Panther glitch erases some hard drives

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Important: glitch in Apple's Panther
erases connected FireWire drives

Important: glitch in Apple's Panther
erases connected FireWire drives 11/01/2003 05:17 AM
So shall I install Panther or not? .. disconnect your FireWire drive

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Panther Glitch erasing users hard-drives

Panther Glitch erasing users hard-drives 10/31/2003 03:56 AM
If your upgrading your MAC to Panther and you have a Firewire drive you better hold your horses. Seems some...

Panther problem eats some hard drives

Panther problem eats some hard drives 10/31/2003 03:50 AM
ZDNet UK Oct 31 2003 3:25AM ET

New Virus Erases Hard Drive

New Virus Erases Hard Drive 06/08/2004 03:15 PM

From the 'It Was Bound To Happen' department: Symantec
reports that a new virus is making the rounds that deletes all files on the infected PC:

The malware targets Windows computers, and arrives in an email bearing the subject "Re" and an attachment that will have an .asp, .hta, .htm, .htt, .html, .vbe or .vbs extension. Upon infection, the virus uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself to everyone in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book. "If the day is the 6th, 13th, 21st, or 28th, the worm will delete all the files from the computer," Symantec reports. Despite its nasty payload, SANS notes that VBS.Pub "doesn't possess any earth-shattering characteristics to make it a significant propagation threat."

If this one did propogate widely, it would be regrettable, but it would at least help solve the problem of old, unpatched, unprotected Windows boxes that act as virus sponges.

Now let's wait for the first "doesn't happen on a Mac" comment. ;-)

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IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives

IFD-iV Flash Drives Masquerade as ATA
Hard Drives 07/15/2004 08:59 AM

For embedded computing hackers, mass storage (like hard drives) is often the most frustrating piece of the puzzle, as the fragile and power-hungry spin of the hard drive is usually the last non-solid-state part in the whole deployment. And while most engineers will just use a Compact Flash card, sometimes the only option is an ATA (hard drive) connection; that's where the IFD-iV flash memory parts from IO Data Device Corporation come in. Basically just flash memory drives, the defining feature of the IFD-iVs (besides fairly rugged operating specifications) is that they use the standard ATA connection of a hard drive, meaning they can be deployed in place of hard drives when necessary. Models up to 2GB in capacity will be available for around $2,100 -- maybe we'll just deal with the fragile hard drives instead.
Read - Flash memory ATA hard drive [TechJapan]

Update: Reader Tom Lee brings up a much cheaper option for hackers on a budget (after the jump.)

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives

Keep Your Confidential Data Confidential
With Biometric Fingerprint Flash Drives
and Hard Disk Drives 02/01/2005 09:13 PM
Now you can have safe, secure, portable storage of your confidential business and personal data with the biometric fingerprint ClipDrive Bio USB Flash Drive and the Outbacker USB biometric fingerprint Hard Disk Drive. The devices are non-operational until a validated fingerprint or password is received. [PRWEB Jan 21, 2005]

Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther

Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in Panther 10/31/2003 06:10 AM
Apple's Panther has a serious bug that wipes out external FireWire drives during the upgrade procedure. Worse, many Mac users are backing up to external drives before upgrading. Some are losing everything. By Leander Kahney.

Notes and Tips: Panther Web Log Glitch

Notes and Tips: Panther Web Log Glitch 02/17/2004 11:51 AM
Panther apparently has a glitch in its web log configuration utility.

Wired News: Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in
Panther

Wired News: Bye-Bye Data: Glitch in
Panther 11/01/2003 07:26 AM
I THOUGHT APPLE COMPUTERS WERE PERFECT! .. oops

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Notes and Tips: Panther Modem Glitch

Notes and Tips: Panther Modem Glitch 07/02/2004 10:04 AM
Panther's Setup Assistant can mess up a modem's country setting.

Notes and Tips: Panther PowerBook
Display Glitch

Notes and Tips: Panther PowerBook
Display Glitch 01/26/2004 10:18 AM
Apple acknowledges a problem with PowerBook display resolution switching under Panther.

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives...

Arg! Memory, XP, and hard drives... 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
Ok... Sorry for the delay in posting anything. "ultra" - my main box, has had some issues during the last...

