Comment Having eschewed material possesions... (Score 1) 118
This has no effect on me.
Comment I for one... (Score 1) 225
welcome the ability to compile and run ancient PDP-11 binaries on my shiny new Mac..."values of B will give rise to dom!"
Comment Anti-virus software companies (Score 1) 449
With the 'huge' gains in Mac market share in the last view years anti-virus companies are looking to a new market to grow their brands into. What better way than for some blogger and Mac noob like Brian Krebs -owner of his first Mac for three weeks- to slip them a bone by getting the other Mac noobs and recent Windows converts into a lather over some less than spectacular information. Granted, most Unixes and Unix-like OSes have a great deal more security 'out-of-the-box' than the other 'leading brand', to run anti-virus software is just being a good citizen, especially on a corporate network. Anyway, at least the wags over at ElReg apologized and they included a cute little bit of parody in their apology, Mr. Krebs and the other wonks haven't.
Submission + - DNS vulnerbility not 'new'
Monkey_Genius writes: The 'new' massive DNS vulnerability -that sent the 'internets' into a frenzy of mass co-ordinated releasing and patching- was reported on /. a few days ago. It turns out that the 'hole' is not so new. In an article over at theRegister, they report that this bug was discovered three years ago -by then student, Ian Green- and discussed in a paper that he submitted to the SANS Institute. The article also goes on to briefly describe the vulnerability that was so important to keep secret. Could this just another case of a developer who wishes to promote his own software as the 'better' choice?
Submission + - Nvidia GPUs in meltdown shocker
Monkey_Genius writes: With all the other non-news for 'nerds and stuff that (doesn't) matter' being posted on /. (accompanied by the obligatory whining and complaining that follows) lately, here's a real dustup that's occurring with Nvidia's G84 and G86 GPUs.The Inquirer has two separate articles covering the breaking news so far with this is shaping up to be a real corker for Nvidia. Apparently ALL -not some from this batch or some from that batch- of these GPUs are bad and the problem is being traced to the 'substrate' and thermal problems. On the heels of this announcement, Nvidia's stock price took a twenty-five percent hit in one day and they think that it will cost them a cool $200 Million -that's million with a Capital 'M'- to cover the costs of remediating this problem. It's probably a good time to buy AMD/ATI stock.
