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Dell problem #112315

So, we have some dell 1850s (possibly the worst designed 1U server in the world) that we’re stuck with for now. We need to add another drive to some of them for customers. Because of the awful support/service we get from them, we usually just get the drive somewhere else and buy their [...]

ivillage.com sells for $600M

I think I should start iquanzahut.com or something, I’d settle for just $5M. I wonder if news companies are going to be able to make back their money for sales like this and myspace.
linky

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 [...]

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]

I have compressed your OS down to one command..

Which shall henceforth be known as the letter d.
I think I would fire someone who set that sort of stuff up on a server.