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Hybrid Drives
People still use hard disks even when SSDs are much faster and more robust. One reason is the price; another is the lower capacity of flash storage. Hybrid drives promise to be as fast as SSDs while offering as much capacity as hard drives. But can they keep that promise? (more)
Ransomware Infects 625,000 Systems
Treacherous encryptor has already scammed users for more than US$ 1,000,000. (more)
Intel Releases 8-Core Extreme Desktop Processor
Monster chip indulges speed addiction for high-end gamers. (more)
How to Avoid Giving a Summary Presentation
Information designer Edward Tufte said it first: slide shows allow as much two-way exchange of information as a Soviet May Day rally. The presenters have almost total control, which tempts them to read their presentations off the slides in a kind of death march through the bullet points. Meanwhile, human audiences fall into stupors and other species gnaw off a leg to escape – twin fates that make the looming return to school and seriousness in September something to dread unless you take definite steps to improve matters.
(more)Redo Backup
Redo Backup backs up complete hard drives locally or over a network. The focus is on simple operation and high reliability in a variety of deployment scenarios. (more)
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TheSSS
Want to set up a full-fledged web, file, or proxy server in 10 seconds? No problem with TheSSS, the smallest server suite in the world. The new 8.0 version of this useful Linux distribution weighs in at a mere 30MB. (more)
New Report Exposes the Prevalence of Lame Passwords
Password1 is the most common password in this year's analysis (more)
How Reliable Is a Wikipedia Citation?
"I don't trust it," someone wrote when Wikipedia and its reliability was discussed on Facebook recently. One or two others added that, for them, a Wikipedia citation immediately discredited an article. I was surprised by these old school sentiments, having imagined that familiarity had years ago blunted contempt, and Wikipedia now had at least a reluctant acceptance.
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