More than half of Ubuntu’s production servers had to be pulled offline after a security breach caused those servers to actively attack other machines.

According to a notice in the Ubuntu weekly newsletter, 5 of the 8 servers that are loco hosted had to be shut down after an investigation showed a variety of security problems.  read more

Skype apparently is back online now for some–test calls seem to work without issue. Unfortunately the damage to Skype’s reputation is done.

Whether Skype’s outage was due to an exploit or an algorithm doesn’t really matter. What matters is there were small businesses that actually depended on Skype and were let down. I’d certainly think twice before relying on Skype.  read more

In the world of romance, one single rule applies: Make the woman happy. Do something she likes, and you get points. Do something she dislikes and points are subtracted. You don't get any points for doing something she expects. Sorry, that's the way the game is played. Here is a guide to the point

system:

SIMPLE DUTIES

You make the bed (+1)

You make the bed, but forget the decorative pillow (0)

You throw the bedspread over rumpled sheets (-1)

You go out to buy her what she wants (+5) In the snow (+8)

But return with Beer (-5)  read more

Nothing can be more futile than an argument on who was responsible for the Partition of the subcontinent. With the sequence of events stretching back 60 years, such an exercise can only be an academic distraction. But it is clear that the differences between Hindus and Muslims had become so acute by the beginning of the Forties that something like Partition had become inevitable.

To those who regret the division, I can only say that the British could have probably kept the subcontinent united if they were willing to ladle out more powers in 1942 when Sir Stafford Cripps tried to reconcile the demand for Independence within his limited brief. The Congress party could also have avoided the division if it had accepted in 1946 the Cabinet Mission proposals of a Centre with limited powers and zonal and provincial autonomy. But these are ifs of history, which at best are hypothetical and at worst subjective.  read more

You said "Jump!'
So I went in.
The water was right
so I took a swim.

The waves engulfed me
and under I went,
still unsure what it all meant.  read more

A Grandpa and a Grandma always got very happy when they recalled the old days they were together.. They made a decision, one day, to make it "yesterday once more"..

They made a plan to date on the river bank they used to go when they were young.  read more