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**This article is funny, sarcastic and educational. Those of you with Sidekicks who wonder where your contacts went should read definitely read it. Anyone else who doesn't quite realise the value of the term 'backup' also needs to partake of this. Nik Cubrilovic TechCrunch.com Washington Post Saturday, October 10, 2009  The big story today is about Microsoft subsidiary Danger losing all T-Mobile Sidekick customer data from their servers. Danger is the company noted for the T-Mobile Sidekick, the revolution in cloud mobile, and most memorably, almost everybody living in 90210 having to get new phone numbers because of Paris Hilton. Valued T-Mobile Sidekick customers received a notice today from the company updating them on the "data disruption" problem. The good news is that data is no longer being disrupted. The bad news is that there is no data left to be disrupted.This latest large-scale publicized data loss will surely lead to managers everywhere forwarding a link to the story to their IT departments asking "what are we doing so that this doesn't happen to us." It will lead to the issue of data loss and backups being written about ad naseum by technology pundits. Research companies will rub their hands together as they prepare new 80 page whitepapers with titles such as "How Companies Who Pay Us Money Can Prevent Your Data Being Lost" (complete with FDA "may cause drowsiness" warning label on the cover). Consultants will flock to their customers, pat them on the head, and reassure them that everything is ok because their project specification powerpoint shows that they included two of everything (and charged for it). Backups are a hard sell. Most of us don't want to think about things going wrong (or put more colloquially, shit hitting the fan). Spending your Saturday afternoon staring at a progress meter that seems to be moving backwards is the polar opposite of fun. If there was a brainwave study of people in the process of backing up data, it would probably show no activity at all (but they could use the results to help calibrate the machines). Furthering the point of no interest, Google trends shows that while the volume of news stories about backups and data loss is increasing over time, volume from people searching about it is proportionately decreasing. We are only shaken out of this slumber briefly when there is an incident such as the one at Danger this week. Like the death of a celebrity from a drug overdose, publicized data loss incidents remind us that we should probably do something about taking better care of our data. But we usually don't, because we quickly remind ourselves that backups are boring as hell, and that it's shark week on Discovery. Our previously well thought out backup and recovery plans are expunged as we scan the perimeter of the clinic for the shortest fence to jump over and bolt back to freedom. Those who are organized and backup their data usually discover the later, larger, part of the problem -- restoring from a backup: Where did I put the backup? It's an old copy. That file I was just working on isn't there. It was never actually backing up. No software I use can read this stupid fucking format, etc. For most of us, by backing up, we are only setting ourselves up for a bigger failure down the road. ( >>Continued ) | ||||||||||
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'Microsoft is investigating a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Video ActiveX Control. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.' Please read this security advisory: Microsoft Security Advisory (972890)Then go to this page for the fix: Microsoft Support I chose the 'FIX IT FOR ME' link, which will then say 'ENABLE WORKAROUND.' You download a small programme and install it, and then you are fixxored. :) | ||||||||||
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Telegraph.co.uk 02 Jun 2009 Tetris, the classic computer game in which players rotate a series of falling block shapes to make them interlock at the bottom of the screen, celebrates its 25th anniversary this week.  The game was created by a 29-year-old Russian programmer called Alexey Pajitnov, who said he knew he had devised a hit game when he could not stop playing it.Now, a quarter of a century later, the game has sold more than 70 million copies around the world and is still going strong. It is, or has been, available on almost every gaming platform, including Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple IIgs, Atari ST, Commodore 64, NES, WonderSwan Color, and the ZX Spectrum. It was launched commercially on Nintendo's Game Boy handheld console, with which it was given away free. Mr Pajitnov, speaking in an interview with the Guardian newspaper, described how he came up with the idea to distract him from his less light-hearted work on a large Soviet-built Elektronika 60 computer. He said: "I started to put together all kinds of mathematical puzzles and diversions that I had loved all my life. "The program wasn't complicated. There was no scoring, no levels. But I started playing and I couldn't stop. "I think that most of the classic games written in the 80s or early 90s are dead just because their authors or owners didn't care about them." Mr Pajitnov made little money from the game until 1996 when the rights to it reverted to him from the Soviet state. It is now a popular game on Nintendo's DS series. | ||||||||||
