Sidebar: If Your Hard Drive Could Testify ...
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The government contends that it is perfectly free to inspect the hard drive of every laptop that enters the country in the same way it looks through suitcases.
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roundup Plus: Senate postpones vote on file-swapping bill...HP may expand Puerto Rican research...HP also uses Hitachi drives in servers, storage...Microsoft boosts reporting tools.
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I saw an ad in yesterday's NY Times that offered the complete New Yorker magazine archive, including all the cartoons and ads, going back to 1920-something for a bit more than the hard disk would cost. The ad was from J&R, the company that makes the product is Pexagon. $149. Sounds like there might be DRM. I asked for something like this from the music business. A hundred gigs of popular music for $500, all pre-installed on the disk without DRM.  Someone at the New Yorker had this idea too? It's a good one. Bulk content for collector types. Another source of revenue. I want to run my own personal radio station, so having every song of a certain genre or from a certain period makes the diff.
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SPECIAL FEATURE A new technology introduced formally last month by Seagate could effectively redefine how all computers are secured, and all information integrity is maintained. But it could introduce something else that many clearly don't want. As BetaNews learned, DRM's place in your computer could literally be secured.
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Windows? Linux? Mac OS? One day it won't matter.
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Program showing how to use flaw in Windows' handling of graphics files hits the Net--back up your family photos and beware.
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As consumers increasingly rely on digital media to secure their important documents and valuable personal content, they often fear that changes in technology may render their data inaccessible. Western Digital Corp.
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A new kind of gadget can save your data -- and your hide -- when your laptop is damaged or lost.
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Hoping to get some work done on a recent train trip to New York, I kicked back, opened my laptop, and clicked on Microsoft Excel. Up popped a prompt asking for the original program disk. Same thing with Word and PowerPoint. Nothing would run.
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Storage Expo Do you want a SAN or a SANity check?
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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The last time I browsed the selection of desktops in a computer store, I came down with a case of instant deja vu. Each time I'd spot a thoughtful feature on one company's PC -- say, both USB and FireWire ports on the front or a full set of memory-card slots -- I would look at the machine to its right or left and spot the exact same item.
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Google's Desktop Search application indexes a PC hard drive when it's not being used
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Know whether your copy of Windows is licensed? The software maker might ask you this next time you visit its download site.
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The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Nobody&#39;s exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia&#39;s HDs, but their
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Booting up in Âsafe modeÂ; how to record vinyl records onto a PC; external floppy drives.
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Also: High security built right into $100 laptop's OS. Read these stories and more from around the Web at News.com Extra.