Archive for February, 2006

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Sudanese man forced to marry a goat

Punishment fitting the crime and all that, but still, won’t someone PLEASE think of the kids.

Silent drive corruption (LVM — the silent killer)

UPDATE: it appears to be software raid, rather than LVM, that is causing the corruption. More tomorrow after more testing.
There’s a fair amount of disk space on my mythtv backend, set up like this:
Onboard SATA 2×250GB -> md0 (raid 1) -> LVM [1]
PCI SATA 2×300GB -> md1 (raid 1) -> LVM [2]
The LVM […]

Google image cache found to be violating copyright

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11488787/
A federal court judge has concluded that an image search service run by Google Inc. infringes on the copyrights of adult entertainment company Perfect 10 Inc. by displaying small versions of its images in search results.
Perfect 10 is known for suing anyone who abuses their copyright (including affiliates who promote them, or people who even […]

Center of the sun

No not really, but guess what it is!(posted from a treo 600 — please excuse any typos)

Microsoft identifies Symantic antivirus as a trojan

I mean, I’m sure it’s a complete accident that Microsoft’s competition to an antivirus labels it as PWS.Bancos.A Password Stealer, it’s not like there would be any reason to let that slip accidentally. [edit: fixed the URL]