Journal Journal: Peter Griffin does a Letterman Top 10
Since I don't watch Letterman, this is new to me, even if everybody else has already seen it
Submission + - Why Do Computers Take Thirty Seconds to Boot Up?
An anonymous reader writes: Computers take too long to boot up, and it doesn't make sense to me. Mine takes around 30 seconds; it is double or triple that for some of my friends' computers that I have used. Why can't a computer turn on and off in an instant just like a TV?
99% of boots, my computer is doing the exact same thing. Then I get to WindowsXP with maybe 50 to 75 megs of stuff in memory. My computer should be smart enough to just load that junk into memory and go with it. You could put this data right at the very start of the hard drive. Whenever you do something with the computer that actually changes what happens during boot, it could go through the real booting process and save the results.
Doing this would also give you instant restarts. You just hit your restart button, the computer reloads the memory image, and you can be working again.
99% of boots, my computer is doing the exact same thing. Then I get to WindowsXP with maybe 50 to 75 megs of stuff in memory. My computer should be smart enough to just load that junk into memory and go with it. You could put this data right at the very start of the hard drive. Whenever you do something with the computer that actually changes what happens during boot, it could go through the real booting process and save the results.
Doing this would also give you instant restarts. You just hit your restart button, the computer reloads the memory image, and you can be working again.
Submission + - slahdot rejected every submission every time
2TecTom writes: why would I waste my time again? If the editors / admins at slashdot hadn't been so narrowminded and tyranical in the first place, slashdot would have plenty of submissions. imho, the slash community was sold out ... sadly,corruption always happens to the powerful
Submission + - Is NTL (UK) blocking www.linux.org?
ferrgle writes: "I had a problem quite a while ago looking at www.linux.org
At first I thought that linux.org had just gone down.
I thought little of it, as I didn't really look at that site very much.
I did find, though, that next time I viewed the site (when I was at work) that it was fine.
When I came home that evening I tried again and once again I couldn't connect to linux.org.
Screenshot of Firefox error
Screenshot of IE error
This was quite a while ago (perhaps over a year) and I have only been able to look at linux.org once from my NTL connection.
This is what I have tried so far;
At first I thought that linux.org had just gone down.
I thought little of it, as I didn't really look at that site very much.
I did find, though, that next time I viewed the site (when I was at work) that it was fine.
When I came home that evening I tried again and once again I couldn't connect to linux.org.
Screenshot of Firefox error
Screenshot of IE error
This was quite a while ago (perhaps over a year) and I have only been able to look at linux.org once from my NTL connection.
This is what I have tried so far;
- I CAN connect to linux.org using a proxy
- I CAN connect to linux.org from my laptop using another ISP
- I CANNOT look at the linux.org website from my laptop using my NTL cable connection from my flat
- I CAN run tracert ( view the screenshot here ) to linux.org through my NTL connection
Microsoft drops VBA in Mac Office 2007 374
slashdotwriter writes "Macworld features an article stating that the next version of Office for the Mac will not include Visual Basic scripting. From the article: 'Microsoft Office isn't among the apps that will run natively on Intel-based Macs — and it won't be until the latter half of 2007, according to media reports. But when it does ship, Office will apparently be missing a feature so vital to cross-platform compatibility that I believe it will be the beginning of the end for the Mac version of the productivity suite...'"
Submission + - Take out the batteries !
An anonymous reader writes: This Fox News Clip with the Fox News Anchor Smith
Explain that the FBI can listen in on your conversation from the microphone embedded in your Mobile PHONE
http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/cell_phones_ta ke_out_the_batteries.htm ...and they can do this EVEN IF YOUR PHONE IS OFF !
Submission + - How do you do your enterprise inventory/document?
An anonymous reader writes: I'm curious as to what tools fellow /.ers use to inventory and document their networks? What got me thinking about this is the part VMWare has really been taking in data centers. You've got your SAN, various physical and logical networks, various VMs, and so forth. It just adds a new layer of complexity in terms of documentation. I'm curious as to what people have been using as for doing things like documenting how their backups work, LAN settings, FW settings, where and what runs what services,etc.
Basically a blueprint if you will of your entire IT infrastructure that someone brand new could start and figure out what does what.
Submission + - DARPA Challenge Prize Money Restored
antispam_ben writes: "This article from The Register reports that "After foraging through thousands of couches in Washington, the government has come up with $3.5m in prize money for the contestants in an upcoming robotic vehicle race." Okay, that's not exactly how it happened, but it's good to see continued interest in this type of incentive to develop technology."
Submission + - Website to Shame Absent Parents
An anonymous reader writes: Ministers in the UK are proposing to create a Website to 'shame' absent parents. The BBC reports on a White Paper being produced by the Department for Work and Pensons which outlines plans for absent parents, who are not paying child maintenance, to be named on the internet "to make their lives as uncomfortable as possible." Further proposals in the White Paper include the removal of passports, curfews and electronic tagging for non-payment of child maintenance.
