Monthly Archives: October 2013

WaPo – How the NSA infiltrates Google data centres worldwide

  According to the article in Wednesday, 2013 October 30, of The Washington Post titled NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say this “back-of-the-cocktail-napkin” details how the NSA gets into Google’s data centres around the world. Apparently … Continue reading

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Envy shows up everywhere…

You’d have to be living in the middle of nowhere (e.g. central Siberia) and totally off the grid to have missed the news stories on the NSA data interception. Anyone in the data security world really just had their suspicions … Continue reading

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French Gendarmerie Switches to Linux

I read about the French Gendarmerie nationale beginning the switch from Microsoft to open source software some time ago. The first step was moving from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice starting back in 2004. They moved 35,000 (yes, thousand) users over to OpenOffice. They are … Continue reading

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U.S. Govt Shutdown – Voyager 2 responds via Twitter

This is a great tweet from NASA’s Voyager 2 probe. Someone at NASA has a great sense of humour… But did I hear “Open the pod bay door, HAL”??? NASAVoyager2‏@NASAVoyager2 Due to government shutdown, we will not be posting or … Continue reading

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New Weather Station Up

On Saturday afternoon (September 28th) I installed the new Davis Instruments Vantage Pro2  (VP2) weather station with the IP-based WeatherLink IP data logger. I installed the Integrated Sensor Suite (ISS – Davis-speak for the combined rainfall and temperate sensor with … Continue reading

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