Comment Amazon Cloud Drive (Score 1) 225
You could hack something together with Amazon Cloud Drive... https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore
35GB puts you at $50/year
Might be against their TOS though....
Submission + - Microsoft: Windows 7 upgrade can take nearly a day 1
Eugen writes: Ars Technica: A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed to the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take a bit 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data, 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit ugprade.
Submission + - Apple Open Sources Grand Central Dispatch (macosforge.org)
bonch writes: "Apple has open sourced libdispatch, also known as Grand Central Dispatch. Kernel support is not required, but performance optimizations Apple made for supporting GCD are visible in xnu. Block support in C is required and is currently available in LLVM (note that Apple has submitted their implementation of C blocks for standardization)"
Submission + - P2P network exposes Obama's safehouse location (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: "The location of the safe house used in times of emergency for the First Family was leaked on a LimeWire file-sharing network recently, a fact revealed today to members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Along with the safe house location, the LimeWire networks also disclosed presidential motorcade routes, as well as sensitive but unclassified document that listed details on every nuclear facility in the country. Now lawmakers are considering a bill to ban P2P use on government, contractor networks."
Submission + - Alan Cox No Longer The Linux TTY Maintainer 1
The Slashdolt writes: After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel. Stating:
"...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer can send them to the new maintainer."
Making it quite clear that he is serious.
Submission + - Google Open Sources Wave Protocol Implementation (arstechnica.com)
eldavojohn writes: Certainly one of the most important steps in adopting a protocol is a working open source example of it. Well, google has open sourced an implementation of the wave protocol for those of you curious about Google's new collaboration and conversation platform. It's been reviewed, skewered and called "Anti-Web" but now's your chance to see a Java implementation of it. The article lists it as still rapidly evolving so it might not be prudent to buy into it yet. Any thumbs up or thumbs down from actual users of the new protocol?
Submission + - Apple kills Google Voice apps on the iPhone 5
molnarcs writes: "Apple pulls Google Voice-enabled applications from its App Store citing duplication of functionality. This includes both Google's official Google Voice and third party apps like Voice Central. Sean Kovacs, main developer of GV Mobile says that he had personal approval from Phillip Shiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing last April. TechCrunch's Jason Kincaid suspects AT&T behind the move."
Submission + - SFLC: Microsoft violated the GPL (sdtimes.com)
dp619 writes: Microsoft violated the General Public License v2 (GPLv2) when it distributed its Hyper-V Linux Integration Components without providing source code, says the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC).
Submission + - AT&T blocks 4chan 1
holdenkarau writes: "Several news sources (mashable,the inquistr,etc.) are reporting that AT&T is blocking img.4chan.org in the southern united states. That server is used for the imfamous /b/ board (the home of anonymous). TechCrunch calls the decission to block 4chan "stupid" noting that they may have "opened perhaps the most vindictive, messy can of worms." The inquisitr suggests that "The global internet censorship debate landed in the home of the free". moot (the runner of 4chan) asks users to call AT&T while some others suggest more drastic action (like cutting AT&T fiber)."
Bookmark Palm Digs a New Tunnel Into iTunes (technewsworld.com)
Submission + - Free rainbow tables looking for new admin (freerainbowtables.com)
lee writes: After almost three years online, the admin of Free Rainbow Tables has decided to call it a day, citing a lack of time to keep it running (I'm sure that you all know a rainbow table is essentially a giant list of precomputed hashes). This is a shame, as the site is a useful resource for those occasions when you really need an existing password exposing rather than simply changing it; being a Windows admin, this site has come in very handy in the past! The currently computed tables weigh in at well over half a terabyte, are available as torrents from the site, or from a couple of mirrors (and alternatives are available). As well as being useful in that you can download your own copies of the tables, the site also has a downloadable client that'll put your idle cycles to work computing ever-greater tables, and a space-saving format for storing the tables. It's not all bad news though — he is willing to hand over source code if you wish to take over, though I suspect hosting is not included!
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