Comment Re:Words (Score 1) 156
Everyone knows that a bad analogy is like a leaking screwdriver...
Comment Fedora 8 bug? (Score 2, Interesting) 480
Interestingly enough I saw exactly the same. Two of our production servers running fedora 8 crashed exactly at 01:01:02 GMT+1.
I am beginning to suspect that this must be a Fedora 8/NTP-related bug...
Submission + - Internet use from work may be protected
athloi writes: "A Welsh university employee has successfully sued the UK government in the EU court of human rights over monitoring of her personal internet use from work. "According to the complaint, the woman's e-mail, phone, Internet, and fax usage were all monitored by the Deputy Principal (DP) of the college, who appears to have taken a sharp dislike to her. The woman claimed that her human rights were being abused, and pointed specifically to Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (PDF), which governs private and family life." Amazingly, the courts agreed. This could set a precedent for internet use as a right independent of location."
Submission + - Internet without the World Wide Web
kiyoshilionz writes: "As some of the older techies will note, there was an Internet before the World Wide Web. I'm doing some history research on the transition from the Internet without the World Wide Web to its exponential growth following the introduction of Mosaic. Are there any Slashdot users that are old enough to have been around during the pre-WWW Internet? Or witnesses to the post-Mosaic boom? Perhaps even someone who was a developer who made it happen? I'd like any firsthand account of the birth of the World Wide Web or the popularity of the Mosaic browser."
Downloadable Content This Week - Zuma Clone, TMNT 62
1up has details on the week's new content from Nintendo's Virtual Console and Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. The 360's offering this week is Luxor 2 . A Zuma-like puzzle game, it was published previously on the PSP and PC. The 360 version will offer new levels and more complexity, and will set you back 800 points. On the Virtual Console side, we've got Star Fox 64 (1000 points), the old NES TMNT game (600 points), and the TurboGrafx title Dragon's Curse (600 points). The blurb for TMNT is retro-tastic: "Cowabunga! Players take control of the turtles in a half shell and rescue reporter April O'Neil from the clutches of the evil Shredder. Battle against the Foot Ninja Clan as Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Donatello and Raphael with their trademark weapons and ninja abilities. Search through five stages and dozens of areas throughout the New York City sewers, rooftops and ultimately Shredder's Technodrome to save April. Players must scarf down some pizza to keep up their energy, as they'll need it to defeat Shredder. Turtle Power!"
