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Microsoft Did the Impossible: The New Hotmail Is Fantastic

By Sam Biddle, Jul 31, 2012 12:00 PM
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No need to be kind here: telling people you use Hotmail has been the Internet equivalent of admitting to necrophilia. But after a decade as a punchline, Hotmail just pulled off the biggest victory in the inbox game since Gmail. And it might just get you to switch.

This is starting to look familiar to the point of predictability. Microsoft takes something boring, partially broken, and thoroughly entrenched: Windows, Office, Mobile. Toss nearly everything ugly and uninspired into the ash heap, put smart people to work on it, and pack it full of Metro. Windows 8, Office 15, and Windows Phone have all turned stale things into vibrant, modern successes. And Hotmail—now Outlook—can boast the same.

It actually looks good

But, come on, is Hotmail capable of a makeover? Hotmail? Even the people who work on Hotmail will admit without reluctance that the name itself is one of the service’s biggest liabilities. Nobody wants to say Hotmail. Nobody wants it on their resume, on their card, or shared over drinks. It’s been stigmatized regardless of how good or awful it actually is—when was the last time you even checked?

So, say goodbye to Hotmail. Now it’s Outlook. And against all odds it’s damn great—Microsoft has turned the deserved punchline of the whole web’s mockery and spun it into top tier webmail.

First—and this is no superficial dig—Hotmail-which-is-now-Outlook doesn’t look like it crawled out of a late-90s sex dungeon, pulling its own cluttered, woefully-designed entrails in tow. The New Hotmail looks fantastic, and depending on how you managed to stomachGmail’s last facelift (or not), it might be the handsomest webmail in the land. Really. Simple, clear, clean—it looks like an expertly assembled IKEA drawer.

Outlook is as pretty as you want email to be—appealing short of cloying. It perfectly matches the superflat rainbow modernism of Windows 8. Colors are stark and few, complementing the rest of the Metro palette. Inbox items are spaced just about perfectly, packing in a manageably dense list of messages—unlike Gmail’s recent fatso formatting. Microsoft is beaming at how many extra pixels it gives you to gawk at your mail compared to Google, and it’s absolutely true: with Outlook, the top of the screen is appreciably slimmer than Gmail.

This gives you a big fat swath of screen to appreciate, making subject lines a cinch to scan—the entire shebang is terrifically readable, although emails themselves sometimes default to a nasty serif font. But beyond that typographical flub (which might just be a beta hiccup on my end), Outlook is laid out at least as well as Gmail.

If you’re a purist, you can spread your whole inbox in a vertical stack. You know how that works. Or pop open a “reading pane,” which splits your screen real estate between an inbox overview and a live view of every in an adjacent column, sort of like how email is managed on an iPad. You can also stick the reading pane down below your inbox list. All three ways work well and are wonderfully quick to load. Yep—three well-designed ways to digest email all within one browser tab, with none of them feeling slapped on or in any way a compromise.

It actually feels good

This isn’t just catchup with Gmail’s finely powdered facade—Microsoft has poured serious brainpower into making Outlook the most functional web client ever seen. So many functions.

On your left, the standard folders. Nothing to say about that—sort however you’d like!—but at least they’re executed well. When you put that aside, things get interesting. Email interesting.

Outlook offers a series of “Quick views,” letting you hop instantly to emails with document attachments, embedded images, and even smart categories like shipping updates—yeah, it’s sharp enough to pluck your latest Amazon order out of the pile. You can create your own categories with your own parameters, but even these few that are preloaded are a huge aid.

The main inbox view can also be sorted to display the newsletters you sign up for but never read (think Groupon) and social media notifications (Jonny High School is now following you on Twitter!). This is a great way to clear crud out of your box with as few sweeps as possible, or breeze through these second tier emails with many fewer clicks. It makes tremendous sense. Email’s essence is the same as it was when Hotmail was ascendant a decade and a half ago, but there’ve been some shifts—the service can be just as much of a blip notification (tagged photo!) as it can an actual message. Microsoft gets that, and Outlook makes it near effortless to treat second class mail as what it is: useful noise.

