Windows 7 Beta takes another crown, besting Vista in SSD performance – Engadget.

To be honest, it doesn’t surprise me. I have only used Windows 7 for a short while in a virtual machine (using VMware Fusion on my Mac) and even though it doesn’t have the full capabilities, it does seem to be a lot more polished than Vista.

Mitsubishi has announced that it’s Laser TV technology will be coming out in the US soon. See their website at http://www.believingisseeing.tv/

Basically Laser TV’s use a bunch of lasers to try and give the best picture in a flat panel display (using DLP technology, so it’s similar to a projector but doesn’t need a globe replacement).

What I wonder, as both a consumer and a sales assistant is ‘Will Laser TV survive’. The technology sounds like it could be great, but with Mitsubishi being the only manufacture and it only being announced in the US, compared to LCD and Plasma which area available everywhere in different brands.

Also, technology such as OLED is being actively developed by companies like Sony and Panasonic, as well as improvements to backlighting on LCD’s. Laser TV technology has only been announced and developed by Mitsubishi, who isn’t giving much information away (see the FAQ on their website).

As some may have noticed, email and access to this website would have not been working last Wednesday morning. This was due to a network hardware problem that occurred in my hosts ACT data-centre (see http://status.aussiehq.com.au/item/2025.html for the explanation). 

Now with most hosts, this and other networking issues occurs only once in a while (some hosts though are worse (see the Whirlpool Forums for posts on these) and some are unlikely (Dreamhost has had unfortunate issues in the past)).

Now the biggest thing, and something that I guess isn’t thought of, is what happens if there is an explosion and fire in the power room of a data-centre.

Usually if there is a power issue (eg. no power to the grid), backup generators kick in. Unfortunately, for ‘The Planet’, they had a short that caused their power room in one of their data-centre’s to catch fire and explode (thankfully for them, not causing any damage to other infrastructure including servers). At least they are keeping updates on their forums about the issue, something that some other hosts rarely do. 

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