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Submission + - Telstra taking Communications minister to court (news.com.au)

Submitted by lego_boy_aus on Thursday August 02, 2007 @09:29PM

lego_boy_aus writes: "TELSTRA has begun proceedings in the High Court against Communications Minister Helen Coonan over broadband funding."

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,221 82192-5005961,00.html

Submission + - Theory of Nothing

Submitted by

HighPerformanceCoder

on Wednesday August 01, 2007 @08:05PM

HighPerformanceCoder writes: ""Theory of Nothing" is a romp through areas of physics, maths, biology, computer science and philosophy to ties together a coherent explanation for why things are as they seem.

I have just posted the book as a free (as in beer) download.

Amazon.com gives the book a Flesch-Kincaid index of 12.9 , ie suitable for a reading age of some studying Grade 13 (First year uni). Sounds like the slashdot crowd to me! Also the topic will be of interest to some readers on this list."

Submission + - LogFS: A new flash filesystem

Submitted by

gjsmo

on Thursday May 17, 2007 @07:50PM

gjsmo writes: "From "LogFS: A new way of thinking about flash filesystems" at Linux.com:

Storage manufacturers are getting ready to start shipping solid state disks, and Linux-based devices like One Laptop per Child's XO and Intel's Classmate don't contain standard hard disks. To improve performance on the wide array of flash memory storage devices now available, project leader Jërn Engel has announced LogFS, a scalable filesystem specifically for flash devices. Linux users already have two mature flash filesystems to choose from — JFFS2 and YAFFS — so why do they need another? Engel discounts both of these options, for different reasons. Engel says that YAFFS "has never made a serious attempt of kernel integration, which may disqualify it" for many potential users. At the same time, Engel says that memory consumption and mount time for JFFS2 are unacceptable on larger flash devices. "Unlike most filesystems, there is no tree structure of any sorts on the medium, so the complete medium needs to be scanned at mount time and a tree structure kept in-memory while the filesystem is mounted. With bigger devices, both mount time and memory consumption increase linearly." "

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