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29th March 2008 Archive

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  • Meet Datallegro's database crushing appliance

    Where $1.1m equals a cheap box

    It appears that companies must have unusual names in the data warehousing game. The kind vendors like Datallegro and Teradata at least stick a 'data' right in there to let you know the issue at hand. Tricker players like HP (NeoView) and Netezza do us no such favors. We assume the flashy names are meant to reflect the importance …

    Servers 29 Mar 2008, 00:52

  • Fujifilm bugs backup tapes with LoJack device

    Mishandled data phones home - 'I fell off the truck'

    Fujifilm Recording Media has launched in the US a GPS tracking device for tape storage — the backup and archiving medium with a nasty habit of "disappearing" while in transit to remote sites. Fujifilm Tape Tracker is a wireless device that discreetly fits into a standard half-inch tape cartridge. The company partnered with …

    Storage 29 Mar 2008, 00:56

  • Boss puts development team on Craigslist

    Web programmers meet web jobs market

    Call it compassionate capitalism or a desire to do good in these darkening times, but one US manager has placed a "for hire" ad online touting his developers' skills just one day after being forced to axe them. The ex-boss of three PHP, MySQL and Perl programmers has turned to Craigslist touting the "amazing" trio's skills …

    Management 29 Mar 2008, 02:01

  • Boffins battle over oldest European woman

    Old girl causes archaeological dust-up

    Boffins are scrapping over the identity of the oldest woman in Europe after the discovery of a 1.2 million-year-old probably female jaw. Some scientists believe that the recently discovered fossil gives weight to the theory that primitive humans came to Europe shortly after leaving Africa two million years ago, passing by the …

    Science 29 Mar 2008, 07:02

  • World+Dog tosses orb in public on Byron Review

    Supporters to the left, protagonists to the right

    The Byron Review into the effects of videogames and the internet on children was months in the making. But it’s only taken one day for everyone from government ministers to quangos to voice their opinions on the Review’s recommendations. Yesterday, psychologist Dr Tanya Byron’s review proposed a legally binding system of age …

    Games 29 Mar 2008, 09:02

  • MOAB and the pain ray - Iraq's war-missing wonder weapons

    Only the media were shocked, awed and pacified

    Five years ago, as we hurtled unstoppably towards war with Iraq, I was busy with an alternative weekly column called "Weapon of the Week." At the time journalists were being fed - and in general, were happily eating - a stream of marketing for the weapons and ideas that would make the coming war neat and painless. Well, we know …

    Government 29 Mar 2008, 10:02

  • Ubuntu chief picks panda over penguin, while Microsoft rolls Novell

    Radio Reg Wimpy open sourcers worked by Delta pilots

    If you're ever staying at the HoJo in Victorville, California, be sure to hit up the gay bar next door and down a Chelada with this guy. He's a hoot, and I'm pretty sure he'd be all about open source if he cared as much about software as he does for clam-fused tomato juice and Bud Light. Weird Victorville drink called Chelada …

    Open Season 29 Mar 2008, 15:27

  • Only Ubuntu left standing, as Flash vuln fells Vista in Pwn2Own hacking contest

    CanSecWest Contestant overcomes bout of 'hacktile dysfunction'

    A laptop running a fully patched version of Microsoft's Vista operating system was the second and final machine to fall in a hacking contest that pitted the security of Windows, OS X and Ubuntu Linux. With both a Windows and Mac machine felled, only the Linux box remained standing following the three-day competition. Shane …

    Operating Systems 29 Mar 2008, 21:27