Comment Re:Ideas (Score 4, Insightful) 533
Try Optimize Google instead. It's a far more actively maintained fork.
Comment Re:Discipline (Score 2, Insightful) 597
Can you explain what version of Blackjack you are playing when you can possibly have 3 x 10 value cards and not be bust?
Comment Re:need special hardware? (Score 1) 272
One here and another here. Both are for older versions (3&4) of RHEL but the same principles apply.
As someone who works with Oracle RAC and RHEL regularly, I'd recommend skipping the shared physical disk completely and using NFS instead. You could (and we do in testing) run the NFS server virtualised as well.
Amazon S3 Adds Option To Make Data Accessors Pay 80
CWmike writes "Amazon.com has rolled out a new option for its Simple Storage Service (S3) that lets data owners shift the cost of accessing their information to users. Until now, individuals or businesses with information stored on S3 had to pay data-transfer costs to Amazon when others made use of the information. Amazon said the new Requester Pays option relieves data providers of that burden, leaving them to pay only the basic storage fees for the cloud computing service. The bigger question with the cloud is, who really pays? Mark Everett Hall argues that IT workers do."
A Hacker's Audacious Plan To Rule the Underground 313
An anonymous reader writes "Wired has the inside story of Max Butler, a former white hat hacker who joined the underground following a jail stint for hacking the Pentagon. His most ambitious hack was a hostile takeover of the major underground carding boards where stolen credit card and identity data are bought and sold. The attack made his own site, CardersMarket, the largest crime forum in the world, with 6,000 users. But it also made the feds determined to catch him, since one of the sites he hacked, DarkMarket.ws, was secretly a sting operation run by the FBI."
Comment Re:rdiff-backup (Score 1) 711
Or even better, Safekeep which uses rdiff-backup but adds easy per-server configurations without writing scripts, LVM snapshots, database dumps and SSH key configuration.
Comment Re:Fast User Switching Patent? (Score 1) 256
Fedora Core 9 has it and gives you access from the GUI to a full login session (at least under GNOME - I don't use KDE).
Submission + - Canada Claims Quantum Leap
egyptiankarim writes: "From the article:
...it's been a holy grail in the arcane world of supercomputers — and a Canadian firm claims it will be unveiling one on Tuesday.
D-Wave Systems, Inc. is making some big claims about having developed a quantum computer. Though, I don't know how willing I am to believe the announcements seeing as how even the researcher from MIT they cite seems skeptical."
D-Wave Systems, Inc. is making some big claims about having developed a quantum computer. Though, I don't know how willing I am to believe the announcements seeing as how even the researcher from MIT they cite seems skeptical."
Submission + - Bee Farmers Buzzing About Misfortunes
Da3vid writes: "Bees have been mysteriously disappearing. Beekeepers in 22 states report losses of up to 80 percent. Speculation is that mites or poor nectar has caused their demise, but scientists haven't reached any conclusions. One farmer estimates that he will lose $350,000 based only on his current losses. In only a matter of days, entire hives have been lost. Is this a problem we have already seen the effects of, or is it just developing?"
Submission + - Vista's successor, Vienna, announced
pestilence669 writes: "Windows Vienna, Vista Successor, is due to be out in two years. So what will be the coolest new feature in Vienna?
According to Fathi, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."
— I don't know about you, but I'd prefer less crashing, more drivers, and better resource management."
According to Fathi, that's still being worked out. "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is," he said. "Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers."
— I don't know about you, but I'd prefer less crashing, more drivers, and better resource management."
