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Finnish news magazines have been reporting today that Finnish teenager "Ryan" (Lizard Squad member) got 2 year suspended sentence (ehdollinen vankeusrangaistus) for hacking over 50k servers and other related crimes. He was under 18, so the punishment was pretty small, but there are still some...

As reported around the net, the new FTDI driver seems to kill fake FTDI FT232 chips: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/reviews/ftdi-driver-kills-fake-ftdi-ft232/ http://hackaday.com/2014/10/22/watch-that-windows-update-ftdi-drivers-are-killing-fake-chips/...

Background: I was running one of my blogs on a shared host web server at A Small Orange. After it was purchased by EIG, I started to look for alternatives. Finally I found out miniwebhost.co.uk run by Martin-D. Since he was (and still is) one of the VPSBoard moderators, I assumed that he knows...

Purchase date: 2013-08-08 .. current   Services: LEB-SSD-1024 OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-08..2014-08-08 (will be cancelled when the billing period is over) OpenVZ.IO 4G OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-23..2013-11-29 (cancelled) VPSBoard special 64MB OpenVZ server (NL), 2013-08-30..current...

Background: I am ex-customer of Linode. When Linode had a security incident in Apr 2013, I decided it was time to change the server provider. After some research, I found out that EDIS offers dedicated servers with OpenBSD, so end up trying them. It also affected to my decision that one of...