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Comment Re:short (Score 1) 198

by grub on Monday January 19, 2015 @07:55PM (#48852931) Attached to: Archive.org Adds Close To 2,400 DOS Games

Excellent! It took me straight to The Black Hole game. Thanks!

Comment much more popular (Score 1) 66

by Thud457 on Friday January 16, 2015 @05:24PM (#48834221) Attached to: 'Be My Eyes' App Crowdsources Help For the Blind

the "beer me!" app to ask people close to the fridge to bring you a beer. because you're busy and stuff.

Comment hey, are you gonna blow that up? can I have it? (Score 2) 248

by Thud457 on Friday January 16, 2015 @03:47PM (#48833117) Attached to: SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released

So they only blew up the rocket.

Hey, their competitors would have just thrown it away anyway...

Comment Re:OpenBSD (Score 2) 403

by grub on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:10PM (#48822715) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD?

I should have added: If you are serious about your security, move your samba service inside to another box. Keep this machine as a device to move packets securely.

Comment OpenBSD (Score 3, Insightful) 403

by grub on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:05PM (#48822639) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD?

OpenBSD. Feel free to look at the others, just don't get distracted by shiny bells & whistles and GUIs and the like.
OpenBSD does what you want and does it very well.

Comment Avenue Q on line three... (Score 1) 44

by Thud457 on Thursday January 15, 2015 @11:02AM (#48819437) Attached to: China Lays More Fiber, Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet

China Lays More Cable , Improving Physical Connection To the Worldwide Internet

there, FTFY...
BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW

Comment Thanks but no thanks. (Score 1) 553

by grub on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @06:43PM (#48814861) Attached to: SystemD Gains New Networking Features

I'm sticking with OpenBSD. At least with that OS, features are well thought out and not jammed into every release because "it's teh l337!"

Comment Second Amendment approved! (Score 1) 38

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @04:04PM (#48805665) Attached to: Talk to the World Through Ubi -- and Use Gestures, Too (Video)

Now with 100% more gorilla arm!

Comment maximum CP, too (Score 2) 69

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:26PM (#48804759) Attached to: The Strange Story of the First Quantum Art Exhibition In Space

Every great work of literature ever, even those not yet written, now in an compact, easy to carry form :
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Comment Re:Any experienced teacher already deals with this (Score 1) 388

by 0xdeadbeef on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @02:14PM (#48804645) Attached to: UK Computing Teachers Concerned That Pupils Know More Than Them

It's hilarious the parent comment got at least two upvotes. Say what you will about geek arrogance, but insecurity at others being smarter than them is a lot more common on Slashdot than its opposite. Or maybe they just prefer to hide in silence and let the mod points do the talking.

Comment a valid justification for Man in space (Score 1) 152

by Thud457 on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @01:08PM (#48803965) Attached to: Chinese Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around the Moon

Ah, but robots can't stand on the veranda of the space station Freedom and piss on every single one of you cowering groundhogs at the same time.
a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- Robert Browning

Comment Re:Eh, minor bug (Score 1) 49

by grub on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:50PM (#48777847) Attached to: Glitch In OS X Search Can Expose Private Details of Apple Mail Users

This is about OSX mail, not iOS mail.

Comment Tommy Westphall says "hi" (Score 1) 34

by Thud457 on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:40PM (#48777759) Attached to: Forget Stuxnet: Banking Trojans Attacking Power Plants

Patty the daytime hooker FTW!

Comment Re:Mathematics (Score 1) 79

by grub on Friday January 09, 2015 @04:32PM (#48777717) Attached to: OpenBSD Releases a Portable Version of OpenNTPD

I have ten servers for which the 100 millisecond accuracy of OpenNTPD is perfectly fine.

That's nearly a tenth of a second!

Comment spraying sulphur in the air you say? (Score 1) 319

by Thud457 on Thursday January 08, 2015 @05:32PM (#48768835) Attached to: How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate?

I just modified my local micro-climate.
mmmm, chili for lunch....

also, ib4 "chemtrails!" and "HAARP!"

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