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Dangers of cloud computing

Posted on 21 Feb 2009 in Internet

Forgetting you’ve left an instance running in the cloud until you get the bill at the end of the month.

PSP 80410D06 error fix for Linksys WAP54G

Posted on 15 Jan 2006 in SciTech

Google Bait: To avoid the 80410D06 error and get your PlayStation Portable WiFi working with a Linksys WAP54G 802.11G Wireless Access Point when using WPA-PSK: Upgrade the PSP and Linksys to latest firmware, then go to Advanced > Advanced Wireless on the Linksys and switch Basic Rates from “Default” or “ALL” to “1-2Mbps” – this is a compatibility feature for less capable 802.11b devices which does not seem to impact performance for 802.11g devices. While you’re at it, turn Frame Burst to ON to boost your wireless performance as long as your other wi-fi devices don’t complain.

UPDATE: I might be wrong. Doing this seems to shag all your performance and drops even G connection speed down, this will certainly make your PSP work with the Linksys, but it’s no good. I now only drop my Linksys down to Basic Rate 1-2Mbps when I need to go wireless on the PSP, and then change it back again when I need decent wireless performance on my other gear. No definite answers on this, your mileage may vary.

Sotheby’s Sells Vampire Kit

Posted on 02 Nov 2003 in SciTech

“..a vampire-slaying kit complete with a wooden stake and 10 silver bullets sold for US$12,000 at auction .. the kit-a walnut box that also contained a crucifix, a pistol, a rosary and vessels for garlic powder and various serums” .. “Elaine Whitmire, head of 19th century furniture for Sotheby’s, said she believes the kit was assembled in the early 20th century and sold to travelers as a souvenir. A label on the kit says: “This box contains the items considered necessary for persons who travel into certain little known countries of Eastern Europe, where the populace are plagued with a particular manifestation of evil known as Vampires.” Maybe we’ll need one of these over the coming months.. [via Sci Fi Wire

http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?lot_id=44BSN

Slammer worm

Posted on 30 Jan 2003 in SciTech

Finally had a look at my SmoothWall logs to see how many UDP-1434 packets it has dropped over the past few days on my home ADSL connection from the Slammer worm. Hundreds of UDP-1434 packets from netblocks in Austria, Sweden, Germany, Malaysia and others have been hitting my firewall over the past few days. You’ve gotta laugh when you check the netblock owners of some of the originating IP addresses and find a lot of them end up belonging to Microsoft. It certainly was an incredibly effective worm, bringing the net to it’s knees.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&scoring=d&q=SQL+worm+OR+virus

Team Air

Posted on 18 Jul 2001 in SciTech

In response to CM pointing out the Sydney.IT.Guys. It looks like both teams stopped submitting blocks long ago. Let history show the overall winners!

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=10178

Nostalgia

Posted on 13 Jul 2001 in SciTech

“Ahhh… nostalgia.” [via CM on his new Linux partition with too much spare time on his hands]

http://stats.distributed.net/rc5-64/tmsummary.php3?team=9514

Macroprocessing?

Posted on 11 Jul 2001 in SciTech

Are you getting sick of seeing Macroprocessing advertisements everywhere? Read a bullshit rich dumbed down executive white paper on the subject and impress all your peers.

http://www.intel.com/eBusiness/pdf/macroprocessing/wp012301.pdf

Cosm – Phase 1

Posted on 11 Oct 1999 in SciTech

“Cosm is a set of protocols designed to allow computers all over the world to work together on projects. The project may be a mathematical challenge, or rendering an animation. Any large project that can be broken up into pieces and assigned to different machines.” (What is Cosm?)

http://cosm.mithral.com

Quantum Computing

Posted on 04 Oct 1999 in SciTech

How the weird logic of the subatomic world could make it possible for machines to calculate millions of times faster than they do today. By Lov K. Grover [via TT]

http://cryptome.org/qc-grover.htm