November, 2005

  1. Why Aren’t More Devices Like the PC?

    When it is not busy installing rootkits on its customers’ computers, Sony is in an arms race with another group of its customers — aficionados of the Play Station Portable. By all accounts, the PSP is an awesome piece of hardware and I see these things everywhere I go. The PSP has been so popular,…

  2. Cory Doctorow’s DRM Talk for Hewlett-Packard

    DRM Talk for Hewlett-Packard Research Corvalis, Oregon Cory Doctorow European Affairs Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation www.eff.org doctorow@craphound.com 9/28/5 – This text is dedicated to the public domain, using a Creative Commons public domain dedication: > Copyright-Only Dedication (based on United States law) > > The person or persons who have associated their work with this…

  3. The Falling Price of the Terabyte

    It still amazes me how fast the cost of hard drive storage continues to fall. These days you can pick up — with rebates — 250gb internal IDE hard drives for $70 or so. Grab four, and you’ve got yourself a full terabyte for less than $300. Internal 500gb hard drives have recently appeared on…

  4. NESCover

    I’m a sucker for this kind of stuff anyway, but NESCover is some of the best Nintendo-based music I’ve heard in a long time. I used to work with someone who constantly hummed Europe’s “The Final Countdown”, and the NES-based cover here is simply amazing. I could (well, I did, actually) listen to this stuff…

  5. LaCie’s Fanless 500gb External HDs

    I have about 4-5 external hard drives and they work great, for the most part, but the major drawback is the huge amount of noise that some models make, especially the LaCie drive I have. That fan on my 200gb D2 drive is actually louder sometimes than my dehumidifier. So I’m really geeked about this…

  6. The Return of the DataPlay Disc

    One of the longest running jokes in storage technology — the DataPlay disc — is apparently back thanks to Ridata, but still leaves the basic question in the air: who would actually be stupid enough to buy this? In the late 1990s, DataPlay was going to be the Next Big Thing in data storage with…