With regard to this site on the female perspective on gun ownership,
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UPSen don't generally have hostnames, or I could name the new UPS Igor.

In Merrimack, we had our server rack and my workstation and gamebox powered off a 3KVA UPS (an APC SU3000RM5U) in the bottom of the rack, with all the other Windows PCs running off an APC SU1400 in the opposite corner of the downstairs den.  When we moved up here to Gilford, ( Read more... )

Smart knees.

What might smart knees do?  What might they be capable of?

So, LiveJournal just added a "secret question" authentication option in case you lose your password or lose access to your registered email account.

Please treat the secret question and its answer as the extra key to your journal.  Anyone who has this key (or guesses your answer), will be able to access your journal.  If you want to write your own ( Read more... )

Well, a bug, actually.  In XV.  Who else out there still uses XV?  Sure, it's old, but it still works as well as it ever did.¹

When you go to print an image, though, XV's calculation of the as-printed image resolution in dpi is, uh ... well, let's be polite and call it imaginative.  Or we could be impolite and say the dpi value is calculated by a ( Read more... )

This morning, Wikia is rolling out cool features on the controversial Wikia Search engine.

Starting today, if you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able to change them.  Your changes will apply not just for yourself, but rather for everybody.

This sounds like SUCH a bad idea.  Bad enough that people try to manipulate ( Read more... )

So you're a struggling new band without the money to make a video?  Well, all those CCTV surveillance cameras have got to be good for something....

(Band's not bad at all, either.)

Mainly directed at folks such as robbat2 and zaitcev:

What would it take to add the ability into a *nix kernel to kill a process that's in uninterruptible sleep due to, say, a hardware fault?  Say I have an external device, and it hangs up, and I can reset the device, but the daemon that was controlling it is still in uninterruptible sleep.  I really should be ( Read more... )

SecurityWire reports on a massive-scale Chinese hacking campaign that has targeted hundreds of thousands of sites over the past ten days, exploiting weak ASP and PHP code to compromise MS SQL Server back-ends via complex SQL injection attacks.

The attackers are using simple search engine queries to find massive lists of ASP or PHP sites, for ( Read more... )

"MSN Music customers trusted Microsoft when it said that this was a safe way to buy music, and that trust has been betrayed," Corynne McSherry, an EFF attorney, said in a statement. "If Microsoft is prepared to treat MSN Music customers like this, is there any reason to suppose that future customers won't get the same treatment?"


I'm tempted to ( Read more... )