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As the new year steps closer, it's a goal of mine to implement some software to help me track overdue tasks, new tasks, just tasks in general. I have a mass of companies I interact with and have tasks related to, so looking for a software that is flexible in that way. I do like web based apps...

Looking at these Seagate hybrid drives that bundle SATA harddrive + on drive SSD. ST1000DX001,  ST2000DX001 and ST4000DX001 These are 3.5" drives, 7200RPM and 64MB of cache. http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Desktop-Solid-Hybrid-ST2000DX001/dp/B00EIQTKAS Anyone tried these in their workstations...

Australian telecom giant Telestra just agreed to buy sea fiber company Pacnet for $697 million USD. Pacnet brings 100 POPs and Asian datacenter presence. Interesting note, Pacnet is only foreign company licensed by Chinese government to provider network services in China. This deal is face...

Doing this purely as a public service announcement so anyone who has bought from Greenvaluehost (GVH) prior is aware. This is taken from Lowendtalk by @kcaj: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/39469/let-pm-spam-from-gvh/p3 The hack / exposure happened in the past few days. I haven't seen the...

Anyone in vpsBoard community have a project that is eating through bandwidth and need more?  For free? I don't care if you are distributing legal pornography, the 1892 encylopedia set or the world's funniest videos or even your own legitimate content. If you have a project that is bandwidth...

Here's the problem with paying third world clowns to mass spam offers on Twitter and other social... You end end up with your message slapped upside some fairly seedy content.   Case in point, Vultr the DigitalOcean wannabe.   https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=vultr&src=typd   Go to ALL...

Linda Clark seems to be expanding her uterine grown enterprise. CC launched a new NOC and announced it on their FacePalmBook and Twatter. If you ever wondered who wears the pants and runs the circus another siting of Linda swinging her thing.  Right there, it says the Time Warner belongs to her.

So earlier tonight multiple sources on interesting Greenvaluehost email that went out. The email is offering 100Gbps DDoS protection via Colocrossing's network in Buffalo, New York. Anyone in the CC reseller downstream aware of such a feature on their network or plans for such?  Not saying...

Yesterday, DigitalOcean announced it received a line of credit worth $50 million from Fortress Investment Group. From the press release: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141209006143/en/Fast-Growing-DigitalOcean-Receives-50-Million-Expand “A large line of credit makes sure we’re able...

Like most folks here I multitask and my computer is used for all sorts of tasks.... Everything from web browsing, to playing music, to watching random videos. Part of what has long irked me is the horizontal resolution on displays - an inheritance from earlier days and TV. Contemplating...

Anyone with high volumes of email, multiple accounts, etc. and on Linux Desktop feeling good about any mail clients lately? What are you using and tolerating for a mail client? I am trying to step away from Thunderbird and derivatives as continues to be memory horrors with it when connecting...

Craigslist down, been hacked.

Like most of you, I have piles of things that run off of or require a USB cable for recharging. I have cables that came with devices, aftermarket one off purchased cables, random acquisitions. These are all the small standard mini format USB that say a Raspberry Pi will run off of or many...

vpsBoard has been getting dinged most of the past 24 hours by big attacks. Congrats to those spending their mom's allowance money on booters.  You little shits. To the regular users and viewers of vpsBoard, just part of the theater and fun of running a site in this general segment.   It...

New website launch by Dacentec. Big thing is the many different servers now seemingly being offered.  A few are rental only.    Some bigger RAM boxes too. Their site redirects to: https://billing.dacentec.com/hostbill/

Anyone out here doing any work with USB attached temperature sensors / probes? Looking for gear recommendation for USB temperature sensor / module / etc.   Prefer something finished, in a case aside from maybe a probe arm. Linux compatibility is the key here.  Anyone using such a device or...

Like most folks around here, I've been piled up with VPS accounts all over for years.   VPS services are swell, but for me more than a few is a time sewer.   Even the near instant provisioning of Digital Ocean gets a bit tiring and scripting things for a public exposed full server is just meh...

Anyone around here a fan of Wiki software? Looking for something lightweight, easily portable and probably Python based. Anyone using such a tool currently that that can share the name of? Looking to get my Tomboy notes off the PC and up to LAN.  So ideally Python app with web based interface

QRCodes, those postage stamp looking blocks of random pixelated data that contain, well, readable information with camera and proper software - surely you've seen them along the way. As a user, customer, citizen, are you snapping QRCodes and using them these days? Or has this passed as a fad...

About to monkey with a custom bootable SD card for an ARM device.  Got ahold of such part of a gear purchase... The normal dance moves to get this going are more time and patience than I have to spare. Since I am prone to trying stuff and blowing things away, would like to preserve the original...