Submission + - Key-Based SSH Logins With PuTTY
hausmasta writes: "This guide describes how to generate and use a private/public key pair to log in to a remote system with SSH using PuTTY. PuTTY is an SSH client that is available for Windows and Linux (although it is more common on Windows systems). Using key-based SSH logins, you can disable the normal username/password login procedure which means that only people with a valid private/public key pair can log in. That way, there is no way for brute-force attacks to be successful, so your system is more secure.
http://www.howtoforge.com/ssh_key_based_logins_put ty "
http://www.howtoforge.com/ssh_key_based_logins_pu
Submission + - Kazakhstan's Arcology
legoburner writes: "The BBC reports that Kazakhstan has unveiled a new architectural project for its capital Astana — a giant transparent tent that will contain an indoor city. The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the pavement cafes. I wonder what Borat thinks?"
Submission + - Giant tent to be built in Astana, Kazakhstan
aitsu writes: The BBC reports :"Kazakhstan has unveiled a new architectural project for its capital Astana — a giant transparent tent that will contain an indoor city. The 150m-high (500ft) dome, designed by UK architect Norman Foster, will be built in just over a year...Underneath, in an area larger than 10 football stadiums, will be a city with squares and cobbled streets, canals, shopping centres and golf courses.The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the pavement cafes."
Submission + - Firefly actors save the day @ cancelled convention
qohen writes: Via instapundit.com:
BIG DAMN HEROES: The Firefly convention was cancelled, but nonetheless: "Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Mark Sheppard, Jonathan Woodward, Christina Hendricks and Adam Baldwin have all turned up and are partying with fans at the hotel bar into the night at the cancelled convention Flanvention. These actors? I don't have the words."
More here.
BIG DAMN HEROES: The Firefly convention was cancelled, but nonetheless: "Nathan Fillion, Alan Tudyk, Mark Sheppard, Jonathan Woodward, Christina Hendricks and Adam Baldwin have all turned up and are partying with fans at the hotel bar into the night at the cancelled convention Flanvention. These actors? I don't have the words."
More here.
Microsoft Buyout of Ailing Sony Possible 363
imashoe writes "BonaFideReviews has published an interesting article stating that a Microsoft buyout of Sony is quite possible sometime in the not-so-far future. From the article: 'All this added up, you have to ask yourself. Will the next Playstation you purchase post-PS3 run a Microsoft operating system and have backwards compatibility for PS1 PS2 PS3 Xbox and Xbox360? Putting your rabid love for Sony aside, this doesn't seem as far fetched as it once did, when the Sony name wasn't covered in enough red tape to fill the Grand Canyon.'"
Comment Re:Temporary could be good! (Score 1) 205
I don't really see your point about temporary pages. Sure, there is an easy and quick to use wysiwyg editor, but theres also the same kind of thing on many other webhosts. Not only that, but social networking sites are gaining in popularity these days and if anyone has something they want to say to their friends (or whoever else), chances are it will go onto their myspace\livejournal pages and will be read within a day or two. Email and IM also make it trivially easy to get info to people.
Personally, the thing that makes google pages attractive to me is the fact I can host any file type I want and have unlimited bandwidth (as far as I know - I have some large files hosted there at the moment, accessed daily, and have had no warnings so far).
Given the fact that google accounts are very easy to come by these days (100 invites for gmail address, then another day or so to get a google pages account), there is potentially an unlimited amount of storage space with unlimited bandwidth access, for any type of file I want.
No doubt there are other places on the web where I can get massive storage space and unlimited bandwidth and extras like mysql\php\cgi\whatever, but I don't need that - If I needed all that, chances are I'd want my own domain and hosting anyway.
I had a quick look around and found only a couple of places with attractive options, one of them automatically deleted filetypes it didn't like, the other one forced you to go through several "click here to download this file" pages before I could even get to my content.
Personally, the thing that makes google pages attractive to me is the fact I can host any file type I want and have unlimited bandwidth (as far as I know - I have some large files hosted there at the moment, accessed daily, and have had no warnings so far).
Given the fact that google accounts are very easy to come by these days (100 invites for gmail address, then another day or so to get a google pages account), there is potentially an unlimited amount of storage space with unlimited bandwidth access, for any type of file I want.
No doubt there are other places on the web where I can get massive storage space and unlimited bandwidth and extras like mysql\php\cgi\whatever, but I don't need that - If I needed all that, chances are I'd want my own domain and hosting anyway.
I had a quick look around and found only a couple of places with attractive options, one of them automatically deleted filetypes it didn't like, the other one forced you to go through several "click here to download this file" pages before I could even get to my content.
