IBM And FUJIFILM Create 35TB Magnetic Tape Storage Device
In today's computing world, there are just a few things that come to mind when you mention "storage." Flash drives, hard drives, solid state drives and maybe even cloud storage. But that's about the extent of it. Hardly anyone thinks about or recognizes magnetic tape storage any more, but it's obviously still around and kicking thanks to innovations by IBM and FUJIFILM. Both of those companies have come together to produce one of the largest tape drives to date, which is designed to archive important information
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MusicDNA Attempts To Oust MP3 At Top Digital Music File Format
The replacement of the MP3 has been coming forever, or so we've heard, but the ubiquitous file format has yet to really be toppled by anything else. Apple's AAC format is highly popular amongst iPod and iPhone users, but by and large, the de facto music format when it comes to digital is MP3. One has to assume that the format's run will end at some point, though, just as VHS and DVD runs ended when newer, larger and more clear formats were developed. Is this the end for MP3? Only time will tell, but a leading
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World Wide Web Becomes Universe Wide Web: Internet Reaches Space!
Oh, boy. Now we've gone and done it. Yes, we've taken the Internet where it has never gone before, and we guess the only logical "next step" is to plant a wireless router on Mars and let the extraterrestrial that live there start tweeting to us. Believe it or not, the World Wide Web is now completely inaccurate in terms of naming convention. It's more like the Universe Wide Web. This past week, an American astronaut sent the first actual tweet from space, proving that Internet access on the International Space
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AMD Goes Embedded With ATI Radeon E4690 MXM GPU
From top to bottom, it's hard to knock AMD's graphics lineup right now. They have some of the most powerful GPUs available at the high-end, and even at the lower-end, their cards are destroying the benchmarks. One area of graphical nature that often gets overlooked is the embedded market, but with GPUs becoming more important in every facet of computing, AMD has stepped up to produce the ATI Radeon E4690 Mobile PCI Express module. Designed for graphics-intensive embedded systems, the Radeon E4690 MXM features
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AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance
AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks on the their next PC build. The new processors differ from previous offerings in their respective product families in terms of frequency, and of course their model names, but all are based on existing architectures and technology.The new line-up of processors AMD is introducing today consists of the following products... Phenom II X2 555 - $99 Athlon II X4 635 - $119 Athlon II X3 440
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The Nexus One's @#$% Voice Recognition Censorship
One of the cool features of the Nexus One, AKA the Google Phone, is built-in voice recognition. We're not talking about Voice Commands, like "call so-and-so," we're talking about being able to use voice input for virtually anything (like SMS). Of course, while Google may no longer be willing to censor search results in China, voice input on the Nexus One is a different matter.Reuters discovered that if, for example, you wanted to SMS the sentence "Where the $%^# are you?" to your friend, who may be running late,
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AMD Grabs First Quarterly Profit In Three Years (Thanks To Intel)
Mark this one down--it hasn't happened in a long, long time. But frankly, we're hoping it's a sign of things to come, and the real turnaround that AMD needs to seriously rival Intel and drive prices down as a whole in the microchip sector. Competition is always great, so we'd encourage you to put your fanboy suit aside and actually consider just how remarkable this is for every PC enthusiast. AMD has just posted a profit for the quarter, which is its first in three years. Now, we should point out that the most
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AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance
AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks on the their next PC build. The new processors differ from previous offerings in their respective product families in terms of frequency, and of course their model names, but all are based on existing architectures and technology.The new line-up of processors AMD is introducing today consists of the following products... Phenom II X2 555 - $99 Athlon II X4 635 -
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MusicDNA Attempts To Oust MP3 At Top Digital Music File Format
The replacement of the MP3 has been coming forever, or so we've heard,but the ubiquitous file format has yet to really be toppled by anythingelse. Apple's AAC format is highly popular amongst iPod and iPhoneusers, but by and large, the de facto music format when it comes todigital is MP3. One has to assume that the format's run will end atsome point, though, just as VHS and DVD runs ended when newer, largerand more clear formats were developed.Is this the end for MP3? Only time will tell, but a leading techcompany is hoping to launch a new digital music file format that willadd several features currently unavailable to MP3. Things like embeddedlyrics/artwork would be included, but the real kicker is that thesefiles could be sent updates from the artist or label in order toshowcase news updated and tour images. The new music proposal is calledMusicDNA, and astoundingly enough, it has the support of the creator ofMP3. You might find it odd that the maker of MP3 would back somethingto eventually replace MP3, but we guess that's just the spirit ofinnovation at work.
