Analysis: 1TB for $200 is great, but SSD is still the future
On the occasion of hard disks reaching a new cost/byte milestone, Ars takes a look back at what’s wrong (and right) with the venerable hard disk drive, and glances ahead to what’s next.
Archive for May, 2008
Comcast Hackers Say They Warned the Company First
The computer attackers who took down Comcast’s homepage and webmail service for over five hours Thursday say they didn’t know what they were getting themselves into. In an hour-long telephone conference call with Threat Level, the hackers known as “Defiant” and “EBK” expressed astonishment over the attention their DNS hijacking has garnered.
The iPhone patent: Steven P. Jobs, inventor
The US Patent and Trademark Office has revealed a mammoth document that can only be described as The iPhone Patent, a 371-page spectacular that covers Apple’s handheld multi-touch UI paradigm in excruciating detail. Steve himself wasn’t the least bit shy about taking credit atop an entire column of company A-listers for inventing the iPhone’s …
OiNK Investigation: Police Start Making Arrests
TorrentFreak has received information which suggests that British police have made good on their claim that they would go after ex-users of OiNK. Last week, several officers arrested at least one individual for the seeding of a single album. It is believed police are in the process of arresting and questioning others.
Why “One Laptop Per Child’s” Founder Left OLPC
“Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease,” he said in the interview. The issue, in his view, is whether the tools that bring computing to children are “agnostic on learning” or “take a position on learning.” “O.L.P.C. has become implicitly agnostic about learning,” he said.
Is OpenOffice.org Getting Faster?
Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but there are also new features, which make OpenOffice.org larger and may slow things down. What is the net effect on performance? This benchmark measures versions 1.1.5 to 3.0
Exclusive First Photos: Dell Mini Inspiron
Straight from Michael Dell, a first look at their Mini Inspiron Notebook which will go toe-to-toe with the Asus Eee and HP 2133.
Comcast Hacked in BitTorrent Throttling Packback?
It has become apparent during the last few hours that Comcast, everyone’s favorite ISP (especially in the BitTorrent world) has been hacked. The message on the homepage read: “KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST.”
Destructoid: The Pitfalls of a Bioshock Sequel
2007’s Bioshock recieved almost universal acclaim from the gaming press for it’s unique form of Storytelling and excellent Art Deco style design. It has been used for a posterboy in the games as art debate and has been the catalyst for game designers to seek less linear methods of storytelling, but what are the pitfalls of a Bioshock sequels?
Microsoft shows off Multitouch Windows 7
Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got on stage at D6 with Walt and Kara to talk… Microsoft, of course. While the company is still being rather coy about Windows 7 — some have blamed loose lips early on in Vista development for saddling the OS with too high of expectations and making things difficult for developers
AMD’s new mobile processor is called Turion Ultra
There you have it. Griffin changes to Turion Ultra.
GNOME file manager gets tabbed file browsing
Support for a tabbed user interface in the Nautilus file manager is a feature frequently requested by users of the GNOME desktop environment. It’s finally here and you can try it yourself.
