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This can refer to many things in the land of technology. Most often it is used to describe a method of redundancy where data is mirrored across two devices, whether they are physically separate devices or not. Basically the same data is written to both devices, so if one device fails the other can be used and the data will be intact. As far as disk drive redundancy is concerned, when drives are mirrored they are in a RAI
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Mirror - Munir KotadiaZDNet UKFebruary 17, 2004, 12:20 GMTUsers who haven't deployed the critical security patch released byMicrosoft last week are in imminent danger, after exploit code wasposted online.A piece of code that exploits the critical vulnerability for whichMicrosoft issued a patch only last week has been posted online,raising fears of an imminent MSBlast-style attackOn 10 February, Microsoft released a patch that fixes a networkingflaw affecting all Windows XP, NT, 2000 and Windows Server 2003systems. The company warned users to patch their systems because thevulnerability could be exploited by virus and worm writers. Four daysafter the patch was released, a piece of code was published on aFrench Web site that allows anyone to exploit the vulnerability, whichmeans unpatched users can expect to be hit with another MSBlast-typeworm.http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39146606,00.htm
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