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  1. Direct download links on Cameron's Avatar Trailer Posted · · Score: 5, Informative

    480p, 720p, 1080p Enjoy!

  2. 3rd cable cut on How One Clumsy Ship Caused A Major Net Outtage · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So far they found 3 cable cuts. According to this BBC article http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/technology/7222536.stm - A third submarine internet cable is severed in the Middle East, compounding global net problems.

  3. More About 2TMR head on Hitachi Promises 4-TB Hard Drives By 2011 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    1 CPP-GMR: As an alternative to existing TMR heads, CPP-GMR head technology has a lower electrical resistance level, due to its reliance on metallic rather than tunneling conductance, and is thus suited to high-speed operation and scaling to small dimensions.

    2TMR head: Tunnel Magneto-Resistance head A tunnel magneto-resistance device is composed of a three layer structure of an insulating film sandwiched between ferromagnetic films. The change in current resistance which occurs when the magnetization direction of the upper and lower ferromagnetic layers change (parallel or anti parallel) is known as the TMR effect, and ratio of electrical resistance between the two states is known as the magneto-resistance ratio.

    Source: Official Press Release

  4. Re:Simple answer: YES on Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia · · Score: 0
  5. Got Answers and Nowhere to Share Them? on Google Answers Closing Up Shop · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yahoo says they believe in the power of community; in people helping people get answers to their questions. This is an open invitation to all Google Answers Researchers: http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000385.html

  6. Simple solution on Anonymizing RFI Attacks Through Google · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Seriously, I hate to read article like this one. They don't offer any solution.....this kind of attacks are not new at all, you can find tons of such attacks from access.log file/p> tail -f /var/log/httpd/access.log

    First get rid of fat apache and use like small and secure lighttpd if you are running a *small personal* web site. Second put lighttpd / Apache in chrooted jail and no one can install *php/perl* shell. I have documented the procedure for putting lighttpd in jail:

    http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-setup-lighttpd -php-mysql-chrooted-jail.html

    Both yahoo and google runs entire webserver in chrooted jail. Other choice is use OpenBSD which runs Apache in chrooted jail out of box.

  7. Unbelievable but True Tales of Data Disaster... on What Not To Do With Your Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    Original ontrack article - Top 10 List of Data Loss Disasters of 2006

  8. Installer Screen shots on Major New Features in Debian Etch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of its real advantages is that it allows installation in nine new languages that cannot be displayed in the regular installer.

    I have also noticed that GUI installer is bit faster than the regular text based regular installer. However, this installer is not as polished as RHEL or Suse Linux GUI installer but project promises to polish it later on... If you are interested you can see Screen shots -
    http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wp-content/uploads/2 006/08/debian-testing-gui-installer-1.thumbnail.pn g
    http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wp-content/uploads/2 006/08/debian-testing-gui-installer-paritition-dis ks-2.png

  9. Use Chroot jail and block outgoing http/ftp reques on How to Crack a Website - XSS, Cookies, Sessions · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I found that if you block outgoing http/ftp requests from your webserver attacker can not install his/her code.
    Run Apache web server in chrooted jail where bash or any other shell/commands are not available to attacker
    Run almost all critical services in chrooted jail
    Use dedicated DB server

    Other extreme solution - is to put root file system on read only media such as CDROM (not useful for everyday)

    And yes I know that no computer system can ever be completely secure, you can make crackers job hard only with above techniques

    Just my 0.2

  10. Just wondering about Intel VT on Parallels Desktop for OS X Reviewed · · Score: 1

    This is little off topic but I would like to know - if there is Intel VT (Virtualization technology) enabled CPU available for purchase? Or they are still under development? What about AMD CPUs? Regards,

  11. Blog helps to build community on The Future of the Blog · · Score: 1

    My Friends and I maintain a blog about our life as a UNIX administrator. We write a diary about our day today life. It is a place where we share UNIX/Linux related tips & tools for connecting, monitoring, and troubleshooting system.
    So far, our experience is great. We can publish our thoughts online, interact with people and build community.

  12. Overall idea is to make more money on Google Introduces Page Creator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yup make more money from Free Web Hosting. According to netcraft "The free hosting ramp-ups by Microsoft and Go Daddy are a response to surging revenue from contextual ads on web sites. In its most recent quarter, Google reported $1.1 billion in advertising revenue from its own sites, and another $799 million from third-party sites using its AdSense program. The rapid growth of domain parking services has also illustrated the earning potential of large portfolios of web pages bearing contextual ads."

