DJ Cat Scratch Turntable

Somehow, felines were created in a way where they have this inherent need to scratch on something. I guess it has to do with keeping those nails nice and sharp in order for them to do a number on their prey during a hunt. Having said that, I am quite sure that cat owners by now are used to seeing their expensive leather sofas end up getting pock-marked all over the place, where the first discovery is normally the most painful and after that, everything more or less becomes numb.

If you want to make sure your kitty cat ends up being a musical superstar in an alternate life, here is the $34.99 DJ Cat Scratch Turntable made out of 100% cardboard that is partially or fully recycled, it would keep your cat looking happy and groovy, not to mention being more than a decent photo opportunity that might just result in some laughs from whoever looks at it.

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Samsung Kicks Off Enterprise Alliance Program

Enterprise is important, too, you know? So does Samsung, who took the opportunity this week to unveil a new Enterprise Alliance Program, hailed as a new ecosystem for enterprise mobility partners. Jongshin Kim, Vice President of Media Solution Center at Samsung Electronics, explained it as such: “We are delighted to announce our enterprise mobility partnership program to provide our enterprise partners with differentiated benefits to build the ecosystem collaboratively in the enterprise mobility market. We will continue to work closely with our partners to improve and expand the program together.” Ken Daniels, Sr. Read more…

Lucas resurrects Darth Maul

Apparently, no one ever really dies in science-fiction stories.

A trailer has been released for the upcoming fourth season of  Star Wars: The Clone Wars, a show which has proved very popular among all ages of Star Wars fans, unlike many other projects which George Lucas, the creator or Star Wars, has taken a personal hand in lately.

In this trailer, we see some clips of Obi-Wan’s fight with Darth Maul from Star Wars: Episode one, then a few smokey flashes of the character’s angry CGI face, and the words “Darth Maul returns.”

Interestingly, this comes just as George Lucas reveals that Clone Wars is top-level canon.

For the uninitiated, the Star Wars stories are broken into multiple canon levels, with the films being the highest level canon, side projects by Lucas, like Christmas specials and cartoons being a second tier of canon, and the books and guides occupying the bottom rung. Each

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Microsoft offers ideas for users to beat the BEAST threat

Microsoft is urging customers to update vulnerable versions of SSL to a newer one that is not susceptible to a recently published exploit called BEAST, but in the meantime it recommends steps that lessen the risk of being victimized.

The ultimate fix for the problem, known as Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS (BEAST), upgrading to TLS 1.1, the latest version of the protocol. TLS is the official name for what is still frequently referred to as SSL. The problem is with TLS 1.0 and earlier SSL/TLS versions.

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Violin strings out fresh flash trio

Shared flash array supplier Violin Memory is announcing three new products, beefing up both the capacity and performance of its products.

The existing 3000 range consists of two 3U rackmount enclosures: the 3200 is a 10TB product offering 220,000 sustained write IOPS from its single-level cell (SLC) flash, while the 3140 is a 40TB capacity box using 2-bit multi-level cell (MLC) flash. That was what was available, up until yesterday anyway.

Violin Memory 3200 Memory Array. Picture from Diamond Point International.

Now we have a 3220, boosting the SLC capacity to 20TB, 16 of which are usable.

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