Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules unveiled their PICO-C Gold USB drive.
Weighing only 4.7 grams, Super Talent claims that the 24-carat gold-plated, water resistant and shock resistant USB drive with a profile smaller than the traditional SD memory card is the world’s smallest.
The card uses chip-on-board (COB) technology to squeeze 8GB of Flash in an area that is less than 1.2 inches wide and less than half an inch long (31.3mm x 12.4mm x 3.4mm).The transfer speed of the PICO-C Gold is 30MB/sec.
“Is it the speed, the ruggedness, the water resistance, the incredibly tiny size or the pure elegance that people like most in our Pico-C drive? Who knows? But, this combination of features and style is not offered in any other terrestrial storage device, which makes it a real craze”, commented Super Talent Marketing Director, Joe James.
The PICO-C Gold 8GB USB drive is backed with a lifetime warranty and is now available under $40.
Debian has released bug fixes for lighttpd and gaim packages.
Gaim, a multi-protocol instant messaging client, was discovered to be vulnerable to several integer overflows in its MSN protocol handlers, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Lighttpd, a fast webserver with minimal memory footprint was discovered to have several local and remote vulnerabilities listed below:
1. lighttpd 1.4.18 and other versions before 1.5.0 do not properly calculate the size of a file descriptor array. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by using large number of connections that will lead to a system crash.
2. connections.c in lighttpd before 1.4.16 might accept connections greater than the configured maximum. This allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service with a large number of connection attempts.
The updates fix the multiple Denial of Service (DOS) issue in lighttpd and the execution of arbitrary code and buffer overflow problems in gaim.
In a move that is likely to remind AMD and their Puma platform who is the best in laptop processor war, Intel unveiled their Centrino 2 Processor Technology products for laptops powered by five new Core 2 Duo processors. The new processors support both WiFiN and WiMax wireless capability. The new processors come with a faster 1066MHz front side bus and up to 6MB of L2 cache, and three versions reduce laptop processor wattage about 30 percent, down to just 25 watts. Another exciting feature is the Deep Power Down Technology that turns off processing components such as core clocks and cache memory when the laptop is idle for greater energy savings.
While today’s hard drives have reached and surpassed the 1 Terabyte storage capacity, many businesses with tremendous amount of data to store are still relying on tape as their primary archiving medium. The good news for these businesses is that Sun Microsystems has unveiled their 1 Terabyte capacity tapes where they can store their priceless data.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. again raised the bar on the storage industry with the release of the industry’s first one terabyte tape storage drives.
The Sun StorageTek T10000B Fibre Channel tape drive is the first tape drive to reach 1TB capacity. The Storage Tek T10000B drive uses a new formatting technique that lets it achieve more density than the previous models.
Otto Moerbeek who works as an OpenBSD developer discovered and fixed a bug in OpenBSD that has been traced back to an AT&T version of Unix from 1975.
OpenBSD is a variant of the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system. BSD’s variants include NetBSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD which forms the basis of Apple’s Mac OS X Operating system. Moerbeek found the bug in yacc, a parser generator developed by Stephen C. Johnson at AT&T that has been a standard part of Unix since the 1970s. He found the bug through the process of testing a new implementation of malloc, a general purpose memory allocator. A user informed him that compiling large C++ projects are sometimes failing on a Sparc64 hardware platform using the new malloc.
The new malloc was able to trigger the bug because its new features give it a better chance of catching buffer overflows, Moerbeek said. He noted that the bug is only triggered on Sparc64 systems.
“Funny thing is that I traced this back to Sixth Edition Unix, released in 1975,” Moerbeek wrote in a note describing the bug.
The latest bug, which affected the yacc parser generator, followed Marc Balmer’s discovery last May of a 25-year old flaw that exist in BSD variants and derivatives like Mac OS .
Hitachi announced their latest 2nd generation 1 Terabyte HDD, the Deskstar 7K1000.B, which claims to be the most energy efficient 1TB 7,200 RPM hard drive in the world.
The drive’s main feature is the use of three platters which can store up to 374GB of data each. With only three platters, the drive’s idle power consumption is reduced up to 43% compared to Hitachi’s first generation 1TB HDD. The 7K1000.B also offers users the option of bulk data encryption (BDE) for the entire contents of the drive.
Below are the drive’s few specs:
- 7,200 rpm
- 1TB capacity
- 3 Gb/s SATA interface
- 32 MB buffer
- 1.2 million hours Mean Time Between Failure
- Rotational Vibration Safeguard
