http://www.texasoverclockers.com/ Texas Overclockers en-us Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:59:19 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Texas Overclockers News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.texasoverclockers.com/images/logo.gif http://www.texasoverclockers.com/ http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=29 Google to have free video chat! I guess when you own so many resources, why the hell not? Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:59:19 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=28 ....and I've got one I'm gonna give this game a shot and see if it's worth playing. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:57:18 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27 Taken from blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=162 Quote:: Disk drive capacities double every 18-24 months. We have 1 TB drives now, and in 2009 we’ll have 2 TB drives. With a 7 drive RAID 5 disk failure, you’ll have 6 remaining 2 TB drives. As the RAID controller is busily reading through those 6 disks to reconstruct the data from the failed drive, it is almost certain it will see an URE. So the read fails. And when that happens, you are one unhappy camper. The message “we can’t read this RAID volume” travels up the chain of command until an error message is presented on the screen. 12 TB of your carefully protected - you thought! - data is gone. Oh, you didn’t back it up to tape? Bummer! So how do you get past this? RAID 6. Good idea, and an expensive (currently) fix. Last I checked, RAID 6 was reserved for business-class controllers. I have a cheaper fix, and I use this fix already. See when I built my RAID 5, I considered the possibility of the card going south. It hasn't kicked the bucket yet (knock on wood) but in the meantime I bought a drive big enough to house my entire array. Three 400GB drives means ~750GB of data available. I bought a single 750GB drive as a secondary backup that ties into the motherboard, not the RAID controller. The array backs up once a week to the other drive. Either one can die and I'm still in the clear. That also means if a rebuild error occurs, I'm also in the clear Something to think about. Thanks to Honus for sending the article my way! Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:29:08 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=26 Newly discovered vulnerability could give someone your bank account, etc. www.crn.com/security/211600489 Better patch up your windows boxes, guys and gals. Good thing is M$ caught this one early, and the code for the virus was released after hackers reverse-engineered the patch. Linux and Unix users need not apply Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:11:27 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25 That's my take on this: Endangered Species Deregulation And that's my description of our most likely fate. Sometimes, I hate our species. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:48:10 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=24 Ha. This made me laugh. Article: http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/08/04/death.penalty.fat.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Quote:: Heath says Cooey's weight, combined with the potential drug resistance, increases the risk he would not be properly anesthetized. "All of the experts agree if the first drug doesn't work, the execution is going to be excruciating," Cooey's public defender, Kelly Culshaw Schneider, said Monday. ...... Last year, Carson cited the obesity of condemned inmate Christopher Newton as one of the reasons prison officials had difficulty accessing his veins before his execution. Newton was 6 feet tall and weighed 265 pounds. I know how to fix all of this. Shoot him between the eyes. Now for some thoughts. First, I bet the girls he raped and murdered felt some excruciating pain. Second, he's a death row inmate, take him off the damn migraine pills. Oh, and quit feeding the fucker so much. Is it really that hard? HE RAPED AND KILLED GIRLS. DO WE REALLY NEED TO TREAT HIM LIKE A KING? What has this world come to... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:16:54 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=23 I changed us over to a new database server today because we were getting errors and timeouts on the old one. I've been getting annoyed for a while, but it finally drove me to a point of actually doing something about it today...haha. So watch how the site performs, and if it has hang-ups, let me know. Thanks! Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:27:39 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=22 Taken from Here. Federal scientists today opened the International Coral Reef Symposium in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., with dismal news: About half of the remaining coral reefs in U.S. waters are in poor or fair health. The findings released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were part of a comprehensive assessment of coral reefs in the Florida Keys, Hawaii and in U.S. waters around islands sprinkled throughout the Caribbean and the Pacific Ocean. "The condition of our nation's corals have been declining for several decades and half of them are in poor or fair condition," said Jenny Waddell, who edited the 569-page health assessment written by 270 co-authors. And In addition, scientists at the meeting here have been focusing on oceans becoming more acidic as they absorb nearly half of the carbon dioxide released by smokestacks and tailpipes into the atmosphere. If the trends continue, it will make it difficult or impossible for corals to extract the material from alkaline seawater that they need to build their shells. This sux. By the time the emo generation has kids and they grow up, the reefs will probably be dead. Jamie Lynn Spears' kids will be the first to see it, since she had her kid(s) starting at 15 or whatever...LOL. Anyways, not a big tech topic, but as an old school aquarium hobbyist, this concerns me, and therefore it concerns YOU. Just kidding. Or am I??? Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:45:20 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21 Looks like the supreme court finally decided we are officially allowed to own guns. It's a good thing, because mine were staying with me either way. Article: Supreme Court Rules American Citizens Have Right to Own Guns About time. This, to me, has a deeper meaning though. It seems to me that the decision was made despite that fact that it puts the justices and other higher-ups in more jeopardy while they walk up and down those pearly white steps that they always felt safe on. Of course any feeling of safety is an illusion (who has guns in DC right now? Criminals, and they couldn't care less about the laws), but I feel that of the 4 opposed to the decision, I estimate 3 of them were worrying about their own asses. Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:40:10 GMT http://www.texasoverclockers.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20 According to this article, cisco IPS is vulnerable to DoS by jumbo frame input. Whoops. Considering jumbo framing is part of most gigabit network implementations now, it might be a good idea to fix that! Hell, this even affects my network. I have jumbo frames off though, to keep things simple. Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:12:56 GMT