Comment Blame Cisco (maybe) (Score 1) 80
According to comments on the linked article the problem was that Cisco CRS-1 routers misinterpreted or didn't understand the modified BGP data and passed on corrupted versions of the BGP data.
Comment Re:If that's the case ... (Score 1) 337
Don't be daft! But if they can nag Jörg Schilling until he changes the licence to make them shut up, Debian might include cdrtools again. But that happening is less likely than Oracle changing it's mind about supporting OpenSolaris.
Comment Re:simulator usefulness is artificial (Score 1) 72
I've often thought that the stupid rules imposed by the FIA contributed to deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenburger. It's sad to see that 16 years later they are still making senseless rulings.
Comment Racing sims that work with linux (Score 1) 72
>Any good car racing sims that work with linux?
Don't know how good they are, but there are TORCS http://torcs.sourceforge.net/ and its fork Speed Dreams http://www.speed-dreams.org/
Comment Re:It knew who I was (Score 2, Informative) 145
Almost certainly some brain dead acquaintance of yours knows both your email addresses, had them in their email address book under your name and allowed Facebook to rifle through it when they signed up.
Comment Re:Good ideas never die, they just rebrand (Score 1) 265
If it gets the graphics card vendors to pay attention to the 2D API's again and improve support, then Hell, yes I'm all for it. Even on XOrg the graphics card vendors ignore the 2D graphics acceleration API's these days with the obsession with 3D. If you are lucky they will accelerate them indirectly through OpenGL. There is a reason why the open source XOrg drivers are generally faster at 2D graphics than the proprietary ones.
Comment Re:Wow , at 8 cents a page for a PACER document... (Score 1) 445
He is not doing their job for them, he is doing the trivially easy part of their job for them. The expensive part (collecting all that data) is still being done by the courts, it is just more difficult for them to get paid for it now (and no, they are not funded by taxes).
Comment Re:Explain why OOXML is a "superb standard" Miguel (Score 1) 747
"Even if you hate RMS's vitriol, as usual, he is right, and everyone against him is clearly, and most solidly in the wrong."
There, that's a nice rational, not at all smacking-of-religious-zealotry, position.
A GNU/Linux Distro Needing Windows To Install? 174
dgun writes "I recently put together a new PC. When I purchased the motherboard, I noticed that it came with an instant-on OS, a small GNU/Linux distro called Splashtop. I assumed that the OS was on a ROM chip on the motherboard. To my great annoyance, when I tried to boot to this OS, a message said that it was not installed. It turns out that motherboard comes with an install disk for this GNU/Linux OS — that you can only run from Windows, to install Splashtop on the hard drive. First of all, doesn't installing it on the hard drive defeat the point of having an instant-on OS? If I wanted to dual-boot a small GNU/Linux OS, there are plenty that I could choose from. Second, if distributing GPL'ed software by means that completely preclude it from being used without Windows is not a violation of the GPL, should it not be?"
Comment Here You Go: (Score 1) 170
Here you go:
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/
Grey Lines Mar MacBook Air Displays 288
adamengst writes "Numerous users have been complaining about grey lines that muddy the crispness of the displays of the recently updated MacBook Air. Doug McLean explains the problem in TidBITS, along with what Apple appears to be doing about it."
Comment Re:James Randi challenge - Take Two (Score 1, Redundant) 453
Please excuse the technical problems with the parent.
Actually if you bothered to JFG, to would find that the One Million Dollars is in an endowment fund account administered by Goldman Sachs, so bar the bank collapsing or it getting embezzeled, the money is real qand is going nowhere.
See http://www.randi.org/joom/challenge-info.html [randi.org] for further info
Netgear Launches Open Source-Friendly Wireless Router 182
An anonymous reader submits news of Netgear's release of the "open source Wireless-G Router (model WGR614L), enabling Linux developers and enthusiasts to create firmware for specialized applications, and supported by a dedicated open source community. The router supports the most popular open source firmware; Tomato and DD-WRT are available on WGR614L, making it easier for users to develop a wide variety of applications. The router is targeted at people who want custom firmware on their router without worrying about issues, and enjoy the benefits of having an open source wireless router."
Submission + - Hans Reiser Offers Body for Reduced Sentence 3
marxmarv writes: Hans Reiser, ReiserFS author convicted of first-degree murder, offers to lead police to his wife's body in exchange for a reduced sentence. The deal is off if an autopsy shows signs of premeditation.
Submission + - HardOCP bans IPs for mere mention of Adblock 1
An anonymous reader writes: HardOCP is a place for hardware enthusiasts to gather and exchange computer wisdom, populated with over 100,000 users and six million posts. However, mere mention of Adblock in any context on HardOCP's extensive forums is rewarded with a permanent IP ban. The Editor-in-Chief Kyle Bennett has taken a hardline stance on a site that includes subforums specifically dedicated to software discussion and even has monetary subscription forums as well. Everyone knows many sites only exist because of funding from advertising, but is this really a rewarding stance for an administrator to take?
