RE:About that London Stock Exchange IT failure

Posted September 15th, 2008 by din100 and filed in nerdy stuff
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End of the day any such a system will fail some day. They should have had some sort of DR plans but guess for that size it might be impossible

Build a Skype phone out of the old wireless phone you have just laying aro

Posted September 15th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Good Idea but don’t know how particle this is if I had a weekend free I might give it a try

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VLC media player 0.9.2 IS OUT!

Posted September 15th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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this my fav media player. very light waight and works with any media

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Dropbox (GDrive Killer) finally launches, plus Linux+iPhone!

Posted September 11th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Damn useful thing.. if you’ve been waiting for invites, go get it. Windows, Mac and now Linux!!

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/etc/grub.conf explained

Posted September 8th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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/etc/grub.conf explained

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Mozilla Updates Firefox 3.1 With Lot More Goodies

Posted September 8th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Hmm looks like firefox is not going to give up the fight. I like FX but using Chrome at the mo

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Game Console Architecture In-Depth

Posted September 7th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Ars takes you back in time and deep inside the inner workings of three popular game consoles: the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360.

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Revealed: The Internet’s Biggest Security Hole

Posted September 6th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The demonstration is the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the web’s core protocols.

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Apple’s Original Think Different Posters

Posted September 6th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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Its nice to go back in time and see Apple’s old time “Think Different” posters. This link is a commercial link but please ignore the commercial part and check out the posters of Apple from the good ol’ days

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Mandriva Linux 2009 RC1 is available

Posted September 5th, 2008 by din100 and filed in general
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I use to love this Mandriva Linux even then very easy to use etc, need to give them a try again to see how much they have come.

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