Yeah. I wonder what percentage of the (soon to be) 2million users will be duplicate accounts for whatever reason.

I know of one guy who was able to get his details from the /. guys. Maybe I should try that...

Fun chatting with you, have a great 2011.

(Also thanks for getting the article, good reading.)

"Industrialised World" - The world is changing so quickly that the definitions of what is first world, third world, emerging markets, industrialised and so on are not clearly defined.

If that definition can be made accurately there can be concurrence as to if the peak travel levels have been reached or not.

Also, there has not in recorded history been any similar trends, except maybe for the peak and decline of rail travel - maybe a parallel can be drawn from that?

Given the above, the conclusion can only be "It looks like it, but we cannot be sure. Yet."

Yep I actually think you found it. I wonder where the /. article went? Maybe it got lost when the database got nuked?

I was around back then, had a low number nick, and then got another one in the 300000 but lost the email address and the password to that one :(

*sigh*

You are right - They will find an excuse to crack down.

The question is: Why give them one? Why aid them by handing them an excuse?

And as for embarrassment, I think it is hardly embarrassing to have your government site taken offline, especially one that draws as little traffic as this one - Its alexa ranking is 2,460,718! My blog gets roughly ten times the traffic that they do according to alexa!

If they wanted to disrupt something worthwhile they could have gone after a telecommunications server - surely if Anonymous were as smart as they allude to be they could have figured out the address of one.

Well at least one of the sites is hosted on a server in Newark if the queries are to be believed.

This is one of those times where I feel a sense of justification for the anonymous attacks. Mugabe should be run out of office sooner than later.

Problem is, this kind of attack against his governments sites will have one effect: It will bolster his insane claims of overseas meddling causing his countries problems. It is a lie, Mugabe is the no1 cause for the problems Zim is having now, but all anonymous have done is lend credibility to his claims of overseas "agents" (yes he has used that term) causing trouble in Zimbabwe.

This will have the effect that his supporter base will grow, and lend him greater power.

A google could not find it, but there was a story on /. waaay back that told of a financial reward hidden in the eula of a piece of software. Only about ten people read that part of the eula to claim their money.

It was an exercise to see if people actually read the eula.

I live in South Africa, and we paid about R1000 for a 1TB Seagate in January 2010, in November 2010 we bought them for R450 each.

That is less than half in 11 months and still coming down.

You can also get PCI cards that have 4 to 8 SATA ports on them. You just need to be sure that your PSU can handle them/has SATA power ports for them.

Easy to build a monster storage unit - the problems begin when you want redundancy to protect against per drive disk failure. In the end you would optimally want at least two gigs redundant storage per gig of storage.

Which means for every 1TB drive you will look at at least one extra 1TB drive that is in a raid1 array to protect against data loss in a drive. That is the simplest way to do it. I know you can get striping and parity and all that other nice stuff on more complex arrays, but I am talking the most simple solutions here.

Agreed.

Also, larger disk drives tend to become less reliable in my experience.

I have a server where daily roll back backups is made to a 1.5TB drive every 24 hours. Given that I only do a rollback of Inetpub on that drive I get about 170 to 200 days worth of dailies out of it.

I would love to slot in a 3TB drive or larger, but reliability is such that I would rather swop out the drive for a new one twice a year and put the full drive in a "storage" server at the office than risk losing a year worth of roll backs due to a drive failure.

(Before anyone flags my backup method, we do have other backups on three other servers, but since these have 1.5TB drives for backup at the largest and they serve as backup/failover nodes for eight servers total every server has a rollback backup drive in it. We are a smallish setup that cannot afford a SAN setup, so we make do with what we have. That means that per server we can keep about 30odd days worth of failover backups on these servers. Again larger drives would be great.)

Anything larger than 1TB also become problematic in a RAID setup, where I found the Seagate NS drives to be almost bulletproof - up to 1TB. I would not trust anything larger than that in a RAID array just yet.