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#1141 Posted at: 07:45:14 - KSaff - No comments, (Click to Read/Add) -PermaLink- |
When you visit a website, you are allowing that site to access a lot of information about your computer. Combined, this information can create a kind of fingerprint — a signature that could be used to identify you and your computer. But how effective would this kind of online tracking be?The EFF is running an experiment on just that possibility right now. From my machine, Panopticlick reports:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 60,715 tested so far. Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 15.89 bits of identifying information.And it doesn't seem to make much difference if I'm using Firefox's Private Browsing mode or not. Hmmm..... You can read about the study at their Panopticlick web page. And, if you so choose, you can check to see how unique your web fingerprint is - or isn't!
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#1140 Posted at: 22:11:48 - KSaff - And you said... [Add your 2 cents worth here]
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#1139 Posted at: 21:10:07 - KSaff - And you said... [Add your 2 cents worth here]
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Our technical administrators have identified a service issue and are
working to resolve it as quickly as possible. Since your system may be
among those affected, you may experience some disruption in service
for the next 24 hours while we resolve this issue.
On December 10th at 2:00am EST, our technicians discovered a malfunctionOkay, so there would be additional delay, but all should be well at last. Not so fast, grasshopper. Yeah, the restore finished, but no files were brought back. Only the folder (directory) names were restored. So we notify the support desk, which in turn notifies the admins, which in turn notify the support desk, who reply with the following email on Dec. 17th:
in the server that hosts your site. Currently, your website is still offline.
However, we have isolated the malfunction and are working to restore your
service as quickly as possible. The restoration of your website will be
complete tonight around 10:00pm EST. You will not experience any loss of data.
We know that you trust us with one of your most important resources, your
website, and we are truly sorry for the negative impact that this outage has
had on your business or personal web presence.
Please be assured that we have done everything within our capacity in handling
this matter. Our technicians understand the priority of this, and have followed
all procedures in place to ensure limited downtime for your site, which is our
primary concern.
We are investigating any improvements we can make to our processes for the
future to ensure that an incident like this does not develop to a major outage.
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Technical Information:
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The web server that your site is hosted on has been offline due to a hardware
failure in the RAID setup.
RAID stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks" and is a technology
that employs the simultaneous use of two or more hard disk drives to achieve
greater levels of reliability and performance.
Your website is stored across the RAID system twice over different hard drives,
if one of the hard drives fails your web site will continue to run. The failed
hard drive is replaced and the data that was on the drive copied again from the
other drives within the RAID, this is known as rebuilding the RAID, and normally
happens seamlessly without any effect to the web hosting server or your website.
This is a daily task performed in our data centers and is standard for large
data storage systems such as used in the web hosting environment.
In this instance, we replaced the failed drive with a new drive and the RAID
started to rebuild. While this was happening the rebuild process failed,
corrupting all the data within the RAID set. This should not happen and we
have open tickets with the RAID manufacturer to understand what went wrong
in this case and to ensure that they can prevent this for the future.
Our system administrators do not rely on the RAID system as our only source
of backup. We run a rolling backup of the live system to external backup servers
to ensure that in a case like this we have a restore solution.
After the RAID corruption occurred, our engineers analyzed the situation and
found that the only solution left to us was to recover the data from our backup
systems. At this point the RAID was reinitialized ready to receive data, this
process itself takes several hours to perform.
This is an update with the back up you have requested.
Unfortunately, our administrators was not able to restored
files in your web space.
We sincerely apologized for the inconvenienced this has caused you.
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#1133 Posted at: 18:47:58 - KSaff - No comments, (Click to Read/Add) -PermaLink- |
He Saw It All
by Booth Brothers
I was working in town one afternoon
Attending some business affairs
I heard a commotion a couple streets over
And wondered whats happening there
A young man was running from in that direction
and stopped just to catch his breath
I asked him to please tell me what was the hurry
He smiled up at me and he said
I was trying to catch the crippled man,
Did he run past this way
He was rushing home to tell everyone
What Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself
And the deaf girl He's leaving to
Answer God's call
It's hard to believe but if you don't trust me
Ask the blind man, he saw it all
Ask the blind man, he saw it all
My friend if the troubles and burdens you carry
Are heavy and dragging you down
And you've tried everything
You can possibly think of
But there's no relief to be found
That very same Jesus that altered the future
Of the blind man, the deaf and the lame
He's still reaching out
In your hour of trouble
One touch and you're never be the same
You'll be trying to catch the cripped man
Did he run past this way
He was rushing home to tell everyone
What Jesus did today
And the mute man was telling myself
And the deaf girl He's leaving to
Answer God's call
It's hard to believe but if you don't trust me
Ask the blind man he saw it all
Ask the blind man he saw it all
Ask the blind man he saw it all
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#1130 Posted at: 22:28:16 - KSaff - No comments, (Click to Read/Add) -PermaLink- |
Q. The president's progress with the battered economy has been both praised and criticized. How well are his efforts measuring up with you?Ready to place your vote? Go here: AT&T Yahoo! - Obama and the economy. Then, come back and tell us what you thought the results would be, as well as what they actually were after you voted! 14674
- Extremely well. We are undoubtedly moving in the right direction.
- Fairly well. There's still a long way to go.
- Not well at all. His plans are hurting more than helping.
- Not sure/No opinion.
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