Comment Re:Amazon S3 (Score 1) 669
Don't write these scripts yourself,
tools like duplicity: http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
bring S3 as a target out of the box.
Comment Re:Awful article (Score 1) 255
We only use the metric system around here,
you insensitive clod!
Comment Re:Why... (Score 1) 428
You forgot the step between 2 and 3:
Step 3:
Step 4: Profit!
See?
Submission + - Vinyl LPs first better-than-gigabyte storage?
biscuit nipple writes: Some coworkers and I were just knocking about the idea of a gramabyte. Considering the average CD is about 700meg for 44.1/16bit, and LPs were essentially infinite resolution, is it possible that they were maybe the first possibly multi-gigabyte storage devices?
Submission + - Copyright History and How to Escape It (kortexplores.com)
Submission + - Authenticating to Active Directory Using JAAS (mattas.net) 2
amattas writes: "Anyone who has ever tried to authenticate to Active Directory using the default LDAP realm in Glassfish or Sun Java System Application Server knows that is is near impossible. This is due to Microsoft thinking its a good idea to default the display name of a user to Last, First; this causes their LDAP distinguished name to be 'CN=Last\, First,OU=Group,OU=People,DC=doman,DC=com' and as you can imagine that most LDAP implementations do not like that extra comma. Because of this a custom JAAS realm was written to allow proper authentication to Active Directory and add support for nested groups."
Submission + - Medical Records as Google Docs
shura57 writes: "I was in the doctor's office today and, to my amazement, saw parts of my medical record in a Google Docs spreadsheet opened in the doctor's browser. Apparently it helps the doctor to work across several medical campuses. However, I don't find it a good reason for having my private data on Google's servers. When I choose to use Google service, I am doing (or not doing) it with my eyes open. How does this go together with privacy regulations like HIPAA?"
Submission + - Slashdot Most Overrated Blog According to TIME (time.com) 16
Amit Agarwal writes: "In their annual list of Top 25 blogs, the TIME magazine has added Slashdot to the category of most overrated blogs. The review says — Reading Slashdot these days is like visiting the IT guy at work. He's infuriatingly smug and cares passionately about stuff you don't care about, and views your lack of interest as further confirmation of his intellectual superiority."
Submission + - ZFS will offer a new level of Data Protection
widhalmt writes: "According to a blog posting by Richard Elling, a further release of Suns ZFS Filesystem will introduce a technique called "ditto blocks" which will allow to automatically copy data within one storage device or meta device.
As you can set this per filesystem one can create one large metadevice out of e.g. many Raid devices and create "low security" filesystems without ditto blocks and and "high security" filesystems with instant copies spread over the different raid arrays. Even if one whole Raid Array fails, the filesystem with ditto blocks enabled will still work as normal.
This adds further levels of data protection to really important data as well as more granularity to chose how "secure" your data should be.
Some Maths about what combination of raidlevels and copy levels is best suited for your needs can be found within the posting linked above."
As you can set this per filesystem one can create one large metadevice out of e.g. many Raid devices and create "low security" filesystems without ditto blocks and and "high security" filesystems with instant copies spread over the different raid arrays. Even if one whole Raid Array fails, the filesystem with ditto blocks enabled will still work as normal.
This adds further levels of data protection to really important data as well as more granularity to chose how "secure" your data should be.
Some Maths about what combination of raidlevels and copy levels is best suited for your needs can be found within the posting linked above."
Submission + - Finally, procfs for Mac OS X
An anonymous reader writes: Have a burning desire to browse processes as files on your Mac like you can on most UNIX type systems? Amit Singh over at the Mac OS X Internals site has released an open source procfs filesystem for OS X. The implementation uses Google's MacFUSE which brought all the goodness of user filesystems to Mac earlier this year. In addition to things like Mach task and thread info, virtual memory, ports etc... The procfs also shows motionsensor and lightsensor data so you can simply cat these files to get sensor readings. Just like on Linux. There's also code to show TPM chip info. Cool! PS: didn't know kernel is pid 0 :)
Feed VMware follows paravirtualisation path (theregister.com)
Silly name, but a good idea
VMware is joining the rush down the road of paravirtualisation already being trodden by the likes of Novell and Microsoft.
Breakpoints have now been patented 412
An anonymous reader noted that apparently Breakpoints have now been patented. From the link "A method for debugging including the steps of receiving code having a software breakpoint function therein, running the code for the purpose of debugging, monitoring the code to detect the presence of the software breakpoint function, recognizing the software breakpoint function, determining an action to be performed based on the software breakpoint function, and implementing the action. The present invention also includes an apparatus for implementing the method for debugging and a medium embodying a program of instructions for execution by a device to perform the method for debugging."
Submission + - The nightmare of Xbox live DRM
Darren writes: There is a huge elephant in the room with XBox Live. If you are one of the "3 to 5%" (ha!) of XBox 360 owners who have had to have their defective console replaced, you'll suddenly find that the content you legally purchased on XBox Live is only playable by the same account that downloaded it, and only when you're connected. This is Microsoft's way of punishing you for having a defective console. 55 page (and counting) discussion here. — but no solution from Microsoft yet, just an awkward work-around. (I'm currently on console #7.) This was made all the worse by the recent 14 hour+ XBox Live outage.
Journal Journal: LedgerSMB 1.2 released, SQL-Ledger changes licenses
SQL-Ledger changed its license away from the GPL to a license that many of us feel meets neither the FSF's definition of Free Software nor the OSI's definition of Open Source. Perhaps the reason is that DWS is afraid of the competition.
Submission + - Linux Bootlader for xbox360 - XeLL
Anonymous Coward writes: "XeLL is the Xenon Linux Loader. It's a second-stage bootloader and is usually run by an exploit. The method of booting this is not a part of this project. XeLL catches CPU threads, sets them up (basically setting HRMOR to zero), loads an ELF file from either network (tftp) or CDROM, and launches it. It also contains a flat device tree for linux. cdrom.c includes a very simple ISO9660 parser, which tries to boot the file named ""vmlinux".
lwIP (http://www.sics.se/~adam/lwip/) is used for networking. Network config is currently hardcoded in network.c (and main.c). XeLL also contains a HTTP server. It is not really used. XeLL is licensed under the GPL v2, and no other version. Xenon-specific stuff of XeLL was written by Felix Domke , other parts where taken from other free sourcecodes. No non-free hardware documentation was used for developing XeLL. XeLL is in a very early stage, but is (most of the time) fully working."
