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Online Storage 2.0: Six Sites Reviewed 142

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @12:03PM from the who-needs-hard-drives dept.

mikemuch writes "Services like box.net, openomy, and eSnips are more than just places to access your files from the web. Some include media organization tools, Windows shell integration, drag-and-drop uploading, tagging, and social content sharing. ExtremeTech has a review up of six online storage services with Web 2.0 twists."

Dow Jones Plunge Fueled by Overwhelmed Computers 215

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @11:31AM from the sure-always-blame-the-it-guys dept.

cloudscout writes "The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 400 points today. While there were various valid financial reasons for such a decline, some of the blame is being placed on computer systems that couldn't keep up with the abnormally high volume at the New York Stock Exchange and the resulting tremor as they switched over to a backup system."

Comment Re:"Nothing for you to see here. Please move along (Score 1) 176

by conway on Monday May 16, 2005 @08:57PM (#12549944) Attached to: DIY High-Altitude Ballooning

This sounds like fun. I saw an article about something similar in Scientific American a few years ago, but this is the first time I've heard of flight code being changed so close to the wire.

The code they had was not really "flight" code - the code did not control flight in any way - it was just a sealed baloon that went up and popped. The code was just controlling when to turn GPS / radio and camera on and off. In the end they wrote code to run it for 2 hours, then turn it off. Not exactly the most complicated code on the planet.

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