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"Numato's URMC4 4 Channel USB Relay Module provides exceptional value for money. It has four on board 12v DC relays that can switch up to 10A load.The relays are controlled by USB capable Microchip PIC Microcontroller (PIC18F14K50) and comes with built in firmware that supports simple commands to control relays and read relay status. The board, when attached to a PC/Laptop shows up as a serial port and all you need to control the board is a serial terminal application like HyperTerminal or Putty." -- $40 - Tim Lossen

"ELBERT is a simple but versatile FPGA Learning/Development board featuring Xilinx Spartan 3A FPGA. An excellent choice for beginners and advance learners for experimenting and learning system design with FPGAs. This development board features Xilinx XC3S50A 100 pin FPGA with maximum 68 user IOs (Some are dedicated for system). USB2 interface provides fast and easy configuration download to the on board SPI flash." -- $50 - Tim Lossen

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"Move is a modern and simple programming language which can run on virtually any computer. Move is primarily aimed towards people not previously familiar with programming computers." - Tim Lossen

"Is my privacy safe with YoHOST? -- Yes. We ensure your 100% confidentiality. We do not request any personal information from our customers, neither shall we disclose your payment account to a third party under any circumstances." - Tim Lossen

"Packet-switching is one of the most important ideas in modern history. Packets did for information what the standard shipping container did for cargo." -- "Cargo follows money follows data follows cargo, in a self-reinforcing cycle that can last for centuries. It’s the original network effect." - Tim Lossen

"I start my story in August 1960, when I became a programmer with a small computer manufacturer, a division of Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd., where in the next eight years I was to receive my primary education in computer science." - Tim Lossen

"GE has managed to adapt technology first developed for use in jet engines for use as a processorcooler. The technology is called Dual Piezoelectric Cooling Jets (DCJ) and consists of two metal plates that contract and expand in order to pump air. In so doing, the air movement is 10x that of passive cooling and good enough to keep a modern processor cool." -- Geek.com - Tim Lossen

"The number of hardware options available for your next minuscule, PC-powered DIY project has expanded rapidly over the past few months. The ultra-cheap Raspberry Pi maintains its position as the standard bearer, but other boards like the ODROID-X and Cubieboard have popped up with different processor and port options. Now, Via’s offering up another option: the Pico-ITX Epia-P910." -- Geek.com - Tim Lossen

"A degree-N Kautz graph consists of nodes which each have N input and N output links (arcs, edges, whatever terminology you prefer) arranged in a particular order." - Tim Lossen

"ODROID-U2 is a micro sized open development platform which is powered by Exynos4412 Prime. 1.7Ghz ARM Cortex-A9 Quad Cores show PC-like performance. Enjoy various PC peripherals on Android & Ubuntu Linux. " - Tim Lossen

"A browser JavaScript testing toolkit. It does browser testing with browser automation (think JsTestDriver), QUnit style static HTML page testing, testing in headless browsers (PhantomJS, jsdom), and more." - Tim Lossen

"Der HighPoint Data Center 7280 ist ein SATA-Controller der über acht SFF-8087-Anschlüsse den Anschluss von 32 internen SATA-Festplatten ermöglicht. Die maximale Bandbreite liegt bei 9,6 GB/s. Der Data Center 7280 unterstützt Festplatten mit mehr als 2 TB Kapazität, ist Hot-Plug-fähig, ideal für SSDs und beruht auf dem PCI-Express-2.0-x8-Standard." - Tim Lossen

"Hammer is a web development tool for web designers & developers. -- Build out static HTML sites quickly and easily. No fuss, no mess, no PHP." -- $24 - Tim Lossen

"We're announcing today that Bitcoin-Central.net is getting, through a partnership with Aqoba and the Credit Mutuel, allowed to operate as a bank." - Tim Lossen

"70 x 7 x 100 mm" - Tim Lossen

"Device: iSSD™ -- Form Factor: BGA -- Characteristics: 0.5 mm pitch 156 Ball BGA -- Interface : SATA III 6Gb/s -- Capacity (GB) : 8, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128 -- Performance: Up to 450 MB/s 350 MB/s Sequential Read/Write" - Tim Lossen

