The Apache Wicket team announced the availability of the 2nd maintenance release: Apache Wicket 1.3.2.  Mostly bug fixes and minor improvements.   Paving the way for the next major version of Wicket I believe.

Wicket users update now, I personally have not notice anything broken, but I use self built weekly builds most of the time anyhow.

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I have followed the storage industry now for over 10 years. It has really evolved (in the enterprise realm) and even in the home market with NAS products. However, the limiting factor has always come back to the actual base product the actual drives.

Well Seagate has done it today. World fastest drive that is actually smaller and 30% more energy efficient. Now that is a change. Check out their press release:

Seagate Introduces First Small Form Factor 15K Enterprise Hard Drive - Savvio 15K - The World’s Fastest Drive

“The Savvio 15K drive’s unique combination of features including its 70 percent smaller size, lower power consumption (30 percent lower than any other 15K drive), industry’s fastest seek time and the industry’s highest reliability, make it the ideal storage solution for all server platforms.”

In large install bases this can really add up to a savings in the enterprise arena. Something HP has been chomping at since 2005. It only took a couple more years.

I would expect to see greater SAN products with greater densities with smaller physical and energy footprints to come out this year as a result. This could be a huge win for Seagate if the wish is really true!

Up until now there has been continued speculation as to who will win this war? There is comparison of capacity, performance, features, etc. Once again it seems Sony is its own worst enemy.

With flash backs to the beta max and VHS days it seems the deciding vote has happened without anyone but Sony deciding. What decided the format war so many years ago? Porn, thats right folks. The porn industry picked up the VHS format and ran with it and basically decided the bm fate!

Well it would appear that the same thing is going to happen again. Sony says they will not allow any X rated movies be released on blu-ray. So one of the leaders in the adult industry (Digital Playground) will be using HD-DVD. With the assumption that the other adult movie leaders follow suit (like they have any choice) since no blu-ray manufacture will produce the disc. This is because Sony has threatened to pull any manufactures licensing if the produce X content.

This is about if you are for or against the porn industry, it is an BIG money maker in the world and will just like so many years ago drive where the technology goes. Heck they were the leaders in on-line payment via the web. They solidified the VHS war. This too shall put the stamp of blu-ray.

Nice job Sony. Now you can have those stacks of blu-ray disc sitting next to the stacks of PS3 in all those stores collecting dust.