Comments by Stephen Foskett

Yay, VirtualBox!

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I’m right there with you, Brent! Although my content wasn’t stolen by this particular site, I’ve been through it before many times, especially with sites in countries without the history of copyright protection that we in the West take for granted.

One thing that really made me laugh at InformationFlash: They stole content from ZDNet, CNet, TechTarget, and IDC! I have a feeling they have some lawyers…

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I had the same issue with my new Exchange setup. The official address was exchange.blah.com/owa, but that didn't work with the iPhone. Instead I had to use just exchange.blah.com!

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You are so right, Gary! Even the latest systems are shipping with 160 GB (or even 120 GB) internal drives, barely a step up from last year. The external storage market is very hot, though, but low margins and cutthroat competitive discounting are no doubt an issue there. I've noted before that one can often buy at retail a full external drive and enclosure cheaper than the bare drive contained inside! I personally did this when I went to 320 GB in my MacBook Pro, though I found a killer deal on a 7200 rpm 320 GB for my new Mac Mini server!

One major issue of the platter race is performance. A 320 GB single-platter drive is unlikely to perform as well as any current 2-platter unit. I found this in spades with the Mac Mini, which used a single-platter 120 GB drive that performed abysmally! Stepping up to two made a noticeable difference in my MacBook Pro, too.

Perhaps we are entering a new world where smaller 2-platter internal drives are complemented by high-density single- or two-platter external drives with lower performance. Now if only we had decent storage management for laptops and desktops!

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Hey now, Sunshine, that's not very neighborly! But it is astounding to read the letters to the editor. I'll post the really fun ones in the future too!

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Yes, this was an actual letter to the editor in today's Wooster (Ohio) Telegram!

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Yes, this was an actual letter to the editor in today's Wooster (Ohio) Daily Record!

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Great overview of all of the data deduplication technologies out there!

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I had originally linked your name in the caption to your Wikimedia Commons page, but it disappeared! WordPress seems to ignore/nuke hyperlinks in image captions. Weird. So I added a link at the bottom.

Thanks for making such a beautiful image available CC-BY-SA!

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if a queue overflows, the whole protocol stack backs off – all the way at the top, and usually fairly sharply

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Trying to describe product marketing for a high-tech company to a seven-year-old is no easy task.  It's easier just to say, "I do e-mail, create PowerPoint presentations, and go to meetings with people."

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FreeLDAP.org looks pretty cool. It would allow a user to maintain a central address book for use in the iPhone, Apple Address Book, Outlook, and anything else that supports LDAP. Neat!

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Sounds interesting, Dave! I'd love a link to more information. Where should I look?

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You're right! Dialing from the Calendar is sketchy and this definitely doesn't work. This stinks. Apple, are you listening?

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Some other greats: http://www.storagerap.com/ http://www.thehotaisle.com/ http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/ http://archiving101.com/ http://onlinestorageoptimization.com/

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