Defragment All Hard Drives

Defragment All Hard Drives 09/20/2004 01:00 PM

Next-Generation Hard Drives

Next-Generation Hard Drives 11/07/2003 11:04 AM

Hottest Hard Drives

Hottest Hard Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In 20 years, the hard disk drive has progressed from an IBM PC luxury add-on to an indispensable part of any computer, and finally to a component so inexpensive it can be upgraded on impulse. What are today's hottest hard drives, and what is on the horizon for this vital technology?

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives

New Technology for More Spacious Hard
Drives 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
An old adage in the computer industry holds that you can never be too rich or have too much space on your hard drive. That may be difficult to believe now, considering that the hard drives in many personal computers sold today can now store the digital equivalent of several complete sets of encyclopedias. And leave plenty of room to spare.

Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon

Hitachi to bring 1TB hard drives soon 04/05/2005 04:32 AM

External FireWire Hard Drives

External FireWire Hard Drives 10/29/2003 01:13 AM
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Exp. 11/03 More deals inside...

A new handshake for mini hard drives?

A new handshake for mini hard drives? 09/09/2004 06:09 PM
Intel, Hitachi, Toshiba and others propose CE-ATA, a new interface for miniature hard drives used in consumer electronics.

Grim times for hard drives

Grim times for hard drives 05/28/2004 06:14 AM
ZDNet UK May 28 2004 9:49AM GMT

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA

200 Gig Hard-Drives on sale at CompUSA 10/28/2003 11:07 PM
There are a few good things about being on travel I have a chance to spend a little extra time...

Hard Drives the unsung Hero

Hard Drives the unsung Hero 05/27/2004 12:28 PM

I had to smile today. Sitting on my shelf of memorabilia is a 65 meg RLL Hard-drive that I payed $465.00 for back in the mid 80's. I was the top dog on the block and all of my buddies and I marveled at how we would every fill it up. Little did I know that in 1993 I would layout $1056.00 for a 1.6 Gig drive.
I have been kicking myself in the butt every since. But luckily the days of over-priced hard-drives are long gone. The history of the Hard-Drive is an amazing one. [CNet]

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives

Green Tea Good for Hard Drives 04/29/2004 05:00 AM
The same tannins in green tea that cause stains to form on your mugs and teapots could save the hard-drive manufacturing industry some serious dough, says a team of researchers. By Amit Asaravala.

FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives

FBI Picks Up Some Novelty Hard Drives 07/23/2004 03:08 PM
With all of the security problems in Los Alamos these days, apparently secrecy is no joking matter. The Black Hole Surplus Store and Museum apparently had some hard drives behind the counter with "secret" labels on them. They're not for sale, but are really just there to generate conversation with tourists. The FBI apparently wasn't particularly thrilled with this explanation and have confiscated the hard drive which the owner of the surplus store insists was a joke. Who knows what goes through some people's minds, but does it really seem likely that someone walking out of Los Alamos with classified info is going to hand it over to the local surplus store?

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP)

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity
(AP) 04/28/2004 08:10 PM
AP - The power of the U.S. cable and satellite TV industries rests on the 85 million households they count as subscribers. But the influence of Hollywood, which controls the entertainment flow, is even more formidable.

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity

New Hard Drives to Expand DVR Capacity 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 29 2004 1:42AM GMT

Labs look beyond today's hard drives

Labs look beyond today's hard drives 07/21/2004 09:37 AM
ZDNet Jul 21 2004 2:09PM GMT

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives

Toshiba's new tiny hard drives 12/15/2003 11:35 AM
Toshiba's new hard drives are the size of a nickel and can store over a gigabyte of data.

The 0.85 inch diameter disk is believed to be the world's smallest hard disk drive that can store about 2 or 3 gigabytes worth of information, company spokeswoman Midori Suzuki said Monday.

Link (via Werblog)

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU

FireWire Hard Drives and The Future of
the TBU 06/12/2004 06:49 PM

I bought a FireWire hard drive enclosure the other day, and I'm awfully happy with it. It cost about $45 and I filled it with an old 40GB hard drive I had lying around. It works beautifully — plug it into a FireWire port and you get a G: drive.

