Archive for the 'Research' Category

Blocks Versus Files

November 12, 2008

This topic presents an interesting problem.  A disk is made up of sectors which are arranged as clusters by the file system.  Both NTFS and FAT use a cluster model to clump together sectors into bigger chunks.  The cluster model has been around since the original DOS and still runs strong today.  The boot sector [...]

The Mirror

October 21, 2007

There is a topic I’ve been meaning to cover for months now but just haven’t tackled it. It is more research based and certainly isn’t Citrix related (yet) but it so interesting that I had to write about it.
Earlier this year I found about Mirror Neurons and when I learned more about the topic, [...]

When Choice Goes Bad

October 15, 2007

Years and years ago, I came to the conclusion that good software should only provide a few (3 - 5) choices of action at any given time. This was based on text menu systems before even the era of Windows or Mac. Personally, it just seemed too cluttered and too confusing to provide [...]

Learning Common Sense

October 14, 2007

I’ve always been interested in the MIT Media Lab and also artificial intelligence since university. I’ve read a few books about projects there and have read some information about the Media Lab on the web. The projects are always interesting and usually end up in consumer products eventually.
Recently I was looking for any [...]