Hard drives that erase themselves if they are connected to an unknown computer…

Toshiba new hard drives, Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) is a 2.5-inch 7200-rpm discs, intended for use to protect sensitive information.

The units are available in capacities 160 to 640 gigabytes, has 16 megabytes memory buffer and uses the SATA interface, 2.0. It have a 256-bit encryption to protect data and a self-erasing technology controlled by an authentication policy called Opal Storage Specification, the Trusted Computing Group. The system enables the disk to determine if it is a connected to an approved host.

When the hard drive is started, Toshiba’s new SED hard drives perform an authentication. If authentication fails, the device may either be configured to simply deny access or to perform cryptographic erasure of the specified data. This means that encryption keys are deleted, leaving data permanently encrypted and unreadable.

According to the rumor from the website Sony Insider…

So will Sony this summer release of two models of their Vaio series.
The really interesting part, is that the romur says that one of the laptops will come with Google’s operating system, Google Chrome installed. Rumors also say that it will have a battery life of 8 to 16 hours, Intel Thunderbolt, solid-state disk and a separate graphics card from AMD, which will be good enough to use for both gaming and video editing.
The second model, which also according to rumors will be a “hybrid” PC “, which is a stripped-down thin laptop without any optical unit, but will have a powerful Core i7 processor and the weight will be just over 1 kg.
The smaller, stripped-down model can be connected to a docking station so a more powerful separate video card can be used and a set of contact opportunities such as networking, HDMI and USB.
This is again just rumor, even if the rumors come from recognized, credible, Sony Insider.

Computers with Windows XP and older versions of the BIOS can not exploit the full capabilities of newer hard drives with 3TB of storage.

This causes a major problem for the future, with a growing sizes of hard drives. Company like Seagate and Western Digital are now rising to 3TB for the harddiscs.

But against my common sense, so are many still working to satisfy a more than 10 years old OS.
Seagate has recently announced a hard drive with 3TB of storage with a specially designed software that does that include Windows XP can take advantage of the full capacity. “Seagate Disc Wizard” are the software called.

Seagate Barracuda XT have six disces and spins at 7200 rpm.
Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB have five discs and spins at 5400 rpm.

Fujitsu launches world’s first cordless screen…

The screen uses a combination of Wireless USB and induction technology for picture and power the new screen.

The technology was developed by the German Fraunhofer Institute and called SUPA, Smart Universal Power Antenna. The new 22-inch uses magnetic induction to power supply, so it is required that the table surface is prepared for the technology. Induction is also used in HP’s WebOS devices and many electric toothbrushes.

The picture is sent to the monitor by wireless USB and can be transmissed to a distances of up to ten meters.

Fujitsu is aiming to start production for next year and shows the screen on Cebit exhibition in Hanover, Germany. The company has not revealed what the new SUPA-screen will cost once it shows up in the stores.

The past week have Intel’s wired transmission technologies gone from one of Intel’s unreleased technologies that we could only read about, to become reality, and changed its name from the Light Peak to Thunderbolt…

Thunderbolt is twice as fast as USB3. USB3 have had difficult to gain a foothold within the world of computers and accessories, it has been speculated that the reason is Intel also have many other computer components.

When Apple now instead run the Thunderbolt, is there nothing to indicate that USB3 will not be more than a parenthesis in the history of the computer.

If there is any company that can get the IT-world to agree on a standard, it’s Apple. It doesnt matter if you own a Mac, or think that Mac is nothing for you, the reason is that all the other companies are too keen to ignore Mac-users.

In this case, it is not something negative, Thunderbolt, is two times faster than USB3 and has many other exciting features.

Found an article that I just have to post here

I have written before that many of today’s youth do not know what DOS is, but it is still needed. Now it work in the background, but before it was something that you was needed to install before you evon could start to think about Windows

Format the hard disk properly

When you format a hard disk, you make it very difficult to restore the data from the disk.
To do this:
Start the command prompt as administrator. (Go to Start, type cmd in the search box and then right-click cmd.exe and select Run as administrator)
Type “format X: / P: 5.” X, replace the drive you want to format. The number five is the number of times you want the data to be overwritten.

Computers have a tendency to become smaller and more powerful every passing year.

Researchers have now succeeded in creating a computer that is only one square millimeter. The extremely tiny creature will begin shipping within a few years and is seen as the future of the computer industry.

The little computer contains a small microprocessor, a pressure sensor, a memory, a battery, a solar cell and a wireless radio with an antenna that can send data to an external drive. The device is implanted in a person’s eye, the idea is that it will be used to treat glaucoma.

The researchers behind the computer are convinced that this is the future and sees a range of uses. When the device transmitter does not need to be adjusted to find the right frequency can be paired with a wireless network of computers.
A network of several such units can then be used for such monitoring or to obtain in principle any object searchable.

A bug found in a router, based in Frankfurt.

Causing packet loss and congestion in the whole of Europen network. The error occurred at nine o’clock in the evening and was not resolved until twelve hours later.

It is unclear how many operators affected. but according to reports, the speed of some operators affected significantly. And lots of user had connection-problems.

In principle, all traffic south of Sweden and Denmark was hit.

Really what went wrong with the router, no one knows yet. It is still being investigated.

A client of mine came today and told me that he had defragmented its 32gb usb stick, but he noticed no difference in speed.
So to clarify whether defragmentation must be done or not.

To defragment a hard drive, make better performance and makes it faster to read data from disk, but this is not the case USB flash drives. To a hard drive is faster to use after a defragmentation because it works with a moving head. The more scattered data on the disk makes the head to moving more and therefore its being slower.
But for flash memories its works quite different because they have no moving parts. However, they have a limited life. USB flash drives and memory cards can only handle a certain number of rewrites before the memory cells become exhausted. However its thousands of rewrites, but sooner or later, the cell will die. To defragment a storage card is therefore not a good idea – it will not make the use of it but its life will be greatly reduced.

Concept CTRUS ball is loaded with sensors that feel of their position on the pitch accurately using GPS.

Concept CTRUS ball, prepared by the design firm of agents has the potential to completely eliminate the risk of homicide convictions miss the match-winning moments.

The ball is itself built in a completely elastic material which simulates a conventional football. The need, therefore, never inflated.

Furthermore, it is fitted with a GPS chip that keeps track of the ball’s position on the pitch. The signals can get the ball to change color in different modes depending on the game situation – such as red for offside, and green when it crossed the goal line.

The ball is still in concept stage, and it is impossible to say whether – and when – we can expect to see it on a football field.

As the last major manufacturers, has now Sony decided that it will shut down production of 3.5-inch floppy disks at the end of March next year. This although  last year sold over 12 million discs.

It was Sony, who was first to use 3.5-inch diskettes, the first unit arrived in 1981, before that was the 5.25-inch floppy disks that was used. The space on 3.5-inch floppy disks is limited to a maximum of 1.44 MB.

Long into the 2000. Was it standard among computer manufacturers to delivered computers with a 3.5 inch floppy disc reader, and as late as 2002 was Sony’s annual sales figure of disks  47 million pieces.

Now you can get yourself an updated version of the classic Swiss army knife from Victorinex.

This Army knives have been manufactured since the late 1800s, and are known worldwide. But by supplying the latest models of blades with built-in USB memory the company shows that that their are planing for the furture.

Victorinex Secure are the 3 models called. A model of the knife that are equipped with a USB flash, and are protected with 256-bit encryption, and as an addition, the knife is equipped with a fingerprint reader so that you can not access the files on the memory but that you first identify yourself. Victorinex Secure is available in 8, 16 and 32GB of memory and costs between 100 to 240€