Comment: NOT SPAM (Score 1) 2
How is this SPAM?
SPAM: Epic Beard Cam 2
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Google Offers Encrypted Web Search
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Pickens
Pickens writes "Last year Google announced making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users and today Google announced they're gradually rolling out the ability to search more securely at https://www.google.com/ to protect search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and the release comes with a “beta” label because it currently covers only the core Google web search product and because search over SSL may be slightly slower than Google's regular search. Two caveats: HTTPS only protects against eavesdropping. It doesn't prevent Google from logging your searches, or prevent a government or civil litigant from obtaining your records from Google. Second, clicking on any of the web results will probably take you out of SSL mode. Google also offers SSL as an option with its Calendar, Docs, and Sites services, and just recently, it added SSL to Google Web History and Google Bookmarks, after a security vulnerability was found in the search personalization service that taps Web History. Google hopes to add https to other services as well says The Register. A Google spokesman indicated it plans to make SSL encryption the default for search once they better understand how it affects users' search experience. "We expect that encrypted SSL search will slow down Google searches by a small degree, and we don’t like the idea of rolling this out to everyone before we’re able to test the performance effects and gather feedback from our users.""
SPAM: Hackers can delete Facebook friends via flaw
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alphadogg writes "A bug in Facebook's Web site lets hackers delete Facebook friends without permission.
The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. But as of Friday morning, Pacific time, it had still not been patched, based on tests conducted by the IDG News Service on a reporter's Facebook friends list. A malicious hacker could combine an exploit for this bug with spam or even a self-copying worm code to wreak havoc on the social network, Abbagnaro said in an interview.
He's written proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and then, one by one, deletes all of their friends. For the attack to work, however, the victim would first have to be tricked into clicking on a malicious link while logged into Facebook. "The next thing you know, you have no friends," Abbagnaro said."
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The flaw was reported Wednesday by Steven Abbagnaro, a student at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. But as of Friday morning, Pacific time, it had still not been patched, based on tests conducted by the IDG News Service on a reporter's Facebook friends list. A malicious hacker could combine an exploit for this bug with spam or even a self-copying worm code to wreak havoc on the social network, Abbagnaro said in an interview.
He's written proof-of-concept code that scrapes publicly available data from users' Facebook pages and then, one by one, deletes all of their friends. For the attack to work, however, the victim would first have to be tricked into clicking on a malicious link while logged into Facebook. "The next thing you know, you have no friends," Abbagnaro said."
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Declustered RAID - the Future of RAID Storage?->
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storagedude writes "With disk drive capacity improving at a much faster rate than performance and reliability, RAID rebuild times keep getting longer, increasing the risk that additional failures will lead to data loss. Interestingly, some storage vendors are turning to an 18-year-old concept to keep RAID relevant: Declustered RAID, which was first described in a 1992 paper by RAID pioneer Garth Gibson and Mark Holland.
Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery."
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Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery."
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Comment: Re:"And I laugh at how you are supposed to see..." (Score 1) 511
wow, best buy had a magic version of Avatar that was recorded in RGBY !! Neato, i would LOVE to see how they got a brdvd to play that.
^ ID10T ^
Comment: Aborted BIOS update Non-Intel MB - Need Floppy (Score 1) 472
I needed a floppy on Friday. I actually have a box of them, but I didn't have a drive anymore.
Long story short I was updating the BIOS on an old Shuttle XPC
(Last ditch effort to get it to run reliably before throwing it out the window).
After a failed flash, the machine was effectively "bricked" until such a time I could get an actual floppy drive installed to to a recovery boot.
It seems the only way for this old hardware to recover from a botched BIOS update was to boot from a real floppy.
I tried countless USB sticks formatted as floppies and even an actual USB floppy drive all to no avail.
The Shuttle XPC in question is now in the dumpster.
Long story short I was updating the BIOS on an old Shuttle XPC
(Last ditch effort to get it to run reliably before throwing it out the window).
After a failed flash, the machine was effectively "bricked" until such a time I could get an actual floppy drive installed to to a recovery boot.
It seems the only way for this old hardware to recover from a botched BIOS update was to boot from a real floppy.
I tried countless USB sticks formatted as floppies and even an actual USB floppy drive all to no avail.
The Shuttle XPC in question is now in the dumpster.
Comment: Try something different (Score 1) 2
try this:
man rsync
As far as scheduling the "sync" events, there is any number of ways it could be done.
For you I would suggest something highly convoluted and complex.
try this:
man cron
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I sure hope this helps you as much as it did me.
Comment: Re:Can't see the first comment here... (Score 1) 4
Neither can I.
That is about the most rinky-dink excuse for a "HA" setup I have heard of.
Woman Claims Wii Fit Caused Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome 380
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from the can't-stop-playing dept.
from the can't-stop-playing dept.
Amanda Flowers always liked her Wii Fit but now she can't get enough of it. Amanda claims a fall from her balance board damaged a nerve and has left her suffering from persistent sexual arousal syndrome. From the article: "The catering worker said: 'It began as a twinge down below before surging through my body. Sometimes it built up into a trembling orgasm.' A doctor diagnosed her with persistent sexual arousal syndrome due to a damaged nerve."