Clampers have to clock off as hour change crashes system
DST strikes again:
The failure of the ParkbyText system, operated by National Controlled Parking Systems (NCPS), was described by one employee contacted by a midlands motorist unable to pay for his parking at a train station as a “Y2K moment”. The system failure caused early morning panic for thousands of drivers who tried unsuccessfully to use text messages or an app to pay for their parking ahead of returning to work after the bank holiday weekend.
Impact was that they had to stop enforcement until the day passed, I think.firehol/netdata: Real-time performance monitoring, done right!
Lovely Bootstrap-based UI, easy to install (via Mark Kenny)
(tags: via:markkenny linux monitoring ops netdata sysstat metrics graphing ui)
the murky origins of Truecrypt
Allegedly, Truecrypt, the disk encryption tool, was written by a multi-millionaire international arms dealer and criminal kingpin. Hell of an assertion, this!