So after thirty years these guys have come up with the idea of consolidating disk density through an 8x decrease in sector resolution. By now I'd rather hoped the magnetic HD had been replaced. I seem to be repairing and replacing these things a lot lately. I doubt this breakthrough will alter that.
I have my eyes peeled for a bio-drive, something noxious smelling that you feed with potato rinds which stores your data directly in its DNA. What d'you reckon? Another thirty years.
With ZX spectrum and Commodore 64 games taking anything up to ten minutes to load from a cassette [if they loaded at all], you were kind of blackmailed into thinking they were better than they really were.
If you are in the IT department of some company whose sole computing requirements are basic internet access, email and office productivity software, then you're not exactly at the bleeding edge of computer science.
The stuff that's interesting, like forensics, security and code innovation, just isn't associated with the term IT because the term is so general it means everything and therefore nothing.
This article has a nice example of how a Russian botnet was hunted:
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051 010fa_factA few weeks later, on a Saturday in March, Ivan slipped up: he logged in to the chat room without disguising his home Internet address. The same day, Turner happened to be online, and decided to look up eXe's registration information. To his astonishment, he found what appeared to be a real name, address, and phone number: Ivan Maksakov, of Saratov, Russia. Lyon dashed off an e-mail to the authorities with the subject line "eXe made a HUGE mistake!"
I think it's a great idea, but how many people will have to translate a document with similar results before it can be trusted?
This is assuming the original documents can be legitimately trusted in the first instance. I'm thinking specifically about the George Galloway v Daily Telegraph libel case. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4061165.stm
Having the documents translated using an open-source-like process would be a great way to lend partisan information an appearance of objectivity.
Slashdot Mirror
Norton
McAfee
Disk Defrag
Regedit
Spybot
Adaware
ctr-alt-del
Hard Reset
Reinstall Windows
Update
My neice swears by the above
I have my eyes peeled for a bio-drive, something noxious smelling that you feed with potato rinds which stores your data directly in its DNA. What d'you reckon? Another thirty years.
A nanotube (also known as a buckytube) is a member of the fullerene structural family, which also includes buckyballs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube
You had it easy . . . Monty Python we lived in a carboard box in the middle of the road and had to entertain ourselves with broken glass.
http://www.eliteclub.co.uk/download/
With ZX spectrum and Commodore 64 games taking anything up to ten minutes to load from a cassette [if they loaded at all], you were kind of blackmailed into thinking they were better than they really were.
The stuff that's interesting, like forensics, security and code innovation, just isn't associated with the term IT because the term is so general it means everything and therefore nothing.
This article has a nice example of how a Russian botnet was hunted: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051 010fa_fact
A few weeks later, on a Saturday in March, Ivan slipped up: he logged in to the chat room without disguising his home Internet address. The same day, Turner happened to be online, and decided to look up eXe's registration information. To his astonishment, he found what appeared to be a real name, address, and phone number: Ivan Maksakov, of Saratov, Russia. Lyon dashed off an e-mail to the authorities with the subject line "eXe made a HUGE mistake!"
Forget actually propagating the self-destruction of bots, even thinking about unauthorised access is an offense punishable by law.
This is assuming the original documents can be legitimately trusted in the first instance. I'm thinking specifically about the George Galloway v Daily Telegraph libel case. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4061165.stm
Having the documents translated using an open-source-like process would be a great way to lend partisan information an appearance of objectivity.