Fenis-Wolf - Slashdot User

Submission + - An Open Letter to Jason Calacanis (fluther.com)

Submitted by

Fenis-Wolf

on Monday June 01, 2009 @09:16PM

Fenis-Wolf writes: "We get it. You need to create doppelganger Twitter accounts to bolster your user base and create content. Perhaps some Twitter users are fine with the fact that their tweets are being co-opted by you to drive traffic. But we wont allow you to strip out the attribution to our users simply to pad your own corpus of questions."

Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It 181

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday May 07, 2009 @02:39PM from the new-geek-squad-terms-of-service dept.

Phase 1: Break into a realty office, and steal a computer hard drive.

Phase 2: Ask if they will pay you $50 to fix the computer.

Phase 3: Get charged with theft and receiving stolen property!

Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection 110

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 09, 2009 @10:21PM from the too-bad-to-be-true dept.

Julie188 writes "This is a brilliant little Linux trick from Windows fanboy Tyson Kopczynski. He wanted to test a new Windows 7 feature called Branch Cache, which caches remote data on the local machine to reduce traffic on a stressed out WAN connection. But how to fake a crappy WAN? Linux. 'The command that I executed (tc) made use of Linux Traffic Control (a kernel thing) which allows me to easily interject 100ms latency on eth1. Boff, Bonk, Pow, Plop, Kapow, swa-a-p, whamm, zzzzzwap, bam ... instant WAN crappiness,' he writes."

French Police Save Millions Switching To Ubuntu 368

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 12, 2009 @03:04PM from the justified-disdain dept.

Ynot_82 writes "The French national police force, the Gendarmerie Nationale, has spoken about their migration away from the Windows platform to Linux. Estimated to have already saved the force 50 Million Euros, the migration is due to be completed on all 90,000 workstations by 2015. Of the move, Lt. Col. Guimard had this comment: '"Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy. The two biggest differences are the icons and the games. Games are not our priority."'"

S3 Linux Driver Outperforms Its Windows Twin In Nexuiz 75

Posted by timothy on Friday March 06, 2009 @06:46PM from the battle-of-the-benchmarks dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Chrome Center has done some benchmarks with the proprietary S3 Chrome 400/500 Driver on Linux and Windows. They compared Nexuiz frame rates on a Phenom II system with a S3 430 GT — the surprising result: The Linux driver outperforms its Windows equivalent, offering frame rates about twice as high on average. The question now: Is the Linux driver that good or the Windows driver that bad?"

Submission + - When Servers Explode (datacenterknowledge.com) 1

Submitted by

1sockchuck

on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @07:35PM

1sockchuck writes: "Have you ever lost your patience with a server? We're not sure who was the first person to intentionally blow up a server, but plenty of others have followed in their footsteps, and many seem to have captured the event on video. The Gallery of Exploding Servers documents the sometimes incendiary relationship between man and machine. Those who prefer a kinder, gentler disposition may prefer the guide to Flying and Crashing Servers."

FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:14AM from the unsung-but-nicely-free dept.

hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

Gnome's Nautilus Gets ZFS Integration, In OpenSolaris 38

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @02:20PM from the one-day-in-linux-would-be-nice dept.

13bpower writes "Sun developer Erwann Chenede posted a new plugin for Nautilus that will integrate ZFS's backup capabilities with Nautilus. This should be a pretty killer feature." As one of the comments puts it, this adds a "Time Machine-esque" function to Solaris, through which a user can specify backup frequency, and when needed browse from available snapshots to restore files.

Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle 500

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @01:10PM from the gathering-their-strength-for-hallowe'en dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The most comprehensive scan of the entire internet for several decades shows that millions of allocated addresses simply aren't being used. Professor John Heidemann from the University of Southern California (USC) used ICMP and TCP to scan the internet. Even though the last IPv4 addresses will be handed out in a couple of years, his survey reveals that many of the addresses allocated to big companies and institutions are lying idle. Heidemann says: 'People are very concerned that the IPv4 address space is very close to being exhausted. Our data suggests that maybe there are better things we should be doing in managing the IPv4 address space.' So, is it time to reclaim those unused addresses before the IPv6 crunch?"

Submission + - Ars review of Office 2008 for the Mac

Submitted by

Fenis-Wolf

on Friday January 04, 2008 @11:34AM

Fenis-Wolf writes: "Ars takes a quick look at the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. A universal binary version of Office is great in theory, but what about the ribbon? Article is here"

Submission + - Gmail offers AIM Chat ability through Open AIM (google.com)

Submitted by

protobion

on Wednesday December 05, 2007 @11:04PM

protobion writes: "Gmail chat now offers the option to sign in to your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) account to chat with your AIM buddies from Gmail. Your AIM buddies will populate your Contacts list, and are searchable just like your Google Talk contacts.Chatting with your AIM buddies is easy — just click on a name in your chat list, and start typing. Note that an AIM account is required to use this feature. AIM in Gmail is not a Google Talk and AIM federation; it's the ability to sign in to your AIM messaging account from Gmail. Gmail uses Open AIM to provide this feature."

Submission + - The Science Education Myth (businessweek.com)

Submitted by xzvf on Friday October 26, 2007 @09:26AM

xzvf writes: BusinessWeek says Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support. http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/oct2007/sb20071025_827398.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_top+story

Submission + - Free Unix resources for Admins and Developers (conecuh.com)

Submitted by

CountryGeek

on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @02:47PM

CountryGeek writes: "Luckily, most of the large Unix vendors have test drive programs that allow access to many of their products over the internet, or even in the comfort of your own home. These are usually just a registration form away, and can provide access to OS, compilers, configuration, web servers and a host of other software. Below find links and capabilities of the programs offered by the large Unix vendors..."

Submission + - Sun = Windows Server OEM (microsoft.com)

Submitted by strongmace on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @02:36PM

strongmace writes: Everybody can now prepare to enjoy having Windows Server 2003 on Sun Hardware. See today's announcements here or here. You can also go to Sun's homepage for an audiocast.

Submission + - CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc. (cups.org)

Submitted by Rick Richardson on Wednesday July 11, 2007 @11:26PM

Rick Richardson writes: CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc.

In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS.

CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple.

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