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Comment Time to buy TAPES! (Score 1) 282

by paranoidd on Saturday October 22, 2011 @09:59AM (#37803554) Attached to: Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices

Sure thing they are not a replacement for hard disks, but it's just worth mentioning that nowadays they can be mounted as a regular file system and hold up to 1.5TB (not considering hardware compression).

Comment IBM Long Term File System (Score 2, Informative) 228

by paranoidd on Thursday June 10, 2010 @11:51PM (#32531606) Attached to: Recent Sales Hint That Tape For Storage Is Far From Dead

IBM recently announced LTFS (Long Term File System), which allows one to operate LTO-5 tapes as if they were a normal file system.

That's a very exciting technology which allows for the standardization of tape formats -- its specs are freely available in the LTO Consortium website and the implementation has been released under the GNU LGPL (see the LTFS website for links).

Tapes are not dead, certainly!

Comment Mac OS X Internals, by Amit Singh (Score 1) 517

by paranoidd on Tuesday December 23, 2008 @11:33PM (#26219373) Attached to: Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?

I was quite amazed by the quality of this book, especially regarding how deep and pleasant all the CS foundations are presented to the reader. One of the best CS books I have here, definitely.

Submission + - After the Fireworks, GoboLinux 014 is Released (gobolinux.org)

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paranoidd

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @02:31AM

paranoidd writes: "After one year of work, the GoboLinux team announces the new major release of the distribution that features a rethought file system structure. By keeping applications self-contained in a '/Programs/App/Version'-like tree, the management of every program becomes simple and free of a database such as RPM in the backend. GoboLinux 014 is available as a single ISO for the i686 family of processors."

Submission + - After the Fireworks, GoboLinux 014 is Released (gobolinux.org)

Submitted by

paranoidd

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @02:19AM

paranoidd writes: "After one year of work, the GoboLinux team announces the new major release of the distribution that features a rethinked file system structure. By keeping applications self-contained in a '/Programs/App/Version'-like tree, the management of every program becomes simple and free of a database such as RPM in the backend. And since the installation disc also serves as a Live CD, having a taste of such a different approach could never be so easy!"

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