Submission + - vBulletin Management angers customers (theregister.co.uk)
ct2k7 writes: "vBulletin Management scoops low down to banning people who talk against their actions, do we see the times of detrimental reliance?"
Comment Re:Seems odd... (Score 2, Informative) 306
> Well, in Russia, police officers, medical workers, and every other profession actually have their own "days" as well.
^^^^^^
That, and also there seems to be a misunderstanding here, aka lost in translation. It's not a holiday in a sense that the whole country has a day off. It's just an official nifty name for this particular day. Also a good occasion to praise the work of your friendly programmer in the next cubicle.
Comment Re:Not another time (Score 1) 459
Self-replying in the absence of edit feature:
Here's what I think has happened. Slashdot picked up the story on July 2, Ars guys read it among the stories from another news outlets, and produced their own breakdown of the same events.
Then ScuttleMonkey has read the Ars story, and thus the circle has been completed. The only question is: do the Slashdot editors read their own site?
Comment Not another time (Score 3, Informative) 459
I could swear I already saw this a few days ago here, on Slashdot. And indeed:
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/184251/Browser-Vendors-Force-W3C-To-Scrap-HTML-5-Codecs?from=rss
Comment They comitted suicide... (Score 4, Informative) 413
five years ago, not a few months.
Comment Founder of Lxlabs found dead (Score 1) 2
"In a separate development, The Times of India reports that the founder of Lxlabs, K T Ligesh, was found dead at his home after hanging himself. It is not known whether Ligesh's death is in any way related to the attacks on HyperVM and Kloxo, or what the future for Lxlabs may be."
Source: http://www.h-online.com/security/UK-Web-host-falls-victim-to-attack--/news/113483
Submission + - 100,000 websites destroyed by hackers (theregister.co.uk) 2
Joshua.Niland writes: "A zero day exploit in Lxlabs HyperVM software has lead to 100,000 website being destroyed, some of which have no backups.
From the article: "Data for about half of the websites hosted on Vaserv was destroyed all at once sometime Sunday evening, shortly after administrators noticed "strangeness" on the system. The attackers had the ability to execute sensitive Unix commands on the system, including "rm -rf," which forces a recursive delete of all files.
Some 50 percent of Vaserv's customers signed up for unmanaged service, which doesn't include data backup, Foster said. It remains unclear of those website owners will ever be able to retrieve their lost data, he said. As a result, at least half the websites that were hosted on the site remain offline.""
From the article: "Data for about half of the websites hosted on Vaserv was destroyed all at once sometime Sunday evening, shortly after administrators noticed "strangeness" on the system. The attackers had the ability to execute sensitive Unix commands on the system, including "rm -rf," which forces a recursive delete of all files.
Some 50 percent of Vaserv's customers signed up for unmanaged service, which doesn't include data backup, Foster said. It remains unclear of those website owners will ever be able to retrieve their lost data, he said. As a result, at least half the websites that were hosted on the site remain offline.""
Comment Chromium Linux builds link (Score 1) 948
Since no one so far cared to provide a link to the actual Chromium Linux builds, here it is:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/
Comment Re:troll maybe? (Score 2, Informative) 644
Yes, it looks like a troll, nothing to do with Microsoft or ASUS whatsoever.
If you google rdcpro@hotmail.com email address from the WHOIS record of that domain, you'll find this:
"I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or."
Regards,
Mike Sharp
rdcpro@hotmail.com"
http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_1301691.html
And also this site:
http://rdcpro.com/
Comment Re:Afghanistan drug activity (Score 1) 381
Wait a minute, are you implying that the US attacked Afghanistan to spur the stalled production of opium? I can't see other parallels to the Opium wars here.
Frankly I indeed wanted to point out a possible involvement of the US in the flourishing Afghanistan drug business, but you went even further than that!
On another note, I wouldn't exactly call heroin a "recreational" drug.
Comment Afghanistan drug activity (Score 2, Interesting) 381
Interesting that while US is trying to do something about Mexican drug smuggling (probably because it borders with US), they turn the blind eye (or even worse) to the Afghanistan drug production, which floods the Europe with locally-produced opium. It is estimated that Afghanistan is accountable for more than 90% of world's opium production, and most of it goes to the Europe.
It is also worth to note that before the US invasion of Afghanistan, Taliban was able to contain the problem - the drug production declined some 94% during its reign.
But ever since the fall of Taliban regime, opium production has continued to rise each year at an alarming rate:
"The increase in opium production in Afghanistan was from 185 metric tons in 2001 to 6,100 metric tons in 2006." http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/drugs-market.htm
One has to wonder about the US involvement in this:
"Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?" http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294
Comment iBotnet exists (Score 1) 144
Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/evidence-suggests-first-zombie-mac-botnet-is-active.ars
Comment Re:From TFA (Score 1) 106
They also do not count non-HTTP servers:
The survey does not attempt to count back-end servers (application or database servers) or servers other than web (HTTP) servers.
One more thing: some hosting companies provide private network only servers, not visible outside of the virtual private network assigned to the customer. Perfect for the backend.
Softlayer does that, for example.
Comment Re:Could have been a huge deal. (Score 2, Informative) 79
Alas - Lenin was in Geneva in 1908. Hardly Western Russia, or even Eastern Europe.
BTW, I think the GP means that if the explosion was off a few hours, it would have happened almost exactly over St. Petersburg - a capital of Russia back then.
Comment There's nothing mysterious about the impact shape (Score 5, Interesting) 79
It was shown back in 1966 that the butterfly shape of the fallen trees may be caused by the several explosions combined with the ballistic wave.
The Russian researchers built a model of the site (1:10000), with explosion modeled by an explosive cord with an explosive charge at the end. The forest model was built from the tiny flexible wires with plastic crowns.
They have shown that placing the cord at some inclination angle (close to 30 degrees) the impact shape was clearly resembling the butterfly shape of Tunguska event.
The abstract (in Russian) is here:
http://tunguska.tsc.ru/ru/science/conf/1966/zotkin/
