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Today in Tech; 3/7
By Oliver Rist | March 7, 2007, 12:17 am
Dammit, I gotta remember to pay bills tomorrow. Too drunk tonight.
- Would this not have happened under Linux? A CT man awaiting trial for selling guns and bomb-making stuff, is suing Microsoft. Reason? He’s facing in-court embarrassment after FBI technicians cracked the security on his Windows XP PC and found his apparently semi-legal porn stash. Now they know where he was surfing and it’ll probably become public. So he’s suing for about $200K. Wonder if they’ll settle? (Source: The Register)
- Alienware releases two new workstations. Alienware is going to intro two new workstation heavies at the Game Developers Conference 2007 show. The workstation is the MJ-12 8550 and it comes in two flavorsL 8550i and 8550a. The ‘i’ stands for Intel series 5300 Quad-Core Xeons, while the ‘a’ stands for Opteron 2000s. No official benchmarks yet, but it’s a safe bet that the Xeons will outdo the Opterons, while the Opterons will cost less. Oh, and in typical Alienware tradition: only Windows XP on these. Vista is for later when more apps support the OS and you’re on your own if you’re a Penguin lover. (Source: Alienware)
- Microsoft shows off 100 innovations for the future of computing. So Redmond had their TechFest yesterday, and a rep from Microsoft’s admittedly cool research division got up and started pointing out 100 new software technologies that were going to shape tomorrow’s PCs. Stuff like an online world-wide telescope project that’ll let you do real stargazing without leaving your desk chair. They’ve also got new bots that help tech kids via the xBox and more. Cool stuff. We’ll see how much of it is BS in the next few years. (Source: Microsoft)
- 162 exabytes of data on corporate servers. EMC–the storage company, so take this with just a pinch of salt–asked IDC to come up with a figure for how much data is sitting on corporate servers right now. And that would be 161 exabytes (or 161 billion gigabytes). Then they did a little projecting and figured that number would grow to 988 exabytes by 2010. Man, I gotta invest in hard disks. (Source: ITWire)
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