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Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 603

by DaveTuck on Wednesday August 13, 2008 @09:58AM (#24582349) Attached to: LucasArts Embargoes "Clone Wars" Reviews

Can anyone straighten this out... Its commonly agreed (I think) that Ewoks live on 'The Forest Moon of Endor', but is the moon actually called Endor, or does this forest moon actually orbit the planet Endor? It may sound trivial but I've thought about it on and off for about 20 years :-) Anyone??

Submission + - The 8 most dangerous consumer technologies (computerworld.com)

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Lucas123

on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @07:50AM

Lucas123 writes: "Companies are responding to an increasing security threat from popular technologies with everything from bans and blocking to monitoring employee activity with sophisticated tracking software, according to Computerworld's Mary Brandel. "Consumerization will be a nightmare for IT departments, creating maintenance and support problems that will swiftly overwhelm IT resources, unless they embrace new approaches to managing the rogue employees," says one analyst. But end-users say their personal devices help with creativity and productivity."

Submission + - New hybrid hard disk has 1GB RAM and its own CPU (cnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @07:10AM

An anonymous reader writes: CNet has a digestable analysis of a new hybrid hard disk that has its own dedicated CPU, operating system and a gigabyte of on-board DDR RAM. The disk can sit alongside existing drives and SSD hard disks, and will be interestingly inexpensive.

"This new effort is aimed at desktop computers, and is essentially an amalgam of a smaller laptop hard disk, and 1GB of ordinary DDR RAM like that found in all computers."

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