Comment Re:No Way! (Score 0) 247
Al Gore can probably explain it best since he invented the internet and warned us all of global warming!
Comment Re:Reddit is down because of this (Score 1) 247
I mostly come here for humour, and once again I'm not disappointed!
Submission + - BlackBerry security opened up for India? (bloomberg.com)
lumbercartel.ca writes: RIM will say "no" to other countries because they're protecting their consumers' rights to privacy, but they make an exception for India? I was ready to buy a BlackBerry unit because of how RIM was protecting their customers, but now I'm having second thoughts. Has RIM bowed into peer pressure from India?
Comment Re:Pictures can tell the future? (Score 1) 175
This sounds like something right out of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. I think the DSLR setting you're looking for, whatever it is, must be set to 42.
Comment ImageMagick and remove metadata (Score 2, Informative) 175
You can use the "-strip" command-line option with ImageMagick's "convert" utility to strip out all the metadata from an image prior to uploading it.
Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 1) 305
That was hilarious. Will there ever be a sequel?
The Hidden Security Risk of Geotags 175
pickens writes "The NY Times reports that security experts and privacy advocates have begun warning consumers about the potential dangers of geotags, which are embedded in photos and videos taken with GPS-equipped smartphones and digital cameras. By looking at geotags of uploaded photos, 'you can easily find out where people live, what kind of things they have in their house and also when they are going to be away,' says one security expert. Because the location data is not visible to the casual viewer, the concern is that many people may not realize it is there; and they could be compromising their privacy, if not their safety, when they post geotagged media online."
Comment Re:From TFA (Score 1) 305
Assuming this study wasn't entirely automated, what was the margin of error?
Comment Re:Obligatory: The Etherkiller (Score 1) 305
V.35 Killer
Taking serial to new extremes. T-1 down and telco says its not their equipment that's at fault? Take matters into your own hands and assure them it's their problem.
Ha ha, this one's a classic! But nobody would ever do this -- after all, everyone loves their phone company!
Comment Re:Not using Cisco ACLs (Score 1) 305
Default router password lists are a very important tool for matters such as this. This is slowly becoming less useful though as more and more users are actually reading the product manuals and changing the administrator password from its default before unintentionally serving DHCP to the internet.
Comment Re:Network meltdown due to hub cross-connects (Score 1) 305
Ah, yes, what network technician hasn't felt the sting of the old "cat5 o' eight tails"?
You're thinking of the Cat5 o' Nine Tails -- or maybe you just lost count because you were on the receiving end of one?
Comment Circumvention (Score 1) 1
As long as they don't get someone else to start their vehicles, such as a Valet, this should be quite effective.
Submission + - Virtualization with NetBSD made easy (lumbercartel.ca)
lumbercartel.ca writes: I wrote a "how-to" document recently that explains, step-by-step, how to install and configure Xen on NetBSD as Dom0 on 64-bit Intel/AMD hardware that supports VT, and configure it to virtualize Operating Systems like MS-Windows/ReactOS using the hardware virtualization layer (HVM). The reason I wrote this document was to help people in IRC (mostly on irc.freenode.net#netbsd) who were asking how to do this (people have also been very helpful to me in this channel, and I felt obligated to contribute to others).
If you're new to virtualization, or have a need or an interest in this, or just haven't tried Xen before, then this document will save you a lot of time and hassle with setting up NetBSD as the Dom0 (the host) for the first time. Although this is a technical document, it was written to be "easy to follow" even for those who aren't familiar with NetBSD. A basic understanding of Unix/Linux is very important.
This solution is working reliably for me in 5 completely unrelated production environments, and it seems to make the Windows OS run faster than a "bare metal" configuration (without any virtualization), which is a particularly nice benefit; one example is the installation of Adobe Reader for Windows, which requires a lot of time to install — under Xen virtualization, it typically finishes in up to 1/4 of the time compared to a "bare metal" MS-Windows install on the same hardware. I suspect that NetBSD is also helping with disk I/O to some extent, and I wonder if Windows also has less hardware to contend with since Xen may only providing what is necessary to each DomU.
If you're new to virtualization, or have a need or an interest in this, or just haven't tried Xen before, then this document will save you a lot of time and hassle with setting up NetBSD as the Dom0 (the host) for the first time. Although this is a technical document, it was written to be "easy to follow" even for those who aren't familiar with NetBSD. A basic understanding of Unix/Linux is very important.
This solution is working reliably for me in 5 completely unrelated production environments, and it seems to make the Windows OS run faster than a "bare metal" configuration (without any virtualization), which is a particularly nice benefit; one example is the installation of Adobe Reader for Windows, which requires a lot of time to install — under Xen virtualization, it typically finishes in up to 1/4 of the time compared to a "bare metal" MS-Windows install on the same hardware. I suspect that NetBSD is also helping with disk I/O to some extent, and I wonder if Windows also has less hardware to contend with since Xen may only providing what is necessary to each DomU.
Comment Prior art already exists... (Score 5, Funny) 197
Prior art probably already exists for this patent...
I had an assistant print my eMails for me so that I could read them years before wireless internet routers were even being produced (back in the early 1990s). By holding those hardcopy eMails in my hands to read them, I was reading my eMail in a wireless fashion.
Comment Re:Just Remember (Score 1) 342
Those "Rules of Condct" remind me of "The Rules of Spam..."
