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Submission + - Best offline storage method for large archives

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: I have a collection of large projects (Indesign files with associated images), typically 40GB to 60GB each. In this current climate, what is the 'best' method of archiving these? Spinny magnets? Solid state drives? USB? Tape? Blu-ray? All have pros and cons and price considerations. If I remove the price issue (my data is important to me), does this change the choice?
Communications

SIP Attacks From Amazon EC2 Going Unaddressed 104

Posted by kdawson from the how-hard-can-it-be dept.
mjgraves writes "Over the past week a number of IP-PBX systems have been suffering SIP attacks from hosts in the Amazon EC2 cloud. At least a dozen known attacks have been reported to Amazon, which has been surprisingly quiet about the matter. The issue has been well documented by one of the attack victims on his blog. The matter was also discussed on the April 16th issue of the VoIP Users Conference (podcast available at the link; EC2 segment begins around 3:30). Amazon appears to have gone silent on the matter even as the attacks are ongoing. This is completely irresponsible behavior from a such a hosting company, which should be acting to take down the attacker in their midst."
Data Storage

Submission + - A Look Under Western Digital's Hood (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by
ScuttleMonkey
ScuttleMonkey writes: "Tom's Hardware got a rare opportunity to explore the Western Digital campus and show us what goes on under the hood of one of the favorites in storage tech. "When you buy a car, you look under the hood. Given the critical importance of hard disk storage in all of our lives, we thought you might want a peek under that hood, too. Now that Western Digital is in the business of breaking new capacity records (the latest Caviar Green was the first drive to hit 2TB, for example), we jumped at the chance to take a first-ever, unrestricted tour of its California R&D facilities. This is the place where magnetic technology of the 1950s meets the nano- and quantum-level technologies of the current decade.""

Submission + - OnLive One Step Closer (dslreports.com)

Submitted by hysma
hysma writes: It looks like OnLive, the remote gaming system that steams HD video over the Internet, is one step closer to becoming reality, according to an article on DSL Reports in response to a presentation by Founder & CEO Steve Perlman at Columbia University.
Open Source

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.
diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Comment Re:Its justified price (Score 1) 536

by hysma (#29544753) Attached to: Why Games Cost $60
Tuesday nights or weekend matinees are just $4.25 here. $6.25 for regular priced showings :) Oh, and that's in Canadian dollars, too. Screw paying $12 at Cineplex when local competition blows them away.

Comment Re:I swear to you (Score 1) 200

by hysma (#29543831) Attached to: Canadian ISP's Fight Back, Again

I'm pretty sure they also buy all Nokia's broken phones for their customers since the last two phones I got and unlocked with a stock firmware turned into crashing pieces of shit.

So you hack the phone and then it starts crashing? Maybe it's because the software you load is buggy?

Comment Re:Just add to the EULA... (Score 2, Informative) 140

by hysma (#29098685) Attached to: Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner
Once you register your domain with GoDaddy (or any other registrar), you'll get an email from CIRA asking you to accept their registration agreement and define what kind of Canadian you are (ie. a person, a corporation, a political party, Her Majesty the Queen, etc.). If you do not agree to the agreement or you don't complete this step, your registration is canceled.

Comment Re:Keeping your information private on Facebook... (Score 1) 140

by hysma (#29097823) Attached to: Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Yes, I google my real name every now and then. Who doesn't? :)

Well if you tell Google your real name, and Google saves searches for future data mining, not to mention they have ads on many, many sites which they can track as well, I'd say it wouldn't be too complicated for them to figure out what kind of sites you frequent. Further data mining may be able to identify who you are based on URLs that ads are loaded from.

How much do you trust Google?

Comment Re:Just add to the EULA... (Score 2, Informative) 140

by hysma (#29094565) Attached to: Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner

A. Create a new holding company in a different country (say USA or somewhere with desirable local laws) - transfer said .ca domain to new holding company. B. Change the main page to "This Site no longer exists. Try going to whatevermysiteis.COM" C. Tell offending government to go pound sand.

CIRA won't allow said holding company to take ownership of the domain unless said holding company has a Canadian presence. With .ca domains, they can't be under the control of anyone who isn't operating within Canada, for the most part.

Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 4, Informative) 198

by hysma (#28813339) Attached to: Bars' Scanning of ID Violates BC Privacy Laws

I'll support this decision when the laws concerning kids change.

Here are two dangerous scenarios, both of which take place in an age-restricted venue.

#1) You go home with the cute girl. You don't worry about this person's age since the legal age of the venue is 18 (Quebec), 19 (rest of Canada), or 21 (USA). Well, turns out you were wrong, and now you're a branded sex offender for life. Your only recourse is to sue the bar to oblivion for not doing its job filtering out the kids, forcing the bar to start being more strict, including scanning IDs.

In Canada feel free to have sex with any girl who's over 16. But you'll be thrown in jail if you take photos. For photos, you've got to wait until she's 19. But sex, no problem at 16! Oh and they just moved that up from 14 a couple of years ago...

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