news – akamaras

seagate is acquiring samsung storage

akamaras — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:53:37 +0000

As part of an alignment between Seagate and Samsung, Seagate will take over Samsung’s storage department. Looks like an answer to western digital acquiring hitachi storage, which took place a couple of months ago. This means there are three companies …

CentOS 5.6

akamaras — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:09:45 +0000

CentOS 5.6 released today. Some of it’s features : ext4 is now a fully supported file system Many packages updated to newer versions New packages that were not present in 5.5 New repositories php53 is available as a php replacement …

firefox 4 download stats

akamaras — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:52:06 +0000

In 2008 the mozilla foundation organized “firefox download day” to break the world record for the “largest number of software downloads in 24 hours”, for the release of firefox3. Here is the certificate I was given for taking part of …

spam king released from prison

akamaras — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:24:40 +0000

After serving three years, eight months, and 27 days in prison, Robert Soloway aka “spam king” has been released. Soloway had troubles with the law from back in 2005 when Microsoft won a $7.8 million civil judgment against Soloway, for …

western digital is acquiring hitachi storage

akamaras — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:55:52 +0000

Under the terms of the agreement, WD will acquire Hitachi GST for $3.5 billion in cash and 25 million WD common shares valued at $750 million, based on a WD closing stock price of $30.01 as of March 4, 2011. …