A ballot box containing 200 votes has been found almost an hour after a local council ward result was announced.
the final days of campaigning were marred in some areas of the country piloting all-postal votes by allegations of fraud and voter intimidation
John Hemming, Lib Dems leader in Birmingham, said he wanted some 500 votes from a key ward put aside for further scrutiny because he was not satisfied with how they had arrived at the count.
And two candidates in Slough were forced to roll a dice to decide the outcome of the election after two recounts failed to split them.
[T]hey are running out of flash space.... The flash memory was exhausted.
No, no, NO!
It was the inability to build the RAM-based directory structure of the files in the Flash memory.
Why couldn't they build the directory structure? They had too many files, the size of the files doesn't matter here, only the number of files.
In other words, they ran out of RAM, not Flash.
Exercise left for the readers: Why can a Unix file system that is out of inodes have much less than 100% disk usage and still not be able to create a file?
If you RTFA you will realize that I'm not lying in the least when I say that, effectively, they ran out of flash-based "disk" space!
Well, I did read the article and I wouldn't say it quite like that. The article says: "Spirit attempted to allocate more files than the RAM-based directory structure could accommodate." Furthermore, the article says that the low-level file manipulation commands "worked directly on the flash memory without mounting the volume or building the directory table in RAM."
To me, if this were a Unix-like system, it sounds like they ran out of inodes. Running out of inodes is very different than running out of disk space.
If you think runing out of disk space can be hard to trouble shoot, try running out of inodes.
This worm does try hard to get on the 'net. Copied from Symantec.
If W32.Bugbear.B determines that the default e-mail address for the local system belongs to a banking company, it enables auto-dialing through the registry.
This is accomplished by setting the following value:
The worm contains a large list (over one thousand) of targeted bank domain names from around the world. This is likely in an attempt to steal passwords more effectively. Therefore, banking institutions may be considered to be more at at risk.
Looks like they're trying to obtain passwords to bank specific systems.
NOAA weather radar / short range reflectivity for Mid-Texas shows a line of high return paralleling and just south of a line between Dallas and Tyler. It's time lapse. Quite a remarkable radar image.
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From the BBC article:
Yup, things are better with paper ballots.It was the inability to build the RAM-based directory structure of the files in the Flash memory.
Why couldn't they build the directory structure? They had too many files, the size of the files doesn't matter here, only the number of files.
In other words, they ran out of RAM, not Flash.
Exercise left for the readers: Why can a Unix file system that is out of inodes have much less than 100% disk usage and still not be able to create a file?
To me, if this were a Unix-like system, it sounds like they ran out of inodes. Running out of inodes is very different than running out of disk space.
If you think runing out of disk space can be hard to trouble shoot, try running out of inodes.
The officers installed the GPS transponder under a "warrant authorizing a search of the vehicles for blood, hair, body fluids, fibers." Maybe I missed that lecture in my E/M fields class, but what part of the GPS signals are made up of blood, hair, body fluids or fibers?
Other than that, I agree he is a sick bastard and I'm glad the court upheld the conviction.
Now that I've seen those words, my time at Slashdot is done. I can move on.
This worm does try hard to get on the 'net. Copied from Symantec.
Looks like they're trying to obtain passwords to bank specific systems.The time stamp on the series of images is:
08:08 AM CST Sat Feb 1st 2003 through
09:36 AM CST Sat Feb 1st 2003
NOAA weather radar / short range reflectivity for Mid-Texas shows a line of high return paralleling and just south of a line between Dallas and Tyler. It's time lapse. Quite a remarkable radar image.
Get over it.