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links for 2006-10-29
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very cool. lots of time to be wasted.
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links for 2006-10-17
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Huge image of the reverse side of Saturn, taken from the Cassini space probe, looking back towards the Sun. Earth is visible as a tiny dot, to the upper left of the brightest rings.
Posted by akaDruid @ del.icio.us on 17 Oct 2006 at 01:10 am
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Freecom FSG
The Freecom FSG is raising the bar for home NAS devices.
This Linux based NAS router includes 64 MB RAM, 266 MHz ARM CPU, 80-500GB HDD, 4 USB ports, 4 ethernet ports and 1 SATA port. It comes with a file server, webserver with PHP, email server, MySQL server, VPN server & client, FTP server, SSH server, router, USB/SATA flash drive/hard disk interface, USB print server, firewall and more as standard, and the OpenFSG project have a large number of other software ports ready for it.
In the UK, the 160 GB seems to be the cheapest available and you can get it for £150 + £4 postage+packing from Gladiator Computers.
The best price per gigabyte is of course the largest one, which is available for
£282.53 + £3.59 from Ebuyer, coming to just £0.57 per gigabyte.
You could probably reduce the cost still further by adding external harddrive enclosures. 500GB external hard drives can be bought for £125 at dabs. Two of those attached to an FSG would give you a 1.1TB home server for £410 – making the previously good value £523 Buffalo Terastation 1TB look like a overpriced dinosaur. It scales up to 2.1TB for just £660 total, or £0.31 per gigabyte.
I wonder if this would be a worthwhile investment in a corperate situation? I wonder if you can get low footprint, low power, linux based storage for £0.31 per gigabyte anywhere else?
Posted by akaDruid on 16 Oct 2006 at 10:10 am
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Vista Kill Switch
Vista’s inbuilt kill switch seems to be a major risk for anyone looking to buy Vista as serious operating system rather than to play around with or to play games.
The randomness with which WGA is applied suggests a lot of innocents are going to hit with this – and getting out of it will be a nightmare. £180 upgrade will quickly get your £300 computer back working (every time). Want to bet that Microsoft won’t trigger the kill switch for everyone once the next version comes out?
Here’s a solution anyway: Ubuntu
» For Vista, WGA gets tougher | Ed Bott’s Microsoft Report | ZDNet.com
Posted by akaDruid on 13 Oct 2006 at 06:10 am
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links for 2006-10-13
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i want one
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