The recent Google layoffs, affecting 6% of the workforce, have sparked debates about personal ambition, poor leadership, and unrestrained capitalism. The publicly listed tech giant, once known for its "Don't be evil" mantra, has come a long way since its early days, ballooning to a market cap of over a trillion dollars and nearly 200,000 employees. But as the company continued to grow rapidly and compete for top talent, spiraling compensation packages raised questions from investors about the return on their investments. However, instead of addressing the root causes of its wasteful deployment of people, Google chose to take a blunt force approach to headcount reduction, which is unlikely to lead to improvements in productivity and may even harm the company in the long run. The way the layoffs were handled - with some employees being fired by text message and ghosted - has left a bad taste in the mouth of former employees and is a far cry from the company's original vision of serving the greater good. The pressures of public ownership, with its fiduciary duty to act for the benefit of shareholders, have driven Google down a path that prioritizes short-term profits over long-term thinking. This is a problem with unrestrained capitalism, as institutional investors with the means to take companies to court have the upper hand in shaping a company's priorities. Despite the efforts of Google's founders to maintain control and operate as a long-term-focused company, the reality of public ownership has resulted in a company culture that values profits over people trying to pick up…

Introduction As will be shown, the SSD benchmark testing “lies” are more ones of omission than of commission. But despite honorable intentions, any result must be considered a “lie” when it provides meaningless or, worse yet, misleading information. The underlying cause of these lies is a familiar one: accurate testing takes time. So short-cuts are taken. Important procedures get skipped. Key considerations are ignored. Results are read before performance stabilizes. Important tests are run without proper preparation—or not run at all. The situation with performance testing of solid state drives is not unlike what occurred when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced its gasoline mileage rating system in the 1970’s. The test simulations were not representative of the way most people drive, so the results were notoriously high. Virtually no one got the highway or city mileage “determined” from the testing, while the regulators and auto manufacturers alike acknowledged, yet completely ignored the problem. Subsequent enhancements have dramatically improved the accuracy of the results, but the changes were slow in coming. For example, highway speed limits increased from 55 to 65 MPH in 1987, but the EPA tests did not take this into account until the 2008 model year—21 years later! The “your mileage may vary” caveat applies equally to SSD benchmark testing today. Some testing is robust, with the results providing an accurate prediction of the performance that might be expected in the real-world. More likely, the results are way off, way too often. Here are the three key factors that determine whether or not SSD benchmark testing…

With 4K / Ultra HD breaking into the mainstream both in computer monitors and televisions, you might be wondering what the capabilities of the four most popular connection types are, and which you should use, and where we can find these kind of monitors, luckily there are sites like https://factschronicle.com/ that have a lot of information about this. Welcome to our guide on the merits and pitfalls of HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort and good ole’ VGA. Learn here what’s new, what’s old and what’s just straight-up outdated. HDMI These days, virtually all TVs and computer monitors support an HDMI connection. HDMI, which stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface, shoots both digital audio and video down the same cable. Chances are, if you are trying to connect something to your television – and that includes computers – you’re going to want to use HDMI. HDMI is used in a very broad array of consumer electronics products, including laptop and desktop computers, mobile devices, the Chromecast dongle, Roku’s streaming stick, Blu-ray players, HD cable boxes, and much, much more – so it’s a familiar and appealing format for most folks, and easily the most popular among general consumers. Until very recently, HDMI v1.4 was the standard by which consumer electronics companies operated. There’s a good chance that all of the gear in your home is HDMI 1.4, but you should know that there’s a new version out, called HDMI 2.0, which takes HDMI’s capabilities to the next level. After the introduction of 4K/Ultra HD televisions came HDMI 2.0. HDMI 2.0 can pass video signals…

crontab(5) BSD File Formats Manual crontab(5) NAME crontab -- tables for driving cron DESCRIPTION A crontab file contains instructions to the cron(8) daemon of the general form: ``run this command at this time on this date''. Each user has their own crontab, and commands in any given crontab will be executed as the user who owns the crontab. Uucp and News will usually have their own crontabs, eliminating the need for explicitly running su(1) as part of a cron command. (Darwin note: Although crontab(5) are officially supported under Darwin, their functionality has been absorbed into launchd(8), which provides a more flexible way of automatically executing commands. See launchd.plist(5) for more information.) Blank lines and leading spaces and tabs are ignored. Lines whose first non-space character is a pound-sign (#) are comments, and are ignored. Note that comments are not allowed on the same line as cron commands, since they will be taken to be part of the command. Similarly, comments are not allowed on the same line as environment variable settings. An active line in a crontab will be either an environment setting or a cron command. An environment setting is of the form, name = value where the spaces around the equal-sign (=) are optional, and any subse- quent non-leading spaces in value will be part of the value assigned to name. The value string may be placed in quotes (single or double, but matching) to preserve leading or trailing blanks. The name string may also be placed in quote (single or double, but matching) to preserve leading, trailing…

List of computer PSU form factors ATX PS/2 This is by far the most popular PSU form factor and is often called the “standard ATX PSU” Standard dimension for this form factor is: 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 140mm (D) PSU with depth longer than 140mm can still be considered as an ATX PS/2 model ATX PS/3 This form factor is compatible with ATX PS/2, the only difference is the shorter depth. Many have also called this the “Micro ATX” PSU form factor, which is incorrect as no such standard exists for power supplies. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 150mm (W) x 86mm (H) x 100mm (D) The depth for this form factor may vary from 100mm up to 139mm SFX This form factor is popular with small computer cases and is also often wrongly referred to as “Micro ATX” power supplies.  Because this standard is smaller than ATX PS/2 in all dimensions, it can be used in cases that support ATX PS/2 with simple adapters or brackets. Some retail SFX power supplies are sold with adapters included. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 125mm (W) x 51.5mm (H) x 100mm (D) There are variations for this form factor that have longer depth. Flex ATX This form factor is often used in small computer cases and is sometimes wrongly referred to as “Mini-ITX” PSU. Standard dimension for this form factor is: 81.5mm (W) x 40.5mm (H) x 150mm (D) There are variations for this form factor that have longer depth TFX This form factor is commonly…

To increase general awareness of PC users on motherboard sizes and form factors, the following outlines most known ATX motherboard form factors in a simple guide. Standard ATX (most of the time referred to as simply “ATX”) Standard ATX specifies length to be 12 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches. Maximum number of expansion slots is seven (7) Up to ten (10) mounting holes are available, although four of them are optional (circled in red)   ====== Form factors smaller than standard ATX motherboards ===== Retail motherboards smaller than standard ATX motherboards will always be compatible with cases designed for standard ATX form factor. In order of decreasing sizes, they are: Micro-ATX Micro-ATX specifies length to be 9.6 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches, it has three less expansion slots than standard ATX. Maximum number of expansion slots is four (4) Up to eight (8) mounting holes are available. The two holes circled in green are optional positions for motherboard manufacturers to utilize and holes circled in red are usually eliminated if the board size is small to not require them. Micro-ATX and ATX are the most common motherboard form factors   DTX  DTX Mini-DTX   DTX specifies length to be 8 inches with width varying from 6.7 to 9.6 inches. Mini-DTX specifically refers to DTX motherboards with a width of 6.7 inches. Compared to Micro-ATX, DTX has two less expansion slots. Maximum number of expansion slots is two (2) Up to six (6) mounting holes are available. The holes circled in red are usually…