Comment Re:Smokers (Score 1) 1078
As for the health concerns, well I smoke anyways, but I do it outside. I'd still wear gloves, just like I almost always did.
Do you also re-apply your lipstick after a cig?
Comment Re:Ridiculous prize (Score 1) 143
R$ 5000 is about TWICE what a top software engineer is paid in a month.
Bullshit. I used to earn about R$4k/month (after taxes) back in 2003-2004 working as an IT infrastructure manager. I had software engineer peers on the same salary level. This was in Rio; you could probably make 30-50% more in Sao Paulo.
Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen 137
An anonymous reader writes "The Remus project has just been incorporated into the Xen hypervisor. Developed at the University of British Columbia, Remus provides a thin layer that continuously replicates a running virtual machine onto a second physical host. Remus requires no modifications to the OS or applications within the protected VM: on failure, Remus activates the replica on the second host, and the VM simply picks up where the original system died. Open TCP connections remain intact, and applications continue to run unaware of the failure. It's pretty fun to yank the plug out on your web server and see everything continue to tick along. This sort of HA has traditionally required either really expensive hardware, or very complex and invasive modifications to applications and OSes."
Microsoft Patents Sudo's Behavior 657
Foofoobar writes "Just when you thought all was safe on the crazy patent front, Microsoft has come out of the obvious patent closet to file patent number 7617530, which basically duplicates the functionality of 'sudo' which is found in all Linux systems. PJ over at groklaw has a wonderful writeup on the entire fiasco."
Comment our power plugs are excellent. (Score 1) 1174
Is he trolling? Have you seen the size of a British plug? It takes a foot-long power board to plug maybe 3 of the suckers!
And for all of you excited with the built-in fuse: we don't need it. Our houses weren't wired in the middle of WWII when copper was scarce and dodgy installations were the rule.
Comment Re:First Hand Experience (Score 1) 1146
They don't do investigations of car crashes the way they do for other serious engineering failures, like plane crashes or bridge collapses.
They do; after they apply the formula and X is more than the cost of fixing the problem.
Comment Re:Why is electronic voting so "popular"? (Score 1) 101
Just add a paper trail to the electronic system.
Once the results are disclosed the sore losers can count the vote themselves (just don't leave them alone in the room with the print-outs)
Comment Re:interest prospect (Score 1) 194
Coating the inside of your heat transfer pipes with a thermal insulator is like masturbating with sandpaper - it might work, but it doesn't work well.
Come again?
Comment Had to cancel my LinkedIn account (Score 1) 474
I was getting 2-3 calls a week from HR agents and everyone I asked where they got my contact details said: jeez, uh, I guess LinkedIn.
Mind you, my phone wasn't listed there. They would look-up the company name, call the main number and get the receptionist to find me
I couldn't find where to restrict my details the way I wanted so I cancelled my account. Haven't got a single call ever since.
Comment Steam won't run without admin privileges (Score 5, Interesting) 420
But Valve will go after you for trying.
My question:
Customer 06/11/2006 04:15 AM
I am not willing to play (and let other people play) HL2 using the Admin account on my computer because of the obvious security implications (I don't want my computer infested with malware).
Is there any way to run it without admin privileges? I installed it using admin privileges and went back to my unprivileged account but turns out it needs to write data to the install folder (bad programmer - no donut for you).
Which are the files STEAM tries to write to in the install folder?
If it turns out to be too complicated I'll just download the no-steam version with BitTorrent
Their response:
Response (Josh) 06/13/2006 01:34 PM
Thiago, It cannot be run without admin privileges. I know you were probably joking, but I would also encourage you to avoid any product that claims to get around Steam. We take cheating and hacking very seriously.
Submission + - Tracking Your Fingers with the Wiimote
XCondE writes: Using an LED array and some reflective tape, you can use the infrared camera in the Wii remote to track objects, like your fingers, in 2D space. This lets you interact with your computer simply by waving your hands in the air similar to the interaction seen in the movie "Minority Report". The Wiimote can track upto 4 points simultaneously. The multipoint grid software is a custom C# DirectX program.
