Nuclear Monster

Category: computers

  • Probably no Iranian kill-screen coming up

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    Jack Slater
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    Schneier’s write-up of the Stuxnet worm is good: None of this points to the Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran, though. Best I can tell, this rumor was started by Ralph Langner, a security researcher from Germany. He labeled his theory “highly speculative,” and based it primarily on the facts that Iran had an usually…

  • Setting up Xymon/Hobbit with nginx

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    Old Man Feld
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    (Ed: This article is outdated, please see the updated version at feld’s site by clicking here) I just set this up today and it was a pain in the arse, so I figured I’d leave a trace of it somewhere on the internets. I hope this helps you.

  • OWC Mercury On-The-Go SATA Case Review

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    Jack Slater
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    After the futile Tango Pro review, I’m ready for all kinds of unexpected failures in attempting to fit this over-sized hard-drive behemoth into a case designed for regular 2.5″ SATA drives. OWC was theoretically ready for this situation with their OWC Mercury On-The-Go enclosure. It is available in a variety of port configurations, but I…

  • Adesso Mechanical Keyboard MKB-135B Review

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    Jack Slater
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    There are a lot of reasons to be interested in mechanical keyboards over rubber-dome models. Much of what I could tell you about rubber-dome keyboards versus mechanical switching has been already said. Rather than reinventing the wheel we’ll reread a classic part of what Dan said about mechanical keyboards: The big deal about these old keyboards…

  • Tango Pro Review?

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    Jack Slater
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    I had planned on reviewing this Tango Pro USB/Firewire HDD enclosure this weekend. I drove down to Microcenter, picked up the Tango Pro, and then since Microcenter didn’t have the HDD I wanted I got that from Fry’s. You’ve probably heard of the drive I wanted to use, it is the only 1 Terabyte 2.5…