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Strib Gets a Virus (No, Really)

submitted by Cristina Cordova

Feb 23 2010 — 10:56am

According to MinnPost’s David Brauer, the Strib website was hit by a malware infection on Sunday.

If you’re at work and having trouble connecting to Startribune.com, your web administrator may have blocked access due to a malware outbreak Sunday.

“Malware (short for malicious software) is software designed to infiltrate and infect computers.”

According to Strib Digital Media Executive Director Jason Erdahl, a “remnant ad” contained the malicious software. While the ad was pulled as soon as the virus was discovered, problems were still being reported yesterday.

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Latest comment — Stuffy: And to the original point, how many "remnant" advertisers does it take to fill out the Strib's inventory? Or to bust its chops?

Monster Supercomputer from Rochester

submitted by Max Sparber

Feb 10 2009 — 12:23am

From PC World: According to Big Blue, Sequoia will have the power of 2 million laptops. Its closest rival, the world’s first petaflop machine, Roadrunner, can only perform at speeds equivalent to 100,000 laptops combined.

I, for one, can’t wait to see how the erotic online industry makes use of such a powerful computer.

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Latest comment — JC65: "only... 100,000 laptops" I like how the fastest computer in the world (maybe second fastest depending on the status of Jaguar at ORNL) is dismi...