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Comment PARTY PARTY PARTY YEHAWW (Score 1) 301

by Skelde on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @07:45AM (#26278583) Attached to: At local midnight on the last day of the 2008 ...

I'l be in Berlin partying trough the night, this'l be fun (i hope).
At the moment im still doing the obligatory watching of "Diner for One"
Its like a ritual, here in Germany. And i always laughing my ass of when i watch it.
Well maybe it has to do something with being drunk as a skunk but thats yust part of the fun.
If any of you want to know whats it about, hit youtube http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=-37hCaatyLs
Only watch the Original the copys are crap.
I'l be at the "Brandenburger Tor", i hope i survive the night.

Oh well, same procedure as every year. ;-)

Comment Re:Terabyte Tebibyte? (Score 1) 283

by Skelde on Wednesday October 22, 2008 @04:56AM (#25465617) Attached to: An In-Depth Look At Seagate's 1.5TB Barracuda

The kibi, mebi, gibi, etc. prefixes were created to solve a real need. The base-10 prefixes were already assigned, and could not be usurped.

Shure, but that doesn't change that the sound uterly moronic.

No Passport For Britons Refusing Mass Surveillance 790

Posted by kdawson on Saturday March 10, 2007 @05:43PM from the and-you-thought-Sweden-was-bad dept.

UpnAtom writes "People who refuse to give up their bank records, tax records & details of any benefits they've claimed, and the records of their car movements for the last year, or refuse to submit to an interrogation on whether they are the same person that this mountain of data belongs to — will be denied passports from March 26th. The Blair government has already admitted that this and other data will be cross-linked so that the Home Office and other officials can spy on the everyday lives of innocent Britons. Britons were already the most spied upon nation in Western Europe — more so even than Sweden. Data-mining through this unprecedented level of mass-surveillance allows any future British government to leapfrog even countries like China and North Korea."

Recovering a Wrecked RAID 175

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 23, 2007 @01:12PM from the undead-data dept.

Dr. Eggman writes "Tom's Hardware recently posted an article specifying how the professionals at Kroll Ontrack recover data from a RAID array that has suffered a hard drive failure, allowing for recovery of even RAID 5 arrays suffering two failures. The article is quick to warn this is costly, however, and points out the different types of hard drive failures that occur, only some of which are repairable. Ultimately the article concludes that consistent backups and other good practices are the best solution. Still, it provides an interesting look into the world of data after death."

Submission + - Indonesia to plug Volcano with Cement Balls

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Anonymous from UCI

on Friday February 23, 2007 @12:01PM

Anonymous from UCI writes: "CNN.com — "A team of geologists and engineers hope the plan, believed to have never been tried before, will reduce the amount of mud flowing from the geyser at a gas exploration site on Java island by up to 70 percent. The mud is now surging out at a rate equivalent to about a million oil drums a day." "Engineers will release five of the chained cement balls, each weighing up to 250 kilograms (550 pounds), and monitor the effect before gradually releasing more balls into the hole,..." http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/23/indone sia.volcano.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories"

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