Sivar - Slashdot User

Submission + - Windows 0-day SMBV2 bug worse than thought

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Charles N. Burns

on Thursday September 10, 2009 @12:56PM

Charles N. Burns writes: "The Windows zero-day SMBV2 vulnerability "appears to be more dangerous than initially thought." "The danger is no longer just a system crash or reboot, it can lead to a full system compromise." Samba appears uneffected."

Submission + - Why BitTorrent causes latency and how to fix it

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Sivar

on Sunday June 01, 2008 @03:03PM

Sivar writes: ""Anyone VoIP or online gamer who has a roommate or a family member who uses BitTorrent (or any P2P application) knows what a nightmare it is when BitTorrent is in use. The ping (round trip latency) goes through the roof and it stays there making VoIP packets drop out and game play impossible." George Ou looks into why BitTorrent seems to affect performance so much more than other types of file transfer and a controversial way to fix it."

Submission + - Using Comcast to speed up torrents

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Charles Burns

on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @10:31PM

Charles Burns writes: "George Ou has published instructions to seed torrents reliably through Comcast. "The difference in speed for this rare torrent was an astounding 100 fold increase in performance as well as a reliable Torrent that doesn't depend on an individual slow seeder in a residential Cable broadband network who may shut off his computer or P2P application or get TCP reset.""

Submission + - New WD Raptor hard drive benchmarked (storagereview.com)

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Sivar

on Monday April 21, 2008 @10:39AM

Sivar writes: "StorageReview has reviewed the new 300GB WD Raptor hard drive. "The improvements between the the VelociRaptor and its predecessor dwarf all previous upgrades." and "Its noise and power measurements are among the lowest we have ever recorded.""

Submission + - Terabyte drive roundup

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Sivar

on Monday October 01, 2007 @07:56PM

Sivar writes: "StorageReview has a comparison of the first two new terabyte drives to compete with Hitachi's, which has stood alone in the terabyte world for months."

Submission + - Faceoff at one Terabyte

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Sivar

on Monday October 01, 2007 @04:22PM

Sivar writes: "There's finally some competition in the terabyte drive market. StorageReview has... a comparison of all three 1,000,000,000,000-byte (give or take) drives on the market. That's a lot of...."

Submission + - Wireless security guide

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Sivar

on Friday January 12, 2007 @02:19AM

Sivar writes: "TechRepublic has a wireless security guide (PDF warning, individual parts in HTML here) covering LEAP, EAP-FAST, RADIUS, and other acronyms nice for those serious about making wireless networks actually secure."

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