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Comment A very clever ruse NIH....... (Score 1) 7

by c0mmanderb0nd on Thursday May 21, 2009 @02:22PM (#28043225) Attached to: NIH Spends $178,000 to Study Why Prostitutes Have a High HIV Risk

Shouldn't someone be asking if this is just a ploy by someone in the NIH to cover their Thai prostitute habit???? I am curious what kind of "interview" the researcher will be doing??? This study just seems a little fishy on a few different levels.....

Comment M$ stole the apple tax from Sony!!!! (Score 1) 993

by c0mmanderb0nd on Thursday April 16, 2009 @10:05AM (#27597075) Attached to: "Apple Tax" Report Backfires On Microsoft

Oddly enough this white paper idea for the apple tax looks a lot like the "Cost of owning a 360" comparasion Sony came up with to show why the PS3 was really cheaper than the Xbox 360.

I guess its no shocker that MS would steal someone elses marketing ploy. Not that it really worked all that well for Sony either.

Comment Re:I'll have a Seven and Seven (Score 1) 693

by c0mmanderb0nd on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @05:58PM (#25390783) Attached to: Do Software Versions Really Matter?

But we got House IV without seeing House III??????

Submission + - OpenBSD 4.1 Released

Submitted by adstro on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @05:23PM

adstro writes: Fresh off the announce mailing list... "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system."

Long Block Data Standard Finalized 199

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @05:23PM from the 30-years-later dept.

An anonymous reader writes "IDEMA has finally released the LBD (Long Block Data) standard. This standard, in work since 2000, increases the length of the data blocks of each sector from 512 bytes to 4,096 bytes. This is an update that has been requested for some time by the hard-drive industry and the development of new drives will start immediately. The new standard offers many advantages — improved reliability and higher transfer rates are the two most obvious. While some manufacturers say the reliability may increase as much as tenfold, the degree of performance improvement to be expected is a bit more elusive. Overall improvements include shorter time to format and more efficient data transfers due to smaller overhead per block during read and write operations."

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