Mac Pro RAID Card and 3 Terabytes Hard Drives.

Mac Pro RAID Card with model number A1247 does not have full support for 3 terabytes hard drives. This Mac Pro RAID card would only be able to recognize maximum 2.2 terabytes of the hard drive capacity.

The discussion threads at Apple Support Communities.

The built-in Serial-ATA controller in Mac Pro supports 3TB hard drives.

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.

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.

 

More info on LinkedIn spam.

We received more informations on the spam purporting from LinkedIn. It is obvious the emails do not come from LinkedIn. Email sender can easily be spoofed.

From the email headers:

Received: from static.3.100.40.188.clients.your-server.de ([188.40.100.3])

Received: from titan361.startdedicated.com ([62.75.229.17])

Received: from mx.silentpro.de ([212.12.114.235])

Received: from kultserver.de ([46.163.74.103])

Received: from ks35158.kimsufi.com ([213.251.184.181])

The spam even dares to say:

Stop spamming me!

If you see any mails purporting from LinkedIn, do not click on any of the links. As a matter of fact, make it a habit not to click on any links in emails.