Ease of clicking around to see the email you want is unrivaled with Outlook. But getting around is just part of what’s cool.

Let’s say you open up one of those emails flagged with images. And let’s say it’s flagged that way because it includes a link to a Flickr gallery. Outlook will automatically embed that gallery via slideshow, letting you sprint through pictures without having to leave your inbox. The same embedding is pulled off with other attached or linked media, from videos to Word documents—viewable and editable with a free web version of Office, of course.

This is a commanding ethos for Outlook—your email is a sort of online HQ, one of those tabs that’s rarely closed no matter where you are. So if it’s going to be sitting there anyway, shouldn’t it do a little bit more than mail? Shouldn’t it do it in a way that makes sense and doesn’t feel like features for the sake of features? Yes, yes so many times. And Outlook provides just that.

Little touches abound, like an instant look at the last Facebook update or tweet of someone you’re emailing with, instantly beamed adjacent to the email. Hover over a correspondant’s contact photo—pulled straight from Facebook—and you can start Facebook messaging them, too, all from within Outlook. None of this distracts from communicating with the people you know, the whole point of an email address. If anything, it bolsters that concept, catching up with our modern year’s broader definition of communicating.

Unlike Gchat, the wonderful ubiquity that was just jammed onto the left side of our inboxes so abruptly and so many years ago, all of Outlooks “social” tweaks, to use an obnoxious catchall, are natural and imbued with grace. Nothing feels obligatory. You’re here for email, you wind up using a little more, and you wonder why you couldn’t glance at what your boss was tweeting while the two of you email. Computers should help you cheat at nature by feeling smarter than you really are, and Outlook grants that little injection of intelligence.

But is anyone really gonna use this?

The Chernobyl Tourism Board has an easier task before it. Hotmail is a cursed word in tech, and, frankly Outlook is probably close behind it, a workplace nightmare most people associate with tedium. The sad fact is that most of us probably wouldn’t switch from Gmail to a better webmail service. Even if it were a much better webmail service. Many of us have been using the same Gmail account since the middle of the Bush administration, and that inertia, combined with the toxic connotations of Hotmail, will make any switch a huge psychological task. Why didn’t Microsoft call it Bing mail? People like Bing. Bing is a decent search engine, and Bing is fun to say. Sam at Bing Dot Com. I like that.

But no, it’s Outlook, and most will balk, as much as they ought not to. What we should all do, instead of laughing ourselves unconscious at reborn Hotmail that can go deftly toe to toe with Gmail, is try it. Set your current account to forward to a new Outlook account, and really try it. If you’re already buying in to the Windows (Phone) 8 Metro all-inclusive pixel resort, you’ve got even more incentive to try. If you’re tired of Google sticking its social media tongue down your email’s throat or wary of its privacy reaches, this is your out.

And it’s available to you starting today. You might actually get your real name.

It takes a few minutes to set up an email account, and if you let yourself appreciate the work that’s been both powerfully hammered and gently chiseled into this new beautiful, life-helping mail, you might have something else on your screen that lasts eight years.

Music: “I’ll Be Good” by Setec,FreeMusicArchive.org

Using a Command Line to Uninstall Software on Remote PCs

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WMIC (Windows Management Instrumentation Command-Line) is a potent tool that often doesn’t see much use due to the lack of (easily accessible) documentation available. More information can be found on WMIC here:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742610.aspx. Some great switches and alternate options can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/wmic_overview.mspx. We’ll be using WMIC with domain admin credentials to crawl through a list of nodes (PCs/Laptops) and uninstall an example program without interrupting the user.

