warrior_s - Slashdot User

Comment In 1999, (Score 1) 739

by warrior_s on Saturday April 25, 2009 @03:20PM (#27715199) Attached to: What Did You Do First With Linux?

I had to buy a Red Hat book to get my hands on to the linux install CD that came with it. It took me (and one of my other friends) a whole night to figure out how to partition the drive. Basically, it was something like if you install linux in the partition beyond 4 or 8 GB (dont remember exactly), then you can not boot linux from that partition. We had windows installed in the beginning of HD. It took us a while to get it running, but it was fun.

There was no internet in our dorms at that time. All the computers on our floor were connected using the old coax cable with terminators at both the ends.

Comment Re:140 Characters? (Score 1) 183

by warrior_s on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:53PM (#27396401) Attached to: The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts

oh nevermind.. 26^140 is correct

Well, given an alphabet of just 'a-z' + ' ', that would be 26 ^ 140 or:

1, 248, 155, 560, 712, 888, 693, 721, 116, 035, 178, 646, 463, 649, 590, 092, 724, 076, 699, 557, 919, 198, 775, 318, 840, 655, 335, 967, 337, 203, 969, 601, 545, 498, 350, 937, 608, 330, 255, 529, 112, 180, 176, 094, 892, 997, 792, 623, 787, 890, 917, 357, 870, 916, 489, 701, 094, 150, 005, 153, 729, 071, 148, 146, 282, 725, 376

which is quite a few possibilities.

actually its 140^26... 140 characters each with 26 possibilities

Comment Re:140 Characters? (Score 1) 183

by warrior_s on Monday March 30, 2009 @08:52PM (#27396391) Attached to: The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts

Well, given an alphabet of just 'a-z' + ' ', that would be 26 ^ 140 or:

1, 248, 155, 560, 712, 888, 693, 721, 116, 035, 178, 646, 463, 649, 590, 092, 724, 076, 699, 557, 919, 198, 775, 318, 840, 655, 335, 967, 337, 203, 969, 601, 545, 498, 350, 937, 608, 330, 255, 529, 112, 180, 176, 094, 892, 997, 792, 623, 787, 890, 917, 357, 870, 916, 489, 701, 094, 150, 005, 153, 729, 071, 148, 146, 282, 725, 376

which is quite a few possibilities.

actually its 140^26... 140 characters each with 26 possibilities

Submission + - Daling with your advisor 1

Submitted by warrior_s on Tuesday March 24, 2009 @02:07PM

warrior_s writes: I think there are many graduate students as well as professors who read slashdot on regular basis. My question is about honesty of professors in academia.
What can a (new/junior) graduate student do when his advisor his passing on his work as the work of the more senior graduate student or a postdoc. I understand that senior graduate students are in need of good academic publications. But passing a junior student's work as someone else's work in unacceptable.
On the other hand, a junior student needs the help of faculty later on when he will be graduating. So, it is difficult to oppose this injustice. Specially in this economy, when just leaving the school is not an option for all. And changing the advisor (especially the one who is highly reputed in academia) is not seen as good thing in the department.
How can one deal with such advisors?

Comment Re:Oscar betrays its Western centerednes (Score 1) 317

by warrior_s on Monday February 23, 2009 @12:14PM (#26958189) Attached to: Slumdog Millionaire Takes Home 8 Oscars

And just so that people outside India know, movies far far far better than slumdog are made every year in India...
An also, I think other movies in the best movie nomination were a lot better than slumdog.. seriously..what the hell was there in slumdog to get the best movie award... i may never understand.

Comment Re:Fool me once, shame on you (Score 1) 417

by warrior_s on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @10:31PM (#26822475) Attached to: MS To Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrade To Vista Users

12? Where does 12 come from?

My concern with upgrading my brother's 512meg Vista machine to a 512meg Win7 machine is that (1) I still don't think it will run any faster and (2) Win7 might not have the necessary drivers to operate the video/audio cards and therefore be impossible to use.

I think your concern is not valid here. I am running Win7 on my 5 year old inspiron 300m with 640 Megs of memory, and believe me, Win7 is runnig just fine.. Never experienced any slowdown or anything.

