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Comment Re: Don't give out keys at all. (Score 1) 97

This solution would break down if the local agent needed to access the shed because of a network outage. How do you let the guy in if the comm gear is hung and he is there to give it a good kick? What zentigger needs is an electronic cipher that can be set in advance, provided to the appropriate person when required, then changed again after the service is restored, maintenance completed, etc.

New 25x Data Compression? 438

modapi writes "StorageMojo is reporting that a company at Storage Networking World in San Diego has made a startling claim of 25x data compression for digital data storage. A combination of de-duplication and calculating and storing only the changes between similar byte streams is apparently the key. Imagine storing a terabyte of data on a single disk, and it all runs on Linux." Obviously nothing concrete or released yet so take with the requisite grain of salt.

Self Contained Water Cooled Radeon X1900, Retail 129

Spinnerbait writes "Graphics cards are all the rage in the Enthusiast Computing community, where overclocking standard off-the-shelf components is commonplace. Recently innovative cooling solutions have been brought to Graphics cards in an effort to tame the thermals of their power hungry GPUs. It looks like some of the major vendors have taken it up a notch in this area, with this ATI-based Sapphire Graphics card that employs a self-contained water cooling system. Not only does the card have potential for serious overclocking but it should do so relatively quietly as well."

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