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I know ZFS has protection against silent corruption, but I'm building a Windows server. Are there options out there for adding local, silent-corruption-protected storage to a Windows server, or is ZFS-over-network the only option?

I would like to pay extra for something that can compute the checksums fast enough to make the hard drive the bottleneck. Are such I/O cards available?

I'm trying to install Java through apt-get.

I found this PPA of Java Installers, however, when I add the repository, update and then issue the apt-get install -y command, the installer for java takes over and it pops up a configuration option.

Currently I have these installed on my Scientific Linux 6.3:

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | egrep -i 'java|jre' java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.7.1.el6_3.x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.56.1.11.8.el6_3.x86_64 tzdata-java-2012j-1.el6.noarch [root@localhost ~]#

Do I need to remove then to be safe from the recent Java vulnerabilities? (If I try to remove the java-1.6.0-openjdk..

Whenever I run smartctl -i /dev/sd* where * is a drive that is plugged into the same host bus adapter as another drive that is currently being erased with an hdparm secure erase command, the smart command will just 'hang' and not return (blocked) until the erasure of the other drive is finished. To make matters worse you can't cntrl-c out of it.

Has anyone else had this issue?

I want to secure our centrally managed computers better and it is very difficult to automatically deploy the java runtime, but how to do that is another question.

I find the security of Java catastrophic, even if it is fully patched: It looks like if the user says yes to the innocent question "Do you trust this certificate", java can do whatever it wants. Java webstart also seems to be an univer

It seems that servers are only as secure as the machine that holds the keys and that in turn means the desktop/screensaver password is the line of defence for not only the desktop itself but any remote servers normally accessed.

Hi

currently there are so many forum threads even a more than 17pages on cpanel about ways and patches to secure the server against such type of attack I used cloud linux but it made my sever unstable and I had a lot of down time and high loads Please make an official patch to secure server against such type of attacks

Thanks