storage

I think it was Logical Muse who first told me about these new-fangled servers that will let you upload your stuff and make it accessible to others for free. What a wonderful thing. Now, the limit (for free) is a gigabyte of storage, and a "bandwidth" of 10 gigs per month. I've noticed that my...

So earlier this year I bought a small mini-ITX card with embedded cpu and some ram. The thought was to use it as a small server, running backups and perhaps a media server. So I thought FreeNAS was the obvious solution, it has all the features I want (http interface, cifs/smb share, ftp) and it...

And just like that Yahoo Mail Service decided to increase the storage capacity from 10 to 100MB. These are great news for those of us who use yahoo accounts for the yahoo groups. Thanks Google. Ohhh I love so much capitalism, competition and free market.:)

Okay, without getting into too much detail, the company I work for has 4 branch offices that have old Novell 4.x boxes that we want to get rid of. Everyone is on XP Pro, but they're still using the Novell box for network storage. Each user has a home drive storage area on it and there is also...

There is a lot of info about hydrogen (as fuel for vehicles) on the media lately. Usually, experts reckon hydrogen is only a form of energy storage, because hydrogen has to be synthesized using more energy. My question is, why is hydrogen a better energy storage? What happens with common...

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=7814736&BRD=2041&PAG=461&dept_id=338006&rfi=6 Here's an odd energy plant proposal. Apparently they want to pump compressed air into the ground during periods of off-peak energy use, then use it to turn turbines during peak use hours. I would have to...