Proficient Solutions, Inc. (soon to be R3Ware)

For those of you out there looking for a RAID stack for embedded applications there appears to be clear momentum behind using the Linux MD RAID stack with hardware acceleration. Both AMCC and Intel have I/O processors that support enhance the MD RAID stack with hardware assisted speed improvements using XOR engines and extra DMA [...]

My 2007 vintage MacBook Pro was starting to feel a bit sluggish.  Running several virtual machines under Fusion and doing work at the same time caused just too much stress on the disk i/o and 4GB of RAM.  So I went and did some research and did some upgrades.  I now have a 128GB SSD [...]

I’m an agnostic when it comes to operating systems.  I don’t possess the religious ferment present in a lot of us geeks as to the ‘best’ OS nor do I believe in the ‘free is always best’ mantra of the open source zealots.  But this is starting to feel political so I better move on…
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Well I’m drooling a bit over the new MacBook Pro models.  I happen to love the design, support and build quality of the notebooks as well as the stability of the platform.  The new models that can hold 8GB of DDR3 along with an SSD for storage should be really fast and very very lovely [...]