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Comment Forget the aircraft carrier (Score 2) 224

by rocketpants (#34414258) Attached to: British Aircraft Carrier For Sale On Auction Site
They also have for sale the ultimate helicopter flight simulator: http://www.edisposals.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/Disposals-Public-Site/en_US/-/GBP/ViewProductDetail-Start;pgid=MieqQ4wkQg8000ArvQ_8K1sp0000cOXI2HHn?ProductUUID=D7rAqBELzwMAAAEgOde5u7Ad&CatalogCategoryID=kjrAqBELD48AAAD_pWxpc4dz&JumpTo=OfferList. Image putting that in your basement!

Submission + - iinet wins landmark piracy case (delimiter.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Australian ISP iiNet was today announced as the victor in its long-running defence against a lawsuit by major film and TV studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT).

Justice Cowdroy announced the verdict to a packed courtroom in Sydney today.

Submission + - Australian internet censorship to go ahead (itnews.com.au)

Submitted by rocketpants
rocketpants writes: Hot on the heals of the proposed, and long awaited R18+ rating for games in Australia, the government has announced it will proceed with it's controversial internet filtering policy. Legislation will be introduced next year to force ISPs to filter all refused-classification material.

Submission + - Australia to get mandatory Internet filtering (abc.net.au)

Submitted by porjo
porjo writes: The Australian Federal Government will introduce compulsory internet filtering to block overseas sites which contain criminal content, including child sex abuse and sexual violence. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy announced the changes today following a controversial trial to filter the internet which was conducted earlier this year.

Comment Re:Glad it's delayed. It's rubbish. (Score 5, Insightful) 419

by rocketpants (#30095866) Attached to: GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010

Being force-fed this kind of thing is pretty unpleasant

If the was Microsoft, and you didn't know better, then perhaps it's fair to say you are being "force fed" this change. However, this is OSS, and nobody is forcing you to use Gnome Shell. You have options: stick with Gnome 2.x, use XFCE, KDE or any of the other window managers available. Just stop whinging about how you don't like it.
Programming

Submission + - Con Colivas BFS faster at video encoding by 70%

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Quoting from this: As an x264 developer, I have no position on the whole debate over BFS/CFS (nor am I a kernel hacker), but a friend of mine recently ran this set of tests with BFS vs CFS that still doesn't make any sense to me and suggests some sort of serious suboptimality in the existing scheduler.... Executive summary: On a quad core machine, Con's BFS scheduler encodes x264 video with speed gains up to 70% (compared to the existing Linux scheduler)!
Security

Submission + - Alive and Well: Conficker Infecting 50k PCs Daily

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nandemoari
nandemoari writes: "Conficker was expected to be launched on April 1, 2009 as a sick "April Fools" joke, however, when the dreaded day arrived and passed without the sky falling, many fell into a false "comfort zone". Now that the worm has begun to spread in secrecy, expect the number of new PC user attacks to grow. According to Guy Bunker, a computer security expert at Symantec., Conficker infiltrates as many as 50,000 new PCs every day. What makes matters worse is that the virus has no specific target area, as all of the victims are dispersed throughout the world. Among the countries hit hardest by Conficker are the United States, Brazil and India. A total of 350,000 incident reports have been filed in these 3 countries alone. The next three countries on the Conficker "hit list" are Mexico, Italy and China. These 3 countries comprise a total of 89,000 Conficker complaints to date."

Comment Re:IPCop (Score 1) 678

by rocketpants (#27234535) Attached to: What Filters Are Right For Kids?
+1 for IPCop. It acts as a centralised firewall and proxy server, so you don't need to install on multiple machines in your home. The content filters allow you to block access using a hosts file, and you may find the various other plugins useful (eg disabling internet access for your daughters machine after 11:00pm). Using a combination of this and AdBlock Plus, I rarely see any adverts.
PHP

Submission + - Why isn't PHP5 migration fixed yet? (fplanque.com)

Submitted by
Francois
Francois writes: "It's been 3 years since the release of PHP5. Yet PHP 4 still rules on the vast majority of web hosting platforms.

This is annoying for PHP open source developers who cannot leverage the potential of PHP 5 as long as they need to support PHP 4. This is also annoying for the PHP development group since they still need to support PHP 4 instead of focusing on PHP 6.

There would be an obvious solution: let PHP 5 behave like PHP 4 and explicitely request "PHP 5 mode" at the beginning of a script. Yet the PHP team seems to fail to recognize it... and the PHP world is still stuck in 2004."

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