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Gigabyte Matchbook Drives From IBM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-my-laptop-my-mp3-server dept.

A number of people wrote in about the New York Times article regarding IBM's new storage breakthrough. They've been working on their microdrives for some time now, and it appears to be paying off. 1 gig in something the size of a pack of matches. Cool.Update: 06/20 04:58 by H :Check out the press release from IBM, thanks to Asbestosrush.

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  1. OT: Re-opening the 'Partners' backdoor? by kurowski · · Score: 5
    They haven't closed it down, they've just tried to secure it. However, the silly blokes aren't even filtering by HTTP-Referrer, but rather just checking for some parameters to be passed with the GET request.

    To get around it, find a NYTimes partner. The easiest way is to go to Google and search for "link:partners.nytimes.com". Take the first one off the list, PressDemo. Go to their site and look at their links to partners.nytimes.com. Note that they are all of the form "http://partners.nytimes.com/somepathtosomestory?. html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnnn n.FnBoj"

    To get the story you want (i.e.library/tech/00/06/biztech/articles/20blue.ht ml) just substitute it in there. So, hit the link http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/06/biz tech/artic les/20blue.html?Partner=PressDemo&RefId=YY1js4EFnn nn.FnBoj anv voila.

    Now, I won't defend this as being either convenient or ethical, but it works.

  2. Flushed Down toilet by Jelme · · Score: 5

    I can see the headlines now: Los Alamos Nuclear Secrets Flushed Down Toilet.

    The Los Alamos Laboratory reported that two matchbook sized disk drives were lost. Investigators suspect an employee accidentally dropped them into a toilet...

  3. Mmmmm... gigabytes! by Halloween+Jack · · Score: 5
    I'll do you one better...

    (AP)--In the latest of a series of embarassing security breaches, officials at Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory reported that two matchbook-sized hard drives were topped with peanut butter and eaten, allegedly by its newest employee, one H. Simpson. Sources quote Simpson as responding, "D'oh!"

    --
    I looked into the abyss, and the abyss looked into me--and we both winked.