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Comment don't forget Aldrin's Phobos proposal (Score 1) 917

by grey1 on Thursday September 03, 2009 @08:56AM (#29298235) Attached to: Sending Astronauts On a One-Way Trip To Mars

Aldrin's got a useful contribution to the debate - go to Phobos first (easier to reach and leave since it isn't at the bottom of a gravity hole).

This was discussed recently here: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/26/0410259

Submission + - 3D holographic storage = 500GB optical disk

Submitted by grey1 on Monday April 27, 2009 @12:47PM

grey1 writes: The BBC is reporting news from the GE Research blog : "A disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs, has been unveiled by General Electric." The BBC News story is here Looks like it's the same size as a DVD and could hold an order of magnitude more than a Blu-ray disk, but that it's going to be a while before we see them in the shops. Personally I think that this plus a managed jukebox could be a decent solution for large-scale archiving in a corporate environment.

Comment sub-zero (Re:In other news) (Score 1) 695

by grey1 on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:47AM (#27661491) Attached to: Windows 7 Starter Edition — 3 Apps Only

of course, what's really needed to be safe is not the 'zero applications' option, but the sub-zero -

take box (PC, server, notebook);
turn it off;
bury it in a hole in the ground;
encase it in concrete.

And even then there are a few risks... This probably isn't a commercial option, though.

Submission + - Rackable to acquire SGI

Submitted by grey1 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @09:16AM

grey1 writes: As the press release says "Rackable Systems, Inc. [...] today announced its agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) (NASDAQ: SGIC) for approximately $25 million in cash, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances, plus the assumption of certain liabilities associated with the acquired assets." As someone who has used SGI kit for a long time (starting in the mid-90s) I'm not sure if I'm more surprised at SGI being bought or at them still existing to be bought... http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2009/april/rackable.html

Comment alt sugestion of prior art - Oracle? (Score 1) 282

by grey1 on Tuesday January 13, 2009 @09:15AM (#26431487) Attached to: 20+ Companies Sued Over OS Permissions Patent

Given the arcane and apparently obfuscated way in which patents are written I find them hard to untangle, but isn't Oracle an alternative example that works at the data level and which has (and has had for some time) the ability to manage access to data structures in a complex manner?

Alternatively, surely the 'trust' certificate hierarchy that's been kicking around in web browers has been there for some time... a very quick search seems to point to X.509 certs - see wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.509. X.509 issues in 1988..

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