    I am dam sure; they are going to introduce paid web hosting (Ghosting).

  13. The recent threats on India Forms Expert Group on Google Earth Images · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The recent threat might be the one of causes and then some one send an an email threat to blow up Parliament.

  14. Make a donation on Google Users more Wealthy, Net Savvy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now I can ask all my site visitors coming from Google to make a donation as they are rich :D

    Heh

  15. Mission Impossible 70k on Indian Tycoon Sets Balloon Flight Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    Watch Singhania's attempt the world record breaking feat-Live! For latest updates here including record update.

  16. Everyone can earn money on How Text Ads Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Another reason is Google ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site, it makes more sense to visitor to click on it. I do not think so before Google any one offered ads where any one could sign in to Adsense and earn money. So it is like small publisher grows with money and google makes more money.

    But hold on Google Adsens offers Onsite Advertiser option too i.e. If some one likes your site they might able to advertises it via Google Adwords program. It is an extension of Google site targeting that makes it easier for advertisers to bid on *any* site.

  17. Hey google where's data center photo? on Inside Google's London Complex · · Score: 5, Informative

    Drawing by kids are ok, office is just like any other modern office but what I wanna see some pics of data center .. This is what I know so far, photo:the early days of Google's data center http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1709

  18. Consumers are more interested in camera phones on Two Megapixel Cameraphone Shootout · · Score: 2, Insightful

    According to a recent survey conducted by Parks Associates, reveals that US consumers are more interested in camera phones than music phones. According to the report 52% of US consumers intend to buy a cell phone with an integrated camera and 30% were planning to purchase a phone capable of downloading music.
    So will see more camera phones, and it is easy to carry phone, talk and take snaps. Soon we may see 2-5 MP mobile phones and they could be killer phones.

  19. Average person spends more time using media on Internet Plays A Large Role For U.S. Citizens · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The average person spends about nine hours a day using some type of media, which is arguably in excess of anything we would have envisioned 10 years ago. It includes television, books, magazines, cell phones, the Internet, instant messaging, e-mail and radio ... full report is here

  20. Re:This made slashdot because? on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    They are going 100% linux on Red hat desktop Under the first phase of deployment, Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been rolled out at approximately 500 branches in three months. Close to 500 Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and 5000 Red Hat Desktops have been deployed in this phase :) They are kicking out windows/dos desktop More info can be found at Redhat site Hope mods/editors get noticed this.

  21. Re:This made slashdot because? on Windows Drives Company To OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    Canara Bank in Bangalore is implementing RHEL over 1000 servers and 10,000 desktops, as part of its total branch computerization project. Canara is one of India's large majority government-owned banks, The Indian government has taken good decsion in favor of open-source ... read it here Right now they have UNIX servers and dos/9x clients

  22. It depends upon your site content on Browser Stats For The BBC Homepage · · Score: 2, Interesting

    First here is mirrordot link, if you cannot open page (slashdoteffect).

    My site and blog mostly related to Linux and Open source stuff, and here is my exprince so far:
    OS
    Most of the corporate users, uses Windows XP/2000 desktop
    Individual user uses Linux/BSD/Mac OS desktop


    Browser
    Firefox rules
    IE (6.x/5.x)

    So it depend upon your site content, if you wanna see this stats they are here

  23. Re:Lazy Admins on Generic Passwords Expose Student Data · · Score: 1

    I must agree with you. I have same problem in my uni. And whenever I try to point out this they will ignore me or format the box

  24. FreeBSD version? on Xara X to Be Released as Open Source · · Score: 1

    From this page http://www.xara.com/products/xtreme/default.asp?t= it looks like it will work on FreeBSD desktop too.. but I'm not sure!

  25. Sometime fibs are good on 20 Things They Don't Want You to Know · · Score: 2, Funny

    BAD fib
    You know Upstream & downstream stuff they will say you will get 256 kbps, 512kbsp and so on. Few weeks back I was at friends place. When sales guy of local DSL Company came to give all info and started to explain how good DSL is from Dial up. He told my friend *DSL is your own lease line* :/? So I interrupted him and said you mean LL? He said like that... Hee so this is how they sales connections and they don't Want to know much about technology. Okay don't explain technology but don't fib... coz one day s/he will know this!

    I found hardware vendor especially owners and a tech guy gives more fibs... for example somebody in shop would like to purchase 2 gig USB pen. Owner told lady that it has driver in USB that take some space so you will always not get exactly 2 gig space. Deal went very well. Some time fibs are good for example in this case you can't explain all the stuff to old lady about why you don't get 2 gig space on USB.