This is a good thing. All current antivirus vendors are snake-oil salesmen. A team of security experts working for the OS vendor itself should be responsible for this. Mind you, it is Microsoft, so the implementation will be horrendous and half baked. But it’s still a good idea on paper, and it’ll be as effective as anything else. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/11/21/1814228/ms-to-build-antivirus-into-win8-boon-or-monopoly

**"**Everyday we Make Compromises in the Face of Privacy, and None of us Have as Much Privacy as we Want." This article paints a pretty good picture of the various ways in which new technologies pry into our personal lives in ways most people don’t suspect. New products and technologies are adopted every day by consumers without consideration of the possible consequences those technologies may have on their lives, good or bad.

The message behind #Occupy Wall Street, a movement against social inequality which has spawned clones in cities around the world, appears quite multi-tonal. Ask any individual protester and you’ll receive, seemingly, a different set of reasons this is taking place. There are a lot of reasons, even now, that people would want to get up and speak out about a world gone mad around them - the over-arching message: That we’ve made too many sacrifices, as hard-working individuals, for the sake of supporting a flagging financial system that makes victims of us all.

GNU Grub 1.99 has been released and includes a long list of enhancements over its preceding version. I’ve been using its beta and release candidate versions for the past two years to boot my GNU/Linux systems directly with /boot on LVM and MD RAID, and it’s been flawless at doing that. GRUB is of course a requisite part of the boot process for anyone using 64bit systems, as the old LILO bootloader is 32bit only.

Ubuntu Server ships with a few expensive (memory, CPU, disk) periodic processes which are quite unneeded and suck up precious resources on Amazon EC2: apt-get remove landscape-client apt-get remove consolekit apt-get remove update-motd apt-get remove update-notifier-common apt-get autoremove Reclaimed 20% of my RAM right away - also, CPU and swap usage dropped like a stone. What are these? They run periodically to notify you of package updates (you should know how to do this yourself) and update the /etc/motd file whenever someone logs in.

Ubuntu 11.04’s new menubar is a user interface disaster. Here’s one way I’ve found to turn it off: echo 'unset UBUNTU\_MENUPROXY' >> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81noappmenu You can also probably remove /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80appmenu, but a package update will put it back.

/dev/mapper/vg01--vol1-storagepool1 2.7T 2.0T 579G 78% /export root@localhost:~# mdadm --add /dev/md3 /dev/sdf1 root@localhost:~# mdadm --grow /dev/md3 --raid-devices=4 root@localhost:~# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : \[linear\] \[multipath\] \[raid0\] \[raid1\] \[raid6\] \[raid5\] \[raid4\] \[raid10\] md3 : active raid5 sdf1\[3\] sdi1\[2\] sdg1\[0\] sdh1\[1\] 1953519872 blocks super 0.91 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 \[4/4\] \[UUUU\] \[>....................\] reshape = 0.2% (2396040/976759936) finish=1458.9min speed=11130K/sec md2 : active raid5 sde1\[2\] sdd1\[1\] sdc1\[0\] 976767872 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 \[3/3\] \[UUU\] md0 : active raid1 sda2\[0\] sdb2\[1\] 4192896 blocks \[2/2\] \[UU\] md1 : active raid1 sda1\[0\] sdb1\[1\] 239994880 blocks \[2/2\] \[UU\] unused devices: <none> root@localhost:~# lvresize -l +100%FREE /dev/vg01-vol1/storagepool1 Extending logical volume storagepool1 to 3.

https://www.dropbox.com/terms#privacy Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Dropbox’s Rights We may disclose to parties outside Dropbox files stored in your Dropbox and information about you that we collect when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation or compulsory legal request; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Dropbox or its users; or (d) to protect Dropbox’s property rights.

After a hiatus and some neglect I’ve put some love back into the screenshot gallery - now hooked up to facebook (maybe twitter soon) so friends can see. For those unfamiliar, what’s the point? Everyone’s got a favorite new computer, phone, wallpaper, widget, app or Internet moment they’d sometimes like to share, so why not share it. Visit the gallery in the sidebar from the site or here in this post: http://www.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-maher-koran-un-murders-sullivan-video-2011-4 “To react in such a violent way is not normal.”