The amazing changes in data centers over the last 10 years! Back in the late 90s, the servers we had were in huge tower cases: they looked like a desktop computer, but were about 3 feet tall.
It’s truly amazing what they can do now: 240 computers in a single rack. The video below shows just how far things have come.
Google’s data centers are so large that they use a water-based cooling system to keep all those servers cool. This video shows how they run an entire water treatment plant, just for cleaning up the water so it can be used to cool their server facility. It’s a fascinating look at the sheer scale of…
Update (October 2026) Sprint merged with T-Mobile in 2020, and its old 3G network was shut down in 2022, so this phone wouldn’t even get a signal today. Review by Jamie Dolan: “Jamie with Akiva & Vasco” Click here to conact Jamie HTC Hero Review: The cellular phone market is booming. They are not…
A personal thank-you to the Internet Archive and its Wayback Machine, which helped me rebuild the PowerNet Online site from almost thirty years ago, and a gentle word about supporting it.
2/28/2011 Akiva & Vasco. February 28th 2011. February went by stunningly fast. It’s hard to believe that it was a full year ago today that Akiva became ill. It was the last 2 days of February that he started having trouble, and he went into the vet on March 1, 2010. It took him months…
I originally wrote this review in November 2009, when the Sony VAIO VGN-NW240F was brand new and running a then-fresh copy of Windows 7. I’ve cleaned up the formatting and added a quick-specs box, but I’ve left the review itself as the honest first-look it was at the time, a little time capsule of what…
Throwing it way back to a camping trip from June 9th, 2002. Karen and I set up our tents in the woods, got a good fire going, and spent the weekend cooking over the open flame and enjoying the outdoors. Funny looking back at these — we both look so young! Nothing quite like camp…