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Presumably this: https://openvz.org/Download/kernel/rhel6/042stab090.5 I don't know specifics but I saw LowEndSpirit just rebooted all its nodes in order to patch a new vulnerability.  So I thought other OpenVZ users should be aware.

This sounds crazy even without the uploaded private keys.  The keybase web site itself also screams privacy invasion, e.g. through the transclusion of googleapis.  Even the idea of a public key directory (PGP had keyservers as you might remember) was somewhat obnoxious and didn't catch on all...

VHS tape?  It's all digital now.  We're heading into an era where at least for large chain stores, all the video will probably get uploaded to a server farm for automated facial recognition for marketing purposes if nothing else.  Those places are obsessed with consumer profiling.  See the...

Here are a couple of other reviews that I wrote: Do they count?

Cool.  I might write something about my OVH dedi.  I'm not a believer in benchmarks in VPS reviews though.  I don't do them myself and I find them nearly useless in reviews written by others.  They measure the instantaneous performance of the VPS at the specific moment when the benchmark is run...

Do dedicated server reviews count? What about VPS's that were kept for longer than 3 months and used in the past, but have since been cancelled for whatever reason?

Interesting.  As long as it's an automatic teller, I haven't had any problem doing that.

There is that, but you have to figure that if the info for a single IP exists at all, it is accessible to someone who wants it enough.  More bothersome is the idea that there's a consolidated database someplace saying who is using essentially every IP address with a VPS address behind it.  It's...

1. Trust is not binary and it is not transitive.  VPS hosts trust their clients to not commit rampant abuse of the VPS itself, but they don't give out the root keys to the host node.  Clients similarly trust the host to not run off with their 7 bucks but they shouldn't put highly sensitive info...

That doesn't make much sense.  I want to be anonymous to pretty much everyone.  If I buy beer, I'm not going to do anything dodgy with it (like drink and drive), but I don't want identifiable records kept of the transaction so someone can track my drinking preferences or keep the info on file in...

I thought you need to ID (at least over the phone) to activate those prepaid credit cards, and then they send further stuff in the postal mail.  I imagine they check your info against a credit database but even if they don't check and you give a fake address, they'll probably figure it out and...

My home internet connectivity is fairly slow, so I have no usable way at home to get TB's of data to or from a storage server.  The reason I do most of my storage and computational stuff on a dedi now is that the internet to the dedi is so much faster and I can't easily get the data home...

Seagate has a desktop drive for $300: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178520 the enterprise drive is $600. I'm basically done with hard drives in personal computers.  I use SSD for everything, except I have some external HDD's for backup.  But I'm keeping less and...

 10:31:19 up 730 days,  8:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.39, 0.09, 0.03 That's all I have to say about that.

Lenovo X230.  Basically same machine as T430/T530 except no optical drive and the screen is smaller.  I put an mSATA SSD in its internal slot and it works great.  The one snag I hit was that I tried to install a 2.5" SATA drive in the regular drive bay so I could use both drives simultaneously...

ARMs have floating point: the A8 etc. have the Neon coprocessor and the Cortex M4 has 32-bit ieee floats and DSP extensions. 

Adam, that info is in the order form, but do you really want to be back at colocrossing??? :O

There are hardware mp3 encoder chips that use very little power.  They're really just DSP's with special firmware of course.  They are used in consumer audio recorders, so they can't be too expensive, at least in quantity.  I don't know if there's something comparable for Vorbis.  Did you try...

RAID5 was much safer 17 years ago than it is now.  Today's drives are large enough that if a drive in a big array fails, the rebuild time is long enough that there's significant chance of another drive failing during the rebuild.  Drive failures aren't independent events: 1) drives tend to fail...

I'm worrying a bit about the concept of RAID10 instead of RAID6 or RAID60 on big storage servers.  RAID6 by definition can survive any 2-drive failure, while almost 50% of 2-drive failures will kill a RAID10.  I do think it's ok to take a backup or storage server offline for recovery in case of...