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Submission + - Seagate to drop IDE drives by year's end (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by ianare on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @06:32PM

ianare writes: Seagate plans to cease manufacturing IDE hard drives by the end of the year and will focus exclusively on SATA-based products. Seagate is the first major hard drive manufacturer to announce such plans, though others will likely follow suit. That's not to say support for the 21-year-old PATA standard is going to vanish overnight; similar to how ISA slots were available long after most of us had ditched our old ISA peripherals.

Submission + - Digg signs advertising deal with Microsoft

Submitted by StonyandCher on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @06:31PM

StonyandCher writes: Computerworld is reporting that Digg and Microsoft have signed an exclusive advertising deal.

From the article: "In a deal that boosts Microsoft's plan to increase revenue from online advertising, the company will be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on the popular Digg news site.

Microsoft also said it will work with Digg to develop new campaigns that combine advertising and technology for the site, and will collaborate with Digg's current advertising partner, Federated Media Publishing, to bring new programs to the site's users and advertisers. The deal's duration will be three years, the companies said.

Submission + - What workstation monitoring software do you use? 2

Submitted by on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: I am one of two IT personnel at the small company I work for. My boss recently expressed interest in monitoring the usage of our workstations. We run a Windows Domain with 20 computers. There is 1 administrator account and all other users log on with restricted user accounts. So far we've already tried one software package called BeAware Corporate. It seemed like it was exactly what my boss wanted. The only problem with this software is that it would only function properly when logged on as an administrator. We would rather not give our users administrator privileges. In particular he would like to monitor programs used, websites visited, and emails. He would also like for it to act sort of like a surveillance camera system in that it would take screenshots of all the workstations at set intervals. Additional features a plus. Ideally, the usage information from each computer would be inserted into a central database. Is there any software out there that does these things without requiring everyone to be an administrator?

Submission + - Possible Dicatorial Powers for US President?

Submitted by tenchima on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @04:03PM

tenchima writes: "President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president"

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTI CLE_ID=55824

Submission + - Sun racks fall over, keep ticking (systemhelden.com)

Submitted by

RomulusNR

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @03:23PM

RomulusNR writes: "German blog Systemhelden (System Heroes) reports a story of a raised floor tile giving way under two loaded Sun racks, which toppled over. The admins have no idea when it happened, because everything kept running. Sun techs came in and found only a single failed disk drive. (Via c0t0d0s0, which covers it in English.)"

Submission + - The Slashdot productivity paradox (wsj.com)

Submitted by

planetralph

on Monday July 23, 2007 @02:25PM

planetralph writes: "This article is a nice take on the paradox of how the Internet makes things dramatically easier yet we seem to spend more personal time on work and our personal lives don't seem that much more rewarding. It offers an explanation of why we end up spending a lot of time at work on "personal" Internet use and a lot of Internet time on low priority items."

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