It makes me wonder what'll happen to the venerable tape backup unit (TBU). I have a TBU on my server, but it's old, slow, cranky, and only holds 20GB. Furthermore, 20GB tapes are like, $30 while hard drives are running less than a dollar per gigabyte these days.

Right now, I can think of no reason why I would use my TBU for anything anymore. Am I missing something? I imagine that tapes are physically pretty durable, certainly more so than a hard drive, but is there anything else?

I'm using this portable hard drive for off-site backups. Once a week, I'll bring the drive in, copy the latest backups onto it, and take it home where it will sit on my bookshelf for a week until I bring it in again to refresh the backups.

FireWire hard drives, incidentally, are fast as lightning. I have a small RAID Tower which runs via FireWire. You'd never know it wasn't an internal SCSI drive. In fact, I installed a very CPU- and I/O-intensive server process on it once and it ran beautifully. Again, the simplicity is amazing — plug it in and you get an F: drive, end of story.

I'm so impressed with the utility of these things that I'd go so far as call them mandatory equipment for your PC. The enclosure will cost you $45. I found a 40GB Maxtor drive on Froogle for $32. I bought a FireWire card and cable on eBay last year for $15. That's $92 for 40GB of removable storage that you can throw in a fanny pack — tough to beat.

On my next PC, I'm going to physically separate the operating system from my data files. I'll keep all my data on an external FireWire unit, and only keep the OS and program files on the internal IDE unit. I'd love for my PC to be essentially disposable. If I have a problem, just pave and reload it knowing that all my data files are safe and secure a few feet away on the external unit. Perversely, I may mirror them on the internal drive just for redundancy.

For the record, I bought the Metal Gear Box from NewEgg. It was rock simple to get running — find a hard drive, physically screw it into the unit, plug it two cables, then plug it into the PC.

I'm not thrilled with look of the thing — it's all brushed aluminum and black metal grating. (Kind of makes me feel like a 40-year-old man driving around in a lowered Civic with a big wing on the back.) Additionally, when you put it down, there's no padding or rubber stops, so it kind of clanks against the desk, which makes me a little nervous.

Anyway, the theory is valid. External hard drives: good. FireWire: great. Go get one.

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Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale

Not-So-Clean Hard Drives For Sale 06/08/2004 11:40 PM
Slashdot Jun 9 2004 4:16AM GMT

Other News: WiFi Hard Drives

Other News: WiFi Hard Drives 04/12/2004 10:04 AM
Hooking up hard drives to wireless networks may shortly become easier.

Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug

Tiny Hard Drives Need New Plug 09/09/2004 04:59 PM
Portable consumer electronics and handhelds need a smaller more efficient interface for hard drives, so Intel and others are working to define a new spec, CE-ATA.

Fujitsu announces new enterprise hard
drives

Fujitsu announces new enterprise hard
drives 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
The company's announcement comes about a week after rival Hitachi Global Storage Technologies became the first drive maker to announce a 300GB, 10,000-rpm drive.

Gateway Lets Buyers Keep Old Hard Drives

Gateway Lets Buyers Keep Old Hard Drives 08/23/2004 02:39 PM
Tired of having to part with your old hard drive simply because you upgraded to a higher-capacity one?

IBM knowingly shipped defective hard
drives?

IBM knowingly shipped defective hard
drives? 02/18/2004 09:16 AM

Hard Drives Get Faster, Smarter (PC
World)

Hard Drives Get Faster, Smarter (PC
World) 08/02/2004 04:29 AM
PC World - NCQ technology allows drives to prioritize a PC's data requests.

Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives (AP)

Seagate to Market Mini Hard Drives (AP) 06/13/2004 04:56 PM
AP - Eyeing consumers' voracious appetite for digital media storage, Seagate Technology LLC will soon have a slew of new products to capitalize on the booming demand for mini hard drives.

