Blazing Fast Password Recovery With New ATI Cards 215

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 16, 2010 @10:55AM from the feel-safe-yet dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core CPUs, and up to two times faster compared to enterprise-level NVIDIA Tesla solutions. Benchmarks performed by ElcomSoft demonstrate that ATI Radeon HD5970 accelerated password recovery works up to 20 times faster than Core i7-960, Intel's current top of the line CPU unit."

Comment Windows + NTFS + external backup (Score 1) 564

by beavis88 on Sunday July 05, 2009 @03:22PM (#28587875) Attached to: RAID Trust Issues — Windows Or a Cheap Controller?

Cheap RAID controllers suck - at least you can trust Windows to be consistent between installations if need be. External (preferably offsite) backup is also a must! As I'm sure you'll be reminded 1000 times in this thread, RAID is not backup.

Comment SEP too expensive? (Score 1) 359

by beavis88 on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @09:03AM (#28360421) Attached to: Central Anti-Virus For Small Business?

Seriously? I don't remember the exact figures, but I believe we're paying under $30/seat for 50 licenses. It's really hard for me to believe it's not worth somewhere in the $1000/yr ballpark to have decent AV protection for your company.

Comment Uh, no. (Score 2, Interesting) 618

by beavis88 on Tuesday April 28, 2009 @04:43PM (#27750639) Attached to: A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need

Well below 30 FPS average in Crysis 1920x1200 with only 0xAA and 8xAF? No thanks. Why would I buy a card that's underpowered on today's^H^H^H last year's games at far less than max quality?

Comment Come to my house (Score 2, Informative) 474

by beavis88 on Monday December 01, 2008 @10:54AM (#25943967) Attached to: Acorns Disappear Across the Country

We've got a bumper crop of acorns this year. I've never seen anything like it - my front yard is almost literally paved with acorn bits and pieces now. And we're less than 200 miles from the supposed VA dead zone in the article...

Datacenter Robbed for the Fourth Time in Two Years 437

Posted by Zonk on Saturday November 03, 2007 @06:36PM from the that's-quite-a-router-failure dept.

mariushm writes "According to the Register, the Chicago-based colocation datacenter C I Host was attacked by armed intruders recently, making it the the fourth time in two years that armed thugs have made off with data. According to a letter C I Host officials sent customers, 'At least two masked intruders entered the suite after cutting into the reinforced walls with a power saw ... During the robbery, C I Host's night manager was repeatedly tazered and struck with a blunt instrument. After violently attacking the manager, the intruders stole equipment belonging to C I Host and its customers.' Aggravating the situation, C I Host representatives took several days to admit the most recent breach, according to several customers who said they lost equipment, all the while reporting the problems as 'router failures'."

ARPANet Co-Founder Predicts An Internet Crisis 152

Posted by Zonk on Thursday October 25, 2007 @01:11PM from the everyone-is-looking-for-their-cut dept.

The Insultant writes "Dr. Larry Roberts, co-founder of the ARPANET and inventor of packet switching, predicts the Internet is headed for a major crisis in an article published on the Internet Evolution web site today. Internet traffic is now growing much more quickly than the rate at which router cost is decreasing, Roberts says. At current growth levels, the cost of deploying Internet capacity to handle new services like social networking, gaming, video, VOIP, and digital entertainment will double every three years, he predicts, creating an economic crisis. Of course, Roberts has an agenda. He's now CEO of Anagran Inc., which makes a technology called flow-based routing that, Roberts claims, will solve all of the world's routing problems in one go."

Submission + - John Edwards on IP and open source

Submitted by goombah99 on Friday June 29, 2007 @02:30PM

goombah99 writes: John Edward, the presidential candidate and lawyer, is emerging as quite techno savy. He has been guest hosting on Lawrence Lessigs Blog, giving his view on the current imbalance between property right protection and the good of public access. And he has become the first presidential candidate to support "open source code" for election systems in addition to voter verified paper records. He's even personally using a twitter.