The 15-petabyte network and the atom smasher

Enough information to fill multiple CDs every second is flowing across the world on a network 1,000 times faster than home broadband.

Terabytes of data are streaming through dedicated fiber-optic links between laboratories and universities globally in preparation for the world’s largest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, being switched on in August at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super-high-bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes–15 million gigabytes–of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years.

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What Exactly Is Internet Information Services?

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS, formerly known as Internet Information Server) is a set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows. It is the world’s second most popular web server in terms of overall websites, behind Apache HTTP Server. The servers currently include FTP, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP and HTTPS.

Secure your laptops, seriously.

Years ago, I worked for a medium-sized company with about 130 employees. We shared one laptop. No kidding, but back then, laptops were expensive and as we all had all the hardware and software we needed at the office, management didn’t see the need to invest in laptops. You had to sign the thing out and it was never available, and at 100 pounds soaking wet, I could barely carry the thing to the car anyway. I don’t know why they called them laptops back then — it certainly didn’t fit in my lap!

Finding the name behind the GMail address.

Finding the name behind the GMail address by ZDNet’s Nathan McFeters — Ah, this is a fun little trick. I’m not sure if it represents a vulnerability, but certainly I expect Google will try to get rid of this feature. The SecuriTeam blog has reported that it is possible to expose the full name of the user who registered a GMail account. This is, of course, contingent [...]

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking’s end?

Do problems with Wikipedia presage social networking’s end? by ZDNet’s Paul Murphy — Wikipedia’s mission is to provide objective information for all - but even a cursory examination of subjects ranging from the hotly political (global warming) to the nearly apolitical (CPU Architectures) show that it simply isn’t meeting its mandate. So why not? and what does this tell us about other open sites?

Thank You, Thank You and again I say Thank You!

Hello everyone!

The past few days I have been keeping a relatively close check on the statistics of our blog. I must admit, what I found out came as a huge surprise! It seems as if we have quite a large following!

I know to some it may seem silly, but it gives me a warm feeling every time I get any feedback from you all. Whether it be to correct my statements or to tell us how it helped you, I love hearing it! And for those of you who follow our blog, thank you! It really means the world to us at LPF Systems that someone, somewhere out in ‘cyberspace’ is getting peace of mind. Even if it is only something small.

For that, I would like to thank you all personally. Keep the comments coming guys!

Sincerely,

-Kenny

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