One-Inch Hard-Drives 'Next Year'

One-Inch Hard-Drives 'Next Year' 12/08/2003 11:37 AM
The move could herald a move to a smaller form-factor for Apple's market-leading iPod music player. By Martyn Williams (Macworld UK via MyAppleMenu)

HP to ship first servers with smaller
SAS hard drives

HP to ship first servers with smaller
SAS hard drives 03/14/2005 06:24 PM
InfoWorld Mar 14 2005 6:25PM GMT
Grok Description matches for Panther glitch erases some hard drives
GrokA matches for Panther glitch erases some hard drives

The History of Programming Languages

The History of Programming Languages 06/17/2004 12:59 PM
Dozix007 writes "For 50 years, computer programmers have been writing code. New technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace. Now there are more than 2,500 documented programming languages and O'Reilly has produced a poster called History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline."

Programming Languages Study

Programming Languages Study 06/09/2004 04:16 AM
gnat writes "The Scriptometer attempts to measure the ease of scripting in different languages. While it's not the pinnacle of scientific impeccability, it's an interesting idea and Perl comes out well."

Quantifying Popular Programming
Languages

Quantifying Popular Programming
Languages 04/16/2004 11:37 AM
DDJ Apr 16 2004 2:28PM GMT

Extinction Of Human Languages Affects
Programming?

Extinction Of Human Languages Affects
Programming? 02/16/2004 06:44 PM

Iomega Launches Line of High-Capacity
Devices

Iomega Launches Line of High-Capacity
Devices 04/12/2004 10:05 PM
Boston Globe Apr 13 2004 2:36AM GMT

Iomega Launches Line of High-Capacity
Devices (Reuters)

Iomega Launches Line of High-Capacity
Devices (Reuters) 04/12/2004 11:20 PM
Reuters - Iomega Corp. (IOM.N) on Monday unveiled a new line of high-capacity devices aimed primarily at offering a low-cost option to small businesses that need to save critical data.

Iomega unveils entry-level network
attached storage devices

Iomega unveils entry-level network
attached storage devices 05/25/2004 05:33 AM

ActiveState Releases First Professional
IDE for Open Source Programming
Languages on Solaris

ActiveState Releases First Professional
IDE for Open Source Programming
Languages on Solaris 12/08/2003 07:16 PM
Komodo IDE for Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl, + XSLT at SunNetwork Conference

TCL/TK Programming Environment

TCL/TK Programming Environment 07/31/2004 08:56 AM
Version 1.01 released

Lagniappe Programming Environment

Lagniappe Programming Environment 06/24/2005 05:47 PM
Lagniappe officially on its way!

problem in voip environment

problem in voip environment 09/13/2004 10:50 AM
Pasquiet Loic (M.) (Sep 11 2004)

Processing - Programming Language and
Environment for Images, Animation and
Sound

Processing - Programming Language and
Environment for Images, Animation and
Sound 06/05/2005 11:43 PM


Processing - Programming Language and Environment for Images, Animation and Sound
http://processing.org/

Processing is a programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an open-source alternative to commercial software tools in the same domain. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Y2k redux? PTC software date glitch
requires patch

Y2k redux? PTC software date glitch
requires patch 12/26/2003 05:26 PM
Without the fix, some products will stop operating on Jan. 10, 2004.

Another technical glitch slows Web
portal Yahoo due to hardware problem

Another technical glitch slows Web
portal Yahoo due to hardware problem 06/17/2004 07:47 PM
National Post Jun 18 2004 0:39AM GMT

Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Ship Date

Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" Ship Date 04/12/2005 11:31 AM

Apple OS X 10.4 "Tiger" is officially announced, to be released on Friday, April 29th. Like the release of Panther, the cost is $130. (Thanks, Dave!)

Product Page [Apple]

Update: I knew all that whoring would pay off. It looks like the rumor of Gizmodo being included by default in Safari RSS turned out to be true. Thanks, Apple!

Programming languages and security top
academic discussions at Microsoft
Academic Days

Programming languages and security top
academic discussions at Microsoft
Academic Days 05/05/2004 01:24 AM
AME Info May 5 2004 5:36AM GMT

Apple's Tiger OS Targets Easy
Programming with Automator

Apple's Tiger OS Targets Easy
Programming with Automator 07/11/2004 01:37 AM
Automator relies on a simple scripting model that involves dragging and dropping "Actions," which are then linked automatically together to form a pipeline, though which files or objects flow.

Apple's Tiger Targets Easy Programming
with Automator

Apple's Tiger Targets Easy Programming
with Automator 07/09/2004 06:41 PM
The forthcoming Automator tool, code-name Pipeline, will provide Mac OS X "Tiger: users with a powerful, but simple environment to script away tasks.

