishing
27. Lawrence Lessig, Creative Commons
28. Meg Whitman, Ebay
29. Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator, Oregon
30. Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
31. Bruce Schneier, Cryptographer
32. Kevin Rose, Digg
33. David Farber, Interesting-People.org
34. John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff, Powerline
35. Vinton G. Cerf, ICANN Board of Directors & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
36. Tim O’Reilly, Oreilly Media
37. Drew Curtis, Fark.com
38. Gabe Rivera, TechMeMe
39. Dave Winer, Scripting.com
40. Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla
41. Perez Hilton, Hollywood Blogger
42. Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston, Y-Combinator
43. Mikko H. Hypponen, F-Secure
44. Rob Malda, Slashdot.org
45. Nick Denton, Gawker Media
46. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, W3C
47. Leo Laporte, (TWiT) podcast
48. Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, Blogging voice of Iraq
49. Jesse James Garrett, Adaptive Path
50. Tila Tequila, MySpace Personality

Someday, sometime, maybe you will see your name appear in this list!

Labels: top 50, web

I am going to revamp this blog to be a "geeky" blog.. about some latest IT developments , some IT news that catch my attentions! And I might also rope some other contributors in to guest edit this blog! :)

I am going to REVIVE this website.. hahaha..
it has been long since i last updated this website because I have been trying to maintain my other blogs.. which proven to be a bit too much for me.. but from today on.. i shall BLOG harder..