disk in comment and analysis
Analysis: IT power crisis - what can CIOs do?
Comment For instance, the advanced power management features in Windows, if switched on, will turn off the screen and stop the hard disk spinning after periods of inactivity. The lab also makes the point that power-managed equipment may actually last... [15 Jun 2006]
Radioactive: Mobile phones - the battery conundrum
Comment It has developed two versions of DMFC fuel cells that can power flash and hard-disk players. The latest mobile device developments burn through standard Li-Ion batteries like no tomorrow. So what's the solution? [09 Nov 2005]
Devil's Advocate: A new 'soft' technology
Comment Information stored on disk drives is at least out of sight. It gets over the problem that besets data on disk, because the books that are never accessed finish up at the bottom of the pile. Jobcentre benefits staff have discovered a new way to keep... [04 Oct 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Back me up
Comment The cost of a laptop may seem high, and the repair estimate out of all proportion but what really hurts is the down time, followed by the total rebuild of the disk. What I need is a disk cloner that works and not a simple file and documents back-up... [01 Sep 2005]
Las Vegas cheat-busting: The truth about tech detection
Comment All footage is written onto hard disk, not tape," said Stanley, explaining this enables security to search by disk section and scan through footage far more quickly, jumping immediately from section to section. [19 Aug 2005]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: The way to mobile security
Comment My laptop has, unsurprisingly, a 40Gb hard disk drive, on which I carry around a lot of corporate presentations, documents, contact details and the like. With more and more people using handhelds and mobile phones to store critical corporate data... [15 Jul 2005]
Open source gets down to business
Comment Open source vendors - usually Linux vendors in the early days - began charging for the convenient distribution of GPL-licensed source code on disk and the provision of support and consultancy services. [12 Jul 2005]
Devil's Advocate: It's time for reliable computing
Comment It also has a fixed disk and allows us to pause the TV programme when the phone rings just at a moment of high drama. There is regularly mention of storing a music collection on a computer disk. If they all went on to a computer disk, I would want... [27 Jun 2005]
Leader: How much more data loss can we stand?
Leader On a smaller scale, though no less worrying for those affected, UBS lost a hard disk containing thousands of customer account details. Over the past couple of months we have been hit by a wave of data scandals, blunders and thefts which will have... [20 Jun 2005]
Criminal IT: The crime you can still get away with
Comment In order for modification of information (such as data stored on a computer) to count as damage to real property, it would have to impair the physical nature of the disk drive. Since changing a '1' to a '0' is a central function of a working disk... [28 Apr 2005]
Criminal IT: How good security helps convict cybercriminals
Comment A single floppy disk, for example, represents some 500 pages of text, perhaps all of it needing to be made available to the court. Imagine the problems of presenting the contents of a 50GB hard disk drive. [23 Mar 2005]
Criminal IT: What you can do to help the fight against cybercrime
Comment The creation time is established when a file is first created on the file system; when a picture begins to be downloaded from a website, when a document is first opened, when a file is extracted from an archive - but also when the file is moved... [23 Feb 2005]
Leader: Put down the six-inch nails
Leader Dr Andrew Blyth from the University of Glamorgan computer science department, who originally made the comment about six-inch nails and hammers, told silicon.com: "It's true that the only way companies can be sure the data has been destroyed is to... [18 Feb 2005]
Devil's Advocate: In support of open standards
Comment I popped the disk into my Linux desktop machine. The time is ripe for the government to use its considerable IT muscle to back open standards. Doing so will lead to better products for us all, says Martin Brampton. [26 Oct 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: A sea of bits
Comment I drew gasps from the class when I told them: "When I was just two years older than you I was purchasing Winchester Disk Drives at $20,000 for 20MB - and they were about the size of five stacked dinner plates - and we thought we had a lot of memory. [20 Oct 2004]
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