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Western Digital ShareSpace NAS
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| Powered by a Linux OS, the network-attached
| device â which you connect to a router using
| an Ethernet cable â works with Linux
| computers, although the remote access is
| Windows-only for now. For those working in
| digital media markets who need fast and
| expansive storage, or for an office
| workgroup that needs a place for everyoneâs
| files, the ShareSpace is an ideal product
| thatâs easy to configure and use, with only
| a few minor issues.
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http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/reviews/western-digital-sharespace-nas/
More new places where Linux is commonplace:
2009's Top E-book Readers
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/12/11/koy_2009_e_book_readers/
Timesys offers Linux development framework
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| The Timesys Linuxlink software-development
| framework provides Alchemy Au1250 and Au1300
| processor users with an intuitive
| environment for developing Linux-based media
| and navigation products.
|
| By providing access to hundreds of open-
| source middleware packages, Linuxlink allows
| customers to accelerate product development
| and makes it easy and convenient to create
| footprint-optimised Linux platforms with a
| rich set of APIs well matched to their end
| applications.
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http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/tme/tme139.html
Recent:
Open source helps Western Digital prioritize product features
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| Thanks to open source freedom, Western
| Digital's MyBook World Edition is a better
| choice than Apple Time Capsule for home
| backup
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http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source/open-source-helps-western-digital-prioritize-product-features-905
Related:
Western Digital's 'crippleware': Some lessons from history
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| We published shortly before Christmas 2000, and a fascinating and fairly
| nerve shredding few days followed. There was no anti-DRM lobby at the time:
| no P2P bloggers to hound the manufacturers. But understanding this one
| required learning some obscure technical procedures, and a little about
| standards committee politics.
|
| [...]
|
| This brings us to the second difference from the turn of the decade - and
| it's slightly more positive. Technological restriction mechanisms such as DRM
| are, more often than not, bad for business.
|
| [...]
|
| Yet even if Microsoft implements driver-level support for External Path
| protection (as it has for "Secure Audio Path") - will there be any takers?
|
| I doubt it. DRM is falling away from music as sound recordings owners begin
| to realise they need radically more attractive offerings to compete with the
| unstoppable tide of free music. No technology force majeure will step in to
| save rights holders today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/12/western_digital_filesharing_panic/
Western Digital DRM'd Hard Drive Won't Let You Share MP3, DivX ... Or Impulse
Tracker
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| The manual's appendix and online support site provide setup instructions for
| SAMBA, allowing access over IP instead of with the DRM-infested and
| poorly-reviewed client app, elsewhere claimed to be "required."
|
| MOAR! Samba not enough? Gut the firmware and install made-to-measure Linux:
| An entire community of folks is here to help you hack your MyBook:
| mybookworld.wikidot.com.
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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/western-digital.html
Seagate snubs Linux
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| As our reader points out this is a, "fairly shit idea perfectly
| implemented, " unfortunately while Windows can handle it, Linux and Mac's
| can't cope.
|
| There are a few work-arounds but Seagate Tech Support says they do not know
| what they are. Instead they are telling man plus dog that their latest drives
| do not support Linux.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/06/seagate-snubs-linux
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