by Robin Harris | Monday, November 13, 2006 | Enterprise, Security & Public Policy, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
State-supported industrial espionage has an important ally in the Bush administration. The Department of Homeland Security Theatre has decided it needs to be able rifle through notebook hard drives at the US border. A boon to all online storage providers. Hey, maybe...
by Robin Harris | Sunday, November 12, 2006 | Off-Topic |
I’ve had a number of requests for RSS feeds, which left me a little mystified since I don’t use them myself. I tried hooking up to Feedburner, but their stuff didn’t work with my version of WordPress. So I procrastinated. Until now. New, Improved...
by Robin Harris | Friday, November 10, 2006 | Future Tech |
Is Jeff Bezos a brilliant idiot or a lucky visionary? Amazon Web Services are rolling out and getting more play, both pro and con. BusinessWeek online has a recent interview with Bezos, where he outlines what he calls his “developer-facing business” or...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, November 9, 2006 | Backup, Enterprise, Security & Public Policy |
Companies and practitioners spend billions of dollars a year on RAID to protect against disk drive failure. Yet all the research I’ve seen shows that the most common reasons for data loss are, and always have been, caused by people: accidental file deletion and...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, November 8, 2006 | Off-Topic |
Will that be paper or plastic? That question is often asked at American grocery stores today as shorthand for paper bag or plastic bag? At bookstores it could soon be short for paper or DVD? Remember those press releases where they’d breathlessly offer that this...
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