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Comment Ubuntu 14.04 with KDE, XFCE or LXDE (Score 1) 210

You are not alone in your dislike for Unity.

I did install Ubuntu 14.04 Server edition on newer (2014) PCs that require UEFI, and it works fine.

But you have options: kubuntu (KDE desktop, which I am using now), xubuntu (XFCE desktop) or lubuntu (LXDE desktop). If you use the 14.04 from any of those, then you probably wouldn't have any issues compared to older versions.

Comment Standardization ... really!!?? (Score 1) 421

That is the only reason you would adopt an "open source" .Net/Fuck
Honestly, thats exactly where i stopped reading ...but forgive me for the rude interruption
Microsofy does NOT standardize ... look at IE, look at MS-js,(and in case u r a geek) look at the wchar_t implementation of MS= NOTHING to do with standards (standards is 2 byte, for some $U&KING reason MS decided: Nah...screw them, 4 is good), look at MSRPC (rip off from onc/sun rpc, but naahhhh, we dont want msrpc to talk to sun rpc)
what fucking standardization are you talking about!
You would be an idiot to believe they want to "integrate" with other techs...
rant over and out!

P.S. I haven't commented in /. for years, but you just pissed me off!
 

Comment Keep rubbing it in our face ... (Score -1, Troll) 190

Slashdot's editor team knows that the "audience" here hate Bennet Hasleton's continued long winded drivel, yet they keep posting his stuff regularly.

This yet another clear sign that Dice and Slashdot do not care about their "audience", continuing off from the Beta debacle.

Just keep ignoring your "audience" while expecting viewership to increase. Yeah, that will happen alright ...

Comment PRT, SPF, and DKIM (Score 1) 405

I had similar issues, though on a machine hosted outside my home network.

The solution was to implement SPF, pointing to the PTR of machine (i.e. what a reverse IP lookup will resolve to), and DKIM.

In your case, doing a PTR will be hard, since dynamic DHCP may change what the PTR is, but the rest does apply.

I wrote the following detailing what I did: Setting up SPF and DKIM on Postfix.

Comment Was OK until mid or late 19th century (Score 1) 272

Things were easy until the mid to late 19th century. Anything could be produced in a carpenter, blacksmith or watchmaker's workshop. Lenses were ground, metals were machined, ...etc.

Then in the early 20th century things started to get far more specialized. By the mid 20th century, we had the transistor then the integrated circuit.

Now, everthing from ubiquitous phones to home appliances to street lights have complicated integrated circuits, CPUs, RAM, ...etc. that can only be designed by specialized teams, and fabricated in very high tech fabs.

I wrote about it here : Information readability and longevity in the digital age.

Comment Hypothesis by researchers (Score 1) 139

Contrary to all the speculative guesses in the comments, the researchers do have a hypothesis for this.

From the linked PLOS article:

Unique among the senses, the olfactory system depends on stem cell turnover, and thus may serve as an indicator of deterioration in age-related regenerative capacity more broadly or as a marker of physiologic repair function

Comment Re:There are no "remote" exploits for bash (Score 1) 329

/bin/sh is linked to /bin/bash and vulnerable

Not on Debian/Ubuntu. On those, /bin/sh is symlinked to dash, which is not vulnerable to Shellshock.

To test this, I created a small PHP script, as follows:

$ cat > x.php
<?php
system('echo hello there');

I run the php script, and do an strace following children:

$ strace -f -o output php x.php

In the output I find this:

28302 execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "echo hello there"], [/* 24 vars */]) = 0

And here is what /bin/sh links to ...

$ ls -l /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 29 2012 /bin/sh -> dash

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