News for Saturday, 29 May 2004

Another 100 Gig disk for laptops

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 29/05/2004 16:58:15 CEST - Category: Hard Drive - Source: PC Inpact

After Toshiba, its Fijitsu's turn to announce a 100Gig disk for laptops. Its turns at 4200RPMs, has 4 platters of 25Gigs and 8Megs cache.
It is always preferable to have competition in high capacities, as this should bring down prices to a sensible level.

18000 members

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 29/05/2004 16:41:59 CEST - Category: MacBidouille

It's with pleasure that I can tell you that we now have passed the 18k hurdle for members on our forums. In the next few hours we will also surpass 700k messages.
Thanks to all for participating in our forums over the last 3 years.

The right to fair use backup copy denied in Belgium

By linathael. Original by Lionel - 29/05/2004 12:47:33 CEST - Category: Sound

While the right to have a personal backup copy of a cd is recognized in Belgium, some people, who attacked the majors for their anti-copy system on audio-cds, have been rejected.
Antoine Olbrechts, has posted a really passionate article on the matter MacOSX.be.
In France, it's the CSS protection on DVDs that has been declared legal.