What drives the hard disc industry moving forward? Broadband + P2p +
Good Content (aka porn).
After picked up my latest shiny 1TB (that's A Terabyte, it means one thousand Gigabytes)
Freecom hard drive from my dorm reception, I decided to put all my gang boxes together and see how much my mac can eat.
The answer is: all of them.
It really is a glorious moment when all the LEDs on my 7 port
USB hub led up, and all the holes on the back of the iMac plugged in. It literally made my eyes water. Screw HD-DVD, screw blue-ray, long live the magnetic spinning magic plates!
Words can not describe the beauty of a fulfilled mind, pics are surely necessary for memorial. Next year, when my sad life as my student finally ends and a larger place-of-living become possible, I will be thinking file server, fiber channel and RAID controllers.
Although there's a lot of grumbling in the UK about that £135 ($270) yearly television license fee (only $87 for a black and white set!), it's hard to complain that the BBC doesn't try to use all that money in cool ways. Adding to their already-ambitious plans to distribute HDTV through torrent, datacasting, and IPTV, the Beeb announced today that, after years of delays, they've been approved to pair up with ITV and launch a free 200-channel HD-capable satellite service called Freesat in the spring of 2008. The move is designed to provide digital service to the estimated 25% of the British public that can't get the successful Freeview DVB-T service, but it'll also be free to any license payer who ponys up for one of the several available interactive receivers. Hmm, that's an interesting version of "free," must be the British spelling.
