Before and After.

Ever wonder why the CPU fan is running loud? You should check it out and see if the heatsink and fan are dirty.

In addition to that I replaced the Pentium D with a Core 2 Duo.

A visit to the Veterinarian.

One of our regular contributors, Meatloaf T. Cat sent us a picture. He visited the vet on Saturday and had some blood test. The good news is that Meatloaf is fine.

Dreamhost forces password reset due to security issue.

Security advisory from Dreamhost from January 20th, 2012: Changing Shell/FTP Passwords due to Security Issue

Last night we detected some unauthorized activity within one of our databases. While we don’t have evidence that customer passwords were taken at this time, we’re forcing a change out of caution.

If you are Dreamhost customer, you should change your password on the side of caution.

On related note, Dreamhost apparently saves password in clear text.