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This one is going around... Heard it a few days ago...  Today some emails out in the wild and viewed. ---------------------- Dear Centarra Clients, As of September 1st, 2015 all Centarra services will be discontinued. Please backup and move your data off of the services as soon as possible...

Looks like those old staples of nerdom are on the sales block again. Dice / DHI is looking to sell the sites Slashdot and Sourceforge off. From their recent earnings report: For the full-year 2015, the Company estimates Slashdot Media will generate $15.0-$16.0 million in revenues. Source...

Decided to take the leap finally and a Yubikey for two factor authentication.  Generic usage with Lastpass. I think we have a bunch of people here using Yubikeys.   What are the interesting applications I should check out that support Yubikeys (online is fine, local LAN / same PC is even better)?

For all the frugal folks needing sandbox instances for dev / testing, Vultr has a coupon code for $50 credit. The $50 free credit is good for 60 days.  You will have to provide payment pre-authorization in amount of $2.50 (which supposedly gets refunded). The promotion is over here: ...

Source: http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/other_resources/intelligence-report-06-2015.en-us.pdf The good news... (maybe the CC spam crackdown is working :) ) Page 3: There is good news this month on the email-based front of the threat landscape. According to our metrics, the...

Using 23andme (Google backed genetic testing / reporting company) one programmer has given us a glimpse where OAuth + genetic testing might take us. I present to you: Genetic Access Control Using the 23andme API it is now possible to utilize genetic profile information and likely phenotypes...

Grooveshark a popular music streaming site that recently went offline now has a co-founder that has went offline. Co-founder Josh Greenburg was found dead in his bed at the old age of 28. http://www.gainesville.com/article/20150720/ARTICLES/150729990

I keep bumping into need for Windows.  Business software annoyance. WINE while it is fine for some stuff, isn't sufficient for everything. Die hard Linux folks around here have any current similar scenario in their world or those around them? Someone have a solution / preferred current...

Psychz posts here and since we have some frowns about slim or whatever style press, I'll post it here... China remains a market folks need to address and any upstream creating a blend to address it should stand out a bit. ----------------------------- Psychz Networks picks up China Telecom &...

(borrowed from WHT post made today)   ... as a couple providers here use Waveform and some readers are in Waveform/ManagedWay's area ------- SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ManagedWay, a leading Southfield-based cloud services provider, announced today that it has acquired...

Facebook security chief tweeted the other day:     Then a fellow over at Firefox dropped a boot on Flash   And.... Why? Cause our "friends" at HackingTeam were using TWO exploits in Flash to hack folks. (see: )

A weird but niche interesting Kickstarter campaign for a one time run of these odd cased Minnowboard Max small form factor dual core ARMs. Docker being all the hipster rage, someone has decided to make a docker computer setup that looks like shipping containers.  It's pretty slick from the case...

Looking for group recommendation here... Shopping for a label printer to label cables of all sorts and other wired assets.  Something handheld and non PC would be great so can be used in the field. Anyone using such devices in their shop / racks?  What brands/models have been good experience...

I have a Redhat Certified Engineer who is available to work now.  Remote positions only. This engineer has an emphasis on security.  Has worked recently in a bigger dedicated server environment in the hosting industry. This worker is college educated and multi-lingual. This is one of the...

I know we have a lot of shop operators lingering here who daily deal with high container load scenarios and often find Bitcoin and other coin mining going on. Make this your support abuse meme for point of contact...  Should make things a tad clear for the idiot customer.

OpenDNS, that nimble DNS lookup service some here use and many more probably have in the past is selling out. Cisco is the buyer, price $683 million. More details over here: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-security-news and https://www.opendns.com/cisco-opendns/

Just was looking at loose ends with stuff and noticed BoltVM's site is offline. Someone else said their services have been down for a week. Is anyone here a customer and can confirm?

California Labor Commission just took Uber for a joy ride. It ruled that Uber drivers, who Uber considers contractors and not employees, are indeed employees. This is going to shake Uber up big time and other work on demand middleman no-economy slavery  operations. Have to say for once I am...

So something strange going on in Buffalo with my old go to for drama - ColoCrossing.  They demo'd on LET new datacenter they built out in mixed use office building. Strange stuff going on now where they rapid force migrated some folks on just a few days notice. Others are having issues with...

After tonight's WebHostingTalk ban of GreenValueHost, comes this press taken from: https://portal.gvhclientarea.com/announcements.php?id=14 Jonathan Nguyen is leaving the hosting business and any shared / reseller customers are being handed over to Xfuse.