Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber and Luiz Andre Barroso
Google Inc.
Abstract:
It is estimated that over 90% of all new information produced
in the world is being stored on magnetic media, most of it on
hard disk drives. Despite their importance, there is relatively
little published work on the failure patterns of disk drives, and
the key factors that affect their [...]
>> The shader exploit is executed through the booting of a modified KingKong disc via a firmware modded drive.
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This patch works like the crwl360-loader did, but without a serial cable and still requires a 4532 or 4548 kernel.
If you have a newer kernel, you are out of luck.
The patch includes the fixed sector reader code [...]
Commentary: Company risks its reputation in competitive business
By John C. Dvorak
Last Update: 7:18 PM ET Mar 28, 2007
BERKELEY (MarketWatch) — The hype over the unreleased iPhone has actually increased over the past month despite the fact that nobody has seen or used the device. This, if nothing else, proves the power of branding and especially [...]
Holy crap. The world record for fastest data transfer was just broken by Alcatel/Lucent, as they were able to transfer 25.6 terabits of data in one second over a single fiber strand. Well, that certainly puts my DSL line to shame.
Of course, this insanity isn’t about to be hooked up to your house anytime soon, [...]
-from gizmodo
Researchers at the University of Oslo have developed a computer that evolves on its own using genetic algorithms to boost performance. See?
What their hardware does is par up “genes” in the hardware to find the hardware design that is the most effective to accomplish the tasks at hand. Just like in the real world, [...]
-from ARS technica
By Jon Stokes | Published: March 28, 2007 - 02:23PM CT
At a press conference today, Intel’s Pat Gelsinger revealed fresh details of the company’s forthcoming 45nm processor family, codenamed Penryn. Penryn is the 45nm successor to the Merom/Conroe/Woodcrest microarchitecture that underlies the popular 65nm Core 2 Duo processor line.
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Gelsinger opened the [...]
-from egadget
It was but a mere eight days ago when we suggested that the number one thing that would currently improve the Zune’s status would be to get firmware v1.3 out to end users, and thankfully, that day has come. Sure, it’s arriving ever-so-slightly behind schedule, but ZuneInsider is reporting that the latest software is [...]
First off I want to thank you for visiting and reading this page, and I know it seems like it’s just a place were the authors are dumping tech news. Well your half right, we here at Entechx read the RSS feeds, dig through digg, and scour the internet so you don’t have to. In [...]
So after I first heard about on G4, I thought it was a horrible idea, and I still think it’d be a waste of money to buy if you already own a Ipod. I will admit that unlike many people in my generation (’87-’89 peeps) I have a slight bias aginst the Macs, it was [...]
So I apparently stayed up too late or something last night, because I slept through all my classes,lucky I can now read more news and RSS for today. So as I read one storyabout the 120gb HDD for the 360 I was surprised to find out that Microsoft is making the transfer very [...]
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