Remloc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Hard drives?? (Score 4, Interesting) 195

by Remloc on Thursday March 26, 2009 @11:13AM (#27342543) Attached to: Sun Puts Data Center Through 6.7 Earthquake

Hard drives are not as fragile as you might think. I was running our tiny company's "data center" (3 consumer '486s, two HDs each, screwed down to a metal rack bolted to the wall) 35 miles from Northridge during the 6.75 Northridge quake.
Didn't lose a single drive.

Comment Re:I have a vague memory of St. Helens (Score 1) 293

by Remloc on Friday January 30, 2009 @11:07AM (#26666361) Attached to: Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption

May depend on the composition of the faults/rock.
The larger ones in Southern California definitely make noise. I always called it "grinding," but "roar" could also be an appropriate term.

Submission + - Obama Wants Delay in Digital TV Cutover

Submitted by Remloc on Thursday January 08, 2009 @05:17PM

Remloc writes: The incoming Obama administration is recommending a delay in next month's U.S. switch-over to digital TV. With only 40 days left and current requests for converter box coupons being wait-listed, the president-elect fears many will be left with no reasonable option if the deadline is not extended.

Submission + - Larger iPod Touch in Apple's future?

Submitted by Ender_Stonebender on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @10:13AM

Ender_Stonebender writes: TechCrunch is reporting that three independent sources have mentioned to them a large form factor version of the iPod Touch, with either a 7 or 9 inch screen, to be released fall of 2009. The device is expected to have access to the iTunes App Store. Beyond that, everything about it appears to be pure speculation.

Comment Re:So, you're saying... (Score 1) 176

by Remloc on Thursday November 20, 2008 @01:14PM (#25834157) Attached to: MIT and NASA Designing Silent Aircraft

And the rub there also is a modern 7x7 aircraft in is much lower for most of its descent than it is for its takeoff....

Submission + - Vista named year's most dissapointing product (pcworld.com)

Submitted by Shadow7789 on Monday December 17, 2007 @06:45PM

Shadow7789 writes: No surprise here, but to complete its humiliation, PC Magazine has named Windows Vista the most disappointing product of 2007. From the article:
'Five years in the making and this is the best Microsoft could do?...No wonder so many users are clinging to XP like shipwrecked sailors to a life raft, while others who made the upgrade are switching back. And when the fastest Vista notebook PC World has ever tested is an Apple MacBook Pro, there's something deeply wrong with the universe.'

Submission + - Symantec Screwup Is 'Worse Than Any Virus' (pcmag.com)

Submitted by on Friday December 07, 2007 @03:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: Symantec posted an update to their antivirus product that has disabled Internet access for thousands of users. More proof that no antivirus software in infallible... Here's the PC Mag article.

Journal SPAM: LOLCode: "Turing Complete" LOLCat Language 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday October 26, 2007 @01:42PM

LOLCode is an opensource language project with the broken syntax and ALL CAPS of the LOLCats phenomenon. The project is boasting of unproven Turing completeness, and recently added a .net compiler for Mono and the Microsoft CLR. In LOLCode, the familiar "hello world" is rendered

Submission + - Evidence of Steganography in Real Criminal Cases

Submitted by ancientribe on Friday October 19, 2007 @01:20PM

ancientribe writes: Researchers at Purdue University have found proof that criminals indeed are using steganography, the stealth technique of hiding text or images within image files. Experts say that the wide availability of free point-and-click free steganography tools is making the method of hiding illicit images and text easier to use. But security experts such as Bruce Schneier long have dismissed steganography as too complex and conspicuous for the bad guys to bother using, especially for inside corporate espionage: "It doesn't make sense that someone selling out the company can't just leave with a USB," Schneier says. "The one scenario would be an insider who is strip-searched every single time he leaves his office... These are the [far-fetched] types of scenarios you have to invent to make it work." Purdue's research so far shows that convicted criminals in child pornography and finanical fraud used steganography to conceal images and data.
http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=136702&WT.svl=news1_1

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