The dude would abide!

"after that I have to replace the ps3"
I assume this means replacing it with another console.
You can download previously purchased games via your PSN account, e.g. if you get a new (PS3) console :)

"[...]they're more important than the [two vulnerabilities] that Microsoft did disclose,' said Arce. 'That means [system] administrators may end up making the wrong decisions about applying the update."

Right, there's been a fair few times where I've not applied security patches "right away" for simple reasons; like they did not affect the way my system was set up.
But in the end I am hoping "[...]end up making the wrong decisions about applying the update" is talking about a time aspect rather than if-at-all... (this should explain itself)

Then that they did not declare this in their patch info is a whole other issue; Microsoft are certainly not the only ones who have a history of not doing so...

> Imagine if you tell your partner "at 2am it's gonna dispense all the money, make sure you're standing there with a big bag to catch it all".

Sure, that is not my main point, however valid :) A big bag of cash is of course nice, but what you can perhaps access without being detected for some time, is another point. Hence the importance of the attack vector [in my point].

An empty ATM machine with no logs; where the money went to should sound off immediate alarm bells...

Fair game if you empty half a country's machines in one night, but the risk of doing that might outweigh other options...

I live in Europe, during my time having all sorts of cards that works in ATM's I've came to the conclusion that.. Most of them seem to run Windows (I've seen more BSOD's than its decent to mention).
I'm not wanting to get in to a debate about Windows security here; rather the point that there are plenty of rootkits for any given platform on the go today.

The interesting point would be the actual attack vector; getting in to a bank's internal network to access the ATM nodes would mean (from my point of view) that the ATM's are pretty uninteresting, however what else might lurk on the bank's network would be worth a lot more? On the other hand, if you could perform the "hack" quickly with just regular customer access to the machine, that'd be interesting... (thinking of terminator movie here...) ;)

According to my bank balance that is my... well, I've no cents left, damn recession!

Maybe someone can answer this better than me, I've not had the time to read over the Microsoft license.
Would it be possible to (legally) fork the project from the latest available codebase? Not saying if anyone would want to do it or not, but if the code is out there that might give some possibilities?

I can see myself using an ARM-based linux server in the home.

If they get proper business support from some largeish vendor pushing out rack machines then that'd be great too. All the servers I admin currently run x86 from Intel. Saying that, when idling, they're not terribly power hungry; but arm boxes should be a lot better.

Lowering power consumption is never a bad idea for your bottom line, as long as the performance-per-watt is acceptable. The first thing I thought was that it would be useful for larger clusters of machines if the performance isn't on-par with power6/x86 server chips. At the end of the day the deal breaker will be just how much performance you can get out of their server chips, which will affect what type of environment they're suitable for.

Well, its a funny thing actually.

I've downloaded items (like game maps, etc) using my friends accounts on MY ps3.
While I've not bought these items I've had access to them when the machine isn't logged in to their ps network account (nor mine, e.g. just logged in locally to my user).

Which basically means free game extras.. (still, paying £40 for a game then £2-5 for 6-7 extra maps is a ripoff in my book, and yes I know, its entirely optional to purchase the extra content, no flames please)

Note: The accounts aren't linked per say. I believe there's some "family" account thingy where you can share some (or all?) purchases between linked ps3 accounts.

.. This statement is interesting.
A lot of the e-commerce software you can get for free is written in common web development languages, e.g. Perl/PHP/Ruby/ASP.
So is this a question of lacking in-house competence from a SMB perspective? Most OSS e-commerce packages I've used have been a breeze to install, never mind to customize.

The truth to the statement is that some things are, at best, poorly documented. But if worst comes to worst, track down the bit of script you need to know (how it works) and read the code?

So...

114 terabytes = 116 736 gigabytes
My machine has got 4 gigabytes of RAM, 100 000 x 4 = 400000... Hm?

This might be useful to someone like me, Phoronix just reviewed the 4890 on Linux with the ATI catalyst drivers:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_radeon_hd4890&num=1 :)

Right, after reading the fine article I was just left myself asking...

Why did the robot have to... die? I mean, being decomissioned... No fair. It was just his stupid software, wasnt it? The 100kg arms could have been much more... loving with the right software?
Did it run WinNT?

Ever heard of the three rules? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

First of all, I really like djbdns! Up until two weeks ago I ran it for our my employer (700~ tlds) and it had been running flawless for the last 4 years.

The reason, in the end, for the switch is due to the administrative workload of using djbdns.

Pushing updates to other servers usually involves pushing the .cdb data file to the dns/root directory of each of the resolves. Ok one chore, fine. The problem is in managing the database.

Managing 50-100 records command line is feasible, but if you have a lot of domain and turn over a lot of requests for modifications a day this quickly becomes a pain.

We built a script to store the records in a sql database then create the data file, create the cdb from that, then push the updated file across the network.

Our new dns server runs directly to the SQL db, provides solid query caching.. Now I just have to replicate a sql db which is comparatively pain-free :)

Not had my morning coffee yet so please pardon the grammar/seplling ;)