Ben Jackson - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Denon (Score 1) 210

by Ben Jackson on Wednesday September 16, 2009 @06:01PM (#29447035) Attached to: Fungivarius Beats $2 Million Stradivarius Violin

Even though I really like my (older) Denon receiver, I will never buy another one because of that "audiophile grade" Denon Link cable. If they'll rip someone off for 6' of cat 5 (with directionality arrow!!) I have to believe that they're ripping me off at least a little bit on anything I buy. I was really quite bummed when I saw it: I had always assumed that when I bought a better receiver I'd just get another Denon and not have to worry about it.

Comment You need AutoPager (Score 5, Interesting) 175

by Ben Jackson on Friday August 21, 2009 @12:48PM (#29147951) Attached to: Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase

I use adblock primarily for these sites.

Then you're doing it wrong! The plugin you want for 12-page reviews is AutoPager. It works like the /. home page, loading 'next' pages as you get near the bottom. It's even smart enough to strip off headers and footers.

Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic 527

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:11PM from the why-we-need-ipv6 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting (and profane) writeup of one frustrated user's discovery that Comcast is actually intercepting DNS requests bound for non-Comcast DNS servers and redirecting them to their own servers. I had obviously heard of the DNS hijacking for nonexistent domains, but I had no idea they'd actually prevent people from directly contacting their own DNS servers." If true, this is a pretty serious escalation in the Net Neutrality wars. Someone using Comcast, please replicate the simple experiment spelled out in the article and confirm or deny the truth of it. Also, it would be useful if someone using Comcast ran the ICSI Netalyzr and posted the resulting permalink in the comments.

Submission + - IBM-Sun Merger Talks Off 1

Submitted by

54mc

on Monday April 06, 2009 @01:43AM

54mc writes: "Buisness World reports that merger talks between IBM and Sun Microsystems have been officially called off. Talks first began three days ago for the deal which would have been valued between 6.5 and 8 billion dollars. Much of the reason for the deal being called off was worries of a possible antitrust case against the newly merged company."

Comment Re:Slashdot achievements (Score 1) 1582

by Ben Jackson on Wednesday April 01, 2009 @05:04PM (#27423793) Attached to: Slashdot Launches User Achievements

You get an achievement if you post here? ok! Pay a little karma, get an achievement.

Comment So ask Google not to index you... (Score 5, Insightful) 322

by Ben Jackson on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @12:31PM (#27403595) Attached to: Should Google Be Forced To Pay For News?

If the benefit is so "heavily skewed" then it should be a no-brainer to ask Google not to index your news site.

Journal Journal: [NFL] Full Playoffs predictions 2

Journal by FortKnox on Saturday January 06, 2007 @03:07AM

I'm going to go through each game, make my pics, but probably have a few "won't be surprised if..." phrases to not hang myself out to dry when I'm completely wrong ;)

Submission + - How do you handle your customers' constultants?

Submitted by

galenoftheshadows

on Friday January 05, 2007 @11:42PM

galenoftheshadows writes: "We have a customer who has an executive contractor from one of those corporate executive companies. Recently, since the company is going through a fairly decent amount of growth, executive contractor called in some higher up from his employer. The recent consultant has all but cut off our past good relationship with the company by eliminating the position of one of our main contacts, and recommending to owner (whom I previously had a good relationship with) that we're a shady company. She has managed to persuade them into purchasing, (but not using, they've been sitting in their stockroom for over a month now,) $60,000 in new servers to replace systems who's previous working had been unquestioned, and hindered projects in the works by calling in "independent consultants" to analyze said projects. The most recent thorn in our side has been the idea that the machine rack we provided them will not fit rackmount units. Has anyone ever had to deal with this kind of thing? What would you do? How would you handle your customers' independent consultants?"

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