The more traffic you get, the happy you are, right? But not until blowing up a hard drive like Neowin.net forum. Their forum has over 9,000 members signing daily. The hard drive below was Quantum Fireball CR 8.4 AT according to them. Holy cow. Looks like the hard drive got smoked and fireballed.
fav.or.it, the new unique RSS reader allows you to post comments without leaving its site. Which means, you can leave comments while you are reading the content in fav.or.it reader. This is an impressive feature. They are now in public beta. Registration of an account is through invitation only. You can register your interest for fav.or.it and they will contact you once they move to the next phase.
Halite BitTorrent Client is yet another cool Open Source Software BitTorrent Client after Deluge. Halite is named after the mineral (the mineral form of sodium chloride, NaCl, commonly known as rock salt). It is written in C++ using Unicode and can only be run on Windows 2000 or higher and based on the excellent libtorrent library from Rasterbar Software. This software also relies heavily on the Boost libraries.
Toshiba has officially announced on 19 February 2008 the end of HD DVD players and recorders after losing to Blu-ray Disc backed by Sony. The format war is over, Blu-ray Disc has won. But, Toshiba will continue to provide full product support and after sales service.
Having one format will definitely beneficial to consumers. The difference between HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc is the capacity. A HD DVD holds 15GB on a single layer disc and 30GB on a dual layer disc while a Blu-ray Disc holds 25GB on a single layer disc and 50GB on a dual layer disc.
Are you one of the victim of HD DVD?
Source: Toshiba
Qassia is a new social networking website just released on 4 January 2008. Its on closed beta right know. You can sign up by invitation from an existing member like me. After joining Qassia, you will get $500 Qassia dollars when inviting others in 12-hour period time.
Do you know what is a File Transfer Protocol (FTP)? FTP (RFC959) is a network protocol used to transfer data files from one computer to another through a network. The risk of using FTP is notable by using plaintext username and password. This is very insecure. Your can be easily sniffed.
This post describes how to install and setup a secured FTP server using vsftpd 2.0.5 with TLS in CentOS 5.1 the easy way.
Sorry to keep you guys and gals waiting for my LEGO bricks work post. From left to right: -
1. Small Fire Brigade Engine
2. Jeep Rescuer
3. Multipurpose Vehicle Car
4. Sport Car
5. Police Car
I joined another paid to click website. You will be paid to simply click a link and view a website for 30 seconds to make money online. Get $0.01 for each website you view. You can also earn more with $0.01 for each website your referrals view. A minimum payout of $10.00 can be made through PayPal.
With ADrive, you will have no longer worry on running out of space in your local hard drive or external hard drive. They are the leading free online web storage providing huge amount of storage on the Internet to the community, unbelievable 50GB of storage space. You can be ensured that your files are securely stored. You can backup and access to your files virtually anywhere anytime. Their basic storage plan gives you the freedom to store all your files includes music, video, photos, documents, and etc.
Deluge 0.5.8.4 released on 14 Feb 2008. This release fixes a possible I/O hang and adds a couple of new features as well. I would like to include the changelog below from the 0.5.8.1 version.
A simple guy trying to put his name into the WWW place.