Cybershark302 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Network Design? (Score 1) 502

by Cybershark302 on Tuesday December 15, 2009 @01:24PM (#30446552) Attached to: The Trial of Terry Childs Begins

If the dude walked out without giving passwords to anyone and the system was poorly designed so that admin passwords had to be forcefully recovered via single user mode or the like, then the city should just eat crow, lick their wounds, and install a real network AAA system.

except that all the startup configs had been erased. any reboot of the routers would have caused them to bounce to factory defaults. They were set up this way specifically to prevent a password recovery attempt...

Comment Re:Article is BS... (Score 2, Informative) 619

by Cybershark302 on Friday November 20, 2009 @12:58PM (#30172914) Attached to: Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation

I used to think plasma had the best picture as well, but then I got an LG 47LH90...

The new local dimming LED backlight systems are amazingly high contrast. If the screen is black you can't tell that the TV is on at all (since you can also control the power light). The brights are also amazing, and the ability to have the two sitting immediately adjacent has made everything appear more crisply.

The ONLY gripe I have is with the somewhat diminished viewing angle. At very wide angles you can see a little glow around some things when they're on a pitch black background.

Bacteria Could Survive In Martian Soil 90

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 02, 2009 @11:43AM from the only-if-they-use-a-portion-of-their-cunning dept.

Dagondanum writes "Multiple missions have been sent to Mars with the hopes of testing the surface of the planet for life — or the conditions that could create life. The question of whether life in the form of bacteria (or something even more exotic) exists on Mars is hotly debated, and still lacks a definitive yes or no. Experiments done right here on Earth that simulate the conditions on Mars and their effects on terrestrial bacteria show that it is entirely possible for certain strains of bacteria to weather the harsh environment of Mars." Perhaps this is something that will be tested further in a few years by the Mars Science Lab, also known as "Curiosity" and (as reader Nova1021 points out) "the Mars Action Hero."

An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 02, 2009 @11:21AM from the until-gmail-unveils-support-for-glove-storage dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A federal judge rules that government can obtain access to a person's inbox contents without any notification to the subscriber. The pros and cons of this are complicated, but the decision hinges on the assertion that ISP customers have lowered privacy interests in e-mail because they 'expose to the ISP's employees in the ordinary course of business the contents of their e-mails.' Fortunately for everybody, this is not true — most ISPs do not allow their employees to read customer e-mails 'in the ordinary course of business' — but then what are the consequences for the rest of the argument?" Read on for the rest of Bennett's analysis.

Comment Re:Google Voice not on Cydia (Score 2, Informative) 295

by Cybershark302 on Friday August 07, 2009 @12:05PM (#28986921) Attached to: Underground App Store Courts the Jailbroken

Sorry, but how does it not integrate well? I just installed GV mobile last night and when I go to the keypad and hit the contacts button I see only my iPhone contact list...I can dial just like I do with phone.app

If anything the seamless integration of the iPhone contact list is the thing that GV mobile does best...

Comment Re:50,000 is not that many (Score 1) 106

by Cybershark302 on Friday May 15, 2009 @08:29AM (#27964575) Attached to: Surveying the World of the Biggest Server Farms

Your average server rack is only 42U in height...50 discrete systems is extremely high density. Even with blades you rarely get past about 64 per rack...Most datacenters have a mix of machine sizes so the average density quickly drops below 40. This also drops again once you put in all the switching and routing necessary to support these networks.

I work for a VAR in our integration facility and the highest densities we ever see are 64 BL460c HP blades in a 42U rack.

Comment Obligatory Futurama.... (Score 1) 187

by Cybershark302 on Monday April 27, 2009 @04:34PM (#27736129) Attached to: How To Have an Online Social Life When You're Dead

REMEMBER ME! (flames)
REMEMBER ME! (flames)

looks like Bender called it...or will call it in the year 3k

Comment Re:A printer! (Score 5, Informative) 606

by Cybershark302 on Monday March 16, 2009 @12:52PM (#27212321) Attached to: What Features Should Be Included With iPhone 3.0?

skipping tracks is as simple as clicking the inline button on the earbuds. pause is a double click. The buds also double as your headset so that phone calls automatically pause the music and give you a chance to answer with another simple squeeze of the button. Hanging up is just one more squeeze again and then back to the music. It's not advanced, but it's perfectly sufficient...

Comment Re:TFA misrepresents PowerPC (Score 1) 275

by Cybershark302 on Monday February 16, 2009 @09:52AM (#26871523) Attached to: A Brief History of Chip Hype and Flops

(although I bet they sell less than 100 of them a year).

Are you kidding? I work for a Value Added Reseller and we sell well over 100 I & P boxes in a year...P-series and I-series is very big in the higher education, medical, state government, and heavy industries areas...Power6 and Cell are getting gobbled up by anyone financially stable enough to afford them today...Unfortunately we all know how rare those customers are at the moment.

We have whole teams of reps in different parts of the country that only cater to I, P, & Z series sales...

Comment Re:LOL (Score 1) 1235

by Cybershark302 on Monday January 26, 2009 @05:43PM (#26613413) Attached to: New Law Will Require Camera Phones To "Click"

Thank god for Indiana. I was looking at buying a silenced .22 pistol a while back, so I decided to call the sheriff to see if he would have any of the objections you mention.

His only request was that I had to show up at the range as soon as I had it and let him shoot it immediately upon receiving it...

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