Comment Re:Don't forget to vote! (Score 1) 283
All slash-delimited dates are subject to confusion (09/04/01 - what date is that? Today? 8 years ago?)
This is why ISO 8601 uses hyphen delimiters to remove the ambiguity.
Choose YYYY-MM-DD
Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 325
It's not a network's purpose to define it's intended use - that's what protocols are for.
If a network is broken for a large subset of potential uses, then the network is broken and should be fixed.
Imagine what The Internet would be like if protocols like BitTorrent weren't allowed. No, wait...
Comment Re:Where's the story? (Score 1) 358
me@mymachine:~$ wget -O - google.com -q | wc -c
7140
Except the size of the Google home page is massively larger than a typical MTU size (1500 bytes).
Comment Re:hummm (Score 1) 139
Way to go generic statement man!
A redundant architecture is what you use for important things like dns, which reduces the impact of the decision of what OS you use.
Many (inexperienced) linux admins like to reboot their boxen too remember
Comment Re:dumb sheep (Score 3, Insightful) 217
A metagovernment/open source government is majoritarianism. Effectively, this means little or no rights for the minority.
Comment Re:Only 2 drives? (Score 1) 711
maybe, however rebuilding a raid live takes a performance hit on disk I/O, so this may not be desirable.
Comment Re:Question for slashdotters: (Score 2, Insightful) 164
A *much* better failure model than HDDs forgetting about data on dodgy sectors etc.
Comment Re:Just using VIM (Score 1) 702
Luxury! In my day, there were no such thing as multi line editing. We used ex to edit line by line, and we were lucky!
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
echo "Wake up you lazy $£"$^" | festival --tts
Comment Re:rm -rf / (Score 1) 2362
In all seriousness, rm these days won't let you do that.
If you *really* wanted to do that, you will have to also specify --no-preserve-root
Comment Re:Show attached block devices (Score 1) 2362
It does indeed error, so you should:
blockdev --report
German Foreign Ministry Migrates Desktops To OSS 147
ruphus13 writes "Here's another example of 'German Engineering' — The Foreign Ministry in Germany is migrating all of its 11,000 desktops to GNU/Linux and other open source applications. According to the article, 'this has drastically reduced maintenance costs in comparison with other ministries. "The Foreign Ministry is running desktops in many far away and some very difficult locations. Yet we spend only one thousand euro per desktop per year. That is far lower than other ministries, that on average spend more than 3000 euro per desktop per year ... Open Source desktops are far cheaper to maintain than proprietary desktop configurations," says Rolf Schuster, a diplomat at the German Embassy in Madrid and the former head of IT at the Foreign Ministry ... "The embassies in Japan and Korea have completely switched over, the embassy in Madrid has been exclusively using GNU/Linux since October last year", Schuster added, calling the migration a success.' The Guardian has additional coverage of the move."
Sanyo Invents 12X High-Speed Blu-ray Laser 194
Lucas123 writes "Today Sanyo said it has created a new blue laser diode with the ability to transfer data up to 12 times as fast as previous technologies. The laser, which emits a 450 milliwatt beam — about double that of previous Blu-ray Disc systems — can read and write data on discs with up to four data layers, affording Blu-ray players the ability to store 100GB on a disc, or 8 hours of high-definition video."
Decryption Keys For HD-DVD Found, Confirmed 473
kad77 writes "It appears that, despite skepticism, 'muslix64' was the real deal. Starting from a riddle posted on pastebin.com, members on the doom9 forum identified the Title key for the HD-DVD release 'Serenity.' Volume Unique Keys and Title keys for other discs followed within hours, confirming that software HD-DVD players, like any common program, store important run-time data in memory. Here's a link to decryption utility and sleuthing info in the original doom9 forum thread. The Fair Use crowd has won Round One; now how will the industry respond?"
