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- Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard drive
- Seagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveSeagate announce first 1.5TB desktop hard driveDamn thats a huge drive. Just think of all the adult entertainment you could store on that drive.Why?Give me a RAID 5 featuring four 500GB drives. Far more stable, faster, et cetera... of course, it...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-10
- Files Cipher (exe)
- Files Cipher is a special cryptographic tool that is easy to use and understand. The encryption algorithm with private key was specially developed by FC Soft and has been proven to be effective over many years of operation. Features include a wide scope of application, high performance rate and strong...
- Software downloads 2008-06-04
- High-end disks dead in 2 years
- Dave Donatelli, a senior exec at EMC - the largest data storage vendor - predicted that high-end flash drives will replace high-end hard drives in 2 years. Is this the beginning of the end for disk drives? What is a high-end hard drive? Unlike the...
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- Maple4 FTP Connection (zip)
- The automated copying or carry of data on FTP Server. By means of FC it is possible to set obviously with what files to work (for example, to copy index.html), or easier to specify the catalogue of sending and transfer. The broad gully of work with FC (all work -...
- Software downloads 2008-05-15
- PDF Rotate Pages (zip)
- PDF Rotate Pages software automates the process of rotating the view of individual or ranges of pdf pages to a degree angle of either: 0, 90, 180, 270 simple command line parameters: e.g. PDFRotatePages -iin1.pdf -ooutput.pdf -r180 (would flip all pages in the pdf upside down 180 degrees.) PDFRotatePages -iin1.pdf...
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- Is it Microsoft of Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop?
- Is it Microsoft of Ubuntu that scared Red Hat away from the desktop?Does Red Hat's exit now leave the desktop Linux field open to Ubuntu?Red Hat was never really in the desktop field to begin with, and has stated so rather pointedly on many occasions, so I don't see how...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" post
- The obligatory "Victoria Falls" postThe 800 lb Gorilla in the roomThere is no doubt that Moore's Law is making some very amazing things happen in CPU land. The T2+ would be even better if Sun could make CPUs that can clock to 4 Ghz (or EVEN 2 Ghz), but for...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-15
- 2.5" disks to become new standard in 2009
- When I first started selling storage, 14" disk drives were all the rage. Then came 9", 8", 5.25" and then 3.5" drives - where we've been stuck for the last 15 years - even though they have gotten thinner. All this shrinkage is courtesy of drive...
- Blog posts 2008-04-14
- FileCutter (exe)
- filecutter.exe run base on Command Windows like in Dos. when you run fc filecutter,3 options will be come out. press Number 1 for split file, press number 2 for combination, press 3 for quit. if select 1, you type your file name you want split (file name must be in...
- Software downloads 2008-03-13
- New Business Management System Helps Soccer Club Drive on and Off-Field Success
- FC Koln is one of the best-known professional soccer clubs in Germany. As one of the original members of the Deutsche Bundesliga, FC Koln still claims a growing regional following. Despite its reputation on the pitch, the club's business management systems struggled to support its growing fan base and increasing...
- Case studies 2008-03-05
- SAN Storage Provisioning With "External" Load Balancing Mechanism
- The Storage Load Balancing is just one part of the general load balancing problem in computer systems. The authors have storage controllers/processors, which act simultaneously and number of storage units which are known as volumes connected to those storage processors. The goal is to distribute those volumes, which also are...
- White papers 2008-02-06
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86
- Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86CoolthreadsI'm beginning to doubt whether Coolthreads is really all it's cracked up to be. The problem is the performance boost seems to assume that you have a very parallelizable problem. In practice, this means you either have code that has been intentionally written to...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- Business Continuity: No Longer Out of Reach
- Business continuity has historically been out of reach for small- and medium-sized businesses SMBs because it was too costly and complicated. While large companies could afford expensive fibre channel storage area networks FC SANs, the highly trained staff to manage them, duplicate data centers, channel extenders, and expensive replication software,...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- "Terminal" isn't a four letter word
- "Terminal" isn't a four letter wordonce againA solution for all problems: private-PC-connected-to-public-network + workplace-terminal-connected-to-private-network + KVMManagement wants the fantasy.It's really the same as most businesses--management wants to be told, "We checked into it and have the situation under control. There is no problem. Anything you hear to the contrary is...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-29
- Fibre Channel Over Ethernet in the Data Center: An Introduction
- Fibre Channel over Ethernet FCoE is a newly proposed standard that is being developed by INCITS T11. The FCoE protocol specification maps Fibre Channel natively over Ethernet and is independent of the Ethernet forwarding scheme. It allows an evolutionary approach towards I/O consolidation by preserving all Fibre Channel constructs, maintaining...
- White papers 2007-10-09
- FIFA Soccer 08 demo (exe)
- FIFA Soccer 08 is the next release in the long-running simulation series from EA Sports. Most of the features of FIFA 07 return in FIFA 08, with a host of new features that aim to liven up the gameplay.FIFA 08 introduces a new engine--called the 35-point decision engine--that enables players...
- Software downloads 2007-09-07
- Power pushing 2.5" drives to tipping point
- Remember 5.25" hard drives?I remember 18" hard drives. Then 14", 9" and 8", 5.25" and now 3.5". The secular trend is clear: disk drives shrink. So when do we make the leap to 2.5" drives in the data center.Traditionally, the jump started when the smaller form factor could hold a...
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Mainframe Linux
- Here's a bit from the introduction to a recent article by Ken Milberg under the title "Mainframe Linux vs. Unix". Today's new breed of smaller, cheaper mainframes, paired with the Linux operating system, look like an attractive alternative to Unix on RISC or SPARC...
- Blog posts 2007-08-14
- 50 ways to lose your data
- Apologies to Paul SimonDisk drives are marvelous devices. Especially when they go "clunk" and stop working. I'm not kidding: at least you know your data is hosed. I prefer that to the silent data corruption you don't find out about until you can't access a file or your OS starts...
- Blog posts 2007-08-07
- Celtic FC RSS Feed (widget)
- Keep up with the latest news and events concerning Celtic Football Club [courtesy of the BBC's RSS feed]. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Software downloads 2007-08-01
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