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Best offline storage method for large archives

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "I have a collection of large projects (Indesign files with associated images), typically 40GB to 60GB each. In this current climate, what is the 'best' method of archiving these? Spinny magnets? Solid state drives? USB? Tape? Blu-ray? All have pros and cons and price considerations. If I remove the price issue (my data is important to me), does this change the choice?"
Space

ESA Summer of Code in Space -> 1

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morrison
morrison writes "Following the previous announcement [1], the European Space Agency's Summer of Code in Space (SOCIS) pilot program has announced their mentoring organizations [2] and is now open for submissions from students enrolled at EU institutions (alas, ESA requirement for the pilot) through July 27th. SOCIS is modeled after the highly successful Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program but targets "space-related" open source software. The selected mentoring organizations range from notable GSoC veterans like BRL-CAD [3] and ffmpeg [4] to relatively unknown space software like ORSA [5] and Open Mission Control [6].

[1] http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/0313212/
[2] http://sophia.estec.esa.int/socis2011/
[3] http://brlcad.org/wiki/ESA_Summer_of_Code_in_Space/Project_Ideas
[4] http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_/_Libav_Summer_Of_Code_In_Space_2011
[5] http://orbit.psi.edu/~tricaric/SOCIS.html
[6] http://openmissioncontrol.wordpress.com/socis/"
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Communications

SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 104

Posted by kdawson
from the how-hard-can-it-be dept.
mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a dozen known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment begins around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst."
Data Storage

A Look Under Western Digital's Hood->

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ScuttleMonkey
ScuttleMonkey writes "Tom's Hardware got a rare opportunity to explore the Western Digital campus and show us what goes on under the hood of one of the favorites in storage tech. "When you buy a car, you look under the hood. Given the critical importance of hard disk storage in all of our lives, we thought you might want a peek under that hood, too. Now that Western Digital is in the business of breaking new capacity records (the latest Caviar Green was the first drive to hit 2TB, for example), we jumped at the chance to take a first-ever, unrestricted tour of its California R&D facilities. This is the place where magnetic technology of the 1950s meets the nano- and quantum-level technologies of the current decade.""
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Spanish ISP to charge Google for access to its net-> 3

Submitted by Griller_GT
Griller_GT writes "For your consideration:

This has been around various news sites.... At first I thought it was an idiotic point of view from a misguided ISP (check URL here : http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100209/0309058094.shtml) and dismissed it... but today goverment officials declare "its a viable option (Spanish URL : http://www.publico.es/ciencias/294711/telefonica/mobile/barcelona/google?pagCom=3#comentarios sorry about that).

In what parallel universe can this be allowed to happen??"
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NASA

SPAM: Hubble telescope captures image of mysterious x-sh

Submitted by worrg
worrg writes "Is that a smashed comet or an X-Wing fighter? Scientists are offering up their own theories as to what created the striking star-inspired image, which was captured by NASA's Hubble telescope in January.
The object — dubbed “P/2010 A2” after it was discovered in early January by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research program sky survey — has traits similar to a comet, but the x-shape appears disconnected from the tail. Sci-fi lovers may instead go for a more fantastical theory, believing it to be the "Last Starfighter" or, perhaps, a Kilrathi dreadnought from the Wing Commander video game."
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Stunning: Shuttle Endeavour Plus An Orbital Sunset

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "On 9 February 2010 as the International Space Station was high above the south Pacific Ocean (latitude: -46.9, longitude: -80.5) off the southern coast of Chile, an Expedition 22 astronaut snapped very unique, very beautiful photos of NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-130) silhouetted against planet Earth's colorful horizon-sunset: Photo-A (very high-resolution) and Photo-B (very high-res). Lucky for us an external video camera attached to the International Space Station recorded this spectacular view, an event that happened two hours before Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the International Space Station.

What about those colors in the Earth's horizon? NASA says the "orange layer is the troposphere, where all of the weather and clouds which we typically watch and experience are generated and contained. This orange layer gives way to the whitish stratosphere and then into the mesosphere. In some frames the black color is part of a window frame rather than the blackness of space."

All the above via photos 35 and 36 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm"

World's First USB 3.0 Thumbdrives on Sale!->

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An anonymous reader writes "As all the cool new gadgets come from Japan, so has the world's first USB 3.0 Thumbdrives! You just have to go to Japan's electronic/geek heaven Akihabara to get it! (Or you could buy it online if you read Japanese and live here..) They come in 3 models, 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. The 64GB one goes for about $420 and the 128GB for around $740USD. These interesting devices come from the "SuperTalent" company and are SSD with RAID0 claiming to be 8 times faster than anything previously with 320MB/s read and 180MB/s write! It is supported for Windows 7, Vista and XP. And of course your machine will have to support USB 3.0 as well...which it probably doesn't.... (Source)"
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