1.	Load up a command shell with appropriate access permissions Though a WMIC instruction can be given appropriate credentials prior to operation, it is typically best-practice to avoid clear-text typing the password (who is that looking over your shoulder;)). We’ll execute the runas command like the following: Runas /user:DomainAdminAccount@DOMAIN cmd … which will prompt us for the credentials of our DomainAdminAccount. If authenticated, we’ll be handed a command shell running as the Admin.
2.	Step into WMIC One of the nice features of WMIC is that it may be run from any machine. With our admin command shell, we’re going to enter the wmic command followed by enter. (Note: We could have jumped into WMIC directly from the runas command… this just breaks out the steps)
3.	Verify Program Installation (an optional informative step) With our WMIC prompt, we can ask many questions of a node (or nodes) and receive some nicely formatted replies. Though formatting the replies is beyond the scope of this "How To", much more information can be found on the internet. So let’s find out if a particular node even has our target software (Spiceworks does attempt to list this information in its software scan) >/node:COMPUTERNAME product get name,version,vendor This command asks WMI to reply with a list including the Name, Version, and Vendor of all compliant software installations. If you would like to filter for a specific product, you may do so. Here’s an example scanning a networked machine for all installed applications from the vendor "Apple, Inc" >/node:ANOTHEREXAMPLE product where vendor="Apple Inc." get name,vendor (*Note from Anders4221: A small hint if you have special characters like ‘-’ or ‘/’ in the computer name you need to use ‘ ‘ characters in order to get information from client) (**Note from Joe3034: Here is how you use wildcards in your search: Surround the like phrase in double quotes and your search criteria in single quotes, and use % as the wildcard symbol. e.g.: /node:ComputerXYZ product where "vendor like ‘adobe%’" get name,version,identifyingNumber )
4.	Call for the Uninstallation So we can make a call to the WMI interface to uninstall a particular product… let’s pick on the MobileMe Control Panel from our previous example. The command: >/node:EXAMPLE product where name="MobileMe Control Panel" call uninstall … will prompt you for confirmation in the following (long) format: Execute (\\EXAMPLE\ROOT\CIMV2:Win32_Product.IdentifyingNumber="{6DA9102E-199F-43A0-A36B-6EF48081A658}",Name="MobileMe Control Panel",Version="2.1.0.24")->Uninstall() (Y/N/?)? .. to which you must reply ‘y’ if you wish to uninstall. WMI compliant software will run the default uninstalation procedures without the user needing to do anything (they receive no prompts etc). **Note that you may also use the /nointeractive flag like /node:EXAMPLE product where name="MobileMe Control Panel" call uninstall /nointeractive to prevent the confirmation request! -thx Bart2691
5.	Call Uninstall for a List of Machines (an optional informative step) Let’s assume you just got word that Adobe Reader has a serious flaw in it’s old version. In a panic, you asked all your users to blindly install the new version of Adobe reader straight from Adobe’s site. Thankfully, they all managed to do so… however you’ve received 3 tickets so far about an Acrobat.com icon on the desktop. You have a flat text file of all your computer’s names stored in c:\computers.txt. You pop open a WMIC shell with appropriate permissions and enter the following command: >/failfast:on /node:@"c:\computers.txt" product where name="Acrobat.com" call uninstall /nointeractive Which iterates through your list, skipping nodes that are invalid (eg:machine is turned off) and those that don’t meet the criteria. You’ll need to confirm ‘y’ that you want to uninstall on every node unless you use the nointeractive flag. * Updated Note from Bart2691 … an easy way to automate answering ‘Yes’. Examples for doing it by PC or a text file is to use the /nointeractive flag. Additionally, if you don’t wish to hang on failed nodes, use the /failfast:on flag to quickly skip a node that isn’t responding. ** note from true911 (unconfirmed) The correct flag is failfast:on, not fastfail:on wmic /failfast:on /node:@"FILENAME.txt" product where "name like ‘microsoft office professional edition 2003′" call uninstall /nointeractive

Conclusion

Hopefully you’ve been intrigued by the potency of WMIC. Though the command-line use of the uninstall call may not be commonly needed with software management tools, AD, etc… it can sometimes be the best way to accomplish a task quickly without disturbing your user(s).

Let’s hope spiceworks takes its WMI implementation a step further in a future release and automates this for us;)

FOG Server Install (Free Opensource Ghost)

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This guide will walk you through creating a FOG server from scratch to deployment of an image.
FOG is a image management server that can be used for multicasting an image to hundreds of PCs or imaging a single one. It can also boot the pcs to a memtest utility or a disk utility. I have tried to include as many of the video tutorials from their site as I could find..
Please post feedback, this has potential to be an amazing asset to all of you who are in need of an imaging solution. I would suggest setting aside about 4 hours to do this, depending on the size of the test PC.

