Yesterday we heard about an attack against the repositories of the Fedora project, but it appears that no changes or code injections occurred. Now today we hear of a directed attack against the repositories of Sourceforge? Something doesn't smell right... I wonder what's going on... I got 20 bucks that says it's the same people...

Ironically enough, I had an Athlon XP 2800 in my apartment in college, in the living room, along with a gig switch and few other machines. Living in Canada, winters get quite cold, and we used the computers instead of our baseboard heaters to keep the living room warm. When the PSU in the Athlon XP 2800 system died, the ambient temperature in the room dropped by 5 degrees. I guess that's what happens when your processors idles in BIOS at over 50 degrees C.

I gotta say that Caffein is my number 1 fuel for having energy. Sure you can crash, but that just means its time to have another cup of coffee. I have found that things like 5 Hour Energy work decently, no crash, that Niacin flush is a little weird though. Tobacco compliments the caffein nicely. If neither of these is acceptable to you, there is always cocain :P

It's called a Captive Portal and has existed for years. I don't see what the big revelation is here... I've been setting these kinds of things up for literally years. Move along, nothing to see here.

The guy who wrote this article clearly has no friends anymore. My friends and I have a massive LAN party every friday night. Upwards of 2 dozen PC's, 3 or 4 360's, 3 or 4 PS3's. There is everything from MVC2 running on MAME, to SF4 to Counter-Strike to Unreal Tournament 2k6, and even some Worms(Holy hand Grenade FTW). VPN into the LAN party is sometimes accepted depending on the event, but generally, you gotta show up. It's a ton of fun cramming between 12 and 36 people into a small 800 square foot 2 bedroom apartment and beating the crap out of each other or blowing each other up. I've said for years that nothing brings friends closer together then blowing each others heads off. Yelling and screaming, betting and losing, 1 on 1 grudge matches, what else could anyone want? Local MP/Co-Op is NOT dead, it has just evolved into something different. We've had LAN parties for years with PC's but now with consoles in the mix, it has simply changed from 2-4 players to dozens.

Here is what you do. Write down your idea. Make it nice, neat, logical and clear. Go to the post office. Mail the idea to yourself with registered mail. When your idea comes back to you file it away in a safe spot. DO NOT OPEN IT! In the event anyone ever tries to patent such an idea, even after you make it, you can sue. When you go to the courtroom, bring your registered mail(which is dated on the envelope I might add) and you can show it is sent from you, to you, open it up, read your idea. And then the judge has no choice but to accept that it was your idea and you hold the rights to it because you came up with it first and the post mark on it is considered a valid, reliable date. And yes, I have seen this work in the past. This allows you to keep the idea free without having to deal with the bullshit of the USPTO because it is your idea so you can control it.

This is clearly one of the stupidest ideas I have ever heard. Someone at MS needs their head examined and their employment terminated. That's all that can be said... words cannot do justice to the level of idiocy displayed by MS in this. Clearly making the same security mistakes over and over again makes you an intelligent entity.

Best program on the market for this as far as I'm concerned. Works great.

In North America some people see salaried as a bad thing because 1) even after taxes and insurance, contractors make WAY more and 2) Many employers take advantage of salaried workers. They give us Blackberry's, expect us to reply to any message within 5 minutes of receiving, even at 2:30 in the morning, and they feel like they are entitled to have us work overtime and not pay us. Over here, most on-call work gets you no compensation unless you get called in, and even then, many employers still don't end up paying, they just try to dodge the bullet. It's very unfair sometimes. I know I've had my fair share of employers who never paid overtime, and then when you tried to use your lieu time to get an afternoon off, they made you feel like a worthless useless piece of crap for it. Europe is more understanding and left wing then North America as a whole. Sometimes, the left actually is better then the right

IT is a stressful industry and as you become more and more skilled you get more and more stress. Look at the CCIE certification. I remember reading an article that said CCIE certified network admins have the highest divorce rate of anyone in IT. They also mentioned that IT has a higher divorce rate then most industries. The stress comes from the job, and it comes from home. Many times spouses have issues dealing with the on-call nature of IT and feel like their spouse cares more about work then about the relationship/family. I have had this issue with my girlfriend when I did network operations at an ISP(hooray for call-ins on Thanksgiving and Christmas, boy was I in the dog house). As far as minimizing stress, regardless of your situation, make time for you(Playing with the kids doesn't count). Even just 5 minutes of busting heads on the ps3 or 360 can be very relieving. Maybe you're a DnD player, find a group and make time in your life to play. Paint some warhammer. Or the best of all, lots of sex. Sex is what I have found to be #1 stress reliever, come home and take out your stress on the girlfriend/wife. She'll probably enjoy it and itll take the stress away from home life too. One or any combination of such things will make you a happier, more personable, and less stressed IT worker.