Many BitTorrent leechers like to use BitComet because of its performance comparing to memory footprint comparing to the most famous Azureus. Azureus may be the best but it is so huge. Machines older than 1 year are not recommended to run Azureus. Furthermore, your physical memory should be at least 512 MB.

However, BitComet is banned by most of private trackers. Private trackers mean to tracker keeping track of upload and download ratio for controlling leechers. Most of them add a key to metadata so that the session could be identified as a known user. However, this mechanism is useless in front of BitComet. BitComet has their own tracker so every instances of BitComet can share pool of peers together in centralized fashion. In addition, DHT network makes this tracker to span on all peers.

Today, I have just found that one of my machine has been hacked by unknown intruder. That machine is Rocks 4.1 which is an extension of CentOS 4.2 Final. Actually, I didn"t know that it was hacked before notification from NOC. My NOC received the notification from eBay. I am one of the team to investigate this problem. Below steps are what I do.

1. My colleage found that there were many process named `(swapd)`. Unfortunately, the executable was removed.
2. So I looked for login record using `last`. I found one weird login namely `ftpd`.
3. As I remember, I have never started any ftp service on this machine! There was something wrong with user ftpd.
4. So I opened /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow to find more information about user ftpd.
5. Sadly, it was on the last line and enabled logging in. This must be some kind of backdoor.
6. Then I tried to find out more using netstat and ps. Nothing found! This is so strange because I couldn’t use netstat -p. It seemed netstat were replaced by rootkits.
7. So I didn’t believe anything I saw and started to verify common executable like netstat and ps using rpm -V.
8. Well, they were replaced by rootkits like I thought. So I downloaded all necessary executables from another machine.
9. Next step was to see what command user ftpd had done in .bash_history. Nothing.
10. So I backed to verify history of user root. Bingo! The intruder forgot to remove history of root.
11. In the history, I found commands for preparing eBay phishing in 4 steps!
12. Create .eBay directory in /var/www/html
13. Download http://www.pishat.com/ebay.tgz and extract it in .eBay
14. Download http://www.pishat.com/neptune.tar and extract it somewhere
15. Run install script

Once I had the ebay.tgz, I looked into the code and found that it was a kind of phishing against eBay! At the last step, the victim’s credit card information will be sent to . Are you hacked? Don’t worry too much. If you are already hacked, you are hacked. You can change nothing. For me, this machine is just for installation testing so I will just simply reinstall it again and again.

Keeping pace with speedy growth and to ensure cost effectiveness and fool-proof security, Corporate India is fast moving towards embracing flexible and scaleable information systems based on Grid Computing, the premier company involved in pooling IT resources and storages said in Mumbai.

"India is showing the fastest growth index in moving towards a Grid IT environment with 60 percent of the organizations polled that a Grid-based IT infrastructure was inevitable or very probable," said Roger Scott, Vice President Technology, Sales Consulting of Oracle Asia Pacific. Echoing him, Sundar Ram, Senior Director, Technology Sales Oracle Asia Pacific, said India’s adoption of Grid Technology has almost doubled over the last six months. "It has been almost 52 percent," he said. Top Oracle captains along with over 1800 customers, partners and key IT players are taking part in two-day conference ’Oracle Openworld’ from January 10, 2006.

Highlights this month include Globus GRAM, GridFTP, and MDS.

The Globus Consortium (founded by IBM, HP, Sun, Intel, Nortel, Univa and Cisco) today published the latest issue of the “Globus Consortium Journal.” The newsletter focuses on open source Grid computing projects - and this month features developer interviews with the leaders of the three most important services in the Globus Toolkit.
LinuxElectrons - Grid Computing Newsletter Looks at Key Open Source Development Efforts

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PBS Professional(TM) 7.0SP1 supports HP MPI and LAM-MPI.

Altair Engineering, Inc., a global leader in innovative product development, advanced engineering software and grid computing technology, today announced the release of PBS Professional(TM) 7.0SP1, the next generation of the company’s PBS Professional technology. PBS Professional technology optimizes the utilization of enterprise computing resources by aggregating hardware and software assets, and intelligently scheduling computational workloads based on business policies.

Google  of  in this early morning (Bangkok time). However, Google Updater bundled with  that I installed 4 days ago doesn"t notify me about software update.

Probably Google Earth for PC has been released unofficially prior to Google Pack... Otherwise, this is a bug.