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Comment Backblaze (Score 1) 983

by rjshirts on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @09:38AM (#46462915) Attached to: How Do You Backup 20TB of Data?

If your ISP doesn't have data caps, look at Backblaze ( http://www.backblaze.com/ ). $5 / month for unlimited storage for one computer. Only available for Mac and Windows, but I'm sure a virtual instance of Windows if you're using a Linux box would work... These are the folks that opensourced their hardware design for their storage "pods." http://blog.backblaze.com/2011...

Comment He was really saying... (Score 5, Funny) 103

by rjshirts on Monday October 22, 2012 @06:56PM (#41734859) Attached to: Captive Beluga Was Able To Mimic Speech

"So long, and thanks for all the fish."

Comment Obligatory Darl comment (Score 1) 163

by rjshirts on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @06:24PM (#29890379) Attached to: EFF Launches "Takedown Hall of Shame"

How many billions have been tied up with his threatened takedowns of everyone and their dog who ever looked at Linux?

Comment I got one of these and... (Score 2, Funny) 267

by rjshirts on Friday October 09, 2009 @05:06PM (#29698587) Attached to: Inside the Windows 7 Launch Party Pack

The best thing in the pack (other than the free Windows) I received was a package of 10 reusable grocery bags. My wife was honestly more excited about getting those than she was about the Win7 Ultimate.

Submission + - Chimp found plotting against zoo guests 1

Submitted by rjshirts on Monday March 09, 2009 @01:17PM

rjshirts writes: In further proof that Planet of the Apes is coming to pass, researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have definitive proof that primates can plan ahead.
From the article: "Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said."
I think this explains a lot of Cowboy Neal's behavior.......

Researchers Warn of Possible BitTorrent Meltdown 294

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 13, 2009 @10:45AM from the domino-effect dept.

secmartin writes "Researchers at Delft University warn that large parts of the BitTorrent network might collapse if The Pirate Bay is forced to shut down. A large part of the available torrents use The Pirate Bay as tracker, and other available trackers will probably be overloaded if all traffic is shifted there. TPB is currently using eight servers for their trackers. According to the researchers, even trackerless torrents using the DHT protocol will face problems: 'One bug in a DHT sorting routine ensures that it can only "stumble upon success", meaning torrent downloads will not start in seconds or minutes if Pirate Bay goes down in flames.'"

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