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Comment Re:The fundamental differnence between companies (Score 1) 230

by dragonquest on Friday April 27, 2012 @01:58AM (#39817425) Attached to: NY Times: Microsoft Tried To Unload Bing On Facebook

"Take away any two Apple products, even product lines, and you still have a viable company"

Take away the iPhone product line and you cut Apple's revenue in roughly half. Source: Reuters. For the bonus, take away the iPad product line also and you get a company with a loyal but small customer base. Viable? Sure, but its not going to remain a behemoth like today only on the basis of the Mac line and iPod's.

Comment Re:Maybe the most important PC ever released (Score 1) 173

by dragonquest on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @01:22AM (#39707735) Attached to: The Apple II Turns 35 Today

I'd agree to this. But the reason PC was more important was that it gave rise to Open Architecture and that too from the big blue. Suddenly clones popped up everywhere ensuring the long life of the PC.

Comment Re:DuckDuckGo (Score 3, Informative) 128

by dragonquest on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @02:58AM (#39121697) Attached to: Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down

StartPage is run by the IxQuick guys. They are basically the same meta-search engine with Startpage adding Google to the fray.

Comment Re:Again ships with unsupported Perl (Score 3, Insightful) 90

by dragonquest on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:36PM (#36184948) Attached to: Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1

Ah, but they can't stop CPAN module authors from releasing newer versions of modules depending on features found in 5.12+.

Comment Again ships with unsupported Perl (Score 3, Informative) 90

by dragonquest on Thursday May 19, 2011 @04:49PM (#36184420) Attached to: Red Hat Pushes Out Enterprise Linux 6.1

RHEL 6.1 is shipping with Perl 5.10.x which went legacy with the release of Perl 5.14 this week. Ah, moving targets! Though doesn't seem too bad since Debian Squeeze is also shipped with 5.10 in February this year.

Comment Re:The problem is Packt (Score 1) 53

by dragonquest on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @03:38PM (#36027834) Attached to: Book Review: Apache JMeter

Are you sure they are from India? Looking at their careers page, they seem to be based in Birmingham.

Comment Re:Unleash the recruiters (Score 1) 623

by dragonquest on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @10:52AM (#35807910) Attached to: Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project

And the recruiter will get hundreds of replies starting with "I've been picking tea leaves since 2001 in Sri Lanka, thus fulfilling your criterion of production Ceylon experience.."

Comment Re:Law crash course (Score 1) 181

by dragonquest on Friday April 08, 2011 @06:56AM (#35755386) Attached to: Judge In Oracle-Google Case Given Crash Course in Java

Maybe yes! But seriously, is this the beginning of a special kind of judges equipped to handle tech related and IP issues? Wouldn't be too bad if some geeks get in there.

Comment Re:but the real question is: (Score 1) 176

by dragonquest on Thursday March 31, 2011 @01:46AM (#35675078) Attached to: Book Review: The Art of Computer Programming. Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithm

Knuth doesn't copy from Wikipedia, Wikipedia copies from Knuth.

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @12:26AM from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Comment Re:The oldest code in existence: (Score 1) 903

by dragonquest on Sunday May 11, 2008 @03:39PM (#23370840) Attached to: What Is the Oldest Code Written Still Running?

Well, actually I think the Genetic code does change during the evolution of a species, no?

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by d1taylor on Monday April 09, 2007 @04:50AM

Submission + - Damn Vulnerable Linux

Submitted by

Scott Ainslie Sutton

on Sunday March 04, 2007 @01:56PM

Scott Ainslie Sutton writes: "Enterprise GNU/Linux Resource Linux.com have highlighted a newly created GNU/Linux distribution named Damn Vulnerable Linux, built upon Damn Small Linux. The distribution, headed by Thorsten Schneider, aims to deliver the Operating System in such a way that it allows Security Students first hand insight and hands on experience with Security issues within GNU/Linux in order to teach them protection and mitigation techniques The project's website describes the distribution as 'the most vulnerable, exploitable Operating System ever' and it's true, the developers have ensured that it contains outdated, ill-configured, flawed code and contains GNU/Linux 2.4 Kernel which is known to have many exploitable avenues in itself. Damn Vulnerable Linux's website can be viewed here."

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