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Onsight Data is pleased to announce that our data center has signed deals with both Verio and Level3 to get a 10G link from each of them in Seattle.

This requires building out fiber paths so the ETA is late October or November time frame. This will bring xeon.onsightdata.com's network uplink capacity to 50Gs.

Seattle, WA (sea01) - 30Gs now going to 50Gs
Internap - 2x 10G
Qwest - 1x 10G
Verio - 1x 10G (coming Q4 2008)
Level3 - 1x 10G (coming Q4 2008)

Primus Telecommunications Canada is opening its newest Internet Data Centre (IDC) in Edmonton, Alberta.

The new facility addresses the demand from local small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for better IT support by housing and managing mission critical computer server hardware and software assets in the province.

To demonstrate further its commitment to the Alberta market, Primus has added 12 sales employees and five network staff in Edmonton, and seven sales employees in Calgary.

"Our SMB customers have told us that in order to stay competitive, they need to avoid a crisis of complexity - too many IT options and not enough clarity," said AJ Byers, Senior Vice President, Primus Business Services. "With Alberta's economy growing so quickly SMBs need complete solutions that allow them to focus on their core business."

Primus Canada's new, larger sales force will allow the Company to service the majority of the province, allowing SMBs in both urban and suburban settings to take advantage of Primus Business Services' offerings and realize business efficiencies.

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Joomla 1.5.7 [Wovusani]. This is a security release and contains a number of bug fixes, improvements as well as security fixes. It is strongly recommended that users immediately upgrade. It has been nearly four weeks since Joomla 1.5.6 was released on August 12, 2008. The Development Working Group's goal is to continue to provide regular, frequent updates to the Joomla community.

Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world's brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to central Canada, SecTor provides an unmatched opportunity for IT Professionals to collaborate with their peers and learn from their mentors. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto, SecTor runs two full days, October 7th and 8th. The event features Keynotes from North America's most respected and trusted experts. Speakers are true security professionals with depth of understanding on topics that matter. SecTor is a must attend event for every IT Professional.

http://www.sector.ca/default.htm

Good luck finding drivers for this wireless usb adapter. Microsoft has to the worst company website I have ever hunted for drivers for a piece of hardware.

So now that i found them i figured i should mirror them . They are available in the download section.

http://www.onsightdata.com/support/downloads/file/38-msbnsoftware

 

 

I purchased this adapter recently for an install and of course no drivers included with the adapter. A quick check of the website and they claim the drivers are included with windows xp.

Negative.

Hunting around on the internet i finally found the driver that worked . I figured I would post it on here for anyone else looking for it .

http://www.onsightdata.com/support/downloads/file/39-usb-serial

 

The Joomla! Project has released an advisory to address a password reset vulnerability in the Joomla! content management system. This vulnerability, which may allow non-validating tokens to be forged, is due to a flaw in the reset token validation mechanism. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker to reset the password of the first enabled user, which is typically an administrator user.

US-CERT encourages users to review the Joomla! advisory and upgrade to version 1.5.6 (or newer) or apply the patch listed in the advisory.

Onsight Data has upgraded all clients websites running Joomla to 1.5.6.

From joomla.org 

This morning, Joomla.org was defaced a few hours after releasing our new design. This is not a new security issue, but only poor system administration practices on our part. When we updated our Web sites with the Joomla 1.5.6 security fix released yesterday, we simply forgot to update one of our small, non-public development sites.  

Now, we could offer many excuses why it was overlooked-we were focused on fixing this vulnerability, creating the packages, and getting the word out. But the truth is, there is no excuse. This is an obvious and sobering reminder to the Joomla Project that staying current with upgrades is the most important step towards protecting your Web site.   Nothing but good will come of this experience. There's nothing like first hand experience to remind us of the trust our end user community places in us and the importance of working harder and smarter towards improving security.  

 Please, upgrade to Joomla 1.5.6 now, if you have not already done so. In retrospect, we wish we'd followed our own advice more diligently.

Technology Company Offers New Look at Search

MENLO PARK, Calif.-July 28, 2008-Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy. Cuil (www.Cuil.com) has indexed 120 billion Web pages, three times more than any other search engine.

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today's search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query. It then organizes similar search results into groups and sorts them by category.

Cuil gives users a richer display of results and offers organizing features, such as tabs to clarify subjects, images to identify topics and search refining suggestions to help guide users to the results they seek.

"The Web continues to grow at a fantastic rate and other search engines are unable to keep up with it," said Tom Costello, CEO and co-founder of Cuil. "Our significant breakthroughs in search technology have enabled us to index much more of the Internet, placing nearly the entire Web at the fingertips of every user. In addition, Cuil presents searchers with content-based results, not just popular ones, providing different and more insightful answers that illustrate the vastness and the variety of the Web."

Cuil's technology was developed by a team with extensive history in search. The company is led by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Mr. Costello researched and developed search engines at Stanford University and IBM; Ms. Patterson is best known for her work at Google, where she was the architect of the company's large search index and led a Web page ranking team. They refused to accept the limitations of current search technology and dedicated themselves to building a more comprehensive search engine. Together with Russell Power, Anna's former colleague from Google, they founded Cuil to give users the opportunity to explore the Internet more fully and discover its true potential.

"Since we met at Stanford, Tom and I have shared a vision of the ideal search engine," said Anna Patterson, President and COO of Cuil. "Our team approaches search differently. By leveraging our expertise in search architecture and relevance methods, we've built a more efficient yet richer search engine from the ground up. The Internet has grown and we think it's time search did too."

Cuil's methods guarantee online privacy for searchers. Since the search engine ranks pages based on content instead of number of clicks, personal data collection is unnecessary, so personal search history is always private.

Summary of Cuil's features:

• Biggest Internet search engine-Cuil has indexed 120 billion Web pages, 3x more than any other search engine
• Organized results-Cuil's magazine-style layout separates results by subject and allows further search by concept or category
• Different results-Unlike other search engines, Cuil ranks results by the content on each page, not its popularity
• Complete privacy protection-Cuil does not keep any personally identifiable information on users or their search histories

About Cuil

Cuil (pronounced COOL) is a search engine that combines the largest Web index with content-based relevance methods, organized results, and complete user privacy. The company's next generation approach to search is the result of proprietary breakthroughs in search architecture and ranking algorithms. Cuil's employees have extensive experience in search, having worked at Google, IBM, eBay, AltaVista, Stanford University, the Internet Archive and other technology companies and research centers. Cuil is located in Menlo Park, California and has received series A funding from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners, and series B funding from Madrone Capital Partners. Cuil derives its name from an old Irish word for knowledge, reflecting the background of co-founder and CEO, Tom Costello, who hails from Drogheda, Ireland.

For more information, please visit www.cuil.com