I heard you like IOPS so I put a cache in your cache
AnandTech: Intel’s Core i7 870 & i5 750 “Lynnfield” Review. Nice, but kinda anticlimactic. I’m eyeing the Xeon X3460.Biplob Debnath, Sunil Subramanya, David Du, David J. Lilja: Large Block CLOCK (LB-CLOCK): A Write Caching Algorithm for Solid State Disks. This is for the DRAM cache inside the SSD, not using the SSD as a disk cache.
Avani Wildani, Thomas Schwarz, Ethan Miller, Darrell Long: Protecting Against Rare Event Failures in Archival Systems. Now with uber-parity.
Alan H. Karp, Marc Stiegler, Tyler Close: Not One Click for Security.
Fanglu Guo, Tzi-cker Chiueh: DAFT: Disk Geometry-Aware File System Traversal.
Arbor Networks Security to the Core: Who Put the IPv6 in my Internet? Coincidentally it looks like Teredo has been mostly down the last three days.
IIS Smooth Streaming is Microsoft’s adaptive streaming technology based on the HTTP and MP4 file format standards. Wait, something’s not right here.
Jordan B. Pollack: True Property: A free market solution for information licenses (1999).
Forbes: A Scheme For Protecting Content. “Traditional DRM schemes generally authorize a specific device or group of devices to play a piece of content. … Marlin, by contrast, can link content to individuals or to groups called ‘domains,’ such as a family. That makes sharing easier: Content can follow the owners wherever they go and play on any Marlin-enabled devices to which they are connected—assuming, of course, that the content owner has blessed the arrangement.”
Ars Technica: Goodbye, DRM; hello Digital Personal Property.
IEEE DPP Study Group: Call for Participation. “With the option to own, rental is a bargain; without it, rental is tyranny.”
