Check out the new way to shop on Steam...

http://store.steampowered.com/about/newstore

Found this one yesterday and thought that it looked pretty good.

http://xmodulo.com/2014/09/harden-apache-web-server-mod_security-mod_evasive-centos.html

No 3. Tell a compelling personal story. I'm not really sure where they are going with this one. They don't elaborate either.

With the new release of the latest long term support, Asterisk 13 is out and with new features focused on primarily stability and security. This new release will be supported for four years.

QoS is the main (only) advantage of the non-Internet option. It's a question of which is more important to you - guaranteed quality or reliability, cost and flexibility.

Traditional phones and cell phones have unreliable quality. VoIP over the Internet is often as good or better.

Your line quality is a major factor.

No 6. Don't Sell Yourself Short. Okay, mom.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UtopicUnicorn/ReleaseNotes

Found this company today. Not cheap but they make some really cool stuff for small businesses.

http://www.bluelounge.com/

Latest reports suggest that not only is the US economy creating lots of jobs but IT, especially, is doing well and is looking to stay that way through 2015.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2838415/open-source-software/open-source-has-won-let-the-infighting-begin.html

This quote is interesting: "In fact, Cloudera co-founder Mike Olson has declared, “No dominant platform-level software infrastructure has emerged in the last 10 years in closed-source, proprietary form.”

Repeat:** None**."

Whole site is offline? Maybe they are on AWS, which is having rolling blackouts.

That's not too bad. I can pull off availability of 35 hours a week.

Today InfoWorld has a reviews of the IoSafe 214 NAS appliance. This is a fire and water safe Synology NAS unit. Really neat stuff. I've seen it mentioned here a couple of times and IoSafe is here in MangoLassi too!

@Brett-at-ioSafe

I was looking at the SAR report on my UEB box and noticed that continuously, all day long, the Postmaster process is using a tremendous amount of CPU. Is this normal? Is there something that I should do to adjust this?

Here is the output from top, these are the top three values:

31631 postgres  25   0 1415m 276m  30m R 100.0  2.3   1:10.26 postmaster
31732 postgres  15   0 1165m  10m 9264 R 69.9  0.1   0:02.10 postmaster
31734 postgres  19   0 1331m 498m 332m R 58.2  4.1   0:01.75 postmaster

Those seem like extremely high values.

@johnhooks said:

Ya, 8 weeks for a help desk position to help Frank who can't get this POS to turn on.

That's a really long time to have hired someone before you have any idea if they are going to be able to do the job. That is a ton of training for an entry level position.

Softpedia discusses Windows in China and China's desire to replace it with Linux. Of course, China has tried this in the past and has failed. Anyone remember Red Flag Linux? But that China is still trying to do this says something. Windows is definitely struggling with the third world markets and that is not going to change anytime soon unless Microsoft makes their OS free and finds a way to assure other markets that it is not encumbered with NSA backdoors and the like.

China is working with Canonical to make Ubuntu Kylin to address the Chinese market.

This is a new tool that I was not aware of existing previously. DDRescue can help to recover a failed partition or drive. It does a block by block copy and it does not fail just because a sector cannot be read.

Link includes instructions on using the utility.

At seventeen computer jobs are tough to get but possible. Are you looking to pay some bills or to get a career underway? Doing some intern or volunteer work can get you a long way very quickly if you are able to get it.

http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/the-failed-promise-of-html5.html

@Dashrender since the vendor should have little to no way to identify an OS installation as being virtual or physical, it works out well. Don't ask, don't tell.