Comment Re:And they call it... (Score 1) 133
Until you check your terminal, it's both broken...and it isn't... You both have the plaintext, and you don't...
Comment Re:careful what you wish for (Score 1) 298
There are options for extra legs, a second tail, and (however quite expensive) an extra head. By the way, you can get AppleCare for your iPony too. And, obviously, if you teach it things that Apple didn't want it to know, AppleCare is revoked (but you can unteach it so they don't notice) and the next firmware update for your iPony will kill it right away... A few years later, Apple will be sued and forced to release iPony firmware update release code, to see if that was on purpose.
Comment Re:Solve this (Score 1) 221
Don't worry, that works for math too, in a metaphorical way of "taking some" and for "the day after" you read "until the day after" ;-)
Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen 137
An anonymous reader writes "The Remus project has just been incorporated into the Xen hypervisor. Developed at the University of British Columbia, Remus provides a thin layer that continuously replicates a running virtual machine onto a second physical host. Remus requires no modifications to the OS or applications within the protected VM: on failure, Remus activates the replica on the second host, and the VM simply picks up where the original system died. Open TCP connections remain intact, and applications continue to run unaware of the failure. It's pretty fun to yank the plug out on your web server and see everything continue to tick along. This sort of HA has traditionally required either really expensive hardware, or very complex and invasive modifications to applications and OSes."
Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display 66
compumike writes "What geek among us has never thought about how cool it would be if you could call your computer and have it do stuff? Josh Davis put together a quick video demo and source code of his Voice Controlled LED Marquee, powered by Google Voice speech recognition and a DIY LED Array Kit. Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
Comment Re:Windows Upgrades (Score 2, Interesting) 570
That's what everybody always says or thinks. I never had any problems with Ubuntu either, yet there they are. I'm a developer for an instant messaging client, and hell, I've really never had any of the bugs all those users are screaming about! I don't know if you intended to say "Damn all you Windows haters", or that I just made that up while reading your reply, but it's really a problem every software project always has. I'd know what Apple would say if I said libxml was totally broken for me after upgrading my Macbook to Snow Leopard.... (Bonus mod points for everybody who replies "I didn't have that problem, you Apple hater!")
Comment Re:From the awesome-for-pr0n dept. (Score 1) 58
Alas, I think you can only view your own sites with the Googlebot... So unless you can sneak in the "yes, this domain is mine" HTML file or DNS entry, in which case you probably don't need to worry about this anyway, probably not a chance... ;)
Comment Re:OK (Score 2, Informative) 376
No, because in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, as the name indicates, the userspace is GNU, not BSD. Therefore, GNU/FreeBSD. (in Debian GNU/kFreeBSD, the k stands for "kernel".)
Comment Re:Verizon are just protecting you (Score 1) 438
Invalid for IP's? IPv6 has it! *proceeds to ping6 2001:666:666:666:666:666:666:666*
Comment Re:i dont need ssh (Score 3, Funny) 249
Interesting. Would you mind telling me what host and port this is, so I can.. um... diagnose the uh.. problem?
Comment Re:Internet Addresses in Other Languages? (Score 1) 230
Yeah, probably domain names. My first thought was related to IP addresses too: maybe they mean allocation of subnets to countries where English is not an understood, let alone spoken, language. Such communication problems would make the process slow... But then again, that thought was probably just stupid :P
Comment Re:Any systems depend on a pulse (Score 1) 465
So they give her a fake heart, and it's *still* not Cyborg enough for you? Can't you ever be *happy* with what you get, damnit? ;)
Comment Re:great (Score 1) 101
I heard the new supercomputers at the NSA can already break rot1040.... Oh, technology nowadays! Amazing.
Comment Re:simple. (Score 1) 167
It would make 2009 the Year of the Linu--- ah fuck it.
Comment Marble cake, also, the game (Score 1) 138
This was actually done by the guys at 4chan /b/:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
