Category: Security

  • Lifehacker Top 10: Network utilities

    The excellent LifeHacker web site has a good list of top network utilities.

  • Doomsday photo gallery

    Doomsday photo gallery

    A photo gallery only about nuclear explosions: nuclear.fatal.ru from Russia.

  • Blu-Ray bad DRM scheme

    The very first discs for BluRay+ (BluRay discs with BD+ newest DRM technology) arrived: Rise of the Silver Surfer and The Day After Tomorrow. Unfortunately, these discs are nearly useless because of the DRM scheme used to protect them. For the first time, they use a virtual machine technology that allows to load code at…

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  • One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box

    RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…

  • 1 million people living in a 4-km-high tower

    1 million people living in a 4-km-high tower

    After all, even the most cool-headed men can sometimes appear identical to the most futuristic Sci-Fi authors. The promoters of a mad Japanese project make it obvious with this tower (should I say “sky-scrapper”?) of 13,000ft high that could welcome no less than a million souls. A tower that Taisei Construction Corporation (TCC) intends to…

  • Oil reserves, a world map

    Oil reserves, a world map

    The Sietch blog publishes an interesting map of the world where country sizes are proportional to the size of their underground oil reserves. Colors can also point to the big users of oil (headed by the United States of America) which are also the big CO2 producers. Why do you believe that every country in…

  • Craziest captchas on the web

    Craziest captchas on the web

    We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…

  • Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens

    Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens

    A super-tele-lens is a high-end beautiful piece of glass. Consequently, this is both expensive and fragile. LensCoat offers protection hoodies for the front lens of your super-tele from $13 to $25. To visit.