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SanDisk Releases 32 GB Solid State 2.5-Inch Hard Drive

A couple of months ago SanDisk introduced a 1.8-inch flash based hard drive for notebook computers. It has now announced a more mainstream 2.5-inch 32 GB capacity Solid State Drive (SSD) that could be dropped into any UMPC or micro-notebook and work right out of the gate.The 2.5-inch SanDisk SSD is only going to be available directly to PC manufacturers initially, and it will be offered as a drop in replacement for replacing existing hard drives.

The cost to PC manufacturers will be about $350 per drive when purchased in bulk.

At $350 per 32Gb 2.5″ drive or $11/GB, Solid State is going to be hitting the mainstream very soon.

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The NTFS-3G driver is an open source, freely available read/write NTFS driver for Linux and other operating systems. It provides safe and fast handling of the Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000 and Windows Vista file systems. Most POSIX file system operations are supported, with the exception of full file ownership and access right support.

It seems to be quite stable, and is based on FUSE. Interestingly this does not seem to impact performance at all: NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver Performance.

Useful extension, especially for those self-sign SSL certs: rmd for thunderbird too.

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From O’Reilly’s Radar, 95% of their incoming mail is spam: Another War We’re Not Winning: Us vs Spam.

• 829,890 SMTP connections made to our two gateway mail servers
• 904060 attempted message deliveries
• 49194 messages accepted (I think this is actually a little high due to a configuration problem with our Zimbra server.)
• 94.6% of all messages were rejected

I thought this was the most interesting comment for Paul Vixe:

every potential smtp improvement or replacement that could do anything to actually stop spam, has been systematically patented. the crap that’s left isn’t going to do any good. we’re headed for walled gardens.

If SMTP had been patented, modern email might have been still born. By extension the digital commons created with SMTP is now suffering greatly because software patents prevent better usage models.

Balancing the need of innovation against public good is hard, however 20 years+ for a software patent is just too long.

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Conary: An innovative second-generation package manager

I agree with the review that all the conary jargon is very confusing.  Seems to be worth the effort though as conary might provide in the long run a good system for not just building software appliances, but a useful system for managing a large number of Linux systems.

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I was trying to find out how to prevent users for accessing the VMware tools in a Windows 2003 Terminal Server. Seems this is actually a security bug.

I’m running Windows Terminal Server on top of Debian with VMware Server. My solution was to add an explicit DENY permissions to the WTS_Users group I had added to the TS machine’s “Remote Desktop Users” group. I changed these permissions in the locations mentioned in the securityfocus message.

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Amiga and Civilization in javascript.

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Truphone for the Nokia S60 series looks interesting, especially as it works with GTalk.

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Discussion on the pros and cons of raid-z vs mirroring: WHEN TO (AND NOT TO) USE RAID-Z from Bizarre ! Vous avez dit Bizarre.

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Useful zfs guide: ZFS Best Practices Guide.

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