Daniel Wood - Slashdot User

Comment Re:What does "iPhone killer" even mean? (Score 1) 347

by Daniel Wood on Sunday November 01, 2009 @04:07AM (#29940165) Attached to: Android 2.0 — Competition Against the iPhone and the Rest

"I had one. Returned it. I prefer my phones to not have sharp corners."

You seriously expected a phone called a Razr and in the commercial had it falling and sticking into a piece of metal to NOT have sharp corners?

Comment A side by side comparison? (Score 1) 403

by Daniel Wood on Thursday June 18, 2009 @09:59AM (#28373363) Attached to: Why a Hard Disk Is a Better Bargain Than an SSD

Could someone please point out the SSD they compare to in the article?

Submission + - Facebook Maxes Out Its Data Center Space (facebook.com)

Submitted by

1sockchuck

on Sunday December 23, 2007 @09:50PM

1sockchuck writes: "Facebook is adding 2 million new users a week, and recently maxed out the data center space at its California facilities. The load on the company's servers "continues to increase at a pretty astounding rate," says Facebook engineer Jason Sobel, who said the fast-growing social networking service has added a data center in Virginia, which is now serving 30 percent of its traffic. Sobel also discusses how Facebook sorts out which data gets stored on the East Coast and West Coast, which has meant some fine-tuning of its MySQL code to properly update Memcached."

Submission + - Firefox Lite: Together, old PCs can crush IE (cnet.co.uk)

Submitted by Eatfrank on Saturday July 21, 2007 @09:53PM

Eatfrank writes: A recent CNet article has raged on sites like Digg, suggesting Mozilla should pipe a lite version of Firefox into older PCs to further attack IE's dominance: "Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox's market share and keeps it in novice users' eyes for when they get a new PC. From the article: "Give the Celerons and the K6s some of the power back and let light users rediscover what it's really like to rediscover the Web with Firefox."

Submission + - Embedded car video surveillance?

Submitted by Smashed Ride on Saturday July 21, 2007 @07:38PM

Smashed Ride writes: I'm sick and tired of people doing hit-and-run damage or vandalism to my car. I'd like to use a stable, low-power, embedded system running GNU/Linux or BSD to document activity around the car. Two key requirements are that 1) the system must not obstruct the view of the driver much, and 2) the video must be sharp enough to identify a culprit. I don't need a large video archive — just enough to check a log after I notice damage — but I ideally want it to be sturdy. Any good ideas? There are many ways to record video, but the key here is that I want to set it up and keep it running without fiddling with it.

Submission + - HIV vaccine ready for clinical trials (pressesc.com)

Submitted by

amigoro

on Saturday July 21, 2007 @07:05PM

amigoro writes: "A vaccine that is capable of delivering a double whammy against AIDS-causing human immunodeficiency virus by both providing immunity against the infection while at the same time destroying cells infected by the virus is ready for clinical trials, a group of Russian researchers announced today."

Submission + - Microsoft working on free city-wide Wi-Fi access

Submitted by thefickler on Saturday July 21, 2007 @04:21PM

thefickler writes: Microsoft and JiWire are planning to offer free Wi-Fi access on a city wide scale; the only catch is that you'll need to sit through advertising. The companies are currently testing the service in two cities, Portland, Oregon and Oakland County, Michigan.

Submission + - Windows Home Server released (apcmag.com)

Submitted by

Thomas Nybergh

on Saturday July 21, 2007 @01:45PM

Thomas Nybergh writes: "Windows Home Server, based on Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition "minus the Exchange mail server", has been released. Will the new category of Home Server hardware, combined with presumably easy to understand support for multi-disk redundancy be the ultimate backup solution Normal People and Very Small Business have needed for a very long time? And/Or will this end up being yet another, even worse supply of always available Windows machines for botnet owners to zombify? Should the industry focus more on the already existing kind of scaled down, energy saving NAS boxes rather than more or less full scale PCs running Windows Server with a silly limit on the amount of users?

On a sidenote, I've used normal pc hardware running Debian's rolling testing release as a multi purpose home server for everything from GNU Screen powered IRC, downloading ahem.. Linux install disc ISOs, NFS and Samba sharing and web serving for some time, and it simplifies a lot of things. But what amazing new uses for this new kind of for server use dedicated consumer products (perhaps running a more suitable OS), can Slashdot users think of? Especially a few product generations from now, when commodity home server hardware might support hotswappable devices and perhaps even different interfaces for interacting with your physical home, there must be something cool one could do with a server, right?"

Submission + - Nearly 900K US Troops health care records exposed

Submitted by blueser on Saturday July 21, 2007 @12:10PM

blueser writes: Military Times reports that "personal health care records of nearly 900,000 troops, family members and other government employees stored on a private defense contractor's nonsecure computer server were exposed to compromise". Exposed information includes social security numbers, names, addresses and coded health data. The contractor has been aware of the data breach since May 29, when USAFE notified them about an insecure data transmission. The Petangon and FBI have already been involved, and the contractor is already notifying those that have been affected.

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