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zyztemon Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

12 Nations that did not apply security patches

zyztemon How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]

TL;DR: with helicopter, one section at a time

    "Deveo is a code hosting and collaboration platform that supports Git, Subversion and Mercurial"

zyztemon Why is this little construction crane illegal in New York City? (2016)

How operation of this machine is different from pretty standard small derrick cranes? Like Liebherr DR? Or even spider cranes (Maeda & others)?

zyztemon Major Experiments That Still Haven’t Found What They’re Looking For

TBF, Michelson–Morley experiment did not found anything too

zyztemon Teddy Bear Leaked 2M Parent and Kids Message Recordings

Unsecured MongoDB, again.

zyztemon The Strange and Curious Tale of the Last True Hermit (2014)

With inexpensive and ubiquitous CCTV this situation will be much less mysterious now

zyztemon Microsoft open-sources Graph Engine

http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...

zyztemon OpenJDK now available for Windows

I wonder how Red Hat plan to monetize this?

zyztemon NTP Patches Flaws That Enable DDoS

Oh, FFS! BCP38 is 16 year old today.

Please ensure that packets with spoofed source can not leave your network.

zyztemon If a Soyuz capsule lands in front of you, follow these instructions [pdf]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2425610491 text and action plan on the Soyuz capsule

zyztemon Encryption ransomware threatens Linux users

There is more technical details at http://vms.drweb.com/virus/?i=7704004&lng=en

zyztemon Vim's 400 line function to wait for keyboard input

With Linux/NTP there was two times 23:59:59 UTC not long ago: https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145

zyztemon Windscale Piles: Cockcroft's Follies avoided nuclear disaster

Nuclear power has nothing to do with that incident. Windscale (Sellafield) facility was a military plant, it's raison d'etre was Plutonium production for UK nuclear weapons.

zyztemon Man builds 3D printed concrete castle in his own backyard

Concrete without rebar? I am in doubt about longevity of this structure.

zyztemon New Stealth Spy Drone Already Flying Over Area 51

Aveation Leaks article is much more informative: http://www.aviationweek.com/Article/PrintArticle.aspx?id=/ar...

zyztemon Before you Dual Boot – MS, OEMs and Linux

Actually, it is not that difficult to dual boot Windows/Linux with UEFI. You just need more understanding about this whole thing. I can recommend Arch wiki article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unified_Extensible_Firm...

And http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/

Kernels 3.3+ can be loaded from EFI partition directly without additional bootloader, no need to wrestle with grub-efi. This blog explains required configuration: http://wolfwings.dreamwidth.org/224805.html

zyztemon Toyota's firmware: Bad design and its consequences

Previous report on the issue by NASA (PDF, 177 Pages) http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/nvs/pdf/NASA-UA_report.pdf

zyztemon Network problems last Friday

Welcome to the club of STP meltdown survivors!

Unfortunately, large L2 Ethernet networks is not scalable and prone to episodic catastrophic failure. You can read more here: http://blog.ioshints.info/2012/05/transparent-bridging-aka-l...

One way to make L2 network somewhat stable is to replace many little switches with one big modular chassis for hundreds ports, like Cat6500/BlackDiamond.

Or, to minimize L2 segments and connect between them in L3 (IP routing).