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Everyone was aware of our down time last month and also of the downtime last week. Both outages hit us at critical times when we had major advertising campaign's going on to drive new users to the site. I can tell you that our webhost could improve there service if they followed the following Seven Rs. [Ziff Davis]
The Neo Project a not so well publicized distributed computing project may get some attention now as they have added algorithm's to there clients to crack the X-Box Public Key. They have a $100,000 challenge. I guess for a 100 grand they ought to get some participation. [The Neo Project] I would rather people donate spare computer cycles to SETI.
British phone company Sendo filed a lawsuit against Microsoft it contains some very heavy language that will keep the lawyers in Redmond on the payroll. It seems Sendo is not very happy with having had shared trade secrets with Microsoft. I do know as a independent software alpha/beta tester that I have had to sign some very serious Non Disclosure
Wow I sure wish this tracking technology would have been available about 10 years ago. As I may have been compelled to put one of these devices on one of my cars. It was one of those points in my life when I would have probably paid anything for accurate information on where that vehicle was going from time to
In a surprising article an article on BusinessWeek On-line they have concluded that Hollywood's attempts to have TV sets with anti piracy functions built or some sort of broadcast flag will only benefit Hollywood. [BusinessWeek]
The Third Annual Weblog Awards are underway. "The 2003 Bloggies" are taking submissions for your favorite weblogs. If you feel our site is worthy feel free to submit our site. [2003.bloggies.com]
The Distributed Intrusion Detection System site is collecting data about cracker/intruders from all over the internet. This data will be cataloged and summarized. It can be used to discover trends in activity and prepare better firewall rules. I am curious how this going to play out. Time will tell we will keep an eye on the site. [dshield.org]
I am always looking for information to secure my servers better. The following resource has a great deal of good information for Windows 2000 administrators. [securityadmin.info]
I travel all over the world and rely on MP3's to keep from having to carry a truckload of CD's with me. I knew that some CD's have been copy protected but never knew which. Well here is a list of CD's that has this copy protection on it. I guarantee you I will never buy one of these CD's
Well I hope you had fun on New Years Eve. I will resume regular posting shortly.
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