Giant babies kill the floppy disk
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And rocket-powered cars Letters Sad news this week as California coastguards were forced to call off the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who has been missing since setting out in his yacht last Sunday. A respected IT personality and database developer, Google chipped in with an offer to use its high resolution satellite imagery to aid the search:â¦
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Electromagnetic pulse bomb in a beige box This Old Box Technology product failures will always have a special spot in my heart. Perhaps it's comforting to know even when a team of seemingly talented and intelligent people put their heads together â it sometimes only results in a painful, coconut-like thud in the center of the huddle.â¦
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Also: Windows worm travels with Tetris [News.com Extra]
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By Dubie, Denise  Getting rid of obsolete computer gear isn't as simple as it used to be. The threat of data loss, coupled with increasingly stringent environmental regulations, has IT pros rethinking their disposal methods.
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Now that digital cameras have overtaken film cameras in sales, users are beginning to encounter a familiar problem: bulging image files and folders filling up computer hard drives.
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And did Apple buy the eBay TARDIS? Letters Let's start with the bloggers. Such an easy target - there are so many that any mud slung is bound to stick to some of them. Still, as Ashley Norris points out, Daily Mail columnists really should be careful about any kind of projectiles they launch, lest they turn out to be boomerangs:â¦
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It's the mid-1990s, gigabyte hard drives are starting to become commonplace, and that fact is great news for this pilot fish with a storage problem.
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A step-by-step summary of TechRepublic's project to take apart the Wii. Caution: This will seriously void your warranty.
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Can the movie studios kill the most promising new DVD format?
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OK, shredders, dudes, dudettes, rugrats, whippersnappers, all of you out of the room. Go find something else to do today. Clean your room or something. This one's for your parents, or even grandparents.
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Save the caribou with disk Supermicro has a new line of 3U SAS storage systems its punting as "Earth-friendly" boxen. Which is fine. Everyone says that. But let's step back and consider that.â¦
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PCs on council tips and other security no-nos Large UK businesses are crap at securely disposing old PCs and mobile devices.â¦
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Dell 2.0 - 'Now shipping with less brain' Comment Dell's siamese twin management experiment has ended with only the brand name baby surviving the surgeon's slice.â¦
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LONDON -- PC World, Britain's largest chain of computer superstores, will say goodbye to floppy disks once the current stash is gone.
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Why your beloved gadgets die so young. By Kris Wagner from Wired Test.
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I see you all out there, smirking and revving your RAID controllers. "What could possibly replace RAID controllers?" you ask rhetorically. As if nothing could ever replace RAID -- ever.
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By Bill Husted, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Sep. 3--There are thousands of ways to kill a computer. I've tried most  of them.   They've gone up in flames in front of my eyes and died quiet and  undramatic deaths at my hand.