UncleTogie - Slashdot User

Comment Re:No (Score 1) 388

by UncleTogie on Monday November 05, 2012 @08:29AM (#41879193) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory?

Unfortunately, attempting to provision on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install with the following additional packages: build-essentials python-software-properties build-essential libacl1-dev python-dev libldap2-dev pkg-config gdb libgnutls-dev libblkid-dev libreadline-dev libattr1-dev openssl (please note these pre-requisite are not documented in the wiki) gives the following error: "libkdc-policy.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" and I cant get an answer as to where to find or build this module or find such info in a web search. All in all, it has been a very frustrating experience.

According to their bug report on it, it was fixed in a beta release recently...https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba4/+bug/887537

Comment Re:Yes (Score 2) 157

by UncleTogie on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @01:16AM (#41827311) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is TSA's PreCheck System Easy To Game?

As a sting, this is pretty hopeless.

Naah, just needs the right media spin.

"A renegade group considered to be 'The Apostles of Bruce Schneier' were caught plotting to manipulate airline tickets for domestic flights.. TSA cavity search and film at 11...."

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 319

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @07:02PM (#41173279) Attached to: Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber

Lets be ridiculously generous and assume a scramjet boost phase could lift you to 155 km at mach 18. You have only gained about 5% of the necessary kinetic energy needed for LEO

Pardon my pointing this out, but NASA's got another idea on boosting...

https://info.aiaa.org/tac/PEG/HSABPTC/Public%20Documents/Scramjets%20to%20LEO.pdf

Comment Re:Just what the world needs (Score 3, Informative) 319

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @06:38PM (#41173055) Attached to: Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber

Operational but not deployed.

Retired and not operational.

Comment Re:Gizmodo has been banned for life from Apple eve (Score 1) 310

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @05:12PM (#41086705) Attached to: The Worst Apple Store In America — An Employee Confession

GS wasn't destroying systems,

Oh yes they *were*. I can't count how many times I had to clean up after those guys.

Comment Re:What everyone is missing (Score 2) 112

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 22, 2012 @03:54AM (#41078485) Attached to: Video Purports To Show Successful Hover Bike Test Flights

Hearing it was mechanical in nature made me call bullshit before I even saw the video.

A gyroscope flywheel is mechanical, yet would serve such a purpose. Mechanical gyros are used in spacecraft and aircraft.
http://www.pilotfriend.com/training/flight_training/fxd_wing/gyro.htm

Comment Re:Cost (Score 1) 214

by UncleTogie on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @03:47AM (#40981895) Attached to: NASA Testing Supersonic X-51A Jet Tomorrow

Isn't there a pretty strict limit on the number of missiles it can carry? If an F-22 goes up with 8 missiles, it can only take out 8 targets (assuming all hit). After that, it can only bug out.

Depends on how good they are with that 20mm cannon mounted in the right wing....

Comment Re:Is it worth it? (Score 4, Informative) 262

by UncleTogie on Saturday August 11, 2012 @07:39PM (#40960791) Attached to: Patient Just Wants To See Data From His Implanted Medical Device

Did you just call DICOM proprietary?

Technically correct. It *is* a copyrighted standard, with the copyright being held by the National Electrical Manufacturers Association. When defining proprietary software as "computer software licensed under exclusive legal right of the copyright holder", this standard would fall into that category.

Comment Re:Diplomacy does not always work (Score 3, Insightful) 490

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:07AM (#40838911) Attached to: US Navy Admiral Questions Expensive Stealth Platforms

Just look at how well that trickle-down theory worked during the war...

Put another way, who benefited more, the workers or the board of Halliburton?

Comment Re:Born and braised (Score 1) 555

by UncleTogie on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:01AM (#40838873) Attached to: Is Phoenix the Next Silicon Valley?

Yeah, there's a tech glut in the area, which makes it just that much harder for a deaf guy to find work in the field.

Comment Re:thickness (Score 1) 195

by UncleTogie on Tuesday July 17, 2012 @01:11PM (#40675497) Attached to: Sony's Thermal Sheet Good As Paste For CPU Cooling

There's a major manufacturer already using pads for their motherboards. It ships with laptop motherboard replacements. It's a pain-in-the ass to work with, peels from the backing tape badly, and is a lot LESS convenient (for me) than thermal goo.

Comment Re:The Q-Bus (Score 1) 212

by UncleTogie on Friday June 29, 2012 @08:12PM (#40500885) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Add New Tech To Old Van?

He can call the van the "Q-Bus". Now, how cool would that be?

It's all fun and games until John de Lancie gets abducted in one...

Comment Re:Upgrade Instructions for Cisco Clients (Score 2) 351

by UncleTogie on Friday June 29, 2012 @08:02PM (#40500831) Attached to: Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking

As long as I have an out, if other people don't know or don't care about their security/privacy enough to protect it, I don't feel any special obligation to punish a company that exploits their ignorance.

....aaaand that's why we have Fox News...

Comment Re:First dissent (Score 1) 2416

by UncleTogie on Thursday June 28, 2012 @05:59PM (#40486535) Attached to: Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional

Yeah, try "Phoenix, Arizona"...

Comment Re:Mixed feelings (Score 1) 694

by UncleTogie on Wednesday June 27, 2012 @04:56PM (#40472001) Attached to: ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content

And Netflix...is a private company...I could understand this maybe if it was a govt. entity, but how can they make a private company like Netflix alter their business model or software like this? The ADA is getting out of hand...

Since it's been a legal requirement for them to pass-through captioning/subtitling that's already been done, this isn't nearly the burden you think it is. In fact, for the last 5 years, all new TV material has been *required* to have captioning ( with a very few exceptions), so Netflix isn't going to have pay to have all their material redone.

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