The incredible shrinking hard drive. . .
When I stop to think that I carry a 5 megabyte drive around in my pocket everyday, in the form of my nice blue iPod mini, I'm reminded of how far we've come in storage even in the past 25 years since I bought my very first hard drive. That was a Corvus 5 megabyte drive the size of a large shoebox which had a parallel port interface. At the time I was running a 4Mhz Z80 system I'd built myself with 64K of RAM and two floppy disk drives driven by a controller I'd also built myself.
C-Net has an article today that traces the evolution of the hard drive from the original IBM RAMAC which required 50 24-inch platters coated with iron oxide paint mounted on a rotating spindle to the new Toshiba MK4007GAL 1.8-inch drive which packs 40GB on a single platter, by packing 206 megabits per square millimeter
http://news.com.com/2300-1010_3-6031405-1.html?tag=nl
Beware the Kama Sutra. . .the worm that is!
The virus was first reported on Jan. 16. It is thought to have infected more than half a million PCs. Security vendors warn that these machines are now hard-coded to propagate the virus on Feb. 3
Time to update your Anti Virus NOW!
Link on the blog at www.softwareland.org to a page which contains a removal tool you can download to rid yourself of this virus:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blackmal@mm.removal.tool.html
Podcast of the day. . .
Information Week Daily Podcast
http://www.techweb.com/podcasts
Your daily dose of Technology News. Today's episode says what I think everyone in the technology business knows. . .everyone in IT wishes they had a new job at someplace that cares!
And that's your Manic Minute for January 26th, 2006!
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