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Feed Schneier: State Department Loses Hundreds of Laptops (schneier.com)

From feed by bsfeed on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @01:53PM

Oops: As many as 400 of the unaccounted for laptops belong to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program, according to officials familiar with the findings. Bet you anything those laptops weren't encrypted....

Feed The Register: Rackspace flies storage on CloudFS (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @01:52PM

Tap into our data ether

Rackspace is developing a storage-in-the-cloud service called CloudFS for web 2.0, SaaS (software-as-a-service) and social networking media customers needing highly scalable storage.

How To Move Your Linux Systems To ext4 304

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @01:32PM from the or-you-could-guess dept.

LinucksGirl writes "Ext4 is the latest in a long line of Linux file systems, and it's likely to be as important and popular as its predecessors. As a Linux system administrator, you should be aware of the advantages, disadvantages, and basic steps for migrating to ext4. This article explains when to adopt ext4, how to adapt traditional file system maintenance tool usage to ext4, and how to get the most out of the file system."

Peter Gabriel's Web Server Stolen 287

Posted by timothy on Tuesday May 06, 2008 @01:14PM from the maybe-just-a-disgruntled-fan dept.

miller60 writes "Web servers hosting musician Peter Gabriel's web site have gone missing from their data center. "Our servers were stolen from our ISP's data centre on Sunday night — Monday morning," reads a notice at PeterGabriel.com. The incident is the latest in a series of high-profile equipment thefts in the past year, including armed robberies in data centers in Chicago and London. How secure is your data center?"

Comment Re:Trains like this are revolutionizing Europe. (Score 3, Interesting) 539

by emarti20 on Monday June 27, 2005 @12:49PM (#12921706) Attached to: Japan Tests New Bullet Train

I live in Los Angeles, and the hard part with trains and such is that the city centers are so spread out that you can't be dropped clse enough to your final destination generally. You have to get off a train and get on a bus and then maybe transfer from one bus to another. Heck where I live I think the closest bus stop is over 2 miles away; there's just no incentive to use public transportation in many places.

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