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WHMCS is running a free domain promo.  If you are a currently licensed WHMCS license holder, head over here and collect yourself a free .host domain. http://whmcs.host/ Pricing now for future years is $49~.

Interesting read from BackBlaze - a storage / backup company.  They track their drives deployed, failures and total hours operated.   This is their latest breakdown.  They tout Seagate even though data appears to me to show Seagate failing higher than say HGST.  Western Digital appears to be...

India is launching a $4 USD Android smartphone and it is in part funded by their defence department.  $3.67 at current money exchange rates... 1.3Ghz quad code CPU + 1GB RAM + 8GB storage + card slot for storage expansion.  IPS screen also, but no resolution listed. Looks just awesome...

If you bought: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Security-Real-time-Recorder-Detection-Surveillance/dp/B0162AQCO4/ref=sr_1_2?s=diy&ie=UTF8&qid=1455638899&sr=1-2&keywords=MVpower+8+channel Or similar MVPower DVR / NVR for your security cameras / CCTV, your data has been shipped to China via email...

Looking at monkeying with fiber here.  Have a spool of fiber and tools for it.  We splice / run fiber in the field, but never have worked with fiber locally like I want to. Want to convert at least partially from gigabit ethernet on LAN to faster fiber optic based switching. Anyone out...

For those of you seeking datacenter work, ViaWest is hiring in Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Texas. You can find the positions at the bottom of this page: https://www.viawest.com/company/careers

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Anyone have personal notes or aware of a working how-to out there for Debian and derivatives that covers Softether installation? Looking for how-to that does pedestrian VPN setup as a replacement to OpenVPN.  Nothing fancy.  Only requirement is all CLI as doing this with servers and no GUI or...

It dawned on me earlier today in reading and reflecting the place that internet access increasingly has in our lives.  Realized it prior, but just a little more clearly today. I grew up before computers were common in homes and we knew nothing of tablets or smartphones. In those days the...

Is anyone here using Charter Communications for backhaul? I am looking for emails or other data / website / portal that covers their planned / scheduled maintenance. Please PM with info if you have it. Thanks!

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Evolving issue here on my end. Made mistake of signing up with 1and1.com for domains.   At some point yanked the autobill PayPal crap they inflict upon folks.  I routinely purge nearly all of those in PayPal and intend on paying next go like a normal human. Get invoices in email with...

I have boxes with Dacentec.   Lured like others by the pricing with the RTO. Easier than purchasing and shipping units to colo... well it was...  Been blah about the network whole time there. Lately it's non stop performance issues.  That is when the place doesn't drop power or get DDoS'd...

Anyone out there using any of the alternative phone OSes yet?  Firefox OS, Ubuntu's Phone OS, etc. Been waiting to see a push and phones have launched and seeing little coverage here/

Another day and more irresponsible companies up to no good.  Today, Time Warner dropped the ball on this one... 320k people have their passwords out there.   Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen. The company said email and...

Verizon announced it wants to sell 48 data centers it owns.  Asking price $2.5 billion. This is the latest move as Verizon mutilates itself to focus all efforts on wireless. Look for this deal to shake things up, or perhaps it marks the end of the boom in data center sector.

I know viewers here are TV heads.  You love that box. Lots has changed in the past few years with platforms, maturity of solutions, TV providers, etc.  Looking for current recommendations on gear that stands out while being reasonable to cheap on price.  Obviously I am a fan of cheap, but...

I am a long time cord cutter. Officially I've never bought cable or satellite TV.  Amount of programming I find interesting in any given year I can count probably on one or two hands.  Single programs mostly. Sooooooooo my TV is basically PBS and whatever the antenna pulls that day and...

Mystery Database Owner Exposes 191 Million US Voter Records Online A security researcher has discovered a database of 191 million American voters including personal information unprotected on the internet due to misconfiguration, according to media reports. On December 20 DataBreaches.net...