Windows Home Server: Hurry Up Already!

Are you ready to start streaming your movies and music all over your home?

Well Microsoft wants to help you make that happen, by taking one step closer to releasing Windows Home Server. Reportedly, they have released the software to manufacturing, and the OEM will be coming to HP most likely first, but Gateway, LaCie, and Medion are also rumored to be next.

This will be very cool to have all you digital media on one short form computer, and use it as you media hub.

So get ready folks.
Read more here. [Ars Technica via Engadget]

Five Years, No Patches, Govt Server, Worm Virus, OBVIOUSLY HAPPENED IN FLORIDA

New concerns about the accuracy of electronic voting in Sarasota County, Florida are being raised after a published report documented how the county's main database system came under attack from a virulent worm. The county server was breached on the first day of early voting in the 2006 election, which included a now-disputed race for a seat in the US House of Representatives.
The attack code was a variant of the infamous Slammer worm that penetrated the county's server, which unbelievably, was missing five years worth of security patches, according to an article painstakingly reported by investigative journalist Brad Friedman. The breach crippled the county's entire network, including the electronic voting system, where net connectivity was disrupted for two hours. Those trying to vote during the outage were turned away.

Jump to the rest of this predictably sad florida voting scandle.