I know this isn’t an IT story, but I can’t believe this! A Christchurch heart surgery patient got another shock when his boss visited him as he recovered and sacked him.

Murray Gardiner, 60, had a double by-pass in January after a week of chest pains but as he recuperated at Ellesmere Hospital in Lincoln, near Christchurch, his boss visited to tell him he had been sacked from his job of 11 years.

Mr Gardiner was admitted to Christchurch Hospital’s emergency department on January 3 and had the operation on January 15, The Press newspaper reported.

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PS3 used to conduct over 1.4 billion MD5 calculations a second, says Kiwi researcher

By Ulrika Hedquist Auckland

Nick Breese, a senior security consultant at Auckland-based Security-assessment.com, has come up with a way to drastically increase the processing capability of cracking passwords. By implementing common ciphers and hash functions using vector computing, Breese has pushed the current upper limit of 10–15 million cycles per second — in Intel-based architecture — up to 1.4 billion cycles per second. read more »

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