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A specification for consumer hard drive connections that boosts the data transfer rate up to 150MB/second. In addition, it changes IDE/ATA from a parallel interface requiring 40 separate wires to connect components to a serial interface requiring only 6 wires. 2x and 4x versions of Serial ATA double and quadruple the speed of Serial ATA.
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Ultra SATA - Survival Of the CatchiestBy Mike MusgroveWashington Post Staff WriterEarly one Monday afternoon, Craig Schmugar, virus research manager atcomputer security firm Network Associates Inc., was at his desk takinga quick look at the programming inside a new computer worm that histeam had just discovered, still in the early stages of circulating theWeb.As Schmugar scanned through the worm's deciphered code, his adrenalinestarted pumping. This one had ambitions.The worm disguised itself as a bounced piece of e-mail and had aninnovative way of collecting addresses, looking for more potentialvictims. Schmugar had a feeling this one was going to create a lot oftrouble; it was time to sound the alarms -- but first he needed toattach a name. What to call it?Antivirus companies compete with each other fervently in the hopesthat their customers will hear about the latest computer-based threatfrom them first. The result is that when there's an outbreak of a newvirus or worm, companies often race to offer competing names for thesame bug.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6924-2004Feb25.htmlhttp://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/02/29/confusion_reins_in_naming_of_viruses_that_bug_computers/
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