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Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
Samsung and Microsoft to enhance SSD performance
On more than one occasion, it has been remarked that the revolutionary benefits of the SSD haven't panned out as planned. Not only have the disks been slower than anticipated, the expected jump in battery life remains in the ether. The underwhelming performance may rest in the hands of virtually any OS to date, as they were designed with mechanical drives in mind.
Considered an optimal value, today's OS moves and addresses data in 512-byte chunks for a mechanical drive. Solid State Disks handle data in native clusters of 4KB. This means that your average OS is moving data in eight times smaller chunks than what is considered ideal for the new SSDs. Imagine the performance that could be gained if everything could be written, read or managed just as quickly with an eight-fold increase in cluster size.
Sprint's iDEN network on the skids?
The famous two-way network that Sprint acquired when it purchased Nextel to the tune of $35 billion may be on its way out the door to the hands of another owner. After second quarter losses of 900,000 customers and $344 million, analysts are supposing that Sprint may be ready to toss the iDEN network to the street.
The word goes that the Nextel arm of Sprint, estimated to be worth $5 billion USD, may be just enticing enough to Latin America carriers to offload. While the fate of the two-way network remains speculative, Sprint's push to 4G can't be weighed down by a quirky and obsolete network.
Internet terrorist hackers getting good at Apple
With the proliferation of the iPhone, hackers at the DefCon event in Las Vegas have promised that Apple is no longer in an ivory tower. They say that the recent popularity of these Apple products have given hackers much-needed experience with the Apple OS. The result is that new and interesting attack vectors can be created, all thanks to fresh looks at Mac OS and the rise in insecure Windows-to-MacOS ports.
(Love that headline. -Ed.)
Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 outed
For those of you looking to jailbreak your iPhone 3G, or unlock and jailbreak your first gen iPhone, version 2.0.2 of the Pwnage Tool is out and about.
DNS hack patch hacked
A major brouhaha unfurled some weeks back when it was announced that a security expert had managed to fundamentally undermine the operation of DNS. Using various techniques, the researcher was able to poison a DNS table to return the wrong hosts for the right address. This attack spelled disastrous consequences for the operation and safety of the internet, and prompted vendors to scramble to find a fix.
The fix has since been relatively broadly deployed, except a bored Physicist has managed to get around the newly-fixed DNS.
On more than one occasion, it has been remarked that the revolutionary benefits of the SSD haven't panned out as planned. Not only have the disks been slower than anticipated, the expected jump in battery life remains in the ether. The underwhelming performance may rest in the hands of virtually any OS to date, as they were designed with mechanical drives in mind.
Considered an optimal value, today's OS moves and addresses data in 512-byte chunks for a mechanical drive. Solid State Disks handle data in native clusters of 4KB. This means that your average OS is moving data in eight times smaller chunks than what is considered ideal for the new SSDs. Imagine the performance that could be gained if everything could be written, read or managed just as quickly with an eight-fold increase in cluster size.
Sprint's iDEN network on the skids?
The famous two-way network that Sprint acquired when it purchased Nextel to the tune of $35 billion may be on its way out the door to the hands of another owner. After second quarter losses of 900,000 customers and $344 million, analysts are supposing that Sprint may be ready to toss the iDEN network to the street.
The word goes that the Nextel arm of Sprint, estimated to be worth $5 billion USD, may be just enticing enough to Latin America carriers to offload. While the fate of the two-way network remains speculative, Sprint's push to 4G can't be weighed down by a quirky and obsolete network.
Internet terrorist hackers getting good at Apple
With the proliferation of the iPhone, hackers at the DefCon event in Las Vegas have promised that Apple is no longer in an ivory tower. They say that the recent popularity of these Apple products have given hackers much-needed experience with the Apple OS. The result is that new and interesting attack vectors can be created, all thanks to fresh looks at Mac OS and the rise in insecure Windows-to-MacOS ports.
(Love that headline. -Ed.)
Pwnage Tool 2.0.2 outed
For those of you looking to jailbreak your iPhone 3G, or unlock and jailbreak your first gen iPhone, version 2.0.2 of the Pwnage Tool is out and about.
DNS hack patch hacked
A major brouhaha unfurled some weeks back when it was announced that a security expert had managed to fundamentally undermine the operation of DNS. Using various techniques, the researcher was able to poison a DNS table to return the wrong hosts for the right address. This attack spelled disastrous consequences for the operation and safety of the internet, and prompted vendors to scramble to find a fix.
The fix has since been relatively broadly deployed, except a bored Physicist has managed to get around the newly-fixed DNS.
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