Roman Mamedov - Slashdot User

Submission + - Slashdot Still Doesn't Support IPv6 (slashdot.org) 2

Submitted by Roman Mamedov on Thursday February 10, 2011 @08:51PM

Roman Mamedov writes: It's 2011, IPv4 addresses are officially exhausted, and the world's largest geek-oriented website, Slashdot, still doesn't support IPv6 on its most-visited address, slashdot.org. This is true even for the new AJAX and CSS redesigned version of the website released just last month. Slashdot continues to publish one IPv6-related story after another. But it has not been specific about if and how it will offer an IPv6 upgrade to the Slashdot website itself, nor named any dates.

Comment Re:Hidden content (Score 1) 2254

by Roman Mamedov on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:04AM (#35006042) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

> The only "cure" to the sidebar overlap, is to reduce the size of the text to "microdot" and use my jeweler's loupe to read it. :P I installed Element Hiding Helper addon to my Adblock Plus, and killed the sidebar altogether. Never used it even once, anyway.

Comment Re:This is slashdot? (Score 2) 2254

by Roman Mamedov on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:01AM (#35006026) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

8-character usernames should be enough for everybody.

Comment Re:What am I supposed to do now? (Score 1) 311

by Roman Mamedov on Friday December 17, 2010 @02:36AM (#34584514) Attached to: Yahoo! To Close Delicious

Yep, and then just import it into http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ , which is a del.icio.us replacement to run on your own server.

Comment Re:Uh - China didn't "make" it, they "assembled" i (Score 1) 222

by Roman Mamedov on Friday October 29, 2010 @05:26AM (#34060598) Attached to: China Makes World's Fastest Supercomputer

Yeah, this supercomputer is totally 'meh', at reading the title I was hoping they used https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Loongson#Loongson_3 not nvidious crap.

Comment Tracking ties each click to your Google Account (Score 1) 244

by Roman Mamedov on Friday October 01, 2010 @07:43AM (#33757244) Attached to: Google URL Shortener Opened To the Public

$ curl -I http://goo.gl/info/cr4p HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Set-Cookie: authed=1;Path=/ Location: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=urlshortener&continue=http://goo.gl/info/cr4p?authed%3D1&followup=http://goo.gl/info/cr4p?authed%3D1&passive=true&go=true Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:41:25 GMT Expires: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:41:25 GMT Cache-Control: private, max-age=0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block Server: GSE Transfer-Encoding: chunked Thanks, but I'll keep using http://ur1.ca/ (or no shortener at all).

Comment Re:Hrm (Score 1, Informative) 86

by Roman Mamedov on Friday September 24, 2010 @01:14AM (#33684162) Attached to: First Installment of Xiph.org's 'Digital Video Primer For Geeks'

> I wish they'd just written an ebook
You mean something like this one? http://en.flossmanuals.net/theoracookbook

Software Freedom Conservancy Wins GPL Case Against Westinghouse 225

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday August 05, 2010 @08:46AM from the do-the-dance-of-joy dept.

fishthegeek writes "The Software Freedom Conservancy has received a judgement against Westinghouse Digital Electronics for $90,000 in damages, $50,000 in costs plus a donation of all of the offending HDTV's that were using BusyBox in violation of the GPL. Given that WDE is nearly bankrupt it's likely that most if not all of the cash will disappear in a legal 'poof,' but it is a victory regardless."

Submission + - Gentoo Linux is now more Free (blogspot.com)

Submitted by mgpeter on Thursday April 29, 2010 @03:56PM

mgpeter writes: The Gentoo Developers have now decided to give the user the option to remove any non-free binaries within the Linux Kernel with the "deblob" USE Flag.

There is also a new Gentoo Linux Review covering why you may want to look at Gentoo Linux. This is the first Review for Gentoo that I've seen in years!

Submission + - Microsoft Signs Android Patent Deal with HTC

Submitted by adeelarshad82 on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @01:01PM

adeelarshad82 writes: Microsoft and HTC have signed a patent deal that will provide broad coverage under Microsoft's patent portfolio for HTC's mobile phones running the Android mobile platform. The announcement comes in the wake of a massive patent suit from Apple, which alleged 20 instances of patent infringement on the part of HTC.

Comment Adanaxis (Score 1) 303

by Roman Mamedov on Thursday April 01, 2010 @06:46AM (#31698892) Attached to: Gaming in the 4th Dimension

There's also a "4D shooter" Adanaxis ( http://libregamewiki.org/Adanaxis ), where you have not just aim at things in three dimensions, but also align color of yourself with color of the target (if you don't do that, you don't hit it, and I believe can fly just through).

Comment Re:Aardvark (Score 1) 178

by Roman Mamedov on Thursday February 18, 2010 @03:33PM (#31188948) Attached to: Two Scoops of Buzz

just scroll to the bottom of the screen and click older version. This is not the HTML only version, but the one just before the new interface upgrade. I find it responsive, less cluttered...and no buzz.

Also they can remove it at any time, and you/we can't do anything about it. The joy of depending on "the cloud".

Submission + - Why IPv6 is Essential for Your Freedom (rm.pp.ru)

Submitted by Roman Mamedov on Saturday January 23, 2010 @02:51PM

Roman Mamedov writes: With the IPv4 exhaustion looming on the horizon, will the original Internet be reduced to the "traditional mass-media" model, strictly separating the participants into "publishers" of content, and mere "consumers" of it? How can we ensure that all users of the Internet will always be free to directly communicate and cooperate with each other?

Submission + - Sourceforge Bans the "Evils" from Free Software 7

Submitted by

neo00

on Saturday January 23, 2010 @02:36PM

neo00 writes: "Syrians, Sudanese, N. Koreans, Cubans and Iranians will now be prohbitied from downloading or contributing to FOSS projects hosted by Sourceforge.net. According to sf.net terms of use, persons residing one of the countries on which the US government imposes sanctions, will be banned from accessing the site contents. An act that violates the Freedoms of Free Software and the "No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups" from the OSS definition.
US sanctions on these countries were initiated or hardened during the administration of Bush who called them the "Axis of Evil"."

Submission + - IANA releases reserved IPv4 addresses 1

Submitted by klapaucjusz on Monday January 18, 2010 @11:09PM

klapaucjusz writes: The RFC Editor has just published RFC 5735, which allows allocation of much of the remaining IPv4 space: networks 14, 24, 39 and 128, which were previously reserved are no longer mentioned, and only 240.0.0.0/4 remains.

While some of these deallocations are old news (network 14 was recovered in early 2008), this is perhaps a sign that the IPv4 address space is really getting exhausted, and that it's time to deploy IPv6.

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