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Comment Re:The real thing is more fun (Score 1) 393

It looks like this time around, we're left with this:

/ # echo *
dev proc tmp
/ # echo dev/*
dev/pts
/ # echo proc/*
proc/1 proc/16 proc/2 proc/3 proc/32 proc/33 proc/34 proc/35 proc/4 proc/5 proc/
76 proc/buddyinfo proc/bus proc/cmdline proc/cpuinfo proc/devices proc/diskstats
  proc/dma proc/driver proc/execdomains proc/filesystems proc/fs proc/interrupts
proc/iomem proc/ioports proc/irq proc/kallsyms proc/kcore proc/kmsg proc/loadavg
  proc/locks proc/meminfo proc/misc proc/mounts proc/net proc/partitions proc/sel
f proc/slabinfo proc/stat proc/swaps proc/sys proc/sysvipc proc/tty proc/uptime
proc/version proc/vmstat proc/zoneinfo
/ # echo tmp/*
tmp/*
/ #

Comment Re:Yo dawg, (Score 1) 393

Wellp, there's your stress-test / Javascript benchmark :D

I managed to get Chrome to sit on an entire CPU core with that little gem, and it vomited this all over the terminal:

Active:4063 inactive:1 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:195 slab:1811 mapped:58 pagetables:1113
DMA free:420kB min:360kB low:448kB high:540kB active:7748kB inactive:0kB present:16256kB
pages_scanned:39714 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 15
Normal free:360kB min:360kB low:448kB high:540kB active:8504kB inactive:4kB present:16256kB pages_scanned:64768 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 420kB
Normal: 0*4kB 1*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 360kB
Swap cache: add 0, delete 0, find 0/0, race 0+0
Free swap = 0kB
Total swap = 0kB
Free swap: 0kB
8192 pages of RAM
0 pages of HIGHMEM
580 reserved pages
9060 pages shared
0 pages swap cached
0 pages dirty
0 pages writeback
58 pages mapped
1811 pages slab
1113 pages pagetables

Too bad I couldn't get it to recognize the magic-sys-rq key combos.

Linux

Submission + - Working Linux in Javascript Emulator (bellard.org)

Kompressor writes: Fabrice Bellard has written a JavaScript based PC emulator, and built a functioning Linux install in it.

From his technical description:

This PC emulator is written in Javascript. The emulated hardware consists in: a 32 bit x86 compatible CPU a 8259 Programmble Interrupt Controller a 8254 Programmble Interrupt Timer a 16450 UART. The code is written in pure Javascript using Typed Arrays which are available in recent browsers. It was tested with Firefox 4 and Google Chrome 11 on Linux, Window and Mac (it does not work with Chrome 12 beta. As far as I know, it is a bug in the browser). In any case, a fast Javascript engine is needed to have good performance.


Comment Re:Food (Score 1) 166

I always thought that the reason certain antibiotics are to be taken with food is that the food has a moderating effect on the body's absorption of the drug - the concentration of the drug in the bloodstream takes longer to peak, and longer to drop, leading to a more even concentration in the bloodstream wrt. time.

A quick bit of googling turned up this, which suggests that perhaps the issue is more complicated. It seems that the presence of food increases absorption rates for some antibiotics, and decreases for others. It also indicates that the presence of food helps to reduce stomach upset that some drugs cause.

Comment Re:I use an app in Bed before gettign up. (Score 1) 180

Here's what came to mind:

Facebook vs. Snooze - An app that ties in to facebook in such a way that others see a "wake up" button [on your wall / in your news feed / something] at the time you set your alarm to go off. When someone clicks it, the button disables and your alarm rings. Pushing snooze not only silences your alarm, but re-enables said button.

Hilarity ensues as people try to claim the honor of being the jerkface who finally woke you up.

Comment Re:What are the phone alternatives? (Score 1) 660

So, about that third choice: Considered a BlackBerry recently? As long as you have the capacity to run your own BES or don't live in the third-world, your privacy is secure.

And RIM doesn't necessarily rape their developers - they just demand notarized ID and a couple bucks before letting them into the private S&M club.

Android

Marlinspike's Droid Firewall Kills Tracking 164

mask.of.sanity writes "The first dynamic Android firewall, dubbed WhisperMonitor, has been released by respected security researcher Moxie Marlinspike. The firewall will allow users to stop location-tracking apps and restrict connection attempts by applications. Marlinspike, whose company created the application, designed WhisperMonitor in response to the incidence of location tracking and malware on Android platforms. It monitors all outbound connection attempts by applications and the operating system, and asks users to permit or block any URLs and port numbers that are accessed."

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