Tiger release date announced

Tiger release date announced 04/12/2005 11:14 AM

Apple has announced a release date for Tiger.

Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger” will go on sale Friday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. during special events at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. Tiger has more than 200 new features and innovations including Spotlight, a revolutionary desktop search technology that lets users instantly find anything stored on their Mac, including documents, emails, contacts and images; and Dashboard, a new way to quickly access important information like weather forecasts and stock quotes, using a dazzling new class of applications called widgets.

Apple Announces Tiger Release Date

Apple Announces Tiger Release Date 04/12/2005 11:10 AM

Tiger Renamed; Ship Date Imminent

Tiger Renamed; Ship Date Imminent 04/01/2005 03:21 AM
Matt Neuburg (~380 words)

Following the quick coverage of the new iPod double-shuffle, Steve Jobs moved into current news, announcing that at long last the new version of its Mac OS X operating system is ready, and will be coming soon to a retail outlet near you. (OK, so that's not really news.) Mac OS X 10.4 will be available in stores and online starting at midnight, 22-Apr-05.

ActiveState Awards ActiveState is
delighted to announce the second annual
Programmers' Choice and Activators'
Choice Awards. The awards honor the
unnamed heroes who actively contribute
to open languages and display excellence
in their programming efforts

ActiveState Awards ActiveState is
delighted to announce the second annual
Programmers' Choice and Activators'
Choice Awards. The awards honor the
unnamed heroes who actively contribute
to open languages and display excellence
in their programming efforts 06/06/2002 07:02 AM
A Beta version of PHP for NetWare is available on the Novell Developer Kit site. This version is based on the 4.0.8 (development) version of the PHP source code.

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team

Ori Amiga - Tour of mobile devices with
Visual Studio for Devices team 09/25/2004 09:16 AM
Ori Amiga shows off all the devices that he has hanging out in his office (someone has to test Visual Studio and make sure it works great with all the devices).

Glitch, glitch, glitch, but not everyone
had complaints

Glitch, glitch, glitch, but not everyone
had complaints 07/25/2004 09:03 PM
SiliconValley.com Jul 26 2004 0:36AM GMT

Retrospect 6 5.4.104

Retrospect 6 5.4.104 05/26/2004 10:32 PM
Adds new drive support and other enhancements.

Retrospect-GDS

Retrospect-GDS 12/24/2003 03:07 AM
Retrospect-GDS 1.0.0 released

Update: Retrospect 6

Update: Retrospect 6 01/26/2004 11:28 AM
Dantz has started selling electronic downloads of Retrospect 6.

Edwards retrospect

Edwards retrospect 07/29/2004 10:05 AM
I didn't see the Edwards speech on TV, so I'm not entitled to have an opinion about it. Worse, I had to follow along in the transcript in order to parse the few sound waves that managed to drag themselves up to the 7th floor Valhalla where the bloggers sit in judgment. Nevertheless, I hereby judge him absolutely, and in four categories: 1. Content. I like the Two Americas theme and the recognition that race matters in this country. With these, Edwards uttered truths we all know but that need to be said flat out instead of studiously ignored...as with...

Macworld review: Retrospect 6.0

Macworld review: Retrospect 6.0 06/17/2004 01:19 PM
Everyone has a mission-critical application -- that one program they can't work without (Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Excel, or Apple's Final Cut Pro, for example). But backup programs are mission critical for all users, no matter how they earn a living. Dantz Development's Retrospect backup software, the most popular of this genre, performs full and incremental backups of local and networked Macs and saves data to a wide variety of storage devices. Many people waited to upgrade to Mac OS X until Retrospect 5.0 was available for the platform. And many people have also held off on upgrading their servers to Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), due to its incompatibilities with Retrospect 5.1. Retrospect 6.0 addresses those incompatibilities but otherwise offers only a few new features, which are aimed at people using Retrospect to back up very large amounts of data.

Retrospect 6.0 and Mac OS X Server
(30-Jan-2004; .7K)

Retrospect 6.0 and Mac OS X Server
(30-Jan-2004; .7K) 01/31/2004 07:09 AM

Panther glitch erases some hard drives

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