Dreaming

The great Taoist master Chuang Tzu once dreamt that he was a butterfly fluttering here and there. In the dream he had no awareness of his individuality as a person. He was only a butterfly. Suddenly, he awoke and found himself laying there, a person once again. But then he thought to himself, "Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?"

Hi Tech Joke

At least Thats what this joke had as subject :)  
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Storage Article appears in Thispointer before Slashdot

The article that was posted by krupa  two days back (where is storage heading)  , appeared on slashdot today as Turing Award Winner On The Future Of Storage" . :). thanks to krupa for bringing us information even before it shows up on Slashdot .

Making a website

Save my soul from web publishing !

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Where is storage heading?

Who would ever, in this time of the greatest interconnectivity in human history, go back to shipping bytes around via snail mail as a preferred means of data transfer? (Really, just what type of throughput does the USPS offer?) Jim Gray would do it, that's who. And we're not just talking about Zip disks, no sir; we're talking about shipping entire hard drives, or even complete computer systems, packed full of disks.

Why would Jim Gray, head of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Center, resort to this?

Read on and find out at http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43