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Comment PLEASE NO! (Score 1) 1191

by bsdguy on Wednesday October 02, 2013 @11:25AM (#45014461) Attached to: Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta)

Way too heavy on graphics and way too slow for people in rural areas without access to the kind of bandwidth people in large cities have! With the heavy graphics it will probably run me over my Hughesnet bandwidth allotment to use the new design.

I am not sure who came up with the idea of the redesign, but it will not work for folks with lower speed links. It is so painful on my satellite link that I have to believe that it will be worse on 2G or 3G wireless links (much of rural America does not have anything faster). I know most of my neighbors are still working on dialup because where we live there is NO DSL and NO CABLE. High speed in these parts is called a T1 at $500/month.

Slashdot readers do not visit the site for eye candy, we visit the site for the information. Please scrap the beta before wasting too much time and money on it. The only good thing I can say about beta.slashdot.org is that it seems to work properly in lynx. Maybe I will be forced to use lynx to view slashdot in the future.

-Brett

Submission + - Internet Systems Consortium - the bind/dhcp folks - launch a commercial branch

Submitted by bsdguy on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:00PM

bsdguy writes: For all those systems admins out there that have mandates from the PHB to use commercially supported software for mission critical tasks it looks like ISC now has you covered for BIND and ISC-DHCPD. They have launched a new web site at http://www.dns-co.com/.

Athena's Free Firewall Browser 23

Posted by timothy on Friday March 19, 2010 @08:30PM from the should-you-choose-to-accept-it dept.

athenasec writes "Firewall Browser is a free configuration analyzer (download here), released by Athena Security, which works on Cisco, Check Point, and Netscreen firewalls for searching rulebases based on address or service ranges — the way change requests are actually made. The tool is available as a free download with no limitations, user license restrictions, or registration hurdles. Users can slice and dice any firewall-related question about the network, service objects, and security rules for a multi-vendor environment from a single flexible interface. There is also this how-to guide for applying the tool to day-to-day operational tasks."

Startup's Submerged Servers Could Cut Cooling Costs 147

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 18, 2010 @03:55PM from the alliteration-alternation dept.

1sockchuck writes "Are data center operators ready to abandon hot and cold aisles and submerge their servers? An Austin startup says its liquid cooling enclosure can cool high-density server installations for a fraction of the cost of air cooling in traditional data centers. Submersion cooling using mineral oil isn't new, dating back to the use of Fluorinert in the Cray 2. The new startup, Green Revolution Cooling, says its first installation will be at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (also home to the Ranger supercomputer). The company launched at SC09 along with a competing liquid cooling play, the Iceotope cooling bags."

The 1-Second Linux Boot 156

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @10:53PM from the unexamined-boot-is-not-worth-booting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Less than one second Linux boot! This video shows an OMAP3530 capturing video data from a camera and rendering it to an LCD display — the video appears on the LCD display in less than a second from reset."

Secret Service Runs At "Six Sixes" Availability 248

Posted by timothy on Friday February 26, 2010 @08:56PM from the only-need-half-as-many dept.

PCM2 writes "ABC News is reporting that the US Secret Service is in dire need of server upgrades. 'Currently, 42 mission-oriented applications run on a 1980s IBM mainframe with a 68 percent performance reliability rating,' says one leaked memo. That finding was the result of an NSA study commissioned by the Secret Service to evaluate the severity of their computer problems. Curiously, upgrades to the Service's computers are being championed by Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, who says he's had 'concern for a while' about the issue."

Why Time Flies By As You Get Older 252

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 02, 2010 @11:03PM from the like-a-banana dept.

Ant notes a piece up on WBUR Boston addressing theories to explain the universal human experience that time seems to pass faster as you get older. Here's the 9-minute audio (MP3). Several explanations are tried out: that brains lay down more information for novel experiences; that the "clock" for nerve impulses in aging brains runs slower; and that each interval of time represents a diminishing fraction of life as we age.

Comment Re:I'm a big fan of Buffalo (Score 1) 376

by bsdguy on Saturday November 28, 2009 @01:23AM (#30252650) Attached to: Home Router For High-Speed Connection?

I love buffalo too! I like mine cooked rare! YUM!

Comment x86box + FreeBSD + (2 * NICS) (Score 1) 376

by bsdguy on Saturday November 28, 2009 @01:21AM (#30252644) Attached to: Home Router For High-Speed Connection?

FreeBSD 8.0 and a couple of Intel Pro100B nics or Gigabyte NICS installed on any x86 system
built in the last 10 years should do just fine as a router.

http://www.freebsd.org/

Submission + - Sprint/Nextel Nationwide text messaging failure

Submitted by

bsdguy

on Saturday September 19, 2009 @01:15PM

bsdguy writes: "Sprint has been keeping this under wraps. There is no notice on their web site about the issue, but starting Tuesday 18 September I was no longer able to retrieve text messages on my IDEN handset. Sprint support made me go through the normal routine of reboot, reset, power off, power on and so forth. At last they gave up and opened a network ticket. When I called Thursday to get the status I was told that the problem was nationwide with all IDEN (nextel) users. So it seems the "Now Network" has become the "Not Now Network". For me this is becoming a big issue because automated alerts that are sent as email to my Nextel handset can not be read!

How many of you are having your normal operations disrupted by this issue? As of today Sprint still has no idea when IDEN text messaging will be back online. Is this a way for Sprint to force NEXTEL customers off of their beloved IDEN equipment?"

Submission + - Sharp NetWalker Sub-Netbook to be released 9/25 (sharp.co.jp) 1

Submitted by

Kagetsuki

on Saturday September 19, 2009 @05:43AM

Kagetsuki writes: "The Sharp NetWalker (http://www.sharp.co.jp/netwalker/), a tiny netbook with an ARM Cortex core, OpenGL ES2.0, running a custom version of Ubuntu Netbook Remix will be released in Japan on September 25th. Yes, an ARM netbook with standard OpenGL ES 2.0 that runs a fully vendor supported Linux distrobution — and it fits in your pocket! It features a unique optical pointing device that is sort of like a track pad for your thumb (which works great and takes little getting used to), and of course includes a stylus and touchscreen as well. Sharp claims battery life of about 10 hours and the unit includes UBS 2.0 and WLAN. In store demo units can be found all across Japan, and I've personally confirmed it can play full screen ogg theora/vorbis files without dropping frames, ran some GL demos very nicely, and generally found no lag in application response time at all. Perhaps most impressive is application start up time, FireFox started within seconds and gnome-terminal almost instantaneously. I found the keyboard a bit difficult to use due to size, but the keys have a solid click to them which I liked. Prices range from 39,000 Yen to 45,000 Yen (about $400US to $460US) depending on what store you purchase from. I've got mine reserved already."

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