A few days ago, I wrote a post titled, Caught in a Geek's Gravitational Field. The truly unimportant post just outlined the geeky stuff that I have been working on and the fact that the mess I have been making has gotten me into an infinite loop of debugging,...
IT departments are under growing pressure to find the most cost-effective means to meet their escalating data storage requirements, including disc drive capacity and performance. Nowadays storage systems must hold ever-increasing amounts of data, achieve Input/Output (I/O) performance goals, meet client response-time expectations and minimize physical space (U or ft3)...
The murderer Samir Kuntar was the highest profile Lebanese militant in an Israeli prison. He was jailed for murder after an attack in 1979 when, aged just 16, he led four Palestine Liberation Front fighters in an amphibious raid on the town of Nahariya. They broke into...
ROSH HANIKRA, Israel -- Without pomp but with modest ceremony, Israel on Wednesday somberly brought home the bodies of two of its soldiers in black coffins, part of a long-awaited prisoner exchange with the Lebanese militia Hezbollah. In return, at this cliff-top border crossing on the coast...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, announces the industry's first seven-year product warranty for a hard disk drive. Prior hard drive warranties have been limited to three to five years. The Spinpoint F1 RAID Class (F1R) 3.5" SATA...
The Utah Attorney General's Office has declined to investigate an apparent hoax call that sounded similar to the phone call that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch. "We referred it back for local law enforcement to look at," said Ken Wallentine, the Utah...
BEIRUT AFP — Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah appeared in person at public celebrations for the release of five Lebanese prisoners from Israel in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Wednesday. Television footage showed him standing next to Samir Kantar, freed earlier Wednesday from an Israeli prison along with...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel gave the green light on Tuesday for a prisoner swap with Lebanon's Hezbollah after pardoning its longest serving Arab prisoner to bring home two of its soldiers, dead or alive. The release to take place on Wednesday of five Lebanese prisoners includes the perpetrator...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's cabinet was set on Tuesday to give the final go-ahead for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah, despite Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying the Lebanese Shiite group had not fully kept its side of the bargain. The meeting will set the ball rolling for Wednesday's...
WARMINSTER, Pa., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- ACT/Technico (http://www.acttechnico.com/), a leading supplier of embedded products and systems solutions built with CompactPCI, VMEbus, and other open architecture platforms, introduces the Flash PMCStor, a low-power conduction cooled, solid state flash memory PMC module with up to 128 GB of NAND Flash memory....
Observing the coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints this summer has been like observing a three-ring circus when the elephants get loose. The church is still reeling from the negative implications of the FLDS Texas compound raid and journalists visiting Temple Square...
KABUL, Afghanistan -- An insurgent raid that penetrated an American outpost in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers, has deepened doubts about the U.S. military's effort to contain Islamic militants and keep locals on its side. Moving in darkness before dawn Sunday, some 200 fighters surrounded the newly...
NAQURA, Lebanon AFP — Hezbollah on Wednesday handed over two black coffins believed to contain the remains of two Israeli soldiers captured two years ago, the first stage of a prisoner swap being celebrated in Lebanon but greeted with anguish in Israel. "Today we hand over Ehud Goldwasser...
Dynamic Network Factory, Inc. DNF, a leadingmaker of high-performance network attached storage NAS, storage areanetworks SANs, RAID and iSCSI systems, today introduced new backup anddata archiving capabilities for its StorBank-XL line of hybrid appliances,which combine NAS and iSCSI in a single, unified IP storage platform. Thecompany will also add support...
EAST GRINSTEAD, England, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation reveals that RAID devices must be kept defragmented to ensure maximum system performance and reliability. On this matter, Microsoft stated: "Just as with a single disk, files stored on RAID arrays can become fragmented, resulting in longer seek...
NABLUS, West Bank AFP — Israeli troops arrested 12 Hamas members in a dawn raid in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, a Palestinian security official said, as part of a widening crackdown on the movement. The troops rolled into the northern city of Nablus in about 40...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel on Monday transferred four Lebanese detainees to another prison ahead of an exchange with the Shiite militant group Hezbollah set for Wednesday, a prison spokesman said. Khaled Zidan, Maher Kurani, Mohammed Sarur and Hussein Suleiman were moved under heavy security from the Ashalim prison...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel's cabinet was expected to give the final go-ahead on Tuesday for a prisoner swap with Hezbollah despite Prime Minister Ehud Olmert saying the Lebanese Shiite group did not fully keep its side of the bargain. The deal is expected to see on Wednesday the...
A GARDA savaged by a pitbull terrier might not be able to return to work for more than a YEAR. The 40-year-old officer was attacked by three of the dogs as he took part in a drugs raid in Galway last month. ...
COLLATERAL DAMAGE: AMERICA'S WAR AGAINST IRAQI CIVILIANS, by Chris Hedges and Laila Al-Arian, Nation Books, 122 pages, $22.95. Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Chris Hedges, former Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times, and Laila Al-Arian, a freelance journalist in New York City, have combined their vast...
