Western Digitial have launched their 500GB Caviar SE 16 Hard Drive. With 2 of these in your desktop you can have 1 Terrabyte of hard drive space…
IBM announce free version of DB2
In an attempt to attract developers to the DB2 database, IBM have announced a free version of their flagship database engine, DB2.
The free offering, ‘DB Express-c’ has the same features as the commercial version, but is limited by the hadrward it can be deployed on. The limitations are quite high though – it can only be deployed on a PC with upto a maximum of 2 processors (single or dual core), and 4GB RAM. There are no limitations on the database size.
OnJava.com: Interview with Java Podcasters
OnJava.com have 2 interviews on their site this week with two people who regularly publish a Java/programming related podcast.
The first is with Dick Wall who co-hosts the Java Posse podcast, and the second is with Michael Levin who hosts the Swampcast.
I’ve listened to several episodes of the JavaPosse podcast asd it’s well worth a listen – they cover a wide range of Java related news stories and have people on for interviews. I haven’t heard the Swampcast yet, but will take a listen some time soon.
History of the Hard Drive – in pictures
News.com have a neat gallery of pictures showing the evolution of the hard drive.
The gallery has pictures ranging from the first hard drive, a 24″, 50 platter monster, which had a capacity of, wait for it, … 5MB, through the first mainframe harddrive that a single human could carry (in 1982), to 1″ microdrives from Hitachi. Interestingly, the 1″ microdrive appeared in 1999 but did not find a mass market until the iPod Mini just last year.