Birds are faster than internet

On Netzzeitung.de I read a curious article about internet speed. It tells about the experiment how fast data can be spread in comparision to the internet. And guess what? The internet lost against a carrier pigeon. The bird got a tiny 4 GB memory card and transported it over a distance of about 85 kilometres. [...]

Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick

Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the [...]