And regarding drivers, it did not first install the drivers for my wireless card, but when I connected it to Internet using wired ethernet, it downloaded and installed the drivers for wireless card just fine. I was able to run all the programs for general web surfing,.. and IMs like skype yahoo etc without any problem.

Journal Journal: Is Google.com down?

Journal by warrior_s on Sunday January 18, 2009 @11:41PM

As of 10:30pm eastern time, I think that google.com is suffering outage and may be under some kind of ddos attack

Comment Re:Wireless (Score 1) 1079

by warrior_s on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @05:44PM (#26349391) Attached to: Apple Intros 17" Unibody MBP, DRM-Free iTunes

Because with Apple the AirPort Express is your "dock", as most of what you're asking for can already be done wirelessly. Plug your speakers and your printer into your Express, .

The only thing here is that you can not plug your speakers into the airport express.
http://store.apple.com/us-hed/product/MB053?mco=MjU4NjAzNA#overview

Comment Re:What a pity (Score 2, Informative) 179

by warrior_s on Wednesday September 17, 2008 @01:21PM (#25040043) Attached to: Open Wi-Fi May Become Illegal In India

What I am saying is, seven years in to the stark reality posed by the threat of Islamic terrorism, I am surprised that India hasnt opted to carpet bomb Pakistan occupied Kashmir.

A correction, its not 7 years, its almost 20 years since islamic terrorism started in India.
This is the beginning I think, and the terrorists have never looked back.

Submission + - Time to encrypt all P2P traffic? 3

Submitted by VORNAN-20 on Saturday October 20, 2007 @06:48PM

VORNAN-20 writes: Yesterday's item here about Comcast screwing around with P2P traffic brings up an idea. Is it time to change the P2P standard to encrypt all traffic? I think that almost any current PC would have no problem handling the extra load, and really, Comcast or any ISP has no business knowing what you are sending in the first place. I am not a network guy but I think that this is doable. If azureus, ktorrent, etc were all to come out with an "encrypt all packets using " option maybe this could be managed quickly and cleanly. It would be best to move quickly before all of the ISPs catch on to this. Come on developers, liberate us from the network meanies!!

Submission + - Apple offers $100 credit to iPhone customers

Submitted by warrior_s on Thursday September 06, 2007 @05:26PM

warrior_s writes: From NYTimes: Apple Inc. will offer a $100 store credit to people who bought the iPhone before the company slashed the price by $200, the company's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, said in a statement today.
Here is Steven P. Jobs's Letter to Customers The offer applies to customers who bought iPhones at either Apple or AT&T stores and who are not receiving a rebate or other consideration.

Submission + - Google Desktop Now on Linux

Submitted by warrior_s on Wednesday June 27, 2007 @09:38PM

warrior_s writes: Thats right, Now it DOES run on Linux. Google Desktop is now being offered for Linux.
Google Desktop for Linux was written natively and uses Google's own desktop search algorithms, not existing Linux search applications such as Beagle, a company representative said. Only computers with x86 processors can use the software. It supports the Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, Novell SUSE 10.1 and Red Flag 5 versions of Linux, and uses either the KDE and GNOME graphical user interfaces. Here is the scoop from builderau and cnet

Two Worm "Families" Make Up Most Botnets 176

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 09, 2007 @12:32PM from the why-can't-they-fight-eachother-instead-of-us dept.

JMoon writes "HNS has an article about the Sdbot and Gaobot families which are responsible for most botnets worldwide. These two families were responsible for 80 percent of detections related to bots during the first quarter of 2007. Other culprits, although on a much lesser scale, included Oscarbot, IRCbot or RXbot."

Debian 4.0 'Etch' Released 245

Posted by Zonk on Monday April 09, 2007 @01:20AM from the etch-up-me-harties dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Earlier today we discussed the possibility that Debian Etch might be released soon. Well, according to debian.org, it has already happened. Etch has been released: 'The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 4.0, codenamed etch, after 21 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of eleven processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME and Xfce desktop environments. It also features cryptographic software and compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.1 of the LSB.'"

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