Comment Malware is... bad... right? (Score 1) 600
So don't release it. Pretty straight forward if you ask me.
Comment Re:Outward facing systems ... (Score 2, Informative) 391
Port knocking is a good way to conceal that ssh is available. Use fwknop!
Comment I thought it sucked (Score 1) 705
The trailer made the movie look like it had much more tension in the plot... but no world ending weapons hosted by intellectually superior aliens. Instead you had a bunch of cat food eating over sized crickets that were stupid... oh and the way the aliens and humans talked so easily... again stupid. The star actor was a complete idiot the entire movie. Let me chop of my finger to stop the spreading... ok right. What part of this movie was great exactly? It was like Independence Day after the stars took a few bong hits.
Comment The actual problem is even more complex (Score 1) 513
The real problem I've found is not only do these companies blatantly deny your privacy with a credit check but those same people who do it *believe* that the credit system is unflawed and is somehow a perfect reflection of your habits. Quite disturbing.
Comment If it's that important you should use hardware (Score 1) 192
There at least a few SAS drives on the market that use hardware encryption baked right in to the drive's on-board controller. Probably faster too but more expensive.
Comment Re:neither is the Microsoft approach (Score 1) 470
Somebody mod this as insightful.
The same problem is inherent in all major IT corporations I've worked for unfortunately. Here's hoping Red Hat figures that out in time.
Submission + - High Performance Linux Kernel Project - LinuxDNA (linuxdna.com)
Thaidog writes: "I thought Slashdot would be interested in our high performance Linux kernel project "linuxDNA". I am heading up a project to get a current kernel version to compile with the Intel ICC compiler and we have finally had success in creating a kernel! The website for the project is:
www.linuxdna.com
All the instructions to compile the kernel are there (geared towards Gentoo but obviously it can work on any Linux) and it is relatively easy for anyone with the skills to compile a kernel to get it working. We see this as a great project for high performance clusters, gaming and scientific computing. The hopes are to maintain a kernel source along side the current kernel... the mirror has 2.6.22 on it currently because there are a few changes after .22 that make compiling a little harder
for the average Joe (but not impossible)
Here is our first story in Linux Journal:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxdna-supercharges-linux-intel-cc-compiler"
Comment Chicks for Free!!! (Score 1) 424
No wait that's IBM.
Comment I wonder if I've been blocked (Score 1) 220
My nick name "Thaidog" used to be number one on google and it went to my personal page. Since I'm neither Thai nor Thaidog I wonder how that comes across there.
Comment Use 2.6 (Score 1) 178
My best friend is a senior developer at Bcom for embedded systems so I get quite an earful about his kernel code. They are using basically the latest Linux 2.6 kernel for various embedded cpus (2.6.21 on PPC, ARM, MIPS cores) He was talking about one of his layer 3 switches that runs one process with 300 threads and still runs like a champ with 2.6. Also, the Atom is not an embedded cpu (per say) and it runs XP fine while even doing video editing on netbooks so I think you'll be just fine with a slightly bulkier kernel. Also, the Atom has HT and 2.6 has much better smp support than 2.4. I would go with the Gentoo advice posted earlier and that way you can transition good and also account for the future when you have to port this thing all over again. Who knows where 2.4 will be at that point.
