Rants N’ Jibes

MOZILLA Firefox is undoubtedly one of the favourite among the sea of browsing software.

Its FREE, FAST and SECURE

AT 1300 PST (2000 GMT) on 17 June they released the 3.0 version of FIREFOX and it was havoc.

The servers handling the downloads were crushed by the load of people trying to get their hands on the new version.

Within 24 hours of the release firefox claims around 8 million downloads.

The correct data is being scrutinised and will be then sent to the Guinness World Records organisation for the record declaration.

I was surprised when i heard that a desktop supercomputer was developed using four Nvidia 9800 GX2 graphics cards. This is equivalent to eight GPUs. This, in effect, does the work of close to 350 CPU cores.

This architecture is similar to that of the PS3 Cell and therefore be used for the medical community and the likes that need this sort of computing power.

Did I tell you this is pretty affordable too?

Graphene is a derivative of Graphite (hexagonally bonded carbon). Scientists of the Manchester research team have found a way to use Graphene as electrodes in Liquid Crystal Displays which will help in making extremely thin displays. This is possible because the graphene layer is only one atom thick!!!

The research is still going on and the final products are expected to hit the market in the coming few years.

I guess postpone my plans of setting that Home theater…

New phones with roll up screen extension may not be that far off now!!!