Facebook Running Aggressive and Confusing Censorship

Facebook Running Aggressive and Confusing Censorship After Facebook finally managed to solve the bug leading to ban of the word “Palestinian” from page titles, it suddenly appeared to be not their only trouble. The news is that now people can’t use the last name "Arab" for opening accounts, because the system prevents them from doing so. Recently, Professor Brynen from the Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet made an attempt to create a Facebook page for his group. Surprisingly, he found himself unable to do so, because the system prevented him from it by a rogue moderating process banning the word "Palestinian" from being used in page titles. After being notified about the trouble, Facebook fixed it and even apologized to Rex Brynen, explaining that they use an automated system, which...

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Data Transfer Record: 186 Gbps

Data Transfer Record: 186 Gbps Researchers have set a new 2-way network data transfer rate record of 186 Gbps in order to help work through tons of information spewing out of the Large Hadron Collider. The researchers at Caltech, University of Michigan, and others have recently cooperated to push the limits of the amount of data that could be transferred in a wide area network. Today the computer experts acknowledge that very large quantities of data are able to be crammed down optical fibres and sent throughout the globe from continent to continent. The speeds in question are apparently equivalent to moving 2,000,000 Gb per...

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Fixing Intermittent DNS Problems on Ubuntu 12.04

Fixing Intermittent DNS Problems on Ubuntu 12.04 I’ve been having some intermittent DNS resolution failures on my recent installation of Ubuntu 12.04. Googling showed that I’m not the only one, and the solution found here seems to be working for me: view sourceprint? 1.sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf Then comment out (by prepending a #) the line dns=dnsmasq. Finally: view sourceprint? 1.sudo restart network-manager ...

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10 Ways I Avoid Trouble in the Database

10 Ways I Avoid Trouble in the Database 1. Avoid destructive commands From time to time I’m working with new recruits and bringing them up to speed in operations. The first thing I emphasize is care with destructive commands. What do I mean here? Well there are all sorts of them. SQL commands such as DROP table & DROP database. But also TRUNCATE and DELETE are all destructive. They’re easy to execute but harder to undo. Think of all the steps it would take to restore from your backup. If you are logged in as root there are many many ways to shoot your own foot. I hope you know this right? rm has lots of options that can be very difficult to step back from like -r (recursive) and -f (force). Better to not use the command at all and just move the file or directory you’re...

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