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Two weeks ago I did some thing which I didn't think I'll ever do. I'd always thought Apple/Mac were worse than Microsoft because they were not open enough. I thought, that if they were open, there would have been atleast 10 times more Apple users as there are today. Since I wasn't ready to drop $$$ dollars down the drain to buy a sleek little Mac laptop I never got around actually check it out. Well, two weeks back after I lost a laptop in a disaster, I made a choice to switch based on few logical reasoning I still believe in open source Microsoft is worse than Linux But Linux is not fully supported on laptops I like I also have problem getting support because there are 2000 different distributions out there now I've grown out of compiling/optimizing Linux kernel every day I need access to realworld office application which my organization uses (MS Office, PGP, Checkpoint VPN I know Mac can do most of these... OS X has a BSD backend Should be fun hacking so

BackupTape technology pretty much kept up with the Moore’s Law. Here's the history and future of current tape technology which I compiled from various sources Type Format Vendor GB/Hr GB/Hr compressed Storage Compressed Storage Date Travan Traven 20 Certance 3.5 7 20 10 Travan Traven 40 Certance 7 14 40 20 AIT AIT-1 HP/Sony 14 37 91 35 1996 AIT AIT-2 HP/Sony 16 43 130 50 1998 AIT AIT-3 HP/Sony 33 86 260 100 2000 AIT AIT-4 HP/Sony 200 TBD * AIT AIT-5 HP/Sony 400 TBD * AIT AIT-6 HP/Sony 800 2008 * DAT DDS-4 Certance/HP/Sony 10 20 40 20 DAT DAT72 Certance/HP/Sony 12.6 25.2 72 36 DLTvs80/160 DLT vs80 HP/Quantum 11 22 80 40 DLTvs80/160 DLT vs160 HP/Quantum 29 58 160 80 DLT 1 DLT 1 HP/Quantum 10 20 80 40 DLT 4000 DLT 4000 HP/Quantum 5 10 40 20 DLT 7000 DLT 7000 HP/Quantum 18 26 70 35 DLT 8000 DLT 8000 HP/Quantum 22 44 80 40 Super DLT SDLT220 HP/Quantum 39 78 220 110 Super DLT SDLT320 HP/Quantum 54 108 320 160 2002 Super DLT SDLT600 HP/Quantum 130 260 600 300 2004 Super