Conclusion

This is more than worth the effort. Make sure you have enough storage for your images. This tutorial should have gotten you to the point where you can start to play with FOG yourself even if you have absolutely NO idea how to run Linux.
From here you can start creating groups to image, advanced tasks and start shaping things to your environment.

UPGRADE NOTE: If Upgrading Ubuntu from 9 to 10, you will need to re-install fog. Ubuntu 10 changed around some stuff in the init folders. I am not a linux geek so I cant explain it. But for further information see paul2019′s comments below
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OST is the short form of Offline Storage table files created by MS Outlook. OST files store the offline work and as soon as the server is connected and MS Outlook turns online, all the saved emails and information is delivered to respective client immediately. That is, due to OST files, you can work offline as well and server is automatically synced. In certain cases where network is limited or unreliable, creation of OST files proves to be the excellent process. Creation of OST files, permits user to work in server downtime situations as well.

How OST files work?

When you are working in an Offline mode, MS Outlook creates an exact copy of user mailbox on Exchange Server named as Offline folders with OST file extension. The aforementioned file is saved locally on your desktop named as Offline folder file. OST files are exact replica of the folders of an individual user on Exchange. Every modification made while working offline, is automatically synchronized when you are connected to Exchange Server.

Using the send/receive command, you can perform send or receive functions and copy the changes which were made while working offline. Permanently deleted items are removed from the Exchange server’s copy as well. However, there could be several reasons that corrupt an OST file. In such cases, OST to PST converter freeware comes handy. The OST to PST converter freeware converts OST file to PST file in a couple of minutes and makes it possible to access emails, contacts, journals, notes, tasks etc effortlessly.

Salient Features of OST to PST tool:

· Convenient conversion of inaccessible, unusable Offline Storage Table (OST) files to Personal Storage Table (PST) files.

· Recovers lost Emails and other Email items.

· Recovers permanently deleted Emails.

· Preserves complete Email formatting.

· Recovers Emails in Plain Text, RTF (Rich Text Format) and HTML format.

· Recovered Emails can be saved in PST, DBX, EML and MSG format such that Email data can be accessed using MS Outlook and Outlook Express.

· Embedded with more interactive, user-friendly GUI, no technical skills required.

· Supports all versions of MS Exchange Server, MS Outlook and Outlook Express.

· Free to try Evaluation Version available and allows user to test features and functions of the software.

· Allows user to find particular Email items.

· Facilitates user saving Email items just by selecting a date from a date range.

· Recovers mail messages, folders, posts, appointments, contact addresses, tasks, meeting requests, journals, notes, calendar, drafts, Emails deleted from “Deleted Items” folder.

· Recovers attachments like documents and images embedded in HTML.

· Recovers Email properties such as Subject, To, From, CC, BCC, and date.

· Recovers password-protected OST files. Supports both compressible encryption and high encryption.

· 30 days money back guarantee.

· Free from viruses and is completely safe to be installed on the computer system.

· Round-the-clock technical support.

· Live Update feature such that a user has the latest updated version installed.

· Live Support feature to help users in easily operating the software.

Creating an OST file

When MS Outlook is run for the first time on a computer, it creates the important data files automatically. OST files are created as soon as you start working on Ms Outlook. Outlook data files are saved at C:Documents and SettingsLocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftOutlook

If you wish to create an OST file yourself, then follow the instructions below:

1. Click on the File Menu and select Work Offline option

2. Offline file is created on your computer and all data from the server is copied to the new Offline Folder File (OST)

3. Select folders for offline utilization. Usually Inbox, Outbox, Deleted Items, Sent Items, Calendar, Contacts and Task folders are automatically made available offline. In order to select any other folder, then follow the instructions given below:
[A] On Tools menu > Send/Receive > Send/Receive Settings > Define Send/Receive Groups

[B] In the list, click the Send/Receive group comprising of Exchange account and then click Edit
[C] Under Accounts, select your Exchange account

[D] In the Folders option, select the folders that you want to use Offline

Note- Here you can do one of the following:

1. Select Download headers only (In this case OST file will not contain every file, but only a limited information so that you browse quickly through the OST file even when you are working online)

2. Select Download complete item including attachments

You can set limit to the download of items that exceed the specified size to headers only as well.

