My Stuff
Limewire sues record companies
28 September 2006, 20:45
By Nancy Gohring
Peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file-sharing software developer Limewire has countersued the biggest record companies, charging them with anti-competitive behaviour.
The suit, filed Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, follows the closing of most of the popular file-sharing websites due to lawsuits initiated by record companies. It also comes on the heels of a suit filed by 13 record companies against Limewire, accusing the developer of music piracy and demanding damages that could amount to $476 million.
The Hard Drive Turns 50
14 September 2006, 19:57
Today, the hard drive is found everywhere—from the PCs we use daily to MP3 players and memory keys so small you can toss them in your pocket and forget you’re carrying around a hard drive. But when the hard drive was first introduced on September 13, 1956, it required a humongous housing and 50 24-inch platters to store 1/2400 as much data as can be fit on today’s largest capacity 1-inch hard drives
Source: The Hard Drive Turns 50
My Computer Setup
10 September 2006, 08:55
This is my computer setup at home. All my systems are running FeeBSD except for my workstation that is dual booting FreeBSD and MS Windows.
