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Should you build and host your own server using a co-location?

Posted May 3, 2013 - 12:00 am

If you’re leasing server equipment in a hosting provider’s data center, you’re likely paying through the nose for antiquated technology. There is peace of mind that comes with that service in the form of care free hardware maintenance, but is that really enough to keep you paying for that same 4GB of RAM every month for life?
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The Weekly Hash - March 22, 2013

Posted March 22, 2013 - 9:22 am

Searching from the top of the world to the bottom of the Atlantic ocean to bring you - and make fun of - this week’s top tech stories
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The Weekly Hash - March 8, 2013

Posted March 8, 2013 - 11:11 am

Spanning the globe to joke about this week’s top tech stories, from North Korea to New Zealand with a quick stop on Mars
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Private clouds go down as often as public, RightScale found

Posted February 27, 2013 - 10:00 am

RightScale surveyed public records to take a pulse on cloud outages from 2012 and the findings might surprise you.
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The day a software bug almost killed the Spirit rover

Posted January 24, 2013 - 12:48 pm

The Spirit rover’s Mars mission almost ended before it really got going due to a DOS-related software bug, which wasn’t caught due to a rushed development schedule
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Based on CES 2013, manufacturers think we're all klutzes

Posted January 10, 2013 - 12:42 pm

One of the themes of this year’s CES is making products that protect your smartphone or tablet from… you
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OpenX Ad Server Exploits - How to remove one and protect yourself

Posted January 4, 2013 - 9:00 am

Unfortunately OpenX has taken some poorly thought out and executed measures to attempt to monetize their open source version of the software which has introduced some major security flaws.
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The best home backup plan options - Part 5: A complete backup strategy

Posted December 26, 2012 - 12:42 pm

Using the 3 steps described in this post and the other posts in this series, you should be fully equipped to create a solid home backup plan for you and your family.
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Santa's I.T. guys have been naughty

Posted December 24, 2012 - 9:37 am

What happens when the Naughty or Nice server goes down?
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The best home backup plan options - Part 4: Cloud based backup

Posted December 18, 2012 - 12:55 pm

Cloud based backup is considered by many to be the backup method with the most advantages. As home internet connections have grown in bandwidth, this type of backup has become more accessible than ever before.
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The best home backup plan options - Part 3: External drive backup

Posted December 13, 2012 - 9:17 am

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. External drive backup has been the primary method used for proper backups for the past two decades.
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How to Backup Files On Your Computer - Part 1: The Basics

Posted December 5, 2012 - 12:02 pm

Nobody enjoys backing up their computers, but imagine the pain of losing every picture of your children, every vacation, graduation, birthday, and wedding. It usually takes getting burned once to be prodded into a backup strategy. Being prepared before that first disaster is a much saner option.
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Four commands to spook a sysadmin

Posted October 30, 2012 - 11:41 am

Wanna give a good Halloween scare to that special system or database administrator in your life? Try mentioning one of these commands
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To wash your keyboard or not to wash your keyboard, that is the question

Posted October 25, 2012 - 11:45 am

Ever have the urge to put your keyboard in the dishwasher? Turns out that’s not such a nutty idea
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The Accidental IT Administrator

Posted October 2, 2012 - 11:50 am

I never wanted to be in IT support; now I am - at home
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When disaster strikes, get ready to live in this box

Posted July 30, 2012 - 2:57 pm

Japanese develop self-contained units for disaster workers, victims
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Hacked drones could become missiles over U.S., researchers warn

Posted June 28, 2012 - 6:14 pm

The FAA's plan to allow as many as 30,000 observation drones to fly over the U.S. by 2015 could be catastrophic, especially the big planes FedEx plans to use to cut delivery costs. GPS spoofing can confuse drones and give attackers "a missile" to direct as a weapon, not an instrument of rescue or law enforcement, researcher warns.
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MI-5 chief warns of "astonishing," industrial-scale state-sponsored cybercrime

Posted June 26, 2012 - 4:32 pm

The head of the British MI-5 counter-intelligence agency warned yesterday that state-sponsored efforts at cyberattacks had escalated into industrial-scale events involving thousands of people. Who is leading the charge? Superpowers like his government's closest ally.
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Change your LinkedIn password right now

Posted June 6, 2012 - 12:11 pm

Login data for as many as 6.5 million LinkedIn users has been posted on a Russian hacker site. LinkedIn hasn't confirmed the breach, but Tweets confirm many real passwords are on the list. Change your password. Get a password vault. Use different passwords for important sites.
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'Flame' malware may be less troublesome than Windows

Posted May 29, 2012 - 6:17 pm

Sure it's invasive, sure it's malware, sure it's an act of war, cyberespionage and digital trespassing all in one. But think how smoothly an app would have to install, do its work and copy itself elsewhere without being discovered. Then compare that to Windows. Cyberweapon FTW!
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Dog bites cop: Ironic use of force story of the day

Posted May 22, 2012 - 1:14 pm

Not every telling photo is accurate; not every accurate photo is telling. This one, which appears to be two trained police dogs restraining a Chicago cop in riot gear from attacking protesters, tells a more interesting story than the cops-punch-protesters headline image of the protest.
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Science news: Chimps are mean, sneaky bastards

Posted May 11, 2012 - 5:40 pm

A chimp named Santino made news three years ago for gathering rocks in the morning to throw at humans in the afternoon. Now he's hiding the rocks and his own anger until it's time to whip out the rocks and have at the enemy, which dumb animals are not supposed to be able to do.
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Modern data center borrows medieval security tactics

Posted March 26, 2012 - 3:45 pm

Hope you can swim evildoers
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Microsoft said major flaw could be exploited in 30 days; estimate off by 29.5

Posted March 16, 2012 - 11:47 am

1. Microsoft patches a flaw in its remote-access code. predicts 30-day delay before malware appears to exploit it. 2. Researcher finds exploit available same day as the patch. 3. Exploit holds data "confidentially" submitted to warn Microsoft about the flaw in the first place.
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One day after LulzSec betrayal, Anonymous hordes flock to attack Vatican

Posted March 7, 2012 - 3:07 pm

A day after the revelation that a leader of Anonymous' most-aggressive, most obnoxious spinoff had been working with the FBI to build cases against trusted companions, anger among the faceless horde was great enough to make a second attack on the Vatican succeed.
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