Flash hard drives for laptop from SanDisk
Yes, the flash drive, which you use as your mobile data storage, will be the main storage for your laptop due to its smaller size and durability. SanDisk has released a 32GB drive for commercial notebooks as a replacement to the conventional hard drives, which are using magnetic platters. This means that there will be no more moving parts on the hard disk and the hard disk will be cooler and more durable.
Some said that flash cards can survive drops from great heights. My personal experience with flash disk drive, it can be washed with machine when it gets dirty and the data is still safe on the disk.
As the technology is very new, the price is still very high. I think that this technology will be cheap in 5 years time. Just look at how cheap a 1 GB USB Flash Drive today compared to the price 2 years ago. Next two years, I will not have a laptop with a background sound of the hard disk.
Related links:
SanDisk Preps Flash Drives For Notebooks
SanDisk Releases 32Gb Flash Hard Drive for Notebook Computers
SanDisk 32GB SSD
SanDisk Releases 32GB Flash Drive on PC World
What are stop words?
What are stop words? If you are used to search engine optimization, you will come across this term. Stop words are the words which are being ignored by search engines, in order to speed up searches and to save space.
How stop words help to save space?
Consider this sentence:
The way to the school is long and hard when walking in the rain.
The appears three times. To save space, a search engine might replace it with what’s called a marker. The sentence would be stored like this:
* way to * school is long and hard when walking in * rain.
This explanation is simplified, but the point is that using markers can save a lot of disk space. The sentence retains most of its relevancy, and the extra space can be used to store more web pages.
Explanation from Danny Sullivan
How can stop words speed searches?
Some search engines store every word on a web page but they don’t search for certain ones to save time. Consider a search for:
the piano player
The search engine has to make three runs to find matches (again, this is oversimplified).
First it looks for all matches of the, then all matches of piano, then all matches of player.
Chances are, just looking for the last two words is enough to find relevant pages. So to save time, the search engine excludes searching for a select number of small words. It won’t “stop” to look for them.
Explanation from Danny Sullivan
Search engines also ignore stop words in meta tags and title tags and domain names. Therefore, don’t put stop words on your meta and title tags because it will waste your bandwidth (but the effect is almost cannot be seen). Besides, the domains such as therealestate.com and arealestate.com will have the same effect because the stop words are there.
Below are some related links to widen your knowledge on this topic.
Stop words on Wikipedia
A list of English Stop Words
A list of stop words in English and other languages
How to put a random post on your Wordpress blog
How to put a random post or excerpt on your Wordpress blog? That was the question, which crossed my mind yesterday. Thanks to Google, that I've found the method on Wordpress forum. It is just simple. What you need to do is paste the code below on your theme files. In this blog, I put the random excerpt on the top right, so that it is easy to be noticed.
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<?php
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$rand_id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status = 'publish' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1");
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query_posts("p=$rand_id");
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?>
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<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
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<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
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<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
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<br /><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>">Read more...</a>
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<?php endwhile; ?>
< ?php the_excerpt(); ?> can be changed to < ?php the_content(); ?> if you want to display the full post instead of the excerpt.
If you dont want to mess with this code, you have another choice to use Wordpress plugins from wasabi, Random Posts and Random Excerpts. According to the author, you can limit the length of the excerpt generated, which cannot be done by the code above.
But I don't use the plugins. Doing something without plugins is better for me because I can learn while applying the code. Not just knowing how to activate or deactivate something. But it is your choice by the way
Related links:
Old posts. Don’t throw them away. Why?
Templates Tags - Post tags at Wordpress Codex
