5th May 2007 Archive

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Germans invade Second Life

Towels parked on Sadville loungers

Second Life has become the David Hasselhoff of internet gaming. A study released today by digital census takers comScore shows that Germans make up 16 per cent of Sadville residents, making them the largest country of origin in the "game." Between January and March, a 70 per cent population explosion of Deutschlanders placed …

Music and Media 5 May 2007, 00:25
IBM will erase 100,000 workers - man with one name

Services staff to vanish

IBM could layoff - get out your really, really big box of tissues - more than 100,000 workers, according to some guy at PBS. A PBS writer calling himself Cringely claims that IBM's hush-hush 1,300 person layoff this week could be the start of a not so quiet mass cleaving. Under a project dubbed LEAN, IBM will allegedly gut at …

Business 5 May 2007, 00:29
Google's country-fried data center

Rack's lack of a ponytail of transparency

Google confirmed the deaths of more penguins this week by admitting to a mega data center in Oklahoma. The ad broker will build a $600m server plant at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. A grand total of 200 workers will enjoy the Okie version of the Google lifestyle and earn $48,000 on average. So, when Google …

Servers 5 May 2007, 01:30
Clearing swap and hibernation files properly

Privacy workshop Two neglected open books

Most privacy-conscious users are familiar with deleting files securely, that is, destructively with overwriting and with wiping free space on their disks. But two items that often get overlooked are the swap file (or swap partition), and the hibernation file. Let's start with the swap file. This is an area of your hard disk …

Security 5 May 2007, 06:02
US Trade Representative tests his verbal jujitsu out on the WTO

House of Cards We didn’t really mean it, Frist crony says

The US Trade Representative (USTR) spoke out yesterday against the compliance panel report that slammed the US for failing to bring its online gambling policies in line with previous WTO rulings. The new American argument is really something of a Trojan horse for the international body - the USTR now claims that the US will …

Law 5 May 2007, 23:34