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Not a good time to be a Canadian IBM has lost a harddrive of a Insurance company that contains enough information to ruin 180,000 peoples lives. The data on the drive contains names, addresses, beneficiaries, social insurance numbers, pension values, pre-authorized checking information and mothers' maiden names and their bank account details. Good Lord can you imagine what damage can
If you are surfing the net and happen to come across a site that forcefully installs a program called Xupiter you better stop what your doing and immediately download Spybot Search & Destroy as almost nothing else is going to get rid of it. It's a nasty utility that virtually takes over your browser. [Wired]
MCI 1394 motherboard... the board with onboard ultra 160 SCSI is under $100 from New Technology Computers their site still lists it for $129 but just mention pricewatch and they adjust the price to $99 + 9 shipping. I'm running one in a Raid configuration for server backups with only a 900mhz processor. The real value is that an ultra
I am sure we have all been searching around our PC's and run into a DLL that has a weird naming convention. Well Microsoft has a site that gives you info on all DLL's that ship with Microsoft Products. [Microsoft]
I spend a great deal of time on the road. I have always been concerned about her safety and have bought a security camera for her. With a security system wired and the camera now she feels pretty secure. I hooked it up to a old B&W monitor I had stored away that I thought I would never ever need
I run a variety of servers but one that I rarely touch has run 24/7 for months and months. The only time I shut it down is to vacuum it out. Well when I heard last year the Microsoft was going to quit supporting NT4 I was a little mad. Well good news they must have received a truckload of
Just how many grunged entries are hitting the 13 root servers. Well you are going to be surprised by the crunched data. [BBS News]
HyperTransport is an effort initiated by AMD to define a new high-speed technology for connecting PC components. HyperTransport 2.0 will provide data transfers between chips at 20 gigabytes to 40 gigabytes per second, depending on the system architecture. Such speeds will TRIPLE the performance and versatility of servers or desktops. The technology essentially improves performance by eliminating many of the
This is a very cool site they start you out by the Milkyway and work there way back to the earth and onto a leaf and then all the way in to a single atom. This can definitely cause some conversation around the dinner table. [micro.magnet.fsu.edu] This above site gets the total cool site of the week award.
I was very Sad to see Art Bell retire from Talk Radio that man was the number 1 reason I did not get enough sleep every night. His recent departure has caused many fans to get there first sleep in years. The show has been taken over by a new host who was hand picked by Art. But no matter
I have never heard of a site getting so much attention but it seems that the RIAA website has been unavailable for the last 3 days due to a DOS attack. They might as well take that site down and close there business. :) [News.com]
This has to be the the story of the week. The Register is running a story that implies that when the SQL Slammer Worm hit the net a few days ago that Microsoft's own SQL servers had not been patched. Can you believe it that the company that has millions of customers and servers around the world failed to patch
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