Yenya - Slashdot User

Comment XFCE (Score 1) 171

by Yenya on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @03:37AM (#36236706) Attached to: Fedora 15 Released

Same here. After almost 10 years with GNOME, I have migrated to XFCE for F15.

For former GNOME-2 user, XFCE provides almost the same experience: it is based on GTK, and their Terminal even is based on the same widget as gnome-terminal. I have kept my window-manager (sawfish), so the user interface is almost the same.

Unfortunately, in F15 the Galeon browser is no longer provided, so I had to migrate to Firefox, which is my biggest change in F15 from the UI standpoint. I will miss Galeon's smart bookmarks.

XFCE even supports the "desktop icons are minimized applications" mode (the default option is "desktop icons are application launchers") as the old window managers like twm or fvwm had.

Scalpers Bought Tickets With CAPTCHA-Busting Botnet 301

Posted by timothy on Saturday November 20, 2010 @05:35PM from the free-market-solution dept.

alphadogg writes "Three California men have pleaded guilty to charges they built a network of CAPTCHA-solving computers that flooded online ticket vendors and snatched up the very best seats for Bruce Springsteen concerts, Broadway productions and even TV tapings of Dancing with the Stars. The men ran a company called Wiseguy Tickets, and for years they had an inside track on some of the best seats in the house at many events. They scored about 1.5 million tickets after hiring Bulgarian programmers to build 'a nationwide network of computers that impersonated individual visitors' on websites such as Ticketmaster, MLB.com and LiveNation, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) said Thursday in a press release. The network would 'flood vendors computers at the exact moment that event tickets went on sale,' the DoJ said. They had to create shell corporations, register hundreds of fake Internet domains (one was stupidcellphone.com) and sign up for thousands of bogus e-mail addresses to make the scam work."

Comment Re:Nethack you insensitive clod (Score 1) 271

by Yenya on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @08:27AM (#32663590) Attached to: Desired Input For Console Video Games?

The game you are looking for is called Moria (actually, I have even played a PalmOS version on a T5, and it was playable with a mere stylus).

New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System 132

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @08:14PM from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility. Explore the architecture of Ceph and learn how it provides fault tolerance and simplifies the management of massive amounts of data."

Comment Re:Doesn't account for all the wording (Score 2, Insightful) 432

by Yenya on Thursday April 15, 2010 @11:53AM (#31858688) Attached to: The Genius In Apple's Vertical Platform

no one in their right mind would ever use a CPU emulator on a mobile platform OS. It's one of the best ways to completely nuke your battery life, not to mention performance.

Like, er, Transmeta?

Chinese Root Server Shut Down After DNS Problem 91

Posted by timothy on Sunday March 28, 2010 @06:50AM from the need-a-new-source-of-ginseng dept.

itwbennett writes "After a networking error first reported on Wednesday last week caused computers in Chile and the US to come under the control of a system that censors the Internet in China, the 'root DNS server associated with the networking problems has been disconnected from the Internet,' writes Robert McMillan. The server's operator, Netnod, has 'withdrawn route announcements' made by the server, according to company CEO Kurt Lindqvist."

PS3 Hacked? 296

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 25, 2010 @07:35AM from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG."

Man Sues Neighbor For Not Turning Off His Wi-Fi 428

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @06:27PM from the have-you-never-wondered-why-I-drink-only-distilled-water-or-rain-water-and-only-pure-grain-alcohol dept.

Scyth3 writes "A man is suing his neighbor for not turning off his cell phone or wireless router. He claims it affects his 'electromagnetic allergies,' and has resorted to being homeless. So, why doesn't he check into a hotel? Because hotels typically have wireless internet for free. I wonder if a tinfoil hat would help his cause?"

Ocean-Crossing Dragonflies Discovered 95

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 06, 2010 @10:45PM from the incredible-journey dept.

grrlscientist writes "While living and working as a marine biologist in Maldives, Charles Anderson noticed sudden explosions of dragonflies at certain times of year. He explains how he carefully tracked the path of a plain, little dragonfly called the Globe Skimmer, Pantala flavescens, only to discover that it had the longest migratory journey of any insect in the world."

Comment Re:Debian GNU/kFreeBSD (Score 1) 376

by Yenya on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @01:30AM (#30579450) Attached to: Happy Birthday, Linus

That's only partly true. In '94 BSD was even or ahead of Linux in terms of features.

Wrong. As one of the grandparent posts mentions, at that time Linux had shared libraries and compressed kernel, making it much more usable on desktop PCs. I know what I am talking about, I was a 386BSD and NetBSD user then, and for me those features (together with better attitude of the Linux community) were precisely the reasons for migrating to Linux.

Of course, networking at that time was more mature in *BSD. But as for overall system stability, Linux won: around 1994 it was the first UN*X I had that survived running crashme(1) on it.

Comment Re:Analysis of Miguel's article (Score 3, Informative) 747

by miguel on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:40AM (#29656951) Attached to: De Icaza Responds To Stallman

The reason is very simple: I am not responding to RMS's opinions on Mono.

I am responding to RMS's last post which is pretty much content free, but does contain another personal attack against me.

Comment Re:Analysis of Miguel's article (Score 4, Informative) 747

by miguel on Tuesday October 06, 2009 @10:36AM (#29656887) Attached to: De Icaza Responds To Stallman

The allies I refer to are folks like Linus, Eric Raymond, Tim O'Reilly and everyone else that advocates the same ideas, but does not take marching orders from him.

Comment Re:Incremental approach (Score 1) 455

by Yenya on Monday April 06, 2009 @07:09AM (#27473999) Attached to: Attempting To Reframe "KDE Vs. GNOME"

Theoretically? I have been running a dual-seat configuration on my home workstation for about 5 years now.

Submission + - SGI assets may be sold for $25M

Submitted by UnanimousCoward on Thursday April 02, 2009 @01:00AM

UnanimousCoward writes: Several articles including this one from the San Jose Merc are reporting that SGI has agreed to sell itself for $25 million to Rackable Systems after seeking bankruptcy protection for the second time in three years. A judge still has to approve the deal. Stories like this make me feel old.

Submission + - SGI Files for Chaper 11, plans to sell off assets

Submitted by darkjedi521 on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @11:38PM

darkjedi521 writes: According to Bloomberg, SGI filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy April 1st with plans to sell its assets to Rackable Systems unless another buyer is willing to come forward and pay a higher per share price than Rackable. According to the Mercury News, the sale is for $25 million, though the chapter 11 proceedings leave the possibility of sale to another entity open.

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