Slashdot is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror
×
User Journal

Journal Journal: VIRTUALIZATION: VirtualIron is WAYYYY Cool 2

Alert: If you're not into computers, don't manage servers at work or at home, or don't know what TFTP, DHCP, Xen hypervisor mean, then skip this entry.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with VirtualIron other than being a very happy customer so far.

User Journal

Journal Journal: MEME Attempt: Top 10 Cool Home Stuff You've Done with *nix 2

RULES: These have to be things you can't do on other proprietary platforms easily (without being a programmer), at all, or without buying additional software, or pirating software. These don't have to be things that are necessarily special within the *nix world, just things that you know you can't do elsewhere. (ie. they can be commonplace *nix operations)

My list:

Security

Submission + - HOWTO Peer-to-Peer VPN Windows XP

pc1oad1etter writes: I want to set up a secure VPN between two Windows XP boxes, but I want to see better security than what PPTP provides. I want this to be a direct connection between the two computers, with no hardware appliance managing the VPN and no third server setting up the connection. A couple of options have emerged: Now for some questions:
  • What other options are there?
  • Is it possible to put PPTP over SSH or SSL and make it more secure? (Would having TCP over TCP be a problem here?)
  • What pitfalls should I watch out for with TheGreenBow or OpenVPN?
User Journal

Journal SPAM: Interpretation Of Dreams 5

I often have the similar dream which is I am chased by someone or something that is superior to me. Then at some point I can get away with their chase after I was able to fly.

I was struck by the mook that was being displayed in a bookshelf at the entrance of some supermarket. The title of the book was 'The Interpretation Of Dreams' In a cover seven dreams are interpretted as follows.

Software

Submission + - Open source apps vendor drops attribution goes GPL

Anonymous Coward writes: "Open source applications vendor, Alfresco, has dropped its MPL+Attribution license and elected to go 100% GPL. While infrastructure companies like Red Hat and MySQL have long pursued such a license strategy, Alfresco becomes the first commercial open source vendor to completely GPL its enterprise content management application. The company's license model is very similar to Red Hat's RHEL/Fedora model. The move comes after months of sometimes rancorous debate as to whether MPL+Attribution constitutes an approved OSI license or not. It remains to be seen how Alfresco competitors like Microsoft Sharepoint and Documentum will respond to an innovative, enterprise-class ECM system...that just so happens to be free."
Microsoft

Zune Sales Not So Bad After All 366

pyrbrand writes "Despite the iFanboy jabber that Zune sales were horrific, CNN has a story to the contrary. Turns out Zune was the #2 Digital Audio player in its first week of sales. Not a bad start for the challenger to the iPod throne. As others have pointed out the Amazon sales rank may have been thrown off by Zune sales being divided between the three colors."
User Journal

Journal Journal: BANNED: It's Been a While

I think my recent comments that have sparked moderation and comment activity (not much compared to some from my illustrious past as T4$), have activated yet another IP ban. I'm a bit too busy these days to play with ways to get around it though... so I'll be seeing you after the ban is lifted. That is, unless I get some time. I also might post some JEs in reponse to anything that you folks post...

User Journal

Journal Journal: GAMING: Leander by Psygnosis 5

Doesn't ANYONE remember what must have been the greatest game ever in 1991? Leander! A 2D platform game for the Amiga and Atari ST. I was hoping that it would get ported to DOS when I saw that Psygnosis ported Lemmings. Unfortunately it appears that Leander just perished. I REALLY want to play this game again, but unfortunately at every attempt, I've been foiled. The Amiga discs aren't readable on a PC. The Atari version is somewhat lacking compared to the Amiga one. The disk images I

User Journal

Journal Journal: XEN: I KNEW IT!!! 2

While this blog entry doesn't prove anything. My suspicions that Apple will be setting up a way to run Windows and Mac OS simultaneously with little (less than 1%) performance hit so that dual boot can go away, appear to have some meat. If this happens, I will surely be buying a Mac for my next machine. :)

User Journal

Journal Journal: WORK: Here TROLLY TROLLY TROLL... 3

(12:56:52) eno2001/Gaim: Hehehe... I just had a thought.
(12:57:12) eno2001/Gaim: It would be AWESOME is someone overengineered a keyboard.
(12:57:23) TradeMeForMyWordsSaidtheBlogger: because why...?
(12:57:24) eno2001/Gaim: Imagine a keyboard, where the keys were pressure sensitive.
(12:57:33) TradeMeForMyWordsSaidtheBlogger: They're not now?
(12:57:49) TradeMeForMyWordsSaidtheBlogger: Damned keyboard! Can't press any of the buttons!
(12:57:51) eno2001/Gaim: Dependin
User Journal

Journal Journal: WORK: My Co-workers Have a Lot to Contend With 4

I've griped here before about work. But now, it's equal time for my co-workers. Tell me, honestly. Does this look like the sort of IM you have with YOUR co-workers? (NOTE: "Gleek" used to be my "hax0r" and Quake name when I was in my 20s)
User Journal

Journal Journal: M,MH&I: Sinus Infections 8

First, a nod to SamTheButcher as I am stealing his JE heading for health related issues since it works so well. And like Sam, I'm warning people that there may be stuff in this JE that you DON'T want to read. Gross, weird, etc... I'm simply putting it here hoping it might be helpful to other people since I believe in sharing info about alternative approaches to solving today's health problems. With that out of the way, let's get started. Some of this will be a rehash of things I've written
User Journal

Journal Journal: VOTING DAY: Yet Another Waste of Time 13

There is only one reason I vote. So that I can complain like crazy about how everything is going to hell in a handbasket and numbnuts can't tell me I don't have a right to complain because I didn't vote. That's it. There is no other reason. I have no faith that my vote counts thanks to the Electoral College. And now that we only have the option of absentee voting and Diebold machines, well that pretty much makes having my vote accurately counted a near impossibility. I also know that si

Republican Robocall Pretexting Campaign 674

WCityMike writes, "In 53 Congressional campaigns across the country, including the Pennsylvania 6th, the Connecticut 4th, the North Carolina 11th, the New Hampshire 2nd, and the Illinois 6th and 8th (and possibly all races), the National Republican Congressional Committee is conducting a $2.1 million campaign to make it appear as if Democrats are spamming callers with telemarketing calls. The NRCC hired Conquest Communications Group to conduct a massive nationwide robocalling campaign with calls specifically scripted to appear as if they're coming from the Democratic candidate — in violation of FCC regulations on such 'robocalls,' which requires the identity of the caller to be stated at the beginning of the message [47 CFR 64.1200(b)(1)]. The call begins with 'Hello. I'm calling with information about,' and then says the name of the Democratic candidate. There is then a pause; if the recipient hangs up here, they will receive repeated calls back with the same message, potentially up to 18 times or more (according to one callee). If the callee doesn't hang up, they hear a smear message from the machine about the Democratic candidate. The NRCC thinks the legality of the calls is, conveniently, a 'complicated legal question that's not going to get adjudicated this weekend.'" Update 20:47 GMT by SM: Thankfully we all learned how to deal with these folks last week.

Slashdot Top Deals

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.

Working...