BACH Technology also noted that anyone who downloaded a piratedMusicDNA format would still be able to play it back, but those futurenews updates would not reach the pirating user. We like this approach.It keeps DRM out of the equation, yet it still provides a legitimatereason for users to buy the file. It's one of the first win-winsituations we can think of in the digital music industry.
BACH is currently looking for label and retail support, but we can'timagine that to be an easy chore. The company admits that earlyfeedback is very positive, and the fact that MusicDNA files could beplayed back on any MP3 player (Apple's lineup included) makes thingsall the more easier. A new file format wouldn't stand much of a chance,but it these files can step right in and work on every PC and portablemusic player created in past decade, then we actually see a glimmer ofhope for success.
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AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance
AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks on the their next PC build. The new processors differ from previous offerings in their respective product families in terms of frequency, and of course their model names, but all are based on existing architectures and technology.
The new line-up of processors AMD is introducing today consists of the following products...
- Phenom II X2 555 - $99
- Athlon II X4 635 - $119
- Athlon II X3 440 - $84
- Athlon II X2 255 - $74
- Phenom II X4 910e - $169
We decided to take the 3.2GHz Phenom II X2 555 and 2.9GHz Athlon II X4 635 for a spin and have their performance results posted on the pages ahead...
AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635 Performance
The AMD Phenom II X2 555 and Athlon II X4 635, Side By Side
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7680x1600 Eyefinity - Three Dell 3008WFP LCDs / ATI 5970
Three Dell 3008WFP 30" LCDs currently hooked up to two GTX 295s. Waiting for 5970s to be in stock for some extreme gaming.
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The Nexus One's @#$% Voice Recognition Censorship
One of the cool features of the Nexus One, AKA the Google Phone, is built-in voice recognition. We're not talking about Voice Commands, like "call so-and-so," we're talking about being able to use voice input for virtually anything (like SMS). Of course, while Google may no longer be willing to censor search results in China, voice input on the Nexus One is a different matter.Reuters discovered that if, for example, you wanted to SMS the sentence "Where the $%^# are you?" to your friend, who may be running late, the word "$%^#آ " (which we're obviously censoring ourselves) will be instead replaced by #### (the correct number of #s for the word, assuming the Nexus One recognized the word properly). So why, free speech advocates might ask, should the device do this?
Well, the answer is related to our comment above about "assuming the Nexus One recognized the word properly." It's about the device recognizing non-profanity as profanity, not the cursing itself. Google said:
“We filter potentially offensive or inappropriate results because we want to avoid situations whereby we might misrecognize a spoken query and return profanity when, in fact, the user said something completely innocent.Anyone who's ever experienced the vagaries of "Call so-and-so" with the response from your phone of "Say a command" will understand where that comes from.
“Ultimately our goal is to return results that show exactly what you said, and we’re constantly working to improve the technology to better fit our users’ needs.â€
As a demonstration of that sort of technology faux pas, and in an attempt to plug a comedy we love, there was a great episode of the new series "Modern Family" this week where Mitchell, speaking about where his father should go and prompted by his car's GPS with "Enter destination," replied "Hell," to which the car replied "Mexican food."
That's a little over 4 minutes into this Hulu video:
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World Wide Web Becomes Universe Wide Web: Internet Reaches Space!
Oh, boy. Now we've gone and done it. Yes, we've taken the Internetwhere it has never gone before, and we guess the only logical "nextstep" is to plant a wireless router on Mars and let theextraterrestrial that live there start tweeting to us. Believe it ornot, the World Wide Web is now completely inaccurate in terms of namingconvention. It's more like the Universe Wide Web. This past week, anAmerican astronaut sent the first actual tweet from space, provingthat Internet access on the International Space Station was finallylive.NASA's own TJ Creamer had been working with flight controllers toestablish the connection for the past little while (around a month),and he just now got everything working. His first tweet from outerspace?
"HelloTwitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International SpaceStation -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s"He has since admitted that kinks are still being worked out ("HelloAll! Stillworking out some of the kinks, but net-surfing is a wonderful treat.MANY kudos to the team for overcoming the problems"), and that he'llbegin answering questions from his outpost starting today ("Will startanswering your questions soon -- a little later today -- and a LOT ofquestions there are! :) Thanks for all your interest!")
It's actually a pretty amazing feat. Before, US civilians were prettydetached to what happened under NASA's watch, and now--suddenly--anyonewith a Twitter account can be put in touch with a real, live,on-mission astronaut. The wonders of the Internet never cease toamaze, but this one ranks pretty high up there for shock-and-awe value. You can follow CJ's Tweets here: http://twitter.com/astro_tj
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IBM And FUJIFILM Create 35TB Magnetic Tape Storage Device
In today's computing world, there are just a few things that come tomind when you mention "storage." Flash drives, hard drives, solid statedrives and maybe even cloud storage. But that's about the extent of it.Hardly anyone thinks about or recognizes magnetic tape storage anymore, but it's obviously still around and kicking thanks to innovationsby IBM and FUJIFILM. Both of those companies have come together to produce one of thelargest tape drives to date, which is designed to archive importantinformation in scenarios where only massive, massive drives would work.In fact, the new development has set a world record in areal datadensity on linear magnetic tap. Magnetic tape isn't widely used in theconsumer arena, but it remains a resilient, reliable and affordabledata storage technology in the enterprise world. The new tape holds anastounding 35TB (terabytes) of data, which is far, far greater thaneven the largest hard drive. To put this in perspective, the biggestHDD consumers can easily buy at Best Buy is 2TB. This is nearly 18xbigger in terms of capacity!
The scientists at IBM Research - Zurich, in cooperation with theFUJIFILM Corporation of Japan, recorded data onto an advanced prototypetape, at a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch - about 39times the areal data density of today's most popular industry-standardmagnetic tape product*. To achieve this feat, IBM Research hasdeveloped several new critical technologies, and for the past threeyears worked closely with FUJIFILM to optimize its next-generationdual-coat magnetic tape based on barium ferrite (BaFe) particles.آ"This exciting achievement shows that tape storage is alive andstrong and will continue to provide users reliable data protection,while maintaining a cost advantage over other storage technologies,including hard disk drives and flash," said Cindy Grossman, vicepresident, IBM Tape and Archive Storage Systems.آ
These new technologies are estimated to enable cartridge capacitiesthat could hold up to 35 trillion bytes (terabytes) of uncompresseddata. This is about 44 times the capacity of today's IBM LTOGeneration 4 cartridge. A capacity of 35 terabytes of data issufficient to store the text of 35 million books, which would require248 miles (399 km) of bookshelves.
No pricing information is disclosed to the public, but it's not likeyou really need to know. Check out the video below for a more in-depthlook at a storage technology that has been around forever yet is stillbreaking records.
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**Post Your Security Methods For All To See**
I just posted this in another thread but realized that it makes a good topic all by itself. Computer security is an ongoing battle that we all have to deal with at least some of the time. After allot of trial and error most of us find that delicate software balance of security verses functionality that we can live with. This thread will discuss your methods used for your computer security. New ideas are welcome for everyone's review as well. I anticipate many good ideas and solutions that can be adopted by Forum members for the overall good.
Solutions regarding other Operating Systems are also welcome here.
Here's Mine:
I use an intelligent DNS server, http://www.opendns.com/ and I set it for blocking porn and Phishing sites. My router is set to use this resource so every computer within my sphere of influence is channeled through Open DNS. It is a great first step to consider.
Also, I use the latest version of AVAST Home Free 5.0 (just released) and it's quite capable of significant protection.
I have AdAware's latest free offering, SpyBot Search And Destroy's latest, and Microsoft Security Essentials all running together without conflict and without noticeable slowdown on all three of my computers.
Without proactive measures, you're just a babe in the woods when running Microsoft OS software while connected to the internet. Especially if you use Internet Explorer instead of Chrome or Firefox.
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