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Submission + - WMaker development revived (net23.net)

Submitted by

pseelig

on Sunday September 20, 2009 @09:50PM

pseelig writes: "As much as i tried other windowing environments in Debian, i always went back again to Window Maker, although for some years already it looked like its future was less than promising. Since quite a few weeks or even months now, there is some real activity going on behind the scenes. WMaker has been revived and is not only having a large amount of long due bug fixes, but also some new features being added. All my major gripes i had with the official Debian packages are fixed, and it doesn't look like one has to switch to anything more main stream like Gnome no more."

Comment Johns Hopkins University... (Score 1) 835

by rincebrain on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @10:27PM (#29361017) Attached to: Does Your College Or University Support Linux?

...it varies.

IT@JH (the enterprise university-wide technical department) has Linux running on a number of servers, though they would love it if you'd only run RHEL4 and nothing else, for reasons too complicated to go into.

The new VPN software claims to support Linux, but doesn't, and one look at the installer script shows it couldn't have possibly worked for a very long time.

The undergraduate networking documentation has Linux explanations (though conveniently this is "plug in, have fun", with a few notes for brokenness in an old version of NetworkManager and another footnote for WICD being Just Broken in certain forms of PEAP).

So, sort of.

But heaven forbid you call the support line about Linux. They'll make a best-effort attempt to fix it, but...I've seen them claim that having Ubuntu in your boot menu could cause your optical drive to not work. At all. (As in, physically won't eject, after a hard power cycle.)

Comment Re:Confusing Comparison: RTS vs RPG (Score 1) 737

by rincebrain on Thursday July 02, 2009 @06:05AM (#28555491) Attached to: Blizzard Confirms No LAN Support For <em>Starcraft 2</em>

Actually, Blizzard has mentioned plans for special ladders for e.g. DotA-style things that end up with lives of their own.

I imagine they readily have the infrastructure to host limited-scope events like that in place in the code (or, if not, at least planned for release...)

Submission + - District Cancels Graduation due to IT insecurity (nbc4i.com) 1

Submitted by jazzkat on Saturday June 06, 2009 @02:00PM

jazzkat writes: In Centerburg, Ohio, the Centerburg Local School District canceled senior graduation this year. Why? Allegedly, a teacher left a drive share open and a test was stolen. One student admitted cheating, and claimed that he was the only guilty party. Various reports indicate that the school knew about it since January, and this teacher had a record of things like this. However, the school board waited until Thursday evening to tell parents that there would be no senior graduation.

Submission + - humor - proper care and feeding of programmers (slashdot.org)

Submitted by

n3m3sis42

on Saturday June 06, 2009 @08:47AM

n3m3sis42 writes: "This is a speech I wrote and delivered for my Toastmasters public speaking club. I'm hoping that other programmers--or those who have to work/live with them--will appreciate it. I am a programmer, so please try not to be offended by my sweeping generalizations."

Comment I've seen this. (Score 5, Informative) 136

by rincebrain on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @11:10AM (#28012105) Attached to: Drive-By Download Poisons Google Search Results

I got to clean out a system with this about a week ago. It was really nasty.

The worst part was that I spent the better part of two days trying to figure out why the search links were still being poisoned, even after nothing on several LiveCDs found anything...it turned out that it had installed an invisible Firefox plugin/extension which was doing it.

Exciting, huh?

Comment Re:Needed? (Score 1) 267

by rincebrain on Monday April 27, 2009 @08:54PM (#27739765) Attached to: Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities

Google Cache only covers some content, and only until it expires from Google's search results.

archive.org would probably be up for mirroring it, but it's unclear that they have all of it.

Comment Re:Partitions are your friend (Score 2, Informative) 269

by rincebrain on Sunday April 12, 2009 @12:51PM (#27549287) Attached to: Use apt-p2p To Improve Ubuntu 9.04 Upgrade

Not going to help you - most filesystems are growable but not shrinkable online.

Comment Clearly... (Score 4, Funny) 118

by rincebrain on Thursday March 26, 2009 @03:47AM (#27339139) Attached to: FileFront Shutting Down

Clearly, we mirror it all onto archive.org.

Comment tl;dr (Score 1) 931

by rincebrain on Saturday January 24, 2009 @04:16AM (#26586467) Attached to: A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes?

tl;dr of all the IANAL posts:
It's not legal, but it's possible the school could punish you if you refused.

Since she went in without asking explicitly, THAT is illegal s&s, and you can hand her ass to her legally, though they'd make an implied consent argument.

Comment Re:Linux user - USB stick boot image? (Score 1) 559

by rincebrain on Saturday January 24, 2009 @02:50AM (#26586039) Attached to: Seagate Firmware Update Bricks 500GB Barracudas

Just so you know - the Seagate update utility *IS* a FreeDOS boot image. :)

Comment Re:Sadly... (Score 0, Offtopic) 235

by rincebrain on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @03:38AM (#26220671) Attached to: Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference

Damn, apparently my reply button missed? I don't really think so, but Slashdot disagrees.

Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 0, Offtopic) 235

by rincebrain on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @03:36AM (#26220667) Attached to: Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference

No, but neither do most researchers, so it's okay.

Comment Re:Sadly... (Score 0, Offtopic) 235

by rincebrain on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @03:35AM (#26220663) Attached to: Software-Generated Paper Accepted At IEEE Conference

No, but neither do most researchers.

Submission + - School taking action against Network freedom 1

Submitted by

Tristan Stillwell

on Monday October 15, 2007 @06:10PM

Tristan Stillwell writes: "I am a teenage high school student in the municipality of Bunn, North Carolina.
Today I found out I was suspended from school for ten days for possessing programs that were "capable of doing damage to the private school network". The programs were Firefox Portable and VNC viewer, and BlueJ Java Development Environment. I, an 18 year old high school student, was informed through my aunt, who was called about this disciplinary problem ( Isn't this private information?). I have no chance to appeal this suspension and are being forcefully and permanently removed from my Java(c) Computer Science and US government and Politics courses which I was taking through the state. I will most likely receive grades of ZERO (0) for both classes, thus destroying any chance I ever have of getting into a decent college. I am initially receiving a 10 day suspension, and then possibly a longer suspension pending investigation. Note- the school has found nothing I might have done to potentially cause damage to the network, I was suspended for having the programs- nothing else. I plan to contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation for help with this clearly unfair oppression. The only (thought) crime I have committed is one arousing suspicion, not arriving from action. I will provide further information after I officially receive the suspension."

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