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Plexiglass-like DVD to Hold 1TB of Data 166

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 21, 2007 @04:33PM from the bigger-and-bigger-storage dept.

jcatcw writes "Lucas Mearian at ComputerWorld has a story about a company that plans to demonstrate a new DVD-format at the January CES conference. The .6mm thick disc stores 500GB of data by writing 5GB of data on each of 100 layers within a polymer material similar to Plexiglass. The Israel-based company, Mempile Inc., said its TeraDisc DVDs will offer 1TB of storage for consumers in the next few years, but it's also targeting corporate data archive needs with the new technology that write bits at the molecular level on the florescent-colored polymer. The company plans to sell its first product, a 700GB disc for $30."

OpenBSD 4.0 Released 201

Posted by kdawson on Wednesday November 01, 2006 @08:55AM from the humppa-negala dept.

Undeadly Halloween writes, "On October 18th, OpenBSD celebrated its 11th birthday and ten years of punctual biannual releases. Now it's time for OpenBSD 4.0, which includes tons of new drivers for wireless, network, and storage chips. Consider helping the project by buying the new goodies (CD set, t-shirt, poster, Audio CD). And discover what's new and what battles developers must face daily to support new hardware in the traditional interview featuring nearly 20 developers."

Comment Test first (Score 1) 690

by jodonn on Sunday February 05, 2006 @10:02AM (#14645563) Attached to: Ultra-Stable Software Design in C++?

Use CPPUnit, and follow test-driven development practices:
1) Write a test.
2) Run the test. It should fail.
3) Write just enough production code to make it pass.
4) Run the test. It should pass.
5) Repeat 1-4 until you have a complete system.

Honestly, this really works, and it'll save you a lot of debugging time in the end. Sure, you can't test every single input to the system, but you can test the corner cases and expected inputs, and that counts for a lot. I'll put my defect counts against any other programmer who thinks that unit tests are for wimps any day.

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