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Hardware
Asus TS Mini NAS Windows Home Server Backs Up 10 PCs
5:39AM Jesus Diaz | Have you heard of that new service that allows you to connect to the internet at one gigabit per second to access your very own two terabytes of storage space? Me neither. That’s probably why you need the Asus TS Mini NAS. More »
Computers
3:11PM Nick Broughall | How long have we been waiting for a Windows Home Server to launch in Australia? Well, following on from HP’s recent launch of the well-reviewed Mediasmart EX495, APC’s David Flynn has reported that Acer is planning on launching the easyStore AH340 in Australia next year. More »
Acer Launching Windows Home Server In Oz Next Year
3:11PM Nick Broughall | How long have we been waiting for a Windows Home Server to launch in Australia? Well, following on from HP’s recent launch of the well-reviewed Mediasmart EX495, APC’s David Flynn has reported that Acer is planning on launching the easyStore AH340 in Australia next year. More »
Computers
2:00AM Jason Chen | The HP MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 are the new top-of-the-line Windows Home Servers from HP, which are good enough to pretty much be the de-facto Windows Home Servers on the market now. These new units keep up the tradition. More »
HP MediaSmart EX495 Windows Home Server Review
2:00AM Jason Chen | The HP MediaSmart EX490 and EX495 are the new top-of-the-line Windows Home Servers from HP, which are good enough to pretty much be the de-facto Windows Home Servers on the market now. These new units keep up the tradition. More »
Gadgets
Patriot Offers Cheap 1080p Media Streaming In A Box
1:00AM Jack Loftus | Forget the no-name brand of this Patriot media streamer. For a cheap cheap $US130, this 1080p box is worth a quick look, so long as you can stomach the equally cheap UI. More »
Business
Microsoft’s 224,000 Servers Only Take Four People To Set Up
12:00PM Rosa Golijan | There are 2000 in that container. And there are 112 such containers in Microsoft’s $US500 million Chicago data centre. It may seem somewhat ridiculous, but this container-based data centre design is absolutely brilliant (and environmentally sustainable to boot). More »
Networks
In The Beginning Cisco Created The Heaven And The Earth [NSFW]
9:40AM Sean Fallon | And Cisco saw the ad he had made and, behold, it was very bad. More »
Phones
4:00AM Sean Fallon | If you have been quick to scoop up new iPhones as they come out, you may have a couple of old models lying around right now. How about using them to start a server farm? More »
IPhone Server Farm Puts Old Models To Good Use
4:00AM Sean Fallon | If you have been quick to scoop up new iPhones as they come out, you may have a couple of old models lying around right now. How about using them to start a server farm? More »
Software
Opera Unite: Your Browser Is Now A Full-Featured Server
7:04PM John Herrman | A marginal player in the desktop browser field, Opera has done something pretty wild with the next version of their software: they’ve turn it into a zero-config server for files, music, photos and websites. More »
Hardware
4:30AM Adam Frucci | The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centres, detailing exactly what goes into creating the “cloud.” Here’s the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft’s 500,000-square-foot centre in Quincy, Washington. You would piss off a whole lot of people if you pushed it. [NYTimes] More »
Push This Button, Kill Xbox Live
4:30AM Adam Frucci | The Sunday Times Magazine took a look at data centres, detailing exactly what goes into creating the “cloud.” Here’s the emergency shut-down button at Microsoft’s 500,000-square-foot centre in Quincy, Washington. You would piss off a whole lot of people if you pushed it. [NYTimes] More »
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