100% More Bitchin' Than Dell.

“Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we’re the radical engineers that build “ass-whoopin” technology – we’re not Miss Manners and we never want to be.”

Sun via Tietokone

“We would like to kindly inform you that we are in progress of switching data centers and upgrading the free hosting cluster with better and faster servers. Please note that the switch should be completed within 72h time frame starting from 13.09.2005 11:00h AM GMT. During the switch we are expecting downtimes of the user web sites and the main web site.”

Atspace

Tämä vaikuttaa siis underground-sivun ja webkamerakuvan näkymiseen.

Virus iski Lahden kaupungin tietokoneisiin

“Lahden kaupungin tietokoneet saastuivat reilu viikko sitten viruksesta, joka pitää tietoasiantuntijat kiireisinä vielä ainakin tämän viikon.  […] Yhden koneen siivoaminen vie aikaa puolesta tunnista kolmeen tuntiin. Askaretta riittää, kun koneita on puhdistettavana tuhat. […]

Virushyökkäys on aiheuttanut katkoksia kaupungin tietoliikenteessä, mutta tietohallintopäällikkö [Marko] Monnin mukaan tärkeät perustoiminnot esimerkiksi sairaalalle on pystytty turvaamaan.”

Etelä-Suomen Sanomat via Sektori.com

"Worker error kills power to half of L.A."

“About 700,000 electric customers in Los Angeles lost power Monday afternoon after a worker mistakenly cut a wrong line, triggering a cascade of problems in the city’s power grid, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power said.”

CNN via Juha

Privacy Enhanced Computer Display

“The privacy-enhanced computer display uses a ferroelectric shutter glasses and a special device driver to produce a computer display which can be read only by the desired recipient, and not by an onlooker. […] The ferroelectric shutter glasses allow only the desired information to be viewed, while the inverse image causes unauthorized viewers to perceive only a flickering gray image […]. It is also possible to use the system to “underlay” a private message on a public display system.”

MERL via Fark.com