technology, internet oddities & other random stuff
Storage
It looks like my data snuck up into the cloud without telling me…
Feb 1st
I bought a new laptop recently. This isn’t my first PC upgrade. I think I’m on my 9th laptop at this stage. It’s always been a dreadful chore, exporting, packaging, burning, installing, copying, saving, importing and then configuring everything. it used to take a solid weekend before I was 100% comfortable. This time around was very disconcerting. I basically switched on my new laptop, installed a few tools, entered my MS Office license key and I was pretty much good to go.
Because my current work style is very fluid, where I hop between my office and home PCs, a laptop, More >
Result! I’ve got DivX working on Moblin 2.1
Nov 16th
Barky posted an easy to follow set of instructions as a comment on moblin.org. It’s bound to get lost as the old comments get purged so I’ve reproduced it below so I can find it again myself
Here’s what you need to do…
Build gstreamer modules ———————–
get the gstreamer packages: from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/
from the gst-ffmpeg directory get gst-ffmpeg-0.10.9.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-bad directory get gst-plugins-bad-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-base directory get gst-plugins-base-0.10.25.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-good directory get gst-plugins-good-0.10.16.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory from the gst-plugins-ugly directory get gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.13.tar.bz2 extract to Download directory More >
I upgraded VMware on my home server last night….
Nov 6th
Man what a disappointment! I upgraded because of the promise of 64bit guest support, only to find that it only works on CPUs with VT or AMD-V support. Also, the web UI lacks major polish compared to version 1. It’s fully functional, but it’s very ugly and everything is just crammed in.
Version 1 had a web UI for day to day management (starting & stopping VMs, tweaking networks etc.) and a separate Windows application for console access. VMware tried to make an all powerful web UI for version 2, and integrated the console functionality.
There must have been a backlash More >
The Linkup just folded….
Aug 11th
Consumer online backup provider The Linkup, formerly known as MediaMax, formerly known as StreamLoad just shut up shop and are telling people to go to box.net instead. Streamload split in half last year, spinning off a business orientated cloud storage platform called Nirvanix. I think the plan was for Streamload users to transition to the MediaMax software, and MediaMax would use the Nirvanix storage cloud as it’s back end. Well it looks like someone in MediaMax messed up in a big way. They started deleting data from the old storage infrastructure before verifying that it had made it’s way up to the More >
Look what the guys in Heise managed to do….
Aug 11th
I’m in the trade, so I am biased, but this is too big not to comment on. Researchers at Heise (publishers of German IT magazine c’t) have cracked the security in several online backup platforms, including Ahsay OBM wide open using MITM (Man-In-The-Middle) attacks. You’ve probably never heard of Ahsay but if you’re a in the market for online backup you’ve probably tried it. They sell it as a “white label” product, so the service provider just puts their logo on the splash screen and the end user is none the wiser. They’ve got over 30 resellers in Ireland alone, including local brand names More >
