cephah - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How stupid.... (Score 1) 287

by cephah on Thursday August 13, 2009 @04:59PM (#29057603) Attached to: Yahoo Revives Pay-Per-Email, With Charitable Twist

Or he has all his other email addresses forward to his gmail account. It's what I do - that way I don't get bothered by the false positives that e.g. my university account delivers, gmail does it for me.

Comment Some day, this will happen... (Score 3, Funny) 414

by cephah on Thursday January 22, 2009 @04:19PM (#26564977) Attached to: Microsoft Brings Back DRM

MS Worker: "Sir, I hear you've decided to reintroduce DRM. Is this true?"
MS Head of Mobile: "Yep, I'm bringin' it back! Hurr!" *clicks on remote, turning on Justin Timberlake - Sexy Back*

Justin Timberlake: I'm bringin' seeexy bac-- **DRM AUTHORIZATION FAILURE, PLEASE CONTACT VENDOR FOR SUPPORT OR REPURCHASE ONLINE. THANK YOU FOR USING MSN MUSIC**

MS Head of Mobile: "Ah damn it all."
MS Worker: "So I'm guessing we're dropping the idea after all?"
MS Head of Mobile: "Nonsense! Call a press conference, I'll just use my cunning wit and charm to sell this idea to the masses. They'll love it!"
MS Worker: "*sigh* Yes, Sir."

Conficker Worm Could Create World's Biggest Botnet 220

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 20, 2009 @06:18AM from the holding-our-collective-breath dept.

nk497 writes "The worm that's supposedly infected almost nine million PCs running Windows, dubbed Cornficker or Downadup, could lead to a massive botnet, security researchers have said. The worm initially spread to systems unpatched against MS08-067, but has since 'evolved and is now able to spread to patched computers through portable USB drives through brute-force password-guessing.'"

Comment Re:Quick! Stop all forms of communication! (Score 4, Insightful) 212

by cephah on Thursday January 08, 2009 @09:40AM (#26370875) Attached to: Researcher Says Social Networks Link Terrorists

Jeg er dansker, din ubehÃvlede tumpe!

Comment Re:What meme? (Score 2, Insightful) 227

by cephah on Friday January 02, 2009 @11:37AM (#26300089) Attached to: Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse

So it's guilty until proven innocent, then?

Comment Re:Uncomfortable truth (Score 1) 640

by cephah on Friday January 02, 2009 @07:37AM (#26298509) Attached to: IE Market Share Drops Below 70%

Apple is great at marketing and Linux seems to be having trouble in that department, especially since the various distros are kind of alone in marketing their specific distro. I'd personally love to see Canonical trying to market Ubuntu more than they're currently doing, but I think they're doing at least a good job of spreading it to netbooks.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 5, Informative) 779

by cephah on Saturday December 20, 2008 @09:31PM (#26187807) Attached to: Diskeeper Accused of Scientology Indoctrination

Otherwise I can recommend this one.

Comment Re:Guildwars (Score 3, Insightful) 104

by cephah on Friday December 19, 2008 @06:40PM (#26178657) Attached to: New Game Download Site Offers Play-As-You-Download Service

Not really the same thing. What you are talking about is loading an area before you get to it. Games have been doing that since the original Playstation, or ealier. But to play the games you mention, you still need to download them in thier entirety first, and then install them.

Last time I played Guild Wars I downloaded a 50 kb executable and streamed content as I entered new areas. Makes me wonder if you've even tried the game.

How Do I Talk To 4th Graders About IT? 531

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 03, 2008 @09:53AM from the just-promise-you-won't-introduce-them-to-basic dept.

Tsunayoshi writes "My son volunteered me to give a presentation on what I do for a living for career day at his elementary school. I need to come up with a roughly 20-minute presentation to be given to 4-5 different classrooms. I am a systems administrator, primarily Unix/Linux and enterprise NAS/SAN storage, working for an aerospace company. I was thinking something along the lines of explaining how some everyday things they experience (websites, telephone systems, etc.) all depend on servers, and those servers are maintained by systems administrators. I was also going to talk about what I do specifically, which is maintain the computer systems that allow the really smart rocket scientists to get things into space. Am I on the right track? Can anyone suggest some good (and cheap/easy to make) visual aids?"

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