For the full article, please hit this link : (via Tom’s Guide)

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Now playing: The Rolling Stones – Angie
via FoxyTunes

Can’t believe I didn’t see this gem sooner : this will be very handy for a number of projects in deploying legal content, in a shared / load balanced manner.

http://www.bitlet.org/ & their blog at  http://feeds.feedburner.com/bitlet

as well as a Facebook page @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/BitLetorg/18147948185

To steal a bit directly from their pages :

Bitlet also appears to be used by several search engines, as well as famous legitimate torrent sites such as http://www.clearbits.net/ as one means of distribution.

Very impressive work, that also has streaming video as well as streaming music implications.  Another win for legal torrent distribution, as it sure helps share the bandwidth costs for small non-profit organizations trying to put documentaries out there !
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Now playing: Rush – Caress Of Steel – Lakeside Park
via FoxyTunes

Here you go   Hits from around the world, in a few minutes time, all using the exact same browser version.

Yes, obviously there’s a new vulnerability in the package they were trying to reach.  It’s how the Borg – make more Borg ! (click pic to open full size)

That url has now been added to the “deny” statements, which’ll drop further messages from an attacker at that IP  into the bit-bucket for a week, at least for my domain . . .
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Now playing: john lee hooker – 1 bourbon, 1 scotch, 1 beer
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(and of course, your humble site here supports SSL as well )

HTTPS Everywhere

HTTPS Everywhere is in Beta!

HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.

Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.

The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.

The plugin currently works for:

Note that some of those sites still include a lot of content from third party domains that is not available over HTTPS. As always, if the browser’s lock icon is broken or carries an exclamation mark, you may remain vulnerable to some adversaries that use active attacks or traffic analysis. However, the effort required to monitor your browsing should still be usefully increased.

Answers to common questions may be on the frequently asked questions page.

You can help us test forthcoming rulesets and features by installing the development branch of the extension.

Send feedback on this project to the https-everywhere AT eff.org mailing list. You can also subscribe.

(more info at their site, linked from the pictures above, and what not!)

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Now playing: Modettes – Paint It Black
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It seems to me the U.S. is not even close to the top 10 nations in download speed, and the fastest city within the United States doesn’t even break into the top 20, worldwide . . .

http://www.netindex.com/

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Now playing: Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
via FoxyTunes

Here’s how to get a fast, graphical remote login capability rolling quickly for your own Debian / Ubuntu box :

Server install info : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeNX

The NX Client side : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=736509

Essentially, you’re heading into using an app that is a lot better than the old style Xserver.

With a client that can also handle MS RDP, etc.

And it’s very fast.  And secure.  And free.  What’s not to like? (underlying technology link)

Now I just need to find that elusive Android client for the HTC Hero !

Have a grand day . . .

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Now playing: Dead Kennedys – California Über Alles
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Good stuff, me hearties, err, techies : Duplicity http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ & Unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Yarrrr !

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Now playing: The Doors – Gloria
via FoxyTunes

Based upon the statements on their page at http://www.rsync.net/ they have a company philosophy that is awfully hard to argue with.

True tech support by fellow engineers, options on single or multiple site data, urging you to encrypt before transmission, and especially the canary.

Very, very nice.  And a ton of options, for the less technical all the way to API writers.

The EFF would approve I bet !

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Now playing: Generation X – Ready Steady Go
via FoxyTunes

I’d not been won over to Last.Fm before, but it makes more sense now.

Windows, Linux, Mac, iPhone, Android.  Yep, that can keep some tunes organized across the platforms, hah.

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Now playing: AC/DC – School Days
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OnLive Cloud Gaming Service to Launch in June

Matt Peckham

Mar 10, 2010 1:37 pm

For the price of a low-end PC plus a monthly fee you’ll soon be able to play ultra-high-end games like Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Crysis. According to VentureBeat, the service, dubbed OnLive, will launch in June after eight years of research and development, offer up to 720p-caliber high-def gameplay, and cost $14.95 a month.

Billed as a games-on-demand service, OnLive handles all the intensive game processing on the server side, so your local computer doesn’t have to. What you see is tantamount to a “screen-scrape” video feed send to your client device. All the intensive computing that might normally convert the insides of your homebrew rig into a mini-bake oven renders instead in the cloud.

It’s an ancient concept in computing terms–the model’s existed since mainframes and green-screens, in fact–but until recently, no one’s come up with a system to transfer high-bandwidth video with low enough latency to pass muster with gamers.

(for more, see the full article @ http://www.pcworld.com/article/191197/onlive_cloud_gaming_service_to_launch_in_june.html/)

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Now playing: Primus – Del Davis Tree Farm
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