Just scrolling through /. and noticed this article:

“Michael Geist reports that last week State of Maryland prosecutors were able to obtain a warrant ordering Verisign, the company that manages the dot-com domain name registry, to redirect the website to a warning page advising that it has been seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The message from the case is clear: all dot-com, dot-net, and dot-org domain names are subject to U.S. jurisdiction regardless of where they operate or where they were registered. This grants the U.S. a form of ‘super-jurisdiction’ over Internet activities, since most other countries are limited to jurisdiction with a real and substantial connection.”

I’ve been fearful of this for a while and watching this develop over the last year or so. I’ve never understood the legailities involved with the US seizing a site with it’s information when it’s clearly hosted in another country. I guess the loophole has been the ownership of the .com registrar, allowing a pivot for governments to obtain the remainder of the information past the actual domain name. A loophole which is now firmly stated.

I guess the only hope now is one that comes from more awareness. If you don’t want to have your domain seized due to the content on your site – don’t register it through a .com .net or .org.

Recently I purchased the Blackberry Storm which is exclusive to Vodafone here in Australia.

I have had some problems finding the initialisation commands for Vodafone in Australia.

Here is the process.

Installing the Blackberry Storm will install 3 modems:
– Standard 33600 bps Modem
– Standard 33600 bps Modem #2
– Standard Modem

Leave the first two alone, but under the standard modem in the advanced properties, enter:

+cgdcont=,,"vfinternet.au"

Next create a new manual internet connection and when it asks for a password enter *99# and do not enter any username or password

Open up the Blackberry Desktop Manager, connect to the new connection and away you go 🙂

Well as of Friday 7th December I am now RHCT certified (Red Hat Certified Technician)

I managed to pass with 100% which was awesome, now bring on the RHCE!

Over the course of about 2 weeks my raid5 system broke twice requiring new disks and a rebuild.
The controller was a Highpoint RocketRaid 1640 SATA with 4x Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATAII drives.

Rebuild time was as follows:
Build 1:
raid 5 rebuild started approx 4:25PM
5:27PM – 21%
6:24PM – 40%
7:04PM – 53%
7:28PM – 61%
8:35PM – 82%
9:25PM – 99%
9:27PM – 100%

Build 2:
raid5 rebuild started 11:51AM
2:13PM – 47%
2:51PM – 58%
3:44PM – 76%
4:25PM – 90%
4:55PM – 100%
I couldn’t find any reliable information on an estimated rebuild time, so theres my experience.