Comment Re:The Ultimate Steal? (Score 3, Interesting) 580
Try Open Office for Mac which is very fast. Recently released with real Mac integration and NeoOffice will soon be dust in the wind.
A Yottabyte of Storage Per Year by 2013 246
Lucas123 writes "David Roberson, general manager of Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks division, predicts that by 2013 the storage industry will be shipping a yottabyte (a billion gigabytes) of storage capacity annually. Roberson made the comment in conjunction with HP introducing a new rack system that clusters together four blade servers and three storage arrays with 820TB of capacity. Many vendors are moving toward this kind of platform, including IBM, with its recent acquisition of Israeli startup XIV, according to Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters."
Submission + - Vista DRM: Longest Suicide Note in History
enos writes: Peter Gutmann describes the consequences of Vista's DRM including the intentional crippling of functionality, unnecessary burdens on hardware manufacturers as well as unintended side effects. For example, Vista automatically and silently reduces the quality of audio and video on untrusted devices when "premium" content is present. This can have life threatening consequences when used in medical imaging where the compression artifacts can be misinterpreted.
Submission + - Santa Claus and Solar Flares
Jerry Rivers writes: As Christmas approaches, The Bearded One is preparing for his annual World Tour by making sure communications with his elves won't be interrupted by an unexpected solar flare. Enter Andrew Yau, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Calgary and Santa's own solar watchman, who has calculated not only if there will be any radio interference as Jolly ol' Saint Nick circles the globe, but also how all this gift giving to over a billion children is even possible. The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada explains http://www.nserc.gc.ca/news/features/2006_12_22_e. htm.
