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An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda 283

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @02:28PM from the should-be-space-enough-for-anyone dept.

theraindog writes "More than a year and a half after the first terabyte hard drives became widely available, Seagate has reached the next storage capacity milestone. With 1.5 terabytes, the latest Barracuda 7200.11 serves up 50% more capacity than its peers, and at a surprisingly affordable $0.12 per gigabyte. But Seagate's decision to drop new platters into an old Barracuda shell may not have been a wise one. The Tech Report's in-depth review of the world's first 1.5TB hard drive shows that while the latest 'cuda is screaming fast in synthetic throughput drag races, poor real world write speeds ultimately tarnish its appeal."

Steve Wozniak Predicts Death of the IPod 573

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday October 09, 2008 @03:54AM from the for-whom-the-bell-tolls dept.

Slatterz writes "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, better known in the industry as 'Woz,' believes that the iPod is on its way out and has revealed his discomfort with some aspects of the iPhone. Wozniak said that the iPod has had a long time as the world's most popular media player, and that it will fall from grace due to oversupply. Wozniak also commented on the iPhone's proprietary nature and locked service provider, and compared it to Google's open Android platform. 'Consumers are not getting all they want when companies are very proprietary and lock their products down,' he said. 'I would like to write some more powerful apps than what you're allowed.'"

Submission + - RedHat: Customers Can Deploy Linux with Confidence (eweek.com)

Submitted by

mrcgran

on Wednesday October 10, 2007 @01:06PM

mrcgran writes: "Eweek is reporting: "Red Hat is assuring its customers that they can continue to deploy its Linux operating system with confidence and without fear of legal retribution from Microsoft, despite the increasingly vocal threats emanating from the Redmond, Wash., company. In a scathing response to Ballmer's remarks, Red Hat's IP team said the reality is that the community development approach of free and open-source code represents a healthy development paradigm, which, when viewed from the perspective of pending lawsuits related to intellectual property, is at least as safe as proprietary software. "We are also aware of no patent lawsuit against Linux. Ever. Anywhere," the team said in a blog posting."

Submission + - Sweden to make Denial of Service attacks illegal

Submitted by paulraps on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:27PM

paulraps writes: Sweden is to pass legislation making Denial of Service attacks illegal. The offence will carry a maximum jail term of two years, and is thought to be a direct response to the attack which crashed the Swedish police's web site last summer. Nobody was charged for that, but the fact that it came shortly after a raid on the Pirate Bay's servers was thought by many to be not entirely coincidental. Sweden's move follows the UK, which is even tougher on web attackers — there the sentence can be over five years in prison.

Submission + - BBC launches Space Shuttle based on car

Submitted by

David Off

on Monday February 19, 2007 @04:10PM

David Off writes: "Last summer BBC Television decided to launch a space shuttle shaped motorcar, the Reliant Robin, into very very low earth orbit! Now this may not be the X-prize but it is a very very cool hack that harks back to era of MIT's Tech Model Railroad Club. Now a shuttle launch costs hundreds of millions of dollars. The Beeb built a very convincing shuttle from the Robin, a main fuel tank and two SRBs in an industrial unit in Manchester. There was very little money but all the tea the team could manage to dring. The rockets develop 8.5 tonnes of thrust and this was the most powerful private launch in Europe to date. The Robin had to be stripped from 750kg to 250kg and avionics fitted for the flight back to earth. All doesn't quite go to plan as you can see in the 20 minute film which was broadcast yesterday. It would be nice to know more about the tech behind the launch, the film is thin on details."

Submission + - Anti-virus software as malware?

Submitted by

Dr Dave

on Monday January 15, 2007 @05:49PM

Dr Dave writes: "After a recent, Fortune 100 client of mine was experiencing 50%-90% of developer CPU cycles during builds spent on virus checking, I've become sensitive to how these checkers operate and consume resources. In the past few months I've asked for refunds on a few of these products — the most recent one that cannot execute out-of-the-box without an "update" before even doing an initial scan. Asking for support requires downloading an .exe "chat program" and, of course, the product wants to install lots of components to "monitor" your system health.

My question is "at what point does security 'solution' software become malware?" I've felt we passed this point long ago, so only even consider scanning my system when I've had to download some software. I realize the risks of an unprotected system — I've done and published security research for much of the federal government — but I'm planning to not upgrade to Vista unless the security services can be turned off.

I'd rather keep my CPU cycles and my piece of mind at the expense of allowing scripts, exe's and Active X controls to run on my PC."

Submission + - Cisco & Apple don't own iPhone mark in Canada

Submitted by TomTraynor on Monday January 15, 2007 @01:37PM

TomTraynor writes: There could be a real problem if Apple wants to launch their iPhone in Canada using that name. Cisco does not own the trademark, neither does Apple. There is a company called Comwave that owns the trademark and they do have a real VOIP product (since 2004). I wonder how much Apple paid its legal staff to research the name in the various countries to see if there was a valid trademark or if it was available for Apple to use?

Comwave -> http://www.comwave.net/CDN/

News article -> http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/01/15/comw ave-iphone.html

Submission + - Microsoft Forces you to use UAC

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15, 2007 @07:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: It's not enough for Microsoft to make UAC the most user-protection implementation on the planet, now they're also forcing Administrators to use it. Windows Vista makes it impossible for Administrators to add network printers to a local machine if UAC is disabled. Instead: "The only workaround available to date is to re-enable UAC, restart the PC, add the printer, go through the UAC prompts, disable UAC, and then restart once more."

Submission + - Almost a flying car. Or a cheap helicopter.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 15, 2007 @05:44AM

An anonymous reader writes: An interesting development of the age-old gyrocopter has been developed that has a whizzy new rotor system. The performance is pretty dramatic on just 65HP. http://www.cartercopters.com/pr_2007-01-11.html

"We now have a vehicle that can safely take-off from your driveway, fly 200 miles, and then safely land and take-off from a truck stop to refuel, or a restaurant to eat, or a hotel where you can spend the night."

During flight-testing of their new gyro prototype just prior to New Year's Day, Carter Aviation Technologies (Carter) reports that their test pilot, George Mitchell, executed several vertical take-offs where the aircraft was able to jump more than 150 feet straight up into the air. According to Mitchell, "It was phenomenal! But, it took a little getting used to. It's not something you do with the average gyro. The "g" meter showed 2.25 Gs on take-off!" The amazing take-offs were the result of a new rotor system that Carter developed for the gyro.

Submission + - Apache 2.2.4 Released

Submitted by

wangpenghui

on Monday January 15, 2007 @01:55AM

wangpenghui writes: "Apache Httpd Server project has released a new version of Apache Web Server — 2.2.4.

Here is the words from Apache Httpd Server Offical Website:

The Apache HTTP Server Project is proud to announce the release of version 2.2.4 of the Apache HTTP Server ("Apache"). This version is principally a bugfix release.

This version of Apache is a major release and the start of a new stable branch, and represents the best available version of Apache HTTP Server. New features include Smart Filtering, Improved Caching, AJP Proxy, Proxy Load Balancing, Graceful Shutdown support, Large File Support, the Event MPM, and refactored Authentication/Authorization.

Here is the Changelog for this version.

You could download the package from the mirrors of Apache Httpd Server."

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