Advantages of using OST files

1. OST files are of immense importance while working offline. Users across the globe use this method to keep their work safe. Due to OST you never lose your work irrespective of what the Server exchange connectivity is at

2. OST files offers the flexibility to work offline without actually connecting to the server

3. In cases of accidental mailbox deletion or mailbox data corruption, OST file serves as a backup of your previous important email items. User can recover emails and save them in PST format anytime.

Thanks to all these advantages, user can work continuously and the data is safe irrespective of any number of server crashes.

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Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router – up to 300 Mbps, 4x Ports, Wireless-N, RecertifiedItem#: L48-2793 | Model#: RB-E1200 |

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Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router
With the Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router, Easily connect more entertainment and office devices to your home network and enjoy Gigabit speeds. The Linksys E1200 offers fast speed to connect your computers, wireless printers and other Wi-Fi devices at transfer rates up to 300 Mbps speed. Built with leading 802.11n wireless technology, the Linksys E1200 offers reliable range to create a powerful wireless network. MIMO antenna technology provides broad coverage so you can enjoy your wireless network from anywhere in your home. Purchase the Linksys E1200 Wireless-N Router today.

What It Is and Why You Need It

· Wireless-N (2.4 GHz)

· Fast Ethernet 4-port switch

· High speed up to 300 Mbps

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Features

· Fast Wireless Speed – The Linksys E1200 offers fast speed to connect your computers, wireless printers and other Wi-Fi devices at transfer rates up to 300 Mbps speed.

· Reliable Wireless Coverage – Built with leading 802.11n wireless technology, the Linksys E1200 offers reliable range to create a powerful wireless network. MIMO antenna technology provides broad coverage so you can enjoy your wireless network from anywhere in your home.

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· Quick to Install – Cisco Connect software helps you set up your home wireless network in three easy steps.

· Easy to Manage – Cisco Connect software helps you customize your settings, and quickly add multiple devices to your network:

· Create a separate, password protected network for guests

· Limit access time and websites with Parental Controls

· Access advanced network settings easily

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Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player

Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player
Watch what you want, when you want. Stream the latest movies, hit TV shows, and the best of the Internet with the Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player. The Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player lets you instantly play virtually any file format so you can play your entire digital media library on the biggest screen in your house in Full-HD 1080p. The Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player features built-in Wi-Fi and intuitive navigation menus for a beautifully simple entertainment experience that is easy to set up, easy to use.

What It Is and Why You Need It:

· Stream hit movies, TV shows, sports, games, and popular Internet entertainment such as YouTube, Facebook, Netflix and more!

· Enjoy your digital media library in Full-HD 1080p on the biggest screen in the house

· Plays the widest variety of file formats including MKV, MP4, XVID, AVI, WMV, and MOV

· Wirelessly stream online content, videos, music, and photos to your TV

· Play media from USB drives, network drives, and any PC or Mac computer in your home

A Closer Look:

Watch the things you love on the screen you love in Full HD 1080p
Get your family and friends together, sit back, and enjoy! Whether it’s your own videos, music, and photos or Internet entertainment, you can play it all in the comfort of your living room.

· Play media from any sourceStream videos, music, and photos from your USB drive, network drive, and any PC or Mac computer in your home. The WD TV Live streaming media player also supports a wide variety of the most popular files including MKV, MP4, XVID, AVI, WMV, and MOV video formats.

· The best of the Internet on your HDTV Stream hit movies, catch up on TV shows, stay connected to your social network, and watch highlights from the biggest games of the season. Don’t settle for online entertainment on your small computer screen.

· Ready, set up, stream in HD So easy to set up, you’ll be up and running in minutes. The WD TV Live streaming media player includes extended-range Wireless-N built-in giving you the speed needed to stream HD content. Alternatively use the WD Livewire powerline AV network kit (W10-9310) – it extends your Internet to any room in your home using your electrical outlets to connect to your wired home network.

