This isn't new at all.
Imation's Disk Stakka is actually the same product.
http://www.imation.com/products/disc_stakka/index.html

We bought one in the office two years ago... and decided it was way more trouble than it was worth. Maybe if it could actually read the discs, jukebox style... even then, it's of limited use.

...Binders and sleeves, definitely.

I read stories about the appalling conditions in China and other countries where electronics are sent to be scrapped... people poisoning themselves and the environment to wrest out a few cents worth of metals or parts.

Personally, I'd rather just have my stuff buried in a local landfill than that. That is, unless I can verify that equipment is being recycled responsibly (and preferably, domestically). Which isn't always made clear when they have electronics recycling days.

The physics don't work out assuming constant power. But just a thought...

Frequently with LED lights, you don't actually have the LED on all the time. Very short but high frequency pulses (i.e. low duty cycle).

Above a certain threshold you can't tell the light is flashing, but it is.

Additionally, you don't have to be able to provide the instantaneous power on each cycle - you have the time between cycles to accumulate it. Think of a camera flash and how it charges. Now speed it up.

I have not worked out the numbers for this assumption, but it may at least come closer to working, as opposed to being off by a factor of 1000 in the constant-power case.

I use hard drive magnets with loops of wire twisted through their mounting holes. Pulling up on one side of the loop makes it easy to remove.

Forgetful? I'll let that pass as "artistic license."

More like "Once I hand my tapes over to the courier who takes them off-site for storage, how do I know where they are?" Which certainly isn't a bad thing to know.

I'm skeptical on how well this will work from within the courier's truck, and how long the battery will last sitting on shelf in Iron Mountain's warehouse for weeks or months at a time.

If this is really important to you, you should probably be looking at on-the-fly encryption for your offsite copies, or just ditch tapes entirely and replicate data elsewhere over a secure network.

The Cosmology@Home author has been working on an OSX version for a while, according to the forum posts. It definitely would have been nice to have had the option.

After tonight I will probably add some additional projects to the machines I brought up just for this and switch around priorities, since roughly half of the pile of old PCs I have running just aren't that good at the Cosmology task.

Soooo close to cracking into the Top 10 though. Do I have ONE more decent machine to throw into the fray before tonight? ;)

It definitely doesn't feel well put-together under Linux, but I managed to get it going on 13 systems today.

Hurray for other people paying (most of) the electric bills. Also, for piles of older PCs and servers that I could get Ubuntu installed on fast.