Recent MacOS blocks DMA from Firewire when the user is not logged in:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5002 (search CVE-2011-3215)

I did, because I saw the slashdot article about it two months ago.

Tasker v0.1, November 2009
On{X}: ~3 June 2012
Locale: Late(?) 2009

Apple's patent filed: June 26, 2008

Tell me more about how these apps are prior art.

I'd rather see an increase in spell checking.

I'm in CA and I have Comcast Business, and I have never had any kind of domain helper or traffic hijacking (DNS or otherwise).
I use their anycast servers (75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76) and they both return NXDOMAIN for nonexistant domains.
The previous servers that they recommended (68.87.76.178 and 66.240.48.9) didn't either.

SMC8014? I have the same one. The trick is to not use any NAT on the device itself, disable the firewall and SPI for the static IP, and just use it like a bridge.
I have mine connected to a linux box that does all the routing/NAT (and ipv6 via 6rd), just checked the stats on the modem and it's been running for 144 days without a hiccup.

Why aren't you using eSATA instead?

From that site:

The requirements we ask our volunteers to meet are as follows: (...) You are not a heavy downloader. We'd classify anything above 30GB per month as being too heavy for us to gather useful results.

That's pretty low, even for most casual users, and certainly for heavy users. I use almost 10x that per month.

It's supposedly this thing

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Even more interesting would be how a Powerbook running 10.5 rates

None of the Powerbooks have SATA hard drives.

Post made entirely of questions

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Never change, slashdot.

JBOD: All of the downsides of RAID-0 with none of the speed benefits.

Whoops, that second server should be client.