Honestly it seems like a good idea. If I get my files encrypted it's nice to know that the actual person who did it is the one contacting me and to know that the process is actually reversible and that everything wasn't just scrambled.

The tables have turned, it's the women after men for their bodies now! I wonder if this will be a new trend in convict dating. Convicts can have dating sites that list their approximate death value to entice potential "investors."

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/linux-101-hacks-ebook/

I vote for the crown.

NetworkWorld has an article on Three Way to Run Linux on a Chromebook.

• Install Linux instead of ChromeOS (big surprise there)
• Run Ubuntu inside of ChromeOS
• I actually couldn't find a third way in the article.

I need caffeine. Someone bring me some coffee!!

And by secure it, they mean "do it now." WordPress looking to push users into greater security.

For those old enough to remember, it is back...

Some tools like Unitrends will do a backup and restore to disparate "hardware" which should work for moving between environments.

@scottalanmiller said:

This one is pretty funny, not aware of the hot spare. Over five years on SW and never saw a hot spare come up before.

Just saw this on the Better Than Aliens thread. What the F%$#, how does that happen?

@NetworkNerd said:

Suppose you have an application server that is configured to reference a back-end database server by fqdn. I am curious if all traffic stays within the ESXi host. What about if the app server references the database server by ip instead? I would think that would definitely stay within the host but am not sure about the DNS portion (thinking it may actually slow down communication between the VMs).

FQDN, short name and IP address will all be identical - in all three cases it references by IP Address when it actually does the connection. There is no way at the IP layer (layer 3) to use DNS. DNS is over and done with by that point.

Who is able to make this into AJ's new avatar?

http://keepvid.com/

Found this and thought that I should share.

I hate when I jump over a fence and find out, too late, that it is a brown field.

Rogue waves happen wherever they freaking want to happen. Because they are rogues. They don't follow your rules!

This isn't getting any more clear.

I would guess that being able to speak English well would be a major "selling point" for a venture like this. @thanksajdotcom would probably have a unique opportunity to easily interface with a lot of tourists?

I use Hola VPN at home (for Netflix and things like that.) It works well. But after starting to use the free version of it and going to Google, Google gave me a warning that there has been questionable activity coming from my machine and gave me a recaptcha security prompt to prove that I was a human.

This has me a little concerned. Obviously the free version of Hola uses my computer as a peer so people are coming through my machine and accessing the Internet as if they are at my IP address. Is this a normal thing that happens to Hola users? Or is this actually indicative that there is something more malicious being done through Hola?

I should mention that the machine in question is pretty much used for nothing but watching Netflix, YouTube, Amazon, and similar. It is hooked directly to a TV and not used for any amount of general surfing or anything like that. Pretty much just a media center and this happened about two days after Hola was first installed. So pretty confident that it is related, especially given what Hola VPN does. Also, ran an AV scan immediately and nothing was found. It had AV on and scanning before, but you know, to be sure.