Comment so who else... (Score 1) 414
... has gotten the pretty vague Sneakers reference??? Too many secrets Marty!
Submission + - Gmail outage continues
mysqlbytes writes: "As I sit here not able to check my Gmail, I am wondering how much more of the world is affected. Gmail Help is current stating:
"We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 2:16:00 PM PDT detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.""
Comment The number one... (Score 1) 194
...marketing slogan that Sun ever waisted money on...
"What can we dot com for you today?"
Submission + - New Google DNS Entry
mysqlbytes writes: For anyone trying to access their Gmail recently, during this outage. Has anyone seen that there is now an DNS entry:
Name: sorry.l.google.com
Addresses: 72.14.205.147, 72.14.205.99, 72.14.205.103, 72.14.205.104
Aliases: sorry.google.com
This outage may last longer than we expect!
Name: sorry.l.google.com
Addresses: 72.14.205.147, 72.14.205.99, 72.14.205.103, 72.14.205.104
Aliases: sorry.google.com
This outage may last longer than we expect!
Submission + - Gmail Inaccessible Worldwide
neural.disruption writes: Publico(European Portuguese Newspaper) has some news about Gmail being inaccessible to most users around the world, since at least 9.30 GMT, with an estimate of 43 million accounts affected only in the US.
Google confirms the problem is worldwide and says they're working on it but don't disclose anything else about the nature or origin of the problem.
I could only find the news on the Portuguese newspaper and could not found it in any of the regular places like CNET or TechNews, but I can confirm that at least I and six other people can't even access Gmail site without receiving a server error notice.
So I ask how is the problem affecting you people?
Google confirms the problem is worldwide and says they're working on it but don't disclose anything else about the nature or origin of the problem.
I could only find the news on the Portuguese newspaper and could not found it in any of the regular places like CNET or TechNews, but I can confirm that at least I and six other people can't even access Gmail site without receiving a server error notice.
So I ask how is the problem affecting you people?
Submission + - Gmail now looks prettier with themes
mysqlbytes writes: A few months back blogoscoped talked about the release on gmail themes coming soon. Well sign into your gmail today and check them out. A few users over here in Ireland have reported the strange looking new themes.
Comment Re:Here in Ireland... (Score 1) 368
Tell me more... I'm a sysadmin who loves a challenge. What else do these guys do? I would love to read their end user license agreement. Probably says something like "WE READ YOUR EMAIL!"
Go to here and see if your ip address always changes, if it does everytime then they are proxying you in a pool of addresses, if it changes everytime you reboot your dsl modem, that's just because it's dhcp. I would be very very surprised if they proxied everything. Plus you can't proxy SSL sessions without breaking them, so things like gmail should act normally if they are doing things they aren't meant to...
What make is the DSL modem?
Submission + - Dell to sell PC's in shops
mysqlbytes writes: Computer seller Dell has signed a major new agreement with consumer group DSG that will see the US giant's products sold through a network of 1,300 Dixons, PC World and Currys stores around Ireland for the first time.
The deal with DSG is part of Dell's major push towards regaining a leading foothold in the global computer market. Hewlett-Packard has already pipped Dell as the biggest seller of computers by offering its products through retail outlets. Dell has retaliated by making its computers available through major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Best Buy. Read more here
Submission + - Ubuntu 7.10 Released
mysqlbytes writes: The latest releases of Ubuntu for desktop and server are available today for download. This release brings together the best of free and open source software delivered on a stable, easy to use and learn platform. Read the press releases or download it now.
Submission + - Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data (dailytech.com)
mysqlbytes writes: While inspecting historical temperature graphs, Steve McIntyre, who operates the site climateaudit.org, noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations, all occurring around the time of January, 2000. The graphs were created by NASA's Reto Ruedy and James Hansen (who shot to fame when he accused the administration of trying to censor his views on climate change). Hansen refused to provide McKintyre with the algorithm used to generate graph data, so McKintyre reverse-engineered it. The result appeared to be a Y2K bug in the handling of the raw data. Read more here!
LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links 283
Many of you might remember the previous story about LiveJournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from the group, Warriors for innocence. Since then, they've been taking action against users hosting material on their servers that they believe to be illegal. Today, LiveJournal management have demonstrated a serious lack of understanding in how the internet works, declaring that users are responsible for the content of the webpages that they link to in their blog entries. A user points out the obvious flaw: "I get ToS'd because the link's been redirected to a page full o' porn, even though context clearly shows that when I originally put up the link that it didn't actually land on a page of porn?"
One wonders how such a long-established blogging company can be so ignorant about the nature of the world wide web.
Submission + - Nokia to replace 43 Million Batteries (bbc.co.uk)
mysqlbytes writes: According to a recent post on the BBC's website, Nokia has admitted to a problem in the BL-5C batteries made by Matsushita between December 2005 and November 2006. For some of us, it means longer battery life with a new lease of life. And for some of us, no more burnt legs :) See the article here, and you can check out the product advisory here: https://www.nokia.com/batteryreplacement/en/
Journal Journal: Microsoft AntiSpyware (BETA) quality...
An interesting article on adawarereport.com raises the question: How many people out there actually rely upon Microsoft AntiSpyware to keep their system safe? Personally on a daily basis i have seen quite a number of Trojans and other little critters slip unnoticed. So i end up using multiple scanners to pick up everything i can. A plethora such as adaware and spybot search and destroy might keep you
Journal Journal: Sentinix abandoned
The Sentinix project has been abandoned.
A very promising project run by Michel Blomgren of the Tigerteam.se. For you who have never heard of it, it was an all in one security and mail package in one, for mail it had: postfix spamassasin and mailscanner to name but a few and for monitoring it had: Nagios, Nagat, Snort, SnortCenter, ACID, Cacti, RRDTool, Nessus. I'll be sad to see this go, maybe someone could inherit it...
Journal Journal: Viruses for OS X
Mac users are secure in their environment for one main reason, they aren't running a Microsoft product! Most of the viruses are written to attack M$ products because like the rest of us they have a built up hatred to someone who can churn out bad software and have people buy it because they 'don't have a choice'. Mac's are based on BSD, in itself its secure. I'm sure security vunerabilites do exist but virus writers have an easier task exploiting something which every other virus writter out the
