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I continue to monkey with ARM platform.  One area I am meh with gear I have at this point is disk performance.  My Pi's, Odroids, etc. all are SD card installations.  SD cards are rather meh as general purpose disk at this point in history. Looking for some recommendations.  Does anyone...

Catching up on email pile (I read email monthly it seems): Dated December 24th.  Looks authentic.

Caching layer at Steam exposed game subscribers info to other subscribers.   Details here: http://www.dailydot.com/politics/steam-bug-leaks-player-account-information/

I know CentOS is the OS of choice for many web hosts and I assume some of them use it otherwise day to day. CentOS has released a new version with ARM support: Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/centos-7-linux-officially-released-for-raspberry-pi-2-banana-pi-and-cubietruck-497891.shtml

3.3 Sanrio 'customers', fans of Hello Kitty have had their data hacked and put out in public. Reminder to those you with children and young ones in your circle to create fake accounts for online use.  Fake name, fake location, wrong age, etc. Source...

I know we have guys with Pi's and wide interests.  With the holidays, some of us actually get some peace and quiet, and it's a great time to get that idle gear you bought this year doing something useful.  Raspberry Pi's are probably sitting around unused by many of us, so I thought why not...

  Vancouver, BC December 14, 2015 Canadian Web Hosting Acquires eSecureData, Further Expanding Datacenter Business in Canada Canadian Web Hosting, Canada's leading web hosting and infrastructure company, announced today that it has acquired datacenter and dedicated server...

This just now... We would like to welcome you to the Hostwinds Family. Hostwinds recently acquired the assets of WeLoveServers. Hostwinds will continue to operate all current services, and will provide services to all existing WeLoveServers clients.   We want to tell you a little bit about...

Did you order a server, maybe you colo'd something so you can play your game out there in the datacenter, maybe it's a hobby box... many are. Remember that IP justification to get those few IPs from the provider?  Did they make you fill out a form about the use? Did they tell you that your...

WARNING The following involves playing with data and partitioning drives. No warranties are implied. Don't do this while drunk / frazzled / half awake. All liability is yours. Pay attention, if in doubt post here and I'll do my best to reply. Prerequisites 0. Linux. I use Linux. This...

Are you stuck clinging onto an old desktop due to settings, fear of moving to a new desktop, etc.? Don't be. I  long had a decent but problematic workstation.  Stuck there because of the bulk of the whole install, settings, data, etc. Moving OSes sucks, eats life, etc. So I took the...

In fussing with my Raspberry Pi's yesterday, I realized it really is an ARM computing universe now.  ARM for a desktop still is a hacker thing and performance is blah unless using embedded eMMC.  I haven't splurged for eMMC modules for gear (often cost is prohibitive relative to the cheap aspect...

So I use FUSE dependent tools out on hosted servers.  Been using such for years. Regular routine as customer to asked for with OpenVZ instances that FUSE be enabled by the provider. Why today isn't FUSE just auto enabled by providers?

http://fusion.net/story/238742/tor-carnegie-mellon-attack/ This isn't breaking news per se.  Happened back in 2014.   Details are what is breaking per se. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh "researchers" funded by the FBI allegedly were able to attack ToR network and collect real IPs...

Been printing a lot lately and my Epson Workforce unit is becoming more and more a PITA. This week magenta stopped working. Looked around and I see repair processes people have performed to unclog nozzles on these and other inkjets. Anyone here done this before?  Looking for a...

What has anyone here bought so far via holiday specials?  Regretting or loving any of your purchases so far? I've bought stuff, but nothing from a special yet.

Vice has released an interview with Eagles of Death Metal.   This is the band that was playing at the Bataclan in Paris where terrorists attacked killing many there and elsewhere in Paris. It's riveting and heartbreaking, but also hopeful.  Worth a watch if you have been impacted by the...

Those of use gray in the head and who have seen these political theaters play out many times have been waiting. Reuters reporting: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/11/19/us-france-shoooting-eu-terrorism-funding-idUSKCN0T81BW20151119 EU clamps down on bitcoin, anonymous payments to curb...

I just was checking out ISIS / ISIL's English language publication Dabiq.  Clean link here, served from The Clarion Project (http://www.clarionproject.org/about) http://www.clarionproject.org/docs/islamic-state-isis-isil-dabiq-magazine-issue-12-just-terror.pdf It is named after a city in...

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/paris-terror-attacks/isis-has-help-desk-terrorists-staffed-around-clock-n464391 NBC News has learned that ISIS is using a web-savvy new tactic to expand its global operational footprint -- a 24-hour Jihadi Help Desk to help its foot soldiers spread its...