Comment Re:New Deal? (Score 0) 365
Americans are too lazy to work in the fields.
Journal Journal: Santa Monica Apeshit over Swimsuits 3
Coastal brain poisoning is suspected as the cause for the city of Santa Monica's banning of lovely images of hot chicks on busses.
Check the link for Amy's take. Mine is reposted below.
Mmmmmmmmmmm such a nice image to see when getting read for work. You are the sweetest advice chick on earth!
Oh, there are words up there too. Hold on.
Submission + - Plan9 kernel exploit made public
swehack writes: "The month of February saw a very rare case of a kernel exploit for the plan9 operating system made public on the Dailydave mailing list. The author mentions how he kindly waited for Bell Labs to patch the vulnerability but also that the exploit lasted quite a while in private use. One can only speculate what one would do with a private plan9 kernel exploit."
Submission + - Fair manufacturer's technical support
VincenzoRomano writes: One year ago I decided to buy some "enterprise grade" hardware, firewalls actually, in order to replace the old ones used by the former ISP.
Before buying them I did a kind of survey. I browsed the product "data sheets" from the manufacturer web sites and in some cases, asked for more details by email.
I finally choose a top product already in the market since one year and a half from a very well known and reputable company.
The product showed a nuber of issues as soon as unpacked and put to work. I mean things like not being able to keep a VPN up and running for more than a bunch of minutes or doing bad IP routing on the LAN.
I've spent the last year to make that equipment working accordingly to both their data sheets and the features expected from an "enterprise grade" product.
Important issues are still open while the technical support is actually relying on my own stuff and setup and on my personal availability in order to do troubleshooting, firmware beta testing and other experiments.
I've finally blamed the product as
What's your opinion about such a behaviour in a company? Is it fair?
Before buying them I did a kind of survey. I browsed the product "data sheets" from the manufacturer web sites and in some cases, asked for more details by email.
I finally choose a top product already in the market since one year and a half from a very well known and reputable company.
The product showed a nuber of issues as soon as unpacked and put to work. I mean things like not being able to keep a VPN up and running for more than a bunch of minutes or doing bad IP routing on the LAN.
I've spent the last year to make that equipment working accordingly to both their data sheets and the features expected from an "enterprise grade" product.
Important issues are still open while the technical support is actually relying on my own stuff and setup and on my personal availability in order to do troubleshooting, firmware beta testing and other experiments.
I've finally blamed the product as
and have requested some kind of compensation for all the job I had to do."far from being ready to market or even usable for beta testers"
What's your opinion about such a behaviour in a company? Is it fair?
Submission + - Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers
An anonymous reader writes: TorrentFreak reports:
A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network. The virus has two variants Troj/Pirlames-A and Troj/Pirlames-B, masquerades as a screensaver and attacks files with these popular extensions — EXE, BAT, CMD, INI, ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, CLASS, JAVA, DBX, EML, MBX, TBB, WAB, HLP, TXT, MP3, XLS, LOG, BMP — overwriting them with images of comic book character Ayu Tsukimiya.
It's reported that one of the images, which includes a song about fish-shaped pancakes stuffed with jam, has a telephone number included although it's unclear to whom the number belongs.
Another exclaims "This is a visit from the prevalent Piro virus! Stop P2P! If you don't i'll tell the police!" while another threatens "Ah, I see you are using P2P again......if you don't stop within 0.5 seconds, i'm going to kill you!"
Submission + - iXsystems Announces Merger with FreeBSD Mall, Inc.
roland writes: "iXsystems Announces Acquisition of FreeBSD Mall
For Immediate Release:
San Jose, February 26, 2007
Historic Merger of Enterprise-Class Hardware Solution Provider and FreeBSD Software Distributor and Support Provider
iXsystems, Inc., an enterprise-class hardware solution provider and corporate sponsor of PC-BSD, announced today its acquisition of FreeBSD Mall, Inc., a provider of high quality FreeBSD software, literature, support, and services. FreeBSD Mall publishes affordable versions of FreeBSD source code on CD and DVD as well as FreeBSD handbooks and toolkits. FreeBSD Mall is also a key supporter of the FreeBSD community, providing donation assistance to the FreeBSD Project and the FreeBSD Foundation, as well as sponsoring the participation of key FreeBSD developers at various technical conferences.
iXsystems' acquisition of FreeBSD Mall will begin to consolidate various entities supporting FreeBSD under one umbrella. This consolidation will promote further awareness of FreeBSD, the open source operating system of choice for many corporate system administrators. "The acquisition of FreeBSD Mall by iXsystems creates a resource rich environment for the FreeBSD community to find products, support, and technical services", states Michael Lauth, President and CEO of iXsystems. "Our vision is to have a professional company supporting the FreeBSD community at every level."
"This acquisition is great news for FreeBSD Mall because it gives us greater access to resources that will enable us to enhance our product line and offerings", said Theresa Garner, General Manager, FreeBSD Mall. "I am especially excited about expanding our support services for FreeBSD by joining with the iXsystems professional support team to offer a superior customer experience."
"This union creates a larger public presence for the advocacy and adoption of FreeBSD," said Murray Stokely, VP of Engineering, FreeBSD Mall and Core Team member of the FreeBSD Project. "The FreeBSD community is expanding daily and having a company like iXsystems fully committed to the distribution of FreeBSD and offering professional services will make the project stronger."
About iXsystems
iXsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-performance computing clusters, blade servers, rackmount servers, and storage solutions to the global marketplace. iXsystems supplies FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and Linux servers to a wide cross-section of industries. iXsystems also supports and maintains the PC-BSD project. The company is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
For more information:
Denise Ebery, iXsystems
Phone: (408)943-4100
Vist the website: www.iXsystems.com
Send an email: info@iXsystems.com"
Submission + - AMD demonstrates "Teraflop in a box"
UncleFluffy writes: AMD gave a sneak preview of their upcoming R600 GPU today. The demo system was a single PC with two R600 cards running streaming computing tasks at just over 1 Teraflop. This beats Intel to ubiquitous Teraflop machines by approximately 5 years.
Feed Sirius Chief Talks of Ways to Get XM Deal Approved (nytimes.com)
Mel Karmazin said the companies would agree to price controls and other measures to gain regulatory approval for the deal.
