Links for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007

Links of interest for 28 Sep 2007 - 13 Oct 2007:

• ‘Hybrid’ HDD Technology To Allow Data Access Without Booting - Nice to see the PC market is finally catching up with Apple. Apple computers have been able to do this for years.
• Firefox Is Going Mobile - I can’t help but feel this is a little ambitious. Whilst it’s a great idea, given the probable H/W requirements and Firefox’s current memory munching issue, I’m going to need a whole PC in my pocket to use Firefox on a mobile.
• BUSTED! 11 Myths about Solaris on X86/X64 platforms - I’m sure a lot of people believe these myths. It’s nice to see someone set things straight.
• PGP Whole Disk Encryption - Barely Acknowledged Intentional Backdoor - Oooo. I wonder who demanded this “feature”. I’m sure this has come in handy for some poor company after sacking a sysadmin, but now it’s public knowledge, watch out for the trojans abusing it.
• Data Corruption at CERN - Interesting research paper on data corruption seen at CERN. I’d love to have seen the results if they whipped out all the H/W controllers and implemented ZFS and let it do all the work.