Comment Re:Signs! (Score 1) 2
"Sings" is more fun!
Comment Pinch (or grain) of salt required ... (Score 1) 2
I got as far as "... ext3 is limited to 2 TB volumes", and lost confidence. Given that the more mature ext3 is in fact limited not to 2T, but to 16T volumes (or, if you have an OS that can manage 8K clusters, 32T) , you might not be quite as ready as Gionatan (the author) to dismiss it.
Comment Lame Hack (Score 1) 1
Lame because that level of traffic on the SMS/MMS system will get noticed in 3, 2, 1, ... about now. And guess how long it will take T-Mobile to throttle usage ..
Comment Re:Related: ripping CDs to FLAC/CUE properly on Li (Score 1) 550
I use Windows and Linux (servers) -- mainly so I can choose the best tools in either world. Linux provides a CIFS file system accessible from Windows. I use EAC to rip my CDs to wav format, and Linux to enclode to flac.
Incidentally, this doesn't so far seem to be a particularly informed thread, though opinions abound! Sure, not everyone can tell the difference between mp3 (or any other lossy format) & flac representations of a particular recording. For those who can't, the choice is simple: go with mp3 & save the space! For those who can, the choice is almost as simple: if you can afford the space, go with flac and enjoy the greater sound spectrum!
My point is, just because you can't see or hear something does not mean it is isn't there. Though that sounds a bit religious, for which I apologise.
Incidentally, this doesn't so far seem to be a particularly informed thread, though opinions abound! Sure, not everyone can tell the difference between mp3 (or any other lossy format) & flac representations of a particular recording. For those who can't, the choice is simple: go with mp3 & save the space! For those who can, the choice is almost as simple: if you can afford the space, go with flac and enjoy the greater sound spectrum!
My point is, just because you can't see or hear something does not mean it is isn't there. Though that sounds a bit religious, for which I apologise.
Comment Re:Why do we put up with DRM? (Score 1) 550
Same reason. There are not enough consumers who care in order to put any kind of pressure on the music cartels.
"You" might
Comment Quantum Encryption (Score 1) 228
Will quantum encryption be similarly trivial to crack?
IT Worker's Revenge Lands Her In Jail 347
aesoteric writes "A 30-year-old IT worker at a Florida-based health centre was this week sentenced to 19 months in a US federal prison for hacking, and then locking, her former employer's IT systems. Four days after being fired from the Suncoast Community Health Centers' for insubordination, Patricia Marie Fowler exacter her revenge by hacking the centre's systems, deleting files, changing passwords, removing access to infrastructure systems, and tampering with pay and accrued leave rates of staff."
Comment Re:80-20 Rule applies (Score 1) 595
Damn right. Mine's a disgrace. But think of the water I saved by not washing it since March.
Comment Re:The Sun has no credibility (Score 1) 555
Agreed. My heart sank when I saw my first ever link from Slashdot to the Sun. Yes I know, Slashdot is hardly the Acme of Journalism, but compared with The Sun ...
Rupert Murdoch. Now there's a p**** for you.
Dammit, now maybe I'll get banned from Oz for life. Oh well.
Rupert Murdoch. Now there's a p**** for you.
Dammit, now maybe I'll get banned from Oz for life. Oh well.
Submission + - VOIP@Home 1
neiljt writes: Struggling with current home infrastructure (noisy phone lines, crappy wi-fi), I am resigned to re-cabling the house for ethernet, and to the usual fight with BT ("favourite" UK telco) to get them to come out and fix the line quality. At the same time, my traditional phone extension lines are also past their best and it occurred to me this would be a good time to consider IP telephony. Basic setup here is a bunch of windows workstations plugged into a LAN, with CentOS servers available. Oh, and 4 telephones currently disconnected. Ideally, I'd like to avoid re-cabling dedicated phone lines in the house. What I'd like to have is the option to use IP phones on my LAN, leveraging the ethernet cabling. That would be either hardware IP phones that plug into an ethernet drop, soft-phones (using USB mike/headsets), or wi-fi phones. Has anyone any first-hand experience of attempting a project like this? Is it possible to set up without additional hardware (except the phones of course)? What software should I consider, and what should I avoid? Are there any particularly outstanding VOIP providers I should consider (UK, specifically), and for the benefit of those in other locations, what points in general, other than price, should I be taking into account? What advice can you offer?
Comment Simple answer (Score 1) 842
Fit in
Comment Fixed going forward (Score 2, Funny) 126
Sounds like half a solution to me. When will they fix the problem going backward?
Outlook 2010 Bug Creates Monster Email Files 126
Julie188 writes with this snippet from Network World "Office 2010 is still in beta and a patch is already out. Microsoft is trying to fix a bug in the email program Outlook 2010 Beta that creates unusually large e-mail files that take up too much space. The Outlook product team has offered a bug fix for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems that fixes the problem going forward, although previous emails will remain super-sized. This could be a problem for email programs that limit message sizes, such as Gmail or BlackBerry."
What Normal Users Can Expect From Ubuntu 8.10 511
notthatwillsmith writes "With Ubuntu 8.10 due to be released in just a few days, Maximum PC pored through all the enhancements, updates, and new features that are bundled into the release of Intrepid Ibex and separated out the new features that are most exciting for Linux desktop users. Things to be excited about? With new versions of GNOME and X.Org, there's quite a bit, ranging from the context-sensitive Deskbar search to an audio and video compatible SIP client to the new Network Manager (manage wired, Wi-Fi, VPN, and cellular broadband connections in one place)."
Submission + - Asteroid impact threat
Maggie McKee writes: "Kamchatkans and Venezuelans beware. A 20-million-tonne asteroid could be heading your way. Californians have even more reason to worry — the asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami that could devastate the west coast of North America.
These are among the scenarios projected for asteroid Apophis, which researchers now say has a 1 in 45,000 chance of hitting Earth on 13 April 2036. Calculations show it would strike somewhere along a narrow track that stretches eastward from Siberia to the west coast of Africa. The threat, while small, is real enough to merit a United Nations protocol for dealing with the problem, experts say."
