Comment: Question 21 (Score 1) 245
Apparently missing this question
Q) If you have a website, and have a Geek test, and this gets slashdotted, what sort of increase in traffic would you expect, and how would you cope.
I cannot get to the quiz!
WikiLeaks site in temporary shutdown
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JaJ_D writes "According to the BBC the WikiLeaks site has been temporary shutdown owing to financial problems.
Apparently "Its running costs including staff payments are $600,000 (£377,000), but so far this year it has raised just $130,000 (£81,000)."
I wonder who will be glad about this and who will be sad?"
Apparently "Its running costs including staff payments are $600,000 (£377,000), but so far this year it has raised just $130,000 (£81,000)."
I wonder who will be glad about this and who will be sad?"
Comment: Re:Cash (Score 1) 526
Ah but were you wearing gloves????
If not expect them to trace you
:-D
Here's hoping I am joking
If not expect them to trace you
Here's hoping I am joking
EA Recommends Hilarious Work-Around For RA3 CD-Key 301
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from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.
sunderbear noted that EAs Command & Conquer 3 shipped missing the last digit of the CD Key. He writes "EA's brightest minds have put their synapses into overdrive in order to whip up a comical work-around. 'There is currently a work-around that may allow you to bypass this issue. Since you have the first 19 characters of the code already, you can basically try guessing the last character,' said a note on EA's customer support site. Yes, they're serious. 'To do this, simply enter your existing code, and then for the last character, try the letters A-Z, and then the numbers 0-9. You should eventually get the right combination, and be able to play the game.'" It appears that the helpful hint has been purged.
Home network configuration for a small business
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JaJ_D
JaJ_D writes "I am involved in a small business (two people) and we need to have a test environment that we can both use, log into, have a mail server, have a webserver etc..
Now the system will be Linux based (4-8 machines) going through (finally) a wireless router.
As part of the system (and the fact that I have been hacked by someone once before) I want to change the system so all comminications go via a proxy server (rather than the wireless router) and this is recorded and monitored (ie all traffic through the router [internet, IM, YM, keylogger traffic etc..] will be recorded and logged). As a sight downer my primary laptop (due to client restraints) has to be Windows based. I am the only user, and my business partner is aware that the system will be fully monitored and recorded (so people don't hack and accuire our software).
So the questions I have are:
a) What would be the ideal setup for the proxy server?
b) Are there any GPL tools out there that can be used to setup, configure, record, monitor and play back (pref on a machine, by machine basis on the logs) the recording of all the traffic in and out of the proxy?
c) How easy is it to configure WindowsVista to go through proxys?
d) How easy is it to set up a mail server in this system?
e) Any advice/help/comments that people have
Many thanks
Jaj"
Now the system will be Linux based (4-8 machines) going through (finally) a wireless router.
As part of the system (and the fact that I have been hacked by someone once before) I want to change the system so all comminications go via a proxy server (rather than the wireless router) and this is recorded and monitored (ie all traffic through the router [internet, IM, YM, keylogger traffic etc..] will be recorded and logged). As a sight downer my primary laptop (due to client restraints) has to be Windows based. I am the only user, and my business partner is aware that the system will be fully monitored and recorded (so people don't hack and accuire our software).
So the questions I have are:
a) What would be the ideal setup for the proxy server?
b) Are there any GPL tools out there that can be used to setup, configure, record, monitor and play back (pref on a machine, by machine basis on the logs) the recording of all the traffic in and out of the proxy?
c) How easy is it to configure WindowsVista to go through proxys?
d) How easy is it to set up a mail server in this system?
e) Any advice/help/comments that people have
Many thanks
Jaj"
Comment: How much!!! (Score 4, Insightful) 231
The FBI paid Verizon $2,500 apiece to upgrade 1,140 old telephone switches. Oddly the report didn't redact the total amount paid to the telecom â" slightly more than $2.9 million dollars â" but somehow the bad guys will win if they knew the number of switches and the cost paid.
It's more likely that the total number is large and people go "ok must be a lot" but at 2.5k usd per switch people would go "how fucking much!!!" - that's what they may want to avoid
Jaj
It's more likely that the total number is large and people go "ok must be a lot" but at 2.5k usd per switch people would go "how fucking much!!!" - that's what they may want to avoid
Jaj
Terry Pratchett has early onset Alzheimer's
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JaJ_D
JaJ_D writes "According to Paul Kidby's website, Terry Pratchet has been diagonsed with early onset Alzheimer's.
From the site:
would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".
Jaj"
From the site:
would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, but because of upcoming conventions and of course the need to keep my publishers informed, it seems to me unfair to withhold the news. I have been diagnosed with a very rare form of early onset Alzheimer's, which lay behind this year's phantom "stroke".
Jaj"
Largest off shore wind farm to be built in UK
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JaJ_D
JaJ_D writes "Following the recent coverage on slashdot on the subject of global warming (and other issues like renuable energy), there are plans to build the worlds largest off shore Wind Farm off the coast of North Devon .
Currently the worlds largest off shore wind farm (London Array, which should generate enough energy to power a quarter of the homes in Greater London) is being constructed and the company who was initial involved in the London Array (Farm Energy) is also involved in this project.
According to the report "....it could be powering more than 1,000,000 homes by 2018", which would be enough to power all the homes in Devon (as well as some in Cornwall)."
Currently the worlds largest off shore wind farm (London Array, which should generate enough energy to power a quarter of the homes in Greater London) is being constructed and the company who was initial involved in the London Array (Farm Energy) is also involved in this project.
According to the report "....it could be powering more than 1,000,000 homes by 2018", which would be enough to power all the homes in Devon (as well as some in Cornwall)."