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Consumers' ability to store video, photos, music and other valued data will reach new heights as Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today announced the industry's first terabyte (TB) hard drive. Delivering superior performance and reliability, as well as capacity, Hitachi's 1TB hard drive meets the needs of consumers who want to create, share and store their digital information, and lots of it. Hitachi's Deskstar® 7K1000 will begin shipping to retail customers in the first quarter of 2007 at a suggested retail price of $399 (USD), or 40 cents per gigabyte (GB). This new consumer-friendly price makes ultra-high storage capacity more affordable and accessible than ever before.

Hard Disk Drives from Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Support for small Web applications (Widgets) was implemented. Site-specific preferences, including a content blocking feature and a management interface, were introduced. The popup blocker was enhanced. Bittorrent support was added. An error console, an editor for search shortcuts, and an internal source viewer/editor were added. Web page thumbnails were enabled. Support for Acid 2 and several CSS 3 properties was improved. Plugins using the Netscape plugin API 0.16 are now supported, and the need for Motif was removed. New IMAP mailer code was implemented. A system tray icon was added for Unix.

freshmeat.net: Project details for Opera

Windows Vista Community: Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program - get it while it's hot! Hint: you'll need a DVD burner.

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The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free web sites. In the June 2006 survey we received responses from 85,541,228 sites, a gain of 3.96 million sites from the May report. This is the largest one-month increase in sites in the history of the Netcraft survey, surpassing a gain of 3.3 million in March 2003, although the 2003 gain was larger in percentage terms (8.5%, compared to 4.7% this month).

Netcraft: June 2006 Web Server Survey

In a move calculated to expand Carrier Grade Linux's (CGL's) developer and user communities, HP has registered Debian's "Sarge" distribution with version 2.02 of the OSDL's CGL specification, and started a Carrier Grade subproject within Debian. Debian-CGL offers an intermediary choice between commercial CGL distributions and "rolling your own," according to the OSDL.HP has long used Debian as the basis for custom Linux OSes delivered to its telecom customers. Alan Meyer, R&D manager for Linux/OSS at HP, explains, "Red Hat and SUSE are our premier partners. If a customer can meet their needs with [these] off-the-shelf distros, great. If not, we start with Sarge, and based on customer RFQs, create a modified version of Linux that we deliver electronically to them."

HP unveils Carrier Grade Debian

FreeNAS, an open source NAS server, can convert a PC into a network-attached storage server. The software, which is based on FreeBSD, Samba, and PHP, includes an operating system that supports various software RAID models and a Web user interface. The server supports access from Windows machines, Apple Macs, FTP, SSH, and Network File System (NFS), and it takes up less than 16MB of disk space on a hard drive or removable media.

NewsForge | A look at the FreeNAS server

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There are any number of opensource (that means free, as in beer) outlining and diagraming tools that may be of interest/use to law faculty. Here are my favorites.

• Freemind is a mind mapping tool written in Java. It runs on any platform. It is useful for diagraming and annotating ideas.
• JOE, Java Outline Editor, is a basic outliner. A little old, but still quite effective for outlining anything.
• OPML Editor is a more sophisticated outlining and editing tool. It is available for Windows and Mac and has a number of cool features including the ability to post directly to a website.
• Dia is a full-fledged diagraming program that can be used to create very sophisticated flow charts and diagrams. It is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
  

We’re inviting any VoIP provider to peer with us, simply map the shortcode HANDI (42634) or *HANDI to our public SIP URI (sip:main@radiohandi.com, more options such as spanish language prompts coming soon). We also support direct inward dialing to nnnnnn@radiohandi.com where nnnnnn is the group or channel number for a voice community.

Peer With Radio Handi at *HANDI - O'Reilly Emerging Telephony

Theory says I could integrate this with Classcaster.  Worth looking into.  How about a teknoids voice community? 

The software giant on May 23 delivered Beta 2 versions of its Windows Vista operating system, Office System 2007 and Windows Server Longhorn at the same time. The scheduled 2007 arrival of the three products, now in beta, means that 2007 is shaping up to be one of the most important periods in some years for Microsoft, and by extension, the PC industry. But by delivering all three betas simultaneously, Microsoft is also setting out to prove that the trio is also more tightly coupled than before when it comes to security and productivity features, including search and document sharing.

Microsoft Releases 3 Beta Products at WinHEC

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The Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor is a small beta application that you can run on your current Windows XP-based computer to find out if it's ready for an upgrade to Windows Vista. When you run the Upgrade Advisor, it will scan your computer and generate an easy-to-understand report of any known system and device compatibility issues, along with recommendations on how you can get your PC ready for Windows Vista.

Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor Beta

Download it here.  Just the thing for a slow Friday afternoon.  How long before everyone is clamoring for Vista ready machines?

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As expected, the software giant on May 18 unveiled its Windows Vista Get Ready Web site, along with a set of minimum PC hardware guidelines for Vista Capable PCs—which call for at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM and a DirectX 9-capable graphics processor, but ask for more for those who seek to use all of Vista's features—and an Windows Upgrade Advisor application as part of a campaign to prepare people.

Microsoft Tells All on Vista's Hardware Needs

Needless to say these are the 'minimum' requirements.  The premium level of Vista will reuire a much heftier PC.  Read all about it here. 

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The Austin, Texas, PC maker has long been an Intel shop. But it intends to change that later in 2006, when it will begin offering a multi-processor AMD Opteron server.Dell, which announced its first-quarter earnings May 18, said in a statement that it would begin offering "AMD Opteron processors in our multi-processor servers by the end of the year offering a great new technology to our customers at the high-end of our server line."

Dell to Launch AMD Server

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