Tokyo, December 12, 2006 - Fujitsu Limited today announced the development of the world's first 2.5" hard disk drive that offers storage capacity of 300 gigabytes (GB) with a Serial ATA(1) interface. The new hard disk drive "MHX2300BT" will be available in late February 2007. Featuring the highest storage capacity in the 2.5" class, it will be available on a global basis for use primarily in multifunctional mobile PCs and digital TVs. Fujitsu began selling hard disk drives with perpendicular magnetic recording in October of this year. It has been an industrial leader in introducing high-capacity 2.5" hard disk drives, launching products with 160 GB in September 2005 and 200 GB in May 2006 that garnered high praise from many customers. MHX2300BT marks the commercial introduction of second generation of perpendicular magnetic recording technology. The new hard disk drive will be offered in 300 GB, the highest storage capacity available in 2.5" hard disk drives, and 250 GB versions, offering the capacity needed to store terrestrial broadcasting digital TV videos. This level of capacity makes these hard disk drives suitable alternatives to the 3.5"drives typically found in desktop PCs, and their small size makes them especially well-suited to flat-panel TVs with built-in recorders. The new hard disk drives are the RoHS compliant(2) and have read/write power consumption requirements of just 1.6 W, among the lowest in the world, making them environmentally-friendly products. They are also exceptionally quiet, emitting just 2.1 bels(3) of noise at idle. Technorati : sata, storage, windows Del.icio.us : sata, storage, windows Ice Rocket : sata, storage, windows
SGI (NASDAQ: SGIC) today introduced the newest member of its storage portfolio, the easy-to- deploy SGI® InfiniteStorage 220 RAID system. This storage solution enables data consolidation for organizations of any size, with fully integrated software and a flexible appliance-like design for simplified deployments. These systems feature a number of configuration choices that allow customers to choose the exact features that match their storage requirements. With Fibre Channel or Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host connectivity, as well as a choice between SAS and SATA disk drives, the InfiniteStorage 220 can be introduced as a solution to a wide number of storage challenges. The affordable SGI InfiniteStorage 220 solution delivers maximum value for data backup, disaster recovery, and general file storage applications. The new SGI InfiniteStorage 220 platform makes it easy to gain the benefits of high availability and RAID protection without the complexity of typical Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions. In concert with its new Storage Management Interface (SMI) software, the new storage platform builds in many improvements for storage environments, whether they are SAN or Direct Attach Storage (DAS) implementations: Ease of deployment - With only basic familiarity with servers and storage, users can set up and deploy cost-effective RAID storage. Ease of Management - Many tasks are automated and streamlined using SMI, including data protection and diagnostic tasks. Ease of growth - Low-impact scalability allows for the installation of additional storage to be managed easily and transparently without shutting down. "The plug-and-play design of the SGI InfiniteStorage 220 storage solution makes high-performance RAID storage very accessible to any business, and lowers costs during the life of the platform," explains Kurt Kuckein, SGI RAID product manager. "This newest addition to the SGI storage family broadens the choices and gives customers the ability to protect their
"Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page." Firebug is an extension for Firefox web browser that allows you to edit and debug web page source code. This release has the following changes: CSS import rules are displayed with link to the imported style sheet Edit button added to the HTML toolbar to be consisted with the CSS tab The HTML editor has a streamlined UI HTML body elements can now be edited, but using innerHTML instead of outerHTML (which won't work) Using the arrow keys while inspecting will draw the outline around the current element After editing HTML, whitespace text nodes will not be wrongly inserted in the view Ubuntu Linux now displays the correct theme graphics On Mac OS X, the button to toggle the large command line is no longer obscured in the external Firebug window Added a link to the FAQ for the very common problem people are having with the Style tab not working You can download the extension from here: http://www.getfirebug.com/releases/firebug1.0-b4.xpi (Firefox is required) Technorati : firefox, html, web, windows, www Del.icio.us : firefox, html, web, windows, www Ice Rocket : firefox, html, web, windows, www
Sun Microsystems announced availability of Java Standard Edition 6. Java 6 has a number of new features, you can read more about them from this link: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/features.jsp . A quote from the website: New Security Features and Enhancements Native platform Security (GSS/Kerberos) integration. Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) login module that employs LDAP authentication New Smart Card I/O API» Find out more Integrated Web Services New API for XML digital signature services for secure web services New Client and Core Java Architecture for XML-Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0 APIs New support for Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) 2.0» Find out more Scripting Language Support (JSR 223) New framework and API for scripting languages Mozilla Rhino engine for JavaScript built into the platform» Find out more Enhanced Management and Serviceability Improved JMX Monitoring API Runtime Support for dTrace (Solaris 10 and future Solaris OS releases only) Improved memory usage analysis and leak detection» Find out more Increased Developer Productivity JDBC 4.0 support (JSR 221) Significant library improvements Improvements to the Java Platform Debug Architecture (JPDA) & JVM Tool Interface Improved User Experience look-and-feel updates to better match underlying operating system Improved desktop performance and integration Enhanced internationalization support Release Notes are available here: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/index.html . Download URL: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea.jsp Technorati : java, microsoft, sun, windows Del.icio.us : java, microsoft, sun, windows Ice Rocket : java, microsoft, sun, windows
Nmap main developer announced availability of nmap version 4.20 (as posted on http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2006/q4/0172.html ): Hi Everyone, I just posted the binaries for 4.20! Woohoo! This is the first "stable" release in almost 6 months, and contains tons of important changes over 4.11. But I think you guys are well familiar with those. Please give it a try in the next few hours if you can. Unless I hear about important problems, I'll release it to the nmap-hackers later tonight or tomorrow morning. That posting will include a summary of changes, stupid pot smoking jokes, etc. You can find the goods at: http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20.tar.bz2http://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-setup.exehttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-win32.ziphttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-1.src.rpmhttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-1.i386.rpmhttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20-1.i386.rpmhttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20-1.x86_64.rpmhttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-frontend-4.20-1.x86_64.rpmhttp://download.insecure.org/nmap/dist/nmap-4.20.tgz And here are the changes since RC2: o Integrated the latest OS fingerprint submissions. The 2nd generation DB size has grown to 231 fingerprints. Please keep them coming! New fingerprints include Mac OS X Server 10.5 pre-release, NetBSD 4.99.4, Windows NT, and much more. o Fixed a segmentation fault in the new OS detection system which was reported by Craig Humphrey and Sebastian Garcia. o Fixed a TCP sequence prediction difficulty indicator bug. The index is supposed to go from 0 ("trivial joke") to about 260 (OpenBSD). But some systems generated ISNs so insecurely that Nmap wentberserk and reported a negative difficulty index. This generally only affects some printers, crappy cable modems, and Microsoft Windows (old versions). Thanks to Sebastian Garcia for helping metrack down the problem. Enjoy!Fyodor Additional Info nmap is one