Category Archives: Security

I’m a Climate Scientist

Scientists at the University of New South Wales have been tuning their models to interpret temperature, rainfall and soil condition variables. They want you to know that global warming leads to extreme weather conditions in the South Pacific region:

Denialists deny
This in your dreams
’cause climate change means
Greater extremes,
Shit won’t be the norm
Heatwaves
Bigger badder storms
“The Green house effect
is just a theory, sucker”
Yeah so is gravity
Float away motha’ f**cker

China Regulates Fictional Currencies

Explained by the Guardian

“Prison bosses made more money forcing inmates to play games than they do forcing people to do manual labour,” Liu told the Guardian. “There were 300 prisoners forced to play games. We worked 12-hour shifts in the camp. I heard them say they could earn 5,000-6,000rmb [£470-570] a day. We didn’t see any of the money. The computers were never turned off.”

The prisoner story is just one part to a much larger story about trading online goods, which the government is trying to regulate

It is estimated that 80% of all gold farmers are in China and with the largest internet population in the world there are thought to be 100,000 full-time gold farmers in the country.

In 2009 the central government issued a directive defining how fictional currencies could be traded, making it illegal for businesses without licences to trade.

Fictional currencies? That’s an interesting way to look at the problem. What would they suggest as less fictional currencies? Pieces of paper? Cattle?

vSphere HA and DRS Audit Script

A free script is available from Alan Renouf to check vCenter clusters for compliance with the Epping/Denneman book on HA and DRS.

This is not to be used as a replacement for the HA and DRS book, quite the opposite, it is used to compliment the book and tells you which pages to look at for information within the book.

So far I have only read the first 50 pages so all the information in V1.0 of the script is related to the first 50 pages but as I read more I will add more checks and update the script.