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Bush Administration's E-Mail Deluge May Overload Archive System 169

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 22, 2008 @10:16AM from the hello-sir-madam dept.

Lucas123 writes "The Clinton administration generated 32 million e-mails. Bush's administration has generated 50 times as much data — 140TB, 20TB of which is email — which soon will have to be archived through a new government-built records management system. The new system may not be up to the task because the technology behind it may not be able to handle the sheer volume of data along with the fact that the Bush administration has been slow in providing the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with needed information about the records, according to a Computerworld story. Questions have also been raised about millions of missing e-mails from between March 2003 and October 2006. 'It wasn't until this summer that an intensive effort began to share information,' said Ken Thibodeau, director of NARA's Electronic Records Archives."

AT&T Begins a Trial To Cap, Meter Internet Usage 421

Posted by kdawson on Monday November 03, 2008 @11:15PM from the unlimited-is-just-a-word dept.

An anonymous reader writes "On the heels of Comcast's decision to implement a 250-GB monthly cap, and Time Warner Cable's exploration of caps and overage fees, DSL Reports notes that AT&T is launching a metered billing trial of their own in Reno, Nevada. According to a filing with the FCC (PDF), AT&T's existing tiers, which range from 768 kbps to 6 Mbps, would see caps ranging from 20 GB to 150 GB per month. Users who exceed those caps would pay an additional $1 per gigabyte, per month."

PS3 Downtime To Fight Disease 289

Posted by kdawson on Monday September 18, 2006 @03:15PM from the gamers-for-good dept.

Aerenel writes, "CNN reports that Sony has teamed up with Folding@home to use the PS3 to study how proteins are formed in the human body and how they sometimes form incorrectly. From the article: 'Donating [a gamer's] PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease.' PS3 users will be able to download a software package that tracks when the PS3 is not being used. While gamers are in school, at work, or asleep, their system's Cell processor can be used to perform simulations for research organizations. The PS3, due in November, has gotten serious negative press in the past few months, and this refreshing good news may win back the hearts of gamers still undecided about purchasing the system."

DIY Random Number Generator 227

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday August 13, 2006 @10:50AM from the now-wait-a-minute dept.

Compu486 writes "The guys over at Inventgeek have come up with a project and how artical on building a random number generator that is less than 100.00 utilizing radioactive decay. Using some Linux based open source apps and with a little ingenuity and some parts you probably have laying around your house you can build your own."

Comment Re:I don't see that they do, no... (Score 1) 457

by thegraham on Saturday November 05, 2005 @08:15PM (#13960141) Attached to: Don't Network Administrators Require Privacy?

You are, of course, assuming that your employer doesn't encrypt hard drives. Encryption software such as Becrypt can encrypt the whole hard drive which [obviously] means that you can't crack/reset windows passwords or read files with another [possibly cd bootable] os.

OK if you have a spare few thousand years to decrypt the hard drive (or however long it would take) then you may be able to.

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