Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2009 at 2:08:00 PM CET
Computer Data Storage Through the Ages -- From Punch Cards to Blu-Ray
Your next build may very well come configured with dual-SSD drives in a RAID 0 array for the OS, a gluttonous 2TB SATA HDD for storage duties, and a Blu-ray optical drive for movie watching and HD backups. And for quick transfers from one rig to another, does it get any sweeter than a 64GB USB thumb drive loaded with all of your favorite apps? Such a storage scheme is certainly worthy of dream machine status, but our storage options weren't always as fanciful, fast, and fat as they are today. Some of you may remember toting a 3.5-inch floppy to and from school, while others hearken all the way back to cassette tapes. And if you've lived long enough to remember the IBM Punch Card first hand, just ask and we'll SPEAK LOUDER.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 28, 2009 at 12:03:00 PM CET
World of Warcraft: 'the crack cocaine of the computer world'
Some say yes. Others are too busy playing World of Warcraft to answer.
The former opinion is given by a Swedish youth organization that works with addictions. The org says it's releasing a new report labeling the online swords n' sorcery excursion as "the most dangerous game on the market."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 17, 2009 at 12:24:00 PM CET
NVIDIA Enables Worlds First $99 HD Mobile Device
NVIDIA Corporation, the inventor of the graphics processor, today introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA® Tegra™ 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 17, 2009 at 12:17:00 PM CET
Nvidia Tegra 600 - Die 99-Dollar-Internetwunder kommen
Nvidia will nicht nur mit der neuen ION-Plattform und deren Kombination aus Intel Atom CPU und GeForce 9400M Grafikchip weiter auf den Netbook-Markt vorstoßen, sondern auch den Bereich der noch günstigeren Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) bedienen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 14, 2009 at 11:32:00 AM CET
Vögelchen für Mails, Brummbären für Videos
Jahr für Jahr überschwemmt Microsoft das US-Patentamt mit bis zu 3000 Anträgen. Und das voller Erfolg: Die Behörde hat nun Nummer 10.000 bewilligt. SPIEGEL ONLINE zeigt die kuriosesten Ideen, die sich der Konzern schützen ließ - vom Brummbären bis zum E-Mail-Vogel.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 13, 2009 at 12:35:00 PM CET
Laugh all you want, but the Microsoft Store could be great
So Microsoft is going to have themselves a little retail space. This is, of course, ripe for mockery, and I’m sure tomorrow will bring the fruits of photoshop contests from around the web. Will it be wall-to-wall Vista boxes? Will you have to sign a license agreement to get in? Will they avoid the color “BSOD blue”? All very funny questions, but the fact is that Microsoft’s stores could be the beginning of… well, another beginning for the oft-maligned software baron. After all, despite what the web has to say, they do manufacture more than error screens.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 13, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CET
US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers
Officials from New Mexico's Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory have confessed that 67 of its computers are missing, with no less than 13 of them having disappeared over the past year alone. A memo [PDF] leaked by the Project on Government Oversight watchdog brought the lost nuclear laptops to the public's attention, but the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration dismissed fears the computers contained highly-sensitive or classified information, noting it was more likely to cause 'cybersecurity issues.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 4, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Uncle Sam buys 20 petaflops BlueGene super
The American government's appetite for ever-bigger gobs of supercomputing power has been a blessing for IBM and Cray, and this morning it was Big Blue's turn to brag about two big deals it has scored with Uncle Sam.
The first and smallest of the two machines, nicknamed Dawn, will be installed in the second half of this year at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's supercomputing centers. LLNL and Sandia National Laboratory do a lot of research and drive supercomputing technology, but their systems are predominantly dedicated to simulating nuclear weapons and their detonation - what IBM referred to as "the nation's aging nuclear deterrent".
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 1, 2009 at 2:27:00 PM CET
DEC 'hacker' questions McKinnon political bandwagon
Boris Johnson's outspoken defence of Gary McKinnon in his extradition fight has been criticised by a former security consultant, who complains he was denied such support when he himself was charged with hacking offences.
Daniel Cuthbert was convicted in October 2005 of breaking the Computer Misuse Act by "hacking" into a tsunami appeal website in December 2004, and fined £400 plus £600 in costs. He was subsequently forced to change career after the prosecution, which was widely seen by his peers as misguided. Cuthbert now wants to know why he wasn't shown any support from politicians of the kind lent to McKinnon by Johnson.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 27, 2009 at 1:32:00 PM CET
UK's Military Lost 440 Storage Devices in 2008
The UK's Ministry of Defense managed to "misplace" 217 laptops, 96 USB thumb drives, 80 hard drives and 47 desktop PCs in 2008. Last year was the worst on record for such losses, even though the department made an enormous effort to curtail such potential information leaks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 23, 2009 at 12:08:00 PM CET
Mac malware piggybacks on pirated iWork
Malware masquerading as part of Apple's iWork 09 productivity suite is targeting unsuspecting Mac users foolish enough to install pirated software downloaded on warez sites.
Once installed, iServices.A has unfettered root access, which it promptly uses to connect to a remote server over the internet, according to Intego, which sells anti-virus software for Macs. A secondary download installs malware that makes victims part of a botnet that's attacking undisclosed websites.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 20, 2009 at 2:05:00 PM CET
Obama Inauguration Wallpaper
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