"Kunststoffwürfel mit abgerundeten Kanten, ohne Aufdruck oder Beschriftung, für Ihre eigenen Spiel- und Gestaltungsideen! 22mm Kantenlänge" - Tim Lossen

"The idea is simple, take an mSATA drive with it’s tiny form factor, about 50mm by 30mm by 5mm, and stuff almost half a TB of flash in to it. That is what you get with the new Atlas 480GB drive." -- SemiAccurate - Tim Lossen

"In 2001, the Isle of Man Government was one of the first jurisdictions in the world to introduce legislation specifically designed to benefit gambling and e-gaming firms and fully protect customers. Following further recent changes, the licensing and regulatory controls are now more responsive to the needs of the gambling and e-gaming industries." - Tim Lossen

"'Physicalization' is an awkward name for an approach to server consolidation that seeks to offer a hardware-based alternative to virtualization by cramming multiple, low-power processors into a small amount of rack space. These processors are invariably mobile processors, designed for power-sensitive mobile products, and server vendors are building very small, modular server nodes around them and packing them as densely as possible into rack units." -- Ars Technica - Tim Lossen

"There has been a lot of chatter recently about so-called "physicalization" as an alternative to virtualization. The theory seems to be that this is an alternative to virtualization because you have a 1:1 mapping between physical hardware and OS instances, so you don't need any of the added management tools or software overhead of a real virtualization rollout. It also seems like these physicalized servers give you greater granularity in matching GigE bandwidth to OS instances, and in control over power (because you can just shut off nodes that aren't in use)." - Tim Lossen

"The PowerVault MD3660f is a 60 drive dense array that has been designed to scale and meet the needs of applications." - Tim Lossen

"The S3700 is one of the most exciting drives I've had the opportunity to test. Its architecture is more than just a better, faster evolution of designs that came before it, the S3700 is truly something new." -- AnandTech - Tim Lossen

"SATA Express is a new specification under development by SATA-IO that combines SATA software infrastructure with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) interface to deliver high-speed storage solutions. SATA express enables the development of new devices that utilize the PCIe interface and maintain compatibility with existing SATA applications. The technology will provide a cost-effective means to increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s." - Tim Lossen

"The TYAN Micro Server is the highest density server platform on the market. The FM65 Micro Server offers 18 nodes in a 4U enclosure, resulting in a logical .22U per node. This is about twice the density of our space efficient Yellow River server series and just over four times the density of a traditional 1U server." - Tim Lossen

"During normal operation, the NVDIMM appears as a standard registered DDR3 DIMM to the host system, providing all of the benefits of high-speed, high-density DRAM. In the event of an unexpected power loss, the critical data residing in DRAM is moved to on-board flash memory using a battery-free power source based on ultracapacitors, (PowerGEM®), thereby preserving all the DRAM data, which can then be safely restored when power is returned." - Tim Lossen

"Shark is a large-scale data warehouse system for Spark designed to be compatible with Apache Hive. It can answer Hive QL queries up to 100 times faster than Hive without modification to the existing data nor queries. Shark supports Hive's query language, metastore, serialization formats, and user-defined functions." - Tim Lossen

"Spark is an open source cluster computing system that aims to make data analytics fast — both fast to run and fast to write. -- To run programs faster, Spark provides primitives for in-memory cluster computing: your job can load data into memory and query it repeatedly much quicker than with disk-based systems like Hadoop MapReduce." - Tim Lossen

"As a high-density and fully redundant expansion storage platform, Quanta MESOS M4600H JBOD, with four external SAS ports, provides the connectivity by cascading JBODs and Quanta Servers. M4600H, populated with up to 60 X 3.5" or 2.5" form factor SAS and/or SATA Hard Disk Drives on 4U enclosure, bringing the scalability and cost effectiveness to direct attach storage." - Tim Lossen