Comment Re: Not a dev (Score 1) 241
I do, and I don't care. What's in my private repositories is:
1: Not worth stealing, and
2. encrypted with gpg if it is.
Cheers.
Comment Re: My stuff got hit by this. (Score -1, Flamebait) 495
Here's a nickel. Go buy a real domain.
Comment Re:Linux client? Please? (Score 1) 95
Then you move the problem remotely. It would still be more efficient to run a native client over a VPN. Now you are doing a RDP session over a slow VPN in which you are doing another remote session in vSphere. They have clients for Mac OS X. Why do they leave out Linux? Or any other *nix variant for that matter? If they have any love for the community, they would port their client over, or give us very detailed protocol specs (or an API, for that matter), so we can write our own client.
Comment Re:Linux client? Please? (Score 1) 95
That sucks. I would rather have a native client. Running a VM on your local box just to run vSphere is what I find a bit excessive. The vSphere is in .NET, it shouldn't be that hard to port that over to Mono or something...
Comment Linux client? Please? (Score 1) 95
Wake me up when they have a working vSphere client for Linux.
Comment Ubuntu! (Score 1) 622
Like others said, just go for Ubuntu. Easy to find, easy to install, and with WUBI easy to roll back from if the Ubuntu experience didn't convince her. If your mom doesn't like Unity, you can use the default gnome desktop (not gnome-shell) that it still ships with, or just avoid the issue alltogether and go for the other *buntu flavours. And yes, I hear good things about Mint too, because of the whole community driven software center they have had even before Ubuntu had it.
Comment They are forgetting something... (Score 4, Insightful) 238
Seeing traffic on port 23 does not mean telnet is involved. I know some people who run their SSH daemon on that port to lessen the stupid ssh scans.
Comment N97/N97 mini with PuTTy for Symbian (Score 3, Informative) 359
...and specifically the touch UI one for Symbian S60v5. It's PuTTy.
Oh, you want an URL with that... Try http://bd.kicks-ass.net/koodaus/putty/
Comment Re:What OS? And how annoying? (Score 1) 366
Hey! Don't shoot the messenger! :)
Comment Easy to defeat... (Score 1) 76
Just break something. You have 206 chances to fool the system.
Comment Re:Who cares (Score 1) 757
That or it's the ultimate denial of service attack.
iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0 172
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "Here are Photos/Pictures of my iPhone DSLR Prototype 1.0. This is my first attempt at putting together an iPhone DSLR. You might ask 'Why pair an iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, or iPhone 4 with a DSLR lens?' Why not!" Prototype or not, it's a cool project.
Droid X Self-Destructs If You Try To Mod 757
An anonymous reader writes with some discouraging news for hack-oriented purchasers of the new Droid X phone: "If the eFuse fails to verify [the firmware information (what we call ROMS), the kernel information, and the bootloader version], then the eFuse receives a command to 'blow the fuse' or 'trip the fuse.' This results in the booting process becoming corrupted, followed by a permanent bricking of the phone. This FailSafe is activated anytime the bootloader is tampered with or any of the above three parts of the phone has been tampered with."
UK Royalty Group Wants ISPs To Pay For Pirating Customers 289
Idbar writes "A group representing British songwriters and composers will on Wednesday call for the introduction of a levy on broadband providers based on the amount of pirated music they allow to pass through their networks. Will Page, chief economist at PRS for Music, will argue at a Westminster conference that a piracy fee would better align the financial interests of internet service providers with rights holders at a time when the two industries are at odds over who should bear the costs of online song swapping."
Sending Data In Bursts of SMS Messages 181
An anonymous reader writes "Canadian carrier Rogers has been experiencing some extreme loads of late, as researchers at the University of Waterloo investigate the potential for sending data spread across bursts of hundreds of text messages. They sent around 80,000 messages in the course of a project testing a new protocol able to cram 32KB into 250 messages sent from a BlackBerry, reaching a rate of 20 bytes per second. The group thinks its protocol could be useful in rural areas of the developing world where text messaging is the only affordable, reliable link."
