Comment Re:Apache is too bloated (Score 3, Interesting) 82
Yes, that's why I use Hiawatha.
Comment Tarsnap (Score 1) 188
I use tarsnap.com for backup because
1) the source code is public
2) encryption and compression takes place on your machine before being sent over
3) it offers incremental backup
4) it is extremely cheap...
For collaboration I use bazaar... Anything else?
Submission + - The Art of the Animated GIF
theodp writes: Some artists work in oils, some in pastels, some in acrylics. Photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg? Their medium of choice is animated GIFs. 'We wanted to tell more of a story than a single still frame photograph but didn't want the high maintenance aspect of a video,' said the two of their unusual collaboration. Needless to say, these are not your father's GeoCities 'Under Construction' GIFs — it can take several hours of manual editing for Beck and Burg to breathe the whisper of life into each image.
Submission + - Sony "rebuilding" PlayStation Network after attack (networkworld.com)
alphadogg writes: The outage of Sony's PlayStation Network and Qriocity service, now in its fourth day, looks set to continue after the company said on Sunday that it is "rebuilding" its system to better guard against attacks. Sony said on Saturday that the outage was caused by an "external intrusion" into the network, but has yet to detail the problem. The PlayStation Network is used for PlayStation 3 online gaming and sales of software to consoles and the PlayStation Portable. The Qriocity service runs on the same network infrastructure and provides audio and video to Sony consumer electronics products.
Submission + - SPAM: Countries ranked in terms of internet freedom
msum writes: Freedom House has just published a report that ranks 37 nations around the would in terms of their internet freedom. Estonia was ranked as the most free. See who else is listed.
Link to Original Source
Link to Original Source
Submission + - Apple: We 'must have' comprehensive location data
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, and iPad models are also keeping track of consumers whereabouts. Mac computers running Snow Leopard and even Windows computers running Safari 5 are being watched. But the question is why? "To provide the high quality products and services that its customers demand, Apple must have access to the comprehensive location-based information," Apple says.
Submission + - EC2 outage shows how much the Net relies on Amazon
An anonymous reader writes: Much has been written about the recent EC2/EBS outage but Keir Thomas at PC World has a different take: it's shown how much cutting-edge Internet infrastructure relies on Amazon, and we should be grateful. FTA: "Amazon is a personification of the spirit of the Internet, which is one of true democracy, access to the means of distribution, and rapid evolution."
Submission + - Stop being duped by the 3D scam (techrepublic.com)
Phoghat writes: "The entertainment and electronics industries keep trying to push 3D on consumers, even though a lot of smart people have caught on to the fact that it is a scam and not innovation as the industry would like you to believe."
Submission + - Fukushima: Day 42: How is a core cooled? (nuclearpoweryesplease.org)
DrKnark writes: Tepco has released more information about their plan to stabilize the Fukushima reactors(link 1, link 2).
They are basically facing 4 problems, ensuring long term cooling of the cores, ensure cooling of the spent fuel pools, prevent release of radioactive material and mitigate the consequences of the releases that will continue for a while. I want to speak a bit more about cooling in this blog post since it is the most crucial problem.
This is a blog by people very knowledgeable about nuclear power. It contains a somewhat day-to-day account of the events in Fukushima, as well as a lot of other info.
They are basically facing 4 problems, ensuring long term cooling of the cores, ensure cooling of the spent fuel pools, prevent release of radioactive material and mitigate the consequences of the releases that will continue for a while. I want to speak a bit more about cooling in this blog post since it is the most crucial problem.
This is a blog by people very knowledgeable about nuclear power. It contains a somewhat day-to-day account of the events in Fukushima, as well as a lot of other info.
Submission + - CERN, LHC sets new luminosity world record (web.cern.ch)
An anonymous reader writes: Since last night, the Large Hadron Collider is officially the most powerful accelerator in the world. While the record energy level has been reached last year, the new luminosity level, surpassing Fermilabs achievements, happened recently. “Higher intensity means more data, and more data means greater discovery potential.”, as CERN Director General Rolf Heuer says.
Submission + - Pirate Party of Canada Starts VPN for Freedom (slipslurp.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Pirate Party of Canada has announced that it will extend a VPN originally set up to allow people in Tunisia to browse freely while internet censorship was imposed there. Canada may soon be added to that list since the ruling Conservative Party has vowed to introduce a bill hat would provide unprecedented systematic interception and monitoring of Canadians’ personal communications. So the Pirate Party of Canada has announced it will extend that service to Canadians.
Submission + - FreeBSD 8.2 Released (freebsd.org)
meta coder writes: This is the third release from the 8-STABLE branch which improves on the functionality of FreeBSD 8.1 and introduces some new features. Some of the highlights includes improvements in Xen support and various bugfixes
Submission + - WikiLeaks Will Unveil Major Bank Scandal (forbes.com)
Atmanman writes: When wikileaks anounced it was releasing 251,287 US diplomatic cables we all thought we knew what was meant by its earlier ominous words that, "The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined." It now appears the organisation is sitting on a huge treasure trove of information so big that it has stopped taking submissions.
Among data to be released are tens of thousands of documents from a major U.S. banking firm, material from pharmaceutical companies, finance firms and energy companies.
Among data to be released are tens of thousands of documents from a major U.S. banking firm, material from pharmaceutical companies, finance firms and energy companies.
Submission + - Google faces EU probe over doped search results (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: The EU has launched an investigation into whether Google is deliberately doctoring its search results to favour its own services. The search giant stands accused of artificially lowering the search ranking of competing price-comparison sites in organic and paid-for search results, in favour of Google Shopping. “There is a growing chasm between the enduring public perception of Google’s search results as comprehensive and impartial, and the reality that they are increasingly neither,” said Shivaun Raff, CEO of British price comparison site Foundem, which lodged the complaint with the EU. Google has denied any foul play. "Those sites have complained and even sued us over the years, but in all cases there were compelling reasons why their sites were ranked poorly by our algorithms," it claims.
Submission + - Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken (mozilla.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla has released the first version a new browser benchmark called Kraken. Mozilla's Robert Sayre writes on his blog, 'More than Sunspider, V8, and Dromaeo, Kraken focuses on realistic workloads and forward-looking applications. We believe that the benchmarks used in Kraken are better in terms of reflecting realistic workloads for pushing the edge of browser performance forward. These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.' On my somewhat elderly x86_64 Linux system Google Chrome 6.0.472.55 beta completes the Kraken benchmark in 28638.1 milliseconds, Opera 10.62 completes it in 23612.4 milliseconds, and the current Firefox 4 nightly build completes it in 19897.5 milliseconds.
