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Comment Re:Solaris? (Score 1) 392

The OS that just took 5 hours to install on a new box and then needed to grab a LOAD of patches to fix stuff, but it seems that patches are no longer available so I'll be selling a few V480s on Ebay in the next week or so and buying some more DELLs.

Though it was quite handy to be able to break into my old SS10 with the 'telnet -l "-fbin"' exploit when I forgot the passwords..

Sheesh.

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Raleigh Councilman Offers Child Naming Rights To Google 121

Anonymous Meoward writes "In what may be the weirdest perk proposed by a municipal authority to entice business, city councilman Bonner Gaylord has offered to name his unborn children Sergey and Larry, after the founders of Google. All he wants in return is the search giant to build its proposed high-speed fiber-optic network in Raleigh."

Comment This is completely stupid. (Score 2, Insightful) 147

This is dumb. The terrorists will just get their mates in another country to get whatever it is they want.

Only the kind of stupid Americans that though that restricting the export of encryption technology would actually work would think of this. What happened there? They all got it anyway.

What exactly do they hope to achieve with this stupidity?

Comment Re:A lot of organisations just are not that import (Score 1) 175

Good point, Sheila's Cleaners may get their contact database and steal all their business. This is why we should all hire a "Independent Mac and iPhone contractor, specialising in security issues." to make sure that we don't get pwned like this.

Now I have tried Sheila's cleaners and they are just not as good. For one, they didn't clean the table under the tablecloth and then they didn't iron my boxers.

Comment A lot of organisations just are not that important (Score 4, Insightful) 175

If you run a cleaning company or you're a group of plumbers or perhaps you have a fairly large landscape gardening company then your data just is not that important or a target. So this survey is really quite useless, so what is Agnes Cleaners do not encrypt their thumb drives with their cleaning rota on it? Nobody cares. So whilst all organisations should encrypt just because it is sensible, not all organisations really need to bother because the likelihood of anything happening to their data is so small that it's just not worth the effort of sorting out the idiots who call up the part-time IT admin guy because they have forgotten their encryption key (again).

Comment Re:Not unique across industry. Actually S.O.P. (Score 1) 709

I fail to understand why anybody would work an 80 hour week, really, what were you doing that for? Unless you actually do make a few million at the end of it when you sell your company, I really do not think it is worth it. Now, it's 10:35AM, I have posted a /. article, I now need at least another cup of tea and a biscuit before I start doing any work. Somebody called me at 9:30AM this morning, 9:30AM! I wasn't even here..

Comment But all the on-line content sucks (Score 1) 117

Yeah, it does, and it is certainly not worthy or watching on my 50 inch telly. I would like a small box that will connect to a SMB share and stream video from files on there, that supports a load of formats (hey just use embedded VLC) and has HDMI output. I do not want USB sockets or built in youtube just something that works to stream from a shared drive.
PHP

Submission + - PHP Nuke sold? (blogspot.com)

frinkacheese writes: "I just had this email pop into my Inbox, what's happened?

Hello;

I'm writting to you because you were or you are user of PHP-Nuke and for me is important to inform the community that PHP-Nuke has been sold on past October 2007. I need to inform you about this because the new owner failed to meet the agreement we had to inform the public at a certain date and this is starting to negatively affect me.

After I sold the project I wanted to start another activity but soon I realized that programming is my life. Few days ago I opened another web site and started a new Content Management System or Portal System that is initialy based on the latest version of PHP-Nuke.

The new project name is Smeego and you can find its official website at http://smeego.com/

I want to give to Smeego another focus. The first version is already available for download and I fixed lot of stuff, did some code cleanup and changed all the default themes including some that are very nice.

Smeego open a new market if you are a developer. You can code modules, themes and blocks for it and offer them to the users community.

The system and the website itself are more open that PHP-Nuke. For example, the commercial license is gone, the sell of the latest version is gone as well and the software is totaly free of any charge. The site isn't overloaded with ads, comments are open for registered users... etc...

Being the first version I have lot of interest that people start using it, suggesting ideas and features, send fixes if they find bugs on the code, etc...

Smeego will focus on the intelligence of the system and the graphic design. Smeego is released under the terms of the GNU/GPL license as well.

I want to cordialy invite you to check the official site at http://smeego.com/ and leave your opinion and if you like what you see I'll be more than happy if you use this new code on your commercial or non-commercial website. Many cool stuff will come in the future for Smeego!

Check it out and enjoy it.

Thanks for your time,

Francisco Burzi

Former PHP-Nuke creator

http://smeego.com/

PS: Please don't answer to this email, use the feedback or Submit News option on smeego.com instead."

Comment Re:Clear the DRAM? (Score 1) 398


How about using a memory controller, separate to the DRAM sticks that does not write to the memory sequentially, instead it will hold a seed that changes on each power cycle that will randomly spread the writes and reciprocal reads across the DRAM space. Then even if you get the DRAM, you will also need this memory controller in order to do anything useful.

All it needs to do is interface the address bus on the DRAM to the system bus, when the system looks at address A the controller actually pulls up address Y, etc.

Think of it as encrypting the address bus, instead of the data.

If the seed is sufficiently large, the spread will be sufficiently random to thwart attack.

Security

Submission + - First vulnerability in Vista's Windows Mail

juct writes: "Would you expect that clicking on a link in an email executes a program on your local machine? You'd better — at least if you are using Windows Mail on Vista. The successor to Outlook Express links seamlessly with its predecessor's dubious reputation in matters of security. Under certain cirumstances a click on a link will execute programms without requiring any confirmation. As a hacker namend Kingcope found out, it takes only a link to an executable like "c:/windows/system32/winrm?" and a directory with the same name. heise Security has demonstrated the problem by creating a directory named calc. Although there is no direct attack vector, it makes you wonder what other Vista features are waiting to be discovered..."
Role Playing (Games)

Submission + - "Child porn" legal in Belgium

stimpie writes: The Belgium minister of justice Laurette Onkelinx has said in response to raised questions that "child porn" in second life wont be prosecuted.

According to to Belgium law virtual actions with children are not illegal.

A recent conviction in the UK for 'pseudo' child sex pics makes me wonder where this will go.
Portables

Submission + - Sugar-fuelled battery to replace Lithium-ion?

An anonymous reader writes: Fuel cell technology that is currently in development boasts the ability of extracting energy from virtually any sugar source to power portable electronics like cellular phones, laptops, and sensors. The new technology is expected to be biodegradable, environmentally friendly and more energy efficient than current options, providing a green alternative to current Lithium-ion batteries. http://pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1458597410

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