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Submission + - Linux with a DNS Cache speeds up your Internet (petur.eu)

Submitted by

petur

on Friday March 25, 2011 @10:13AM

petur writes: "Most Linux distributions, unlike OpenSuSE, OS X and Windows, do not have a DNS Cache service installed by default.

Your computer will need to lookup a website’s IP address every time you visit it. The lookup request is passed on to the DNS server(s) specified in the /etc/resolv.conf file. It will take the server a few ms (milliseconds) at best to respond. It can take a ‘long’ time if your using a slow Internet connection (or a wireless LAN).

Caching DNS acts just like a regular DNS, from the users point of view. The service is configured to respond to lookup requests and return IP addresses. If the Caching DNS does not know the answer to the request, he will simply forward the request to the correct server and then forward the reply to you once it has been received.
So what’s the difference?"

Submission + - Nuclear Information Gap With Japan (talkingpointsmemo.com)

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Quinn_Inuit

on Sunday March 20, 2011 @01:19PM

Quinn_Inuit writes: "A correspondent at TalkingPointsMemo has compared U.S. media sources covering the Fukushima reactor problems to Japanese sources and found even the most well-regarded of the U.S. sources long on sensationalism and short on facts. Michio Kaku gets special mention for prophesies of doom that were completely at odds with the facts on the ground."

Submission + - Google working on advanced Person Finder service (it-reporter.com)

Submitted by

it_reporter

on Sunday March 20, 2011 @12:56PM

it_reporter writes: "After succesfully helping the Japanese people find their loved ones, Google is now working on a new, more sophisticated version of its Person Finder service, available to the general public and aiming primarily at businesses, which helps users to track down persons for a very specific purpose."

Submission + - Women are subject to sexual harassment in online g (petur.eu)

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petur

on Sunday March 20, 2011 @11:39AM

petur writes: "Female players in the MMORPG ‘EVE Online‘ are subject to sexual violence from male players. The violence does not only take play within the virtual world, as atleast one case has been reported to the Icelandic police where a male player went uninvited to a female player home.

Anna Bragadóttir, a business major student at the University of Bifröst, wrote her final paper about the communications between male and female students in virtual games with a special interest in the game EVE Online. Anna reports that female players become subject constant sexual harrasment within the virtual world as soon as their have confirmed their sex by using voice-chat-communications with other players. Virtual firms within the game exploit female players for their virtual-marketing purposes and they get constant gifts and offers from other players."

Submission + - Citation map shows top science cities (i-programmer.info)

Submitted by mikejuk on Sunday March 20, 2011 @10:24AM

mikejuk writes: Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers? Using a database and Google Maps the answer is obvious.A paper in Physics arXiv describes how two researchers combined citation data with Google maps to create a plot showing how important cities around the world were in terms of their contribution to physics, chemistry or psychology.

Submission + - BBC Sued Over Copyright of Davros Character (dailymail.co.uk)

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BigBadBus

on Sunday March 20, 2011 @09:58AM

BigBadBus writes: "The BBC are being sued for copyright after a man who entered a competition in 1972 to invent a new villain claimed that he, and not the BBC, created Davros, the inventor of the Daleks."

Submission + - Microsoft Confirms an IE9 exploit in the wild (petur.eu)

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petur

on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:34AM

petur writes: "According to Microsoft
Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in all supported editions of Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a victim to run malicious scripts when visiting various Web sites, resulting in information disclosure. , resulting in information disclosure. This impact is similar to server-side cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Microsoft is aware of published information and proof-of-concept code that attempts to exploit this vulnerability.
To help protect users of our services, we have deployed various server-side defenses to make the MHTML vulnerability harder to exploit. That said, these are not tenable long-term solutions, and we can’t guarantee them to be 100% reliable or comprehensive."

Comment stupid americans (Score 2, Insightful) 386

by petur on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @05:30AM (#35489104) Attached to: Internet-Spreading American Gets 15-Year Sentence In Cuba

Stop trying to be hero's by trying to rebuild countries after destroying them with wars or business blocks.

Submission + - Angry birds coming to Facebook in May (cnet.com)

Submitted by

petur

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:43AM

petur writes: "Angry Birds won't be making its way to Facebook anytime soon, a new report claims.
According to The Next Web, which says it spoke with Rovio's Peter Vesterbecka, the wildly popular game won't be available on Facebook until May, two months after it was expected to launch on the social network.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20040554-17.html#ixzz1GBFPLEze"

Submission + - Shadows of the Damned - Gameplay Trailer (the-social-feed.com)

Submitted by

The_Social_Feed

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:29AM

The_Social_Feed writes: "This guy has the girlfriend from Hell. No, seriously--his girlfriend s soul belongs to the Devil. Get a look at the demonic gameplay."

Submission + - Pwn2Own 2011: IE8 on Windows 7 hijacked with 3 vul (winbeta.org)

Submitted by

BogenDorpher

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:19AM

BogenDorpher writes: "Thought Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7 was secure? Think again. During a hacking challenge at Pwn2Own, Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 was successfully hacked by an Irish security researcher (Stephen Fewer) on a Windows 7 SP1 machine. This was all possible using three different vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques."

Submission + - Silkworms produce fluorescent, coloured silk (australiangeographic.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Singapore have fed fluorescent dyes to silkworms in the last 4 days of their larval stage and the silkworms have spun fluorescent, coloured silk. This negates the need for manual dyeing and paves the way for other compounds to be fed to silkworms to become additives in silk.

Submission + - Robo Soccer (robokidz.co.in)

Submitted by

prateekgautam

on Thursday March 10, 2011 @03:03AM

prateekgautam writes: "ROBOKIDZ — ROBOSOCCER Competition — 2011, we will be inviting over 2550 colleges & 500 Schools in India and over 20 colleges abroad for Robot Soccer competition in pune"

Comment Re:Give 2, take 2, 1 stupid (Score 1) 3

by petur on Sunday March 06, 2011 @12:30PM (#35397646) Attached to: 5 Things OS X Does Better than Linux

"This article is written with the average user in my mind, be it my girlfriend or my grandmother working on their personal computers without access to an IT department" They will not know how to "tar -c; grub-install".

Submission + - 5 Things OS X Does Better than Linux (petur.eu) 3

Submitted by

petur

on Sunday March 06, 2011 @11:10AM

petur writes: "This article is written with the average user in my mind, be it my girlfriend or my grandmother working on their personal computers without access to an IT department. They don’t know that OS X is built on top of UNIX and in fact I think they don’t care. To them, the command line is something which was used in The Matrix and they have no intentions on buying a book about it.

Linux is, without doubt a good operating system, although I feel more needs to be done to de-alienate it for the average user. I’ve been using Linux as my primary OS for the last 12 years. A few months ago I decided to give OS X a try and since then I’ve been spending more and more time using it.

I’m going to list 5 things i feel OS X does better than Linux, or should I say Ubuntu Linux to be more specific?"

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