Just a heads up. I will be changing the domain registrar for Linhost.info from Go Daddy to Namecheap, if you notice any weird behavior then now you know the reason.

One thing is clear, I won’t miss Go Daddy’s torturous interface.

Precise Pangolin or Ubuntu 12.04 is now available as a virtual machine. Like always the specs are:

• CPU: 1
• Memory: 512
• Disk Space: 50GB
• Networking: NAT | Sound card: Enabled
• Compressed using 7-Zip

Download from the links below:

Ubuntu 12.04 Server 32-bit – 382MB
.MD5
.SHA1

Ubuntu 12.04 Server 64-bit – 377MB
.MD5
.SHA1

No, I am not avenging my loved ones or fighting crime on the side. But procrastination is a hideous friend.

And in the spirit of the Internet watch something that I don’t own the rights to.

[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express

This memo was circulated internally within Oracle (and subsequently leaked). Basically, the open source development model has now been axed and OpenSolaris is officially now dead. A very sad day indeed.

It seems that Oracle has no room for OpenSolaris in its new strategy to get Sun out of the whole its in.

Toshiba touts drives that wipe data when turned off

The Wipe feature in Toshiba’s SED (Self-Encrypting Drives) will allow for deletion of secure data prior to disposing or repurposing hard drives, Toshiba said in a statement. This feature prevents secure data from getting lost or stolen.

Think of the possibilities, seriously you think of them!.

Virtualization and over-subscription: breaking the 100% utilization barrier

Our developers are hard at work on our next generation of products, which in addition to allowing instantaneous scaling and solving configuration nightmares, allows you to over-commit your physical resources (both processors and memory). This quick demo provides a great example of over-subscription, showing a development version of our platform cramming 16 gigabytes worth of clones onto a single host with 8 gigabytes of memory. Awesome.

Browsers’ private modes leak info, say researchers

kind of obvious, Private Mode is “like a candle in the wind… unreliable” Garth Marenghi , too many variables with room for leaks.

iPadversaries! 32 Tablets, Slates, Pads, and More

Most of them wont even survive the first round.

Moving On…

Is SAS dead yet?

Just hold the horses … what about the writes.

This one never gets old.

Are 320 GB Drives Doomed?

Industry numbers suggest that one would have to fill a 320 GB SATA drive 37 times before encountering an unrecoverable read error, potentially losing data.

Yeah, live on the wild side. Go 320GB!.

Windows Azure No Cost Test Drive for Devs

Limited to US developers, the first 500 to sign up each month will get a full month’s pass good for the one calendar month. In addition, you’ll get free phone, chat and email support through the Front Runner for Windows Azure program.

Looks like a good option to test drive Microsoft offering, if you happen to be one of the lucky 500 and happen to the in the US of A.

Time To Say Good Bye To Google Wave

Google Wave did turn out to be what Google expected in the long run, rather than change the light bulb one more time the big G is giving up. Nobody got anywhere by not experimeting.

Hotmail Gets A Face Lift, 350 Millions Users Notice

Microsoft has declared success after successfully shaking the floor for all 350 million Hotmail users.

Users can expect:

enhanced security, better filtering of emails to de-clutter the inbox, support for conversation views and a number of other key visual and feature additions.

Softlayer And The Planet Outline Merger

SoftLayer Technologies and The Planet are discussing a blockbuster merger that will make the combined entity one of the world’s largest providers of web hosting and cloud computing services. The new company will have more than 25,000 customers and manage more than 78,000 servers.

Blockbuster is such an insignificant word for the size of the merger. [Hopefully] only good will come out of the merger.

Moving On..

Office Licensed for two systems : one desktop and a portable system aka a laptop.

AVG has joined other AV providers by making available a free rescue CD. AVG Rescue CD is a portable version of AVG anti-virus built on top of a Linux distribution (Live-CD), Rescue CD is meant to help clean deep infections from systems that may no longer boot normally. Equally important is the included ability to update definitions over the Internet.

AVG Rescue CD is a reactive tool, meaning it cannot prevent an infection from happening only remove them once they happen.

You can expect

• Comprehensive administration toolkit
• System recovery from virus and spyware infections
• Suitable for recovering MS Windows and Linux operating systems (FAT32 and NTFS file systems)
• Ability to perform a clean boot from CD or USB stick
• Free support and service for paid license holders of any AVG product
• FAQ and Free Forum self-help support for AVG Free users

Even if your current anti-virus says the infection was removed it could not hurt to run a second scan using AVG Rescue CD. No registration is needed to downloaded AVG Rescue CD.

Links

AVG Rescue CD Home Page

Google effort to speed up the web Google now includes its own Public DNS as an alternative to ISP provided servers.

The service follows the DNS Standards set forth by the Internet community and is not intended to compete with OpenDNS which provides filtering and many other features, but also redirects typos to ad sponsored pages. Actually Google joins the ranks of DNS providers such as Level 3 that provide public DNS access.

As stated by Prem Ramaswami

Google Public DNS follows the DNS Standards set forth by the Internet
community which means we do not block, filter, or redirect DNS responses.
These actions most probably belong on the client side rather than the
protocol side.

Google Public DNS IPs

8.8.8.8  
8.8.4.4

• Google Public DNS

• New iPhone malware steals data from jailbroken phones
• Firefox most vulnerable browser, Safari close second
• Mozilla releases second Firefox 3.6 beta
• Mac OS X 10.6.2 Update Released. Intel Atom Support Officially Missing, breaks Hackintosh Netbooks
• Hyper-V: To VMM or not to VMM, that is the question
• Intel to roll out new low-cost and high-end SSDs
• Microsoft yanks Windows 7 tool over open-source code swipe

• IE8 runs 10 times faster with Google plug-in
• Freecom outs first ever USB 3.0 hard drive, Mac users will just have to wait.
• Snow Leopard less secure than Windows, says hacker
• Windows 7 download deadline looms
• Cisco patches a dozen router bugs
• Microsoft offers free development tools to ‘WebSparks’
• Intel to put Moblin linux on desktops
• Microsoft Silverlight to work on Intel linux netbooks
• Microsoft offers free development tools to ‘WebSparks’

• Stress tests rain on Amazon’s cloud
• Windows 7 will run 120 days for free, Microsoft confirms
• Hackers prefer Firefox and Opera
• Cisco flaw enables ‘simulated’ DDoS attack
• Symantec reveals the web’s 100 dirtiest sites
• Red Hat, IBM, Novell major contributors to exploding Linux kernel development
• Apple denies rejecting Google Voice for iPhone