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Our library uses twitter. They rock.
We’re experimenting with a Web service called twitter to bring you very brief library news announcements (schedule changes, deadlines, updates on the Mahoney Library expansion etc.). as well as various research tips and tidbits about our library services. Check our twitter page each day for the latest announcements at http://twitter.com/srjclibrary .
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Only in *NIX could you order pizzas from Domino’s Pizza with any topping, any size, any crust using only the command line!
Have I got your attention now?" asked Mona Shaw of the Comcast payment center employees as she smashed their keyboard, monitor and telephone. The 75-year-old woman was outraged after multiple delays and broken promises surrounding her Comcast Triple Play installation.
You wouldn’t shoot a policeman …
Somehow I missed this article from a few weeks ago. It’s quite fascinating.
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
In the coming months, commentators around the world would look back at this moment and debate its significance. But for Aaviksoo, the meaning was clear. This was not the first botnet strike ever, nor was it the largest. But never before had an entire country been targeted on almost every digital front all at once, and never before had a government itself fought back. "The attacks were aimed at the essential electronic infrastructure of the Republic of Estonia," Aaviksoo tells me later. "All major commercial banks, telcos, media outlets, and name servers — the phone books of the Internet — felt the impact, and this affected the majority of the Estonian population. This was the first time that a botnet threatened the national security of an entire nation."
Welcome to Web War one.
Storm worm botnet more powerful than top supercomputers - Security - www.itnews.com.au
"In terms of power, the botnet utterly blows the supercomputers away," said Matt Sergeant, chief anti-spam technologist with MessageLabs, in an interview. "If you add up all 500 of the top supercomputers, it blows them all away with just 2 million of its machines. It’s very frightening that criminals have access to that much computing power, but there’s not much we can do about it."
Slashdot | Storm Botnet Is Behind Two New Attacks
We’ve gotten a number of submissions about the new tricks the massive Storm botnet has been up to. Estimates of the size of this botnet range from 250K-1M to 5M-10M compromised machines. Reader cottagetrees notes a writeup at Exploit Prevention Labs on a new social engineering attack involving YouTube. The emails, which may be targeted at people who use private domain registrations, warn the recipient that their "face is all over ‘net" on a YouTube video. The link is to a Storm-infected bot that attacks using the Q4Rollup exploit (a package of about a dozen encrypted exploits). And reader thefickler writes that the recent wave of "confirmation spam" is also due to Storm, as was the earlier, months-long "e-card from a friend" series of attack emails.
This is a wonderful browser based on Firefox. I’ve been using the beta for about two months now, and I can’t go back 
Notice that I’ve been posting on my blog a lot more lately? Flock makes it easy, with its integrated media bar, web clipboard and blog editor.
Go try it out!
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