Archive for November, 2007

Overnight shift to be classified as ‘probable’ cancer cause

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Overnight shift to be classified as ‘probable’ cancer cause
Story Highlights
Research finds higher rates of breast and prostate cancer among overnight workers

About 20 percent of the working population in developed countries works night shifts

International Agency for Research on Cancer to list them as probable carcinogen

The American Cancer Society says it will likely follow suit

LONDON, England (AP)—Like [...]

Toronto Downspout disconnection program

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Downspout disconnection program

Be part of the water-pollution-solution

By making a phone call, you can help:

Reduce your risk of basement flooding
Reduce pollution to our creeks, rivers and Lake Ontario
Make Toronto’s beaches cleaner for swimming
How?
When you call the City’s Downspout Disconnection Program at 416-392-1807, we’ll arrange to disconnect your downspouts free of charge. Disconnecting your downspout reduces the [...]

Demonoid Message

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

Demonoid Message:

“”The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding. “”

Demonoid is TOTALLY offline – CIRA hit the webhost this time

THOSE CIRA BASTARDS

Standard RAID levels

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

[edit] Standard RAID levels
Main article: Standard RAID levels
A quick summary of the most commonly used RAID levels:

RAID Level 0RAID 0
Striped set (minimum 2 disks) without parity. Provides improved performance and additional storage but no fault tolerance. Any disk failure destroys the array, which becomes more likely with more disks in the array. A single disk [...]

Fag

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Fag
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fag or FAG may refer to:

A British colloquialism for cigarette
Fagging – reference to a junior boy who acted as servant to a senior boy at a British independent school. “Fag” came to mean a tedious or labour-intensive chore, and “fagged out” to mean exhausted by hard work.
Faggot (epithet) or fag, an [...]