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« Last post by kyrathaba on April 14, 2013, 03:58 PM »^ +1 to what Steve Avery said in his OP in this thread. We agree completely on how to best use Macrium.
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} Could add up to many Mb of saved space over a period of time...I use Defraggler myself. Really great program that's small and remarkably fast.
Greifeld's bonus for 2012 fell 62 percent to $1.35 million...
The mishandling of Facebook's IPO also cost Anna Ewing, Nasdaq's executive vice president of Global Technology Solutions, a $263,625 cut to her bonus for 2012...
<comment>Poor execs. They needed that bonus, too...</comment>
<conversation>Greifeld: "Honey, I know I said my bonus would be almost $1.9 million, but somebody's gotta get spanked for that glitch. We'll just take 3 vacations instead of 5 this year..."</conversation>
In March, U.S. regulators approved Nasdaq's $62 million compensation plan for firms that lost money in Facebook's market debut, far less than the $500 million in estimated losses.
That he did so in a rude fashion was just the icing that made his eventual booting by Microsoft look a lot more "for the customer" than it really was.
but definitely one that can't be communicated like Orth did... or you'll get the response he did.
...IBM's Ambuj Goyal, general manager of the company's storage systems unit, said the economics are lining up to make flash pervasive in data centers. Steve Mills, head of IBM's software and systems division, said flash is at a key tipping point and IT will see all-solid state data centers sooner than later...
He added that "the rotating disk has served us well," but what does become clear is that the economics have shifted toward flash. Mills added that flash can run $10 per gigabyte compared to $6 per gigabyte for rotating disk drives. However, traditional drives aren't fully utilized. "There's no question that flash has compelling economics," he said. The economic variables break down like this:
* Data center space savings by putting 1 petabyte on one floor tile;
* Cooling;
* Better application performance;
* Lower software via fewer cores, licensing and maintenance and hardware costs via better utilization and fewer servers;
* Durability leveraging IBM's research and engineering on flash;
* And better operational data.
Searches on Bing returned five times more links to malicious websites than Google searches, according to an 18-month study from German independent testing lab AV-Test. Though search engines have worked to suppress malicious results, the study concluded that malware infested websites still appear in their top results.
The study looked at nearly 40 million websites provided by seven different search engines...
Doing some quick arithmetic, it looks like the chance of a Googler hitting malware is about one in 40,118.
Oh well. Hope he kept his LinkedIn profile up to date.
Adam Orth, the Microsoft Studios creative director who came under fire for controversial comments on "always-on" consoles, has left the company. The news was first reported by Game Informer, and Polygon has independently confirmed his departure with two sources. It's unclear, however, whether Orth was fired or left his position voluntarily...
An extremely well attended talk by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs AG in Germany, about the completely realistic scenario of plane hijacking via a simple Android app has galvanized the crowd attending the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam today.