· Bring the arcade to your HDTV Swap gems with Rockswap, try your luck with Texas Hold’Em, or test your math skills with Sudoku. WD TV Live brings casual games to your big screen TV.

· Stay updated with RSS feeds Stay posted on your favorite bloggers and websites and stream the latest audio and video with timely RSS feeds. You can also add specific feeds to your dashboard to be shown as tickers so you never miss a thing.

· Programmable Remote Use the included programmable remote control to make your entertainment choices using our crisp, animated navigation menus. Customize buttons for quick and easy access to your favorite music, photos, videos or menu choices.

WD TV Remote
Turn your smartphone into the ultimate remote control! Take control of your WD TV Live experience with the tap of a soft key or the swipe of a finger. Whether it’s your personal media or Internet entertainment and games, the WD TV Remote app allows you to control it all with one-touch from your smartphone. Search for hit movies and TV show episodes using your smartphone keyboard for multi-lingual text input. Use the gesture pad for quick and easy navigation to your personal media and Internet entertainment. Hosting game night? Enjoy multiplayer games with friends and family using multiple mobile devices connected to your network.

Requirements

· You need a WD TV Live with firmware 1.05.18 or later

· iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad running iOS 4.0 or higher, or an Android device with OS 2.1 or higher.

· Your mobile device must be connected to the same wireless network as your WD TV Live (Your media player may be connected to your network via Ethernet port or wirelessly).

Languages Supported

· User Interface: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian

· Subtitles:English, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, Malay/Bahasa

Kit Contents

· Streaming media player

· Remote control with batteries

· Composite AV cable

· AC adapter

· Quick Install Guide

· ***HDMI Cable not included

Languages Supported

· User Interface: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Turkish, Hebrew, Arabic, Polish, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, Hungarian

· Subtitles:English, Dutch, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Russian, Arabic, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Greek, Hebrew, Turkish, Czech, Slovakian, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Hindi, Malay/Bahasa

Kit Contents

· Streaming media player

· Remote control with batteries

· Composite AV cable

· AC adapter

· Quick Install Guide

· ***HDMI Cable not included

Double data rate synchronous dynamic random-access memory (DDR SDRAM) is a class of memory integrated circuits used in computers. DDR SDRAM (sometimes referred to as DDR1 SDRAM) has been superseded by DDR2 SDRAM and DDR3 SDRAM, neither of which are either forward or backward compatible with DDR SDRAM, meaning that DDR2 or DDR3 memory modules will not work in DDR equipped motherboards, and vice versa.

Generic DDR-266 Memory in the 184pinDIMM form

Compared to single data rate (SDR) SDRAM, the DDR SDRAM interface makes higher transfer rates possible by more strict control of the timing of the electrical data and clock signals. Implementations often have to use schemes such as phase-locked loops and self-calibration to reach the required timing accuracy.[1][2] The interface uses double pumping (transferring data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal) to lower the clock frequency. One advantage of keeping the clock frequency down is that it reduces the signal integrity requirements on the circuit board connecting the memory to the controller. The name "double data rate" refers to the fact that a DDR SDRAM with a certain clock frequency achieves nearly twice the bandwidth of a single data rate (SDR) SDRAM running at the same clock frequency, due to this double pumping.

Corsair DDR-400 Memory with heat spreaders

With data being transferred 64 bits at a time, DDR SDRAM gives a transfer rate of (memory bus clock rate) × 2 (for dual rate) × 64 (number of bits transferred) / 8 (number of bits/byte). Thus, with a bus frequency of 100 MHz, DDR SDRAM gives a maximum transfer rate of 1600 MB/s.

"Beginning in 1996 and concluding in June 200

0, JEDEC developed the DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM specification (JESD79)."[3] JEDEC has set standards for data rates of DDR SDRAM, divided into two parts. The first specification is for memory chips, and the second is for memory modules.

Chips and modules

Generic DDR-266 Memory in the 184pinDIMM form

Corsair DDR-400 Memory with heat spreaders