find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldn't.

The error message 'find_free_dqentry(): Data block full but it shouldnt' appears in the server logs when the files aquota.user and aquota.group are mostly corrupted. The fixquotas cannot read these files and thus increases CPU usage while quota update is in process. You need to create new aquota.user and aquota.group files and run quotacheck

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The Great Chinese Culinary Divide

At first I noticed a few blocks of broken links on some Web pages. Then I started receiving "connection timeout" and "server reset" messages. Access to my favorite places like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube was unsuccessful. Furthermore many food blogs I regularly visit were inaccessible as well. These were not symptoms of a widespread network

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Microsoft still working on patch for SMB vulnerability

Two months after Microsoft confirmed that a bug in SMB (Server Message Block) could be used by attackers to cripple Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 machines, the company has acknowledged that it does have a fix for the bug in time for its next patch release on January 12, according to a report in ComputerWorld.

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Chrome: Google Security certificate is revoked

When i tried to open adsense in Chrome, it blocked the page saying “The server’s security certificate is revoked!”. I thought that perhaps i mistyped something or its a temporary error. So i refreshed that page and again the same message. I tried to open again after few hours and still the same error.

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