US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers (IT)

Posted by technology-blog on 25 Feb

The Los Alamos nuclear laboratory over at New Mexico is the new hot-bed for technology thieves as officials confirm reports that there have been extensive thefts over the past few years. The laboratory in question has apparently lost 67 computers over the past few years with 13 being stolen in the last year itself. The matter was brought before the general public when a highly confidential document by the Project on Government Oversight was leaked from one of the stolen nuclear laptops. A few of the 13 stolen computers have been stolen from a scientist’s home. Apart from this, a Blackberry containing confidential information was also reported missing in a sensitive foreign country.

Limestone Introduces High End Line

Posted by web-hosting-blog on 07 Feb

Limestone Networks, a Dallas, Tx based hosting service provider, has launched a new high end line of servers which will be included into their product line. This is more for the “Enterprise” customer that needs this sort of power. This new line of servers consist of Xeon 5400 series, dual-processor, quad-core servers with Harpertown processor cores, that support more than 48GB of RAM on a single server and offer up to 3.0 Ghz processing power. These packages start at $250 and up.

New Microsoft Strategy

Posted by technology-blog on 07 Feb

There’s a new position available for application from the Microsoft Corp. It would seem that they’re looking for an “Open Source” position to be filled. This is not to bring open source to the company, but more so to compete and beat Linux desktop operating systems. There just seems to be no other purpose to start a campaign like this unless their OS rival was in their cross-hairs. Not sure though why Linux would be more of a problem than that of MAC who’s OS is UNIX based. Their reason remains unclear, but we do have our suspicions

Making More Revenue With Traffic Infractions

Posted by technology-blog on 06 Feb

Many people around the world are familiar with traffic tickets received in the mail from an infraction such as running a red light. You’ll get a statement in a letter with some legal mumbo jumbo and that you need to pay “X“ amount to the local municipality. Ok, yes, no doubt running a red light is dangerous and a person shoul dbe fined for such acts, but Italy ha staken this to a whole new level. Kind of a new way to make more money. The traffic monitory system has been rigged to make the yellow light shorter. So short that the scam has increased recently to bring suspicion and even lead to arrests.

Making More Revenue With Traffic Infractions

Posted by christoph on 06 Feb

Many people around the world are familiar with traffic tickets received in the mail from an infraction such as running a red light. You’ll get a statement in a letter with some legal mumbo jumbo and that you need to pay “X“ amount to the local municipality. Ok, yes, no doubt running a red light is dangerous and a person shoul dbe fined for such acts, but Italy ha staken this to a whole new level. Kind of a new way to make more money. The traffic monitory system has been rigged to make the yellow light shorter. So short that the scam has increased recently to bring suspicion and even lead to arrests.

Open Source Vmware

Posted by technology-blog on 04 Feb

There goes another solution that has gone opensource. VMWare has officially decided to make ist desktop version totally opensource. The bottom line is that the popularity of VMWare banked on the growth and usage of Linux/Unix distros. Because of this forward moving motion, the only logical next step was to follow suit. VMware allows multiple operating systems to run on the same unit, which caters to multiple applications to be used at the same time and completely redefines multi-tasking. , not to mention their remote virtualized desktop, which is similar to that of Microsoft’s Hyper V.

Britain’s Plans to Stop Internet Piracy Thwarted – For Now

Posted by technology-blog on 02 Feb

ISP’s in Britain will no longer be made to disconnect users when found to be downloading illegal matterial, namely music and video files repeatedly. Culture Secretary, Andy Burnham, stated that the government had“serious legislative intent“, however, this did not come to fruition. Basically, it all comes down to a numbers game. Can you really make an effective effort to put a stop to more than 7 million file sharing internet users around the UK every year? The idea was to have a 3 warning procedue in which, if the offence were to be committed multiple times, the users internet connection would be shut off.