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Hashi is playing this game right now. It is visually stunning and a bit like the old Atari 'Asteroids.' Level 10 is fantastic he says! :D Download it here: Binary Zoo 
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 I read that people usually download the latest java updates and never think about removing the old java off their computers, so you might look in your program list and see several hundred megabytes of old java which has, as my friend bloodtippedwing alerted me, the capability to be exploited and to contaminate your operating system. What I have done is to go to SUN and download the Java Runtime Environment 6 update 12, uninstall my old java version and install the new one. I'm a lot lighter and less vulnerable to exploits, and I can see my beautiful java lake applets. :) Yay! | ||||||||||
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Industry critics warn of danger in giving internet leader more power David Smith, technology correspondent The Observer Sunday 25 January 2009  Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, according to industry reports. But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer, which relies on a powerful hard drive. Instead a user's personal files and operating system could be stored on Google's own servers and accessed via the internet. The long-rumoured GDrive is expected to be launched this year, according to the technology news website TG Daily, which described it as "the most anticipated Google product so far". It is seen as a paradigm shift away from Microsoft's Windows operating system, which runs inside most of the world's computers, in favour of "cloud computing", where the processing and storage is done thousands of miles away in remote data centres. Home and business users are increasingly turning to web-based services, usually free, ranging from email (such as Hotmail and Gmail) and digital photo storage (such as Flickr and Picasa) to more applications for documents and spreadsheets (such as Google Apps). The loss of a laptop or crash of a hard drive does not jeopardise the data because it is regularly saved in "the cloud" and can be accessed via the web from any machine. The GDrive would follow this logic to its conclusion by shifting the contents of a user's hard drive to the Google servers. The PC would be a simpler, cheaper device acting as a portal to the web, perhaps via an adaptation of Google's operating system for mobile phones, Android. Users would think of their computer as software rather than hardware. It is this prospect that alarms critics of Google's ambitions. Peter Brown, executive director of the Free Software Foundation, a charity defending computer users' liberties, did not dispute the convenience offered, but said: "It's a little bit like saying, 'we're in a dictatorship, the trains are running on time.' But does it matter to you that someone can see everything on your computer? Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?" Google refused to confirm the GDrive, but acknowledged the growing demand for cloud computing. Dave Armstrong, head of product and marketing for Google Enterprise, said: "There's a clear direction ... away from people thinking, 'This is my PC, this is my hard drive,' to 'This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.'" | ||||||||||
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Have you been reading about the worm that is infecting everyone? It is called Conficker, Downadup, or Kido and allows someone else to completely take over your computer. They say Microsoft has a patch for it, but if you dun have the patch, you can go into your services in the Control Panel admin part and disable Computer Browser service and Server Service, so that is what I did because I do not download all the shite MS asks me to. I wrote to a couple friends this information, and then I decided to just post it. The services you can disable or set to manual start are explained here. | ||||||||||
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Murad Ahmed, Technology Reporter The Times 5 Dec 2008 The world’s first personal supercomputer - a machine 250 times faster than the average PC – was unveiled yesterday. It will go on sale for more than £4,000, beyond the reach of most consumers but a tiny fraction of what computers with similar capabilities usually cost. The Tesla supercomputers have such immense power they should be able to help doctors to process the results for brain and body scans much more quickly, allowing them to tell patients within hours instead of days whether they have a tumour. Scientists believe that they could help to find cures for diseases such as cancer and malaria faster than traditional research, because they can run hundreds of thousands of simulations to create a shortlist of the drugs that are most likely to offer the potential for a cure. ( Continued ) | ||||||||||
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