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    NEWZ: New Memory Type May Supplant Flash, Hard Drives

    ...Phase-change memory can be scaled down to 22nm, or far smaller than flash memory, the researchers developing it say. Phase-change also appears able to be more durable than flash, whose memory cells start to break down after 100,000 rewrites... ...Among the advances, the companies have built...
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    NEWZ: World's First Firewall For Hard Drives

    FromDriveSentry's website: DriveSentry is the world's first firewall for your hard drives... http://www.drivesentry.com/index.htm
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    NEWZ: Microsoft & Novelll Windoze/Linux Blockbuster Deal

    The Wall Street Journal reports: Under the pact, which isn't final, Microsoft will offer sales support of Suse Linux, a version of the operating system sold by Novell. The two companies have also agreed to develop technologies to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft's...
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    SON¥: On The Fast Decline To Second Tierdom???

    Massive battery recalls, several late-to-market products, retail competition on every front, core competencies (video) being vigourously challenged, sinking share in the portable computer marketplace, Nintendo & Xbox competition, movies and music no longer pull in profits like they did in prior...
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    Life Imitates Art (or vice versa)

    Looks like someone turned one of my corny jokes that I posted here in 2003 and 2004 (concerning an artificial intelligence project called "R.A.N.D.Y.") and actually made something out of it called "George." But, they say they've been working on it since 1999. So, I guess they didn't exactly...
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    M$ ALERT: 2 *NEW* Holes Of Doom for 10-Jan-2006

    Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-002 CRITICAL Vulnerability in Embedded Web Fonts Could Allow Remote Code Execution (908519) AFFECTED: Windows 2000 Workstation, Windows Server SP4, Windows XP, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Server 2003, Server 2003...
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    ALERT: 09-Aug-2005 Patchwork for Windows Quilt

    Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (896727) MS05-038 CRITICAL Affected Software: Internet Explorer 5.5, Internet Explorer 5.01, Internet Explorer 6.0, Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows Server 2003, Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows 2000 Advanced Server...
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    NEWZ: Larry Ellison's Pillar Storage Arrays

    After investing four years and $150 million, Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison has launched a new company that offers a storage array that targets products from storage heavyweights such as IBM, EMC, and HP... Proprietary software allows the Axiom to create multiple service levels through its...
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    ALERT: Mozilla/Firefox Holes Of Doom for 15-April-2005

    The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :errr: The remaining six bugs, which affect both browsers, are capable of the following: [list:b944283877] One of the flaws enables certain pop-ups can execute malicious code on a system if the user opens the pop-up. A bug in the way windows and...
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    NEWZ: Industry's First SAS/SATA RAID-On-Chip Device

    Broadcom (who absorbed mobo chipset maker ServerWorks a while back) brings you the industry's first SAS (+SATA) RAID-On-A-Chip solution: Eight 3-Gigabit-per-second SAS/SATA-II I/O controller ports. Choice of PCI Express® and PCI-X® host interfaces. Embedded MIPS® processor to run...
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    [NEWZ] Mikersoft Proposes Augmenting Flash & Hard Drives

    SEATTLE--Microsoft hopes to combine two popular storage media – flash memory and hard drives – in a bid to cut power in future laptops... http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1585978,00.asp
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    [NEWZ] World Land Speed Internet Record

    OK. well, it's actually Internet2. Nonetheless, sorta interesting: http://www.research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=628
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    MS Office XP Service Pack 3 Released

    Details: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=85af7bfd-6f69-4289-8bd1-eb966bcdfb5e&displaylang=en
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    MAID / RAID

    This is not too far from my proposed massive "disc library" using my proposed low-spin-speed ultra-high-capacity 3.5-inch SATA (or SAS) drive mechanisms: http://www.sc-2002.org/paperpdfs/pap.pap312.pdf (NOTE: this is a 700 KB PDF file) I still believe my plan is better since it uses...
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    Corned Beef

    Here are a few interesting, unusual, and useful morsels of information for this edition of the Royal Corned Beef Breviaire: One of the most absurd things I've ever heard in years... Thinking about putting some deliberate *silence* into your song??? Well, you better get ready to pay up for...
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    FTC Approves IBM-Hitachi Hard Drive Deal

    FTC Approves IBM-Hitachi Hard Drive Deal NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has approved International Business Machines Corp.'s IBM.N $2.05 billion sale of most of its hard-disk drive assets to Japan's Hitachi Ltd. 6501.T , the companies said on Monday. The deal...
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    New Seagate ATA Barracudas Announced

    New Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives Attack Again With Serial ATA And 80GB-Per-Disc Technology SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—02 December 2002— Seagate today announced the Barracuda 7200.7 and the Barracuda 7200.7 Plus disc drives for PCs. Using advanced head and media technology to achieve...
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    News Submission Problem (?)

    I submitted several News items the other day. A day later only one of them shows up. [Q:] OK, is there a legitimate problem here or am I running up against StorageForum's equivalent of The Central Scrutiniser or something? :-?
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