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Australia To Block BitTorrent 674

Posted by CmdrTaco from the who-saw-that-coming dept.
Kevin 7Kbps writes "Censorship Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that the Australian Internet Filters will be extended to block peer-to-peer traffic, saying, 'Technology that filters peer-to-peer and BitTorrent traffic does exist and it is anticipated that the effectiveness of this will be tested in the live pilot trial.' This dashes hopes that Conroy's Labor party had realised filtering could be politically costly at the next election and were about to back down. The filters were supposed to begin live trials on Christmas Eve, but two ISPs who volunteered have still not been contacted by Conroy's office, who advised, 'The department is still evaluating applications that were put forward for participation in that pilot.' Three days hardly seems enough time to reconfigure a national network."
Space

SpaceShipTwo Mothership Makes Maiden Flight 110

Posted by kdawson from the like-a-virgin dept.
RobGoldsmith writes "Earlier this week images were appearing on the Net showing the WhiteKnightTwo craft doing some tests in Mojave. The earliest tests showed perhaps two of the engines being used, while a later test showed all the engines working and some further testing. Today the four Pratt & Whitney Canada PW308A engines finally carried the craft into the air. The maiden flight of the WhiteKnightTwo lasted just shy of one hour and happened today at around 08:15 local time, at Mojave air and spaceport. Rumors suggest that a Beechcraft King Air was used for a chase plane. The craft will be used to position Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo craft to fly into space; this is estimated to happen around 2010."
Movies

Submission + - Brand new Star Trek prequel pics and trailer

Submitted by Knackster
Knackster writes: The eagerly anticipated new Star Trek film is set to enthrall some and enrage others with a young, spunky cast, vicious fights and sex scenes. A new trailer (You Tube Flash) and new pics (The Register) from the forthcoming film were released online earlier this week, further fuelling the excitement of Trekkies around the world ahead of the film's release on May 8 next year. Directed by JJ Abrams — the man behind Lost and Cloverfield — Star Trek XI will detail the early days of James T Kirk and his crew and will chronologically sit after the TV series Enterprise, starring Scott Bakula. These pics, in essence make up the fast-paced trailer, which features snippets from the childhoods of Captain James T Kirk, played by Chris Pine and Mr Spock, played by Heroes star Zachary Quinto, lending an insight to the men they grow up to become.
Space

Submission + - Pilot's close encounter with UFO 2

Submitted by
Chris Gondek
Chris Gondek writes: "A passenger jet preparing to land at Heathrow had a near-miss with a UFO. MoD experts launched a top-secret inquiry into the 22,000ft incident during the flight from Milan but never traced what the UFO was. Details of the bizarre close encounter over Lydd, Kent, have only emerged now — 17 years after it took place. The April 21 1991 sighting is one of 19 between 1986 and 1992 being made public by the UK's National Archive today. They include a USAF pilot's account of being told to shoot down a UFO over East Anglia. One file even contains a letter from a woman claiming to be from the Sirius system — who said her spacecraft crashed here during the Second World War. It seems we've all lost interest in UFO's and the number of "abductions" which seemed to occur so often in the 80's has been seriously reduced since we now all own video phones."
Google

Submission + - Gmail Storage size increase? 1

Submitted by
Knackster
Knackster writes: ""I was checking my Gmail account while having my morning coffee when I happen to glance at my mailbox size: You are currently using 814 MB (18%) of your 4434 MB. When did Google increase the mailbox size?""
Microsoft

Submission + - Motherboard Replacements and Vista OEM EULAs

Submitted by Knackster
Knackster writes: If you decide to replace the motherboard in your computer, should you have to pay Microsoft again for the OS that came with the system? Well, in Redmond they think so, and that probably doesn't come as much of a surprise. What I do find a bit surprising is that Microsoft has chosen not to inform end users, not even in the darkest depths of the Windows EULAs, of this policy. Instead, computer manufacturers have just quietly been told that, hey, that's the way it's going to be. Read More
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Actual Military Warnings

Submitted by shy_anne_123
shy_anne_123 writes: Genuine warnings written on military equipment and publications.. As dumb as they sound, they're all very true...

Organizing Your DNS? 43

Posted by Cliff from the help-keep-track-of-it-all dept.
Neil Watson asks: "In previous organizations I've kept track of IPs, hostnames and DNS entries by using a single hosts file. I used a script (h2n) to convert the hosts file to DNS entries (BIND). Thus, all information was available in a single text file. For Microsoft Active Directory servers, we had that system's DNS server simply forward all of its requests to the BIND server. Now, I find myself at another organization. This network is considerably larger, with more name servers. The control of IPs, hostnames and DNS entries is somewhat loose, and it is starting take its toll. How do you organize all of your DNS information in order to easily assign and track all of the entries?"

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