Comment I don't always change my password.... (Score 1) 116
But when I do...
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Ship Anchor, Not Sabotaging Divers, Possibly Responsible For Outage 43
Nerval's Lobster writes "This week, Egypt caught three men in the process of severing an undersea fiber-optic cable. But Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the reason for the region's slowdowns was not the alleged saboteurs — it was damage previously caused by a ship. On March 22, cable provider Seacom reported a cut in its Mediterranean cable connecting Southern and Eastern Africa, the Middle East and Asia to Europe; it later suggested that the most likely cause of the incident was a ship anchor, and that traffic was being routed around the cut, through other providers. But repairs to the cable took longer than expected, with the Seacom CEO announcing March 23 that the physical capability to connect additional capacity to services in Europe was "neither adequate nor stable enough," and that it was competing with other providers. The repairs continued through March 27, after faults were found on the restoration system; that same day, Seacom denied that the outage could have been the work of the Egyptian divers, but said that the true cause won't be known for weeks. 'We think it is unlikely that the damage to our system was caused by sabotage,' the CEO wrote in a statement. 'The reasons for this are the specific location, distance from shore, much greater depth, the presence of a large anchored vessel on the fault site which appears to be the cause of the damage and other characteristics of the event.'"
4-Billion-Pixel Panorama View From Curiosity Rover 101
A reader points out that there is a great new panorama made from shots from the Curiosity Rover. "Sweep your gaze around Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is currently exploring, with this 4-billion-pixel panorama stitched together from 295 images. ...The entire image stretches 90,000 by 45,000 pixels and uses pictures taken by the rover's two MastCams. The best way to enjoy it is to go into fullscreen mode and slowly soak up the scenery — from the distant high edges of the crater to the enormous and looming Mount Sharp, the rover's eventual destination."
Festo's Drone Dragonfly Takes To the Air 45
yyzmcleod writes "Building on the work of last year's bionic creation, the Smart Bird, Festo announced that it will literally launch its latest creation, the BionicOpter, at Hannover Messe in April. With a wingspan of 63 cm and weighing in at 175 grams, the robotic dragonfly mimics all forms of flight as its natural counterpart, including hover, glide and maneuvering in all directions. This is made possible, the company says, by the BionicOpter's ability to move each of its four wings independently, as well as control their amplitude, frequency and angle of attack. Including its actuated head and body, the robot exhibits 13 degrees of freedom, which allows it to rapidly accelerate, decelerate, turn and fly backwards."
Misconfigured Open DNS Resolvers Key To Massive DDoS Attacks 179
msm1267 writes with an excerpt From Threat Post: "While the big traffic numbers and the spat between Spamhaus and illicit webhost Cyberbunker are grabbing big headlines, the underlying and percolating issue at play here has to do with the open DNS resolvers being used to DDoS the spam-fighters from Switzerland. Open resolvers do not authenticate a packet-sender's IP address before a DNS reply is sent back. Therefore, an attacker that is able to spoof a victim's IP address can have a DNS request bombard the victim with a 100-to-1 ratio of traffic coming back to them versus what was requested. DNS amplification attacks such as these have been used lately by hacktivists, extortionists and blacklisted webhosts to great success."
Running an open DNS resolver isn't itself always a problem, but it looks like people are enabling neither source address verification nor rate limiting.
Comment 42U - Go Big or Go Home (Score 5, Interesting) 402
Why mess around with wall-mount brackets? You'll be cramped for depth when you want to throw in a real PoE switch, or some other gear you're not thinking about now.
They also have swing-out racks that you can open the front and back from (as there are hinges on one of the back sides), but you'll pay quite a bit for these. I believe they are somewhere in the realm of $300-350 when we buy them for clients.
Personally - I like lots of space, because you never know when you'll want to end up building a home theatre or adding another server, and centralizing all the gear where it should be - the server room. I have 42U 4-post black open frame rack (from a common manufacturer), that I picked up off Craigslist for $150 (normally $400 new)...and put it in a closet I converted into a server room. Put down a new floor, and raised the floor a couple inches where the server rack goes (no underfloor cooling unfortunately). Two dedicated 20A 110V circuits, two 1500VA batteries w/ mgmt cards, two 15A PDUs. CAT6 patch panel in the rack, also have a 2x2 wallboard with 66 block for CAT3 termination. No 6509 yet ;)
Comment Journalists and Math (Score 1) 94
How many commas are in a "Half-Billion"? I think there's more than one...maybe we should ask the pigs.
Comment Re:Welp (Score 1) 306
Any "good" IT tech would not leave a unpatched HTTP server without a firewall up to the internet. Linux noobs you make us look bad, go back to using Windows.
Sony Encourages Linux On Their Phones 212
neokushan writes "Sony has been in the news a lot lately — from the PSN downtime and the identity theft issue that came with it, to the numerous court cases launched to try and quell the PS3 hacking scene. It may come as a surprise to many, then, that Sony's mobile smartphone division has taken an almost polar-opposite approach — they're actively encouraging developers to create, modify and install customized Linux kernels into their latest lineup of phones, including the Xperia Play, the device that was once known as the 'PlayStation Phone.'"
Comment UPS stands for Unrealiable Parcel Service (Score 1) 480
I use to work for a Computer Manufacturer and UPS was by far the worst of the ones we used. DHL and Fedex were usually good but UPS would mess stuff up all the time. I worked for a Canadian company and I have been told that UPS is better in the States than they are in Canada but we had shipments to states messed up too.
Comment You haven't given us enough info (Score 1) 600
DiniZuli, without knowing more about any required applications such as Graphics, CAD or Accounting; it's going to be hard to decide what would be the best solution.
For instance, if you are a web development house that needs to do a lot of photoshop work, you might need or want to go with OSX boxes.
Comment Re:Being Ergonomic with a Strait/Regular Keyboard (Score 1) 310
Having your wrists "Straight" does help. I had the advantage of studying piano when I was younger and learning proper posture. A lot of people type with their wrists limp which causes problems. If people would learn proper technique they would find that they would have less problems. However just because you learned piano as a kid doesn't mean you won't get carpal tunnel syndrome. I know a girl that is a good pianist but still got it. However I believe that her condition was due to a lot of knitting.
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 366
Backing up first is always best. However reinstalling should only be a last resort. With the right software, you should be able to find and remove all viruses in a lot less time than reinstalling. If you come across something that you just can't remove then reinstall. Also before restoring the backup make sure you scan the files.
Comment Re:"as well as basic computer science concepts" (Score 1) 453
If you have guys in the interview without CS degrees, they are not going to know this stuff. They are going to know how to create web based apps with MySQL backends. They probably won`t be strong on database techniques taught at University. They will most likely just know some simple SQL and basics of designing a database. These are PHP and MySQL programmers. Not Oracle and C++ programmers.
Comment Re:Hopefully other countries will follow (Score -1, Offtopic) 221
Huh? Are you saying even if every other country bans software patents sans the USA that it won't matter? You are obviously American. The US does not have that much control buddy.
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