Koos - Slashdot User

Comment The new slashdot, now even whiter! (Score 1) 2254

by Koos on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @05:17AM (#35006126) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Overall I think the new design is an improvement and in line with a larger web trend to have sites easier on the eyes. Looks good here (firefox 3.6.13 ubuntu) and makes good use of the width of the browser.

Next up, IPv6!

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13, 2011 @07:31PM from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

Comment Re:So how about it, Slashdot? (Score 1) 247

by Koos on Thursday January 13, 2011 @05:30AM (#34859154) Attached to: Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’

According to Savvis invested in a new ipv6-capable network in 2006, to be finished in 2008. Savvis hosts sourceforge / slashdot (from the whois record). Yet, according to the nanog grapevine in 2010, Savvis is not yet able to offer IPv6 to customers. Time to put 'working ipv6' on the checklist for your new hosting?

Comment Re:Flash security has always frightened me (Score 1) 355

by RAMMS+EIN on Friday November 13, 2009 @03:46AM (#30084370) Attached to: Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming

``Browser vendors have the right incentives because users have a realistic choice of browsers. Flash is an all-or-nothing affair.''

And that is a real problem for users, and not just because of its effect on security. Only Adobe makes software that can handle all the Flash applets out there, and anytime there is only a single supplier, the incentives to make things better for customers aren't there. Adobe has been pretty nice with Flash, considering.

Comment Re:The vulnerability (Score 1) 355

by RAMMS+EIN on Friday November 13, 2009 @03:41AM (#30084350) Attached to: Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming

Seems to me there _is_ an easy fix: disable that behavior by default (why would you want it, anyway?). Then, for sites that are broken by it, allow it to be selectively enabled.

Of course, the fact that Adobe isn't fixing it and we aren't allowed to fix it nicely illustrates why having the whole world depend on a piece of proprietary software is a bad idea at least from a security point of view.

Comment Why nobody has asked him yet about robots.txt (Score 1) 549

by Koos on Thursday November 12, 2009 @04:49PM (#30078652) Attached to: Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches

I too wondered "why hasn't anybody asked Mr. Murdoch about web standards for blocking bots like google", and asked such a question to the BBC who wrote the original article. The answer is simple: only news organizations like sky and fox news get the chance to interview him, and for some reason they never get around to asking questions like these that would not fit the views that Mr. Murdoch wants published as news.

Nominum Calls Open Source DNS "a Recipe For Problems" 237

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @01:28PM from the dem's-fightin'-woids dept.

Raindeer writes "Commercial DNS software provider Nominum, in an effort to promote its new cloud-based DNS service, SKYE, has slandered all open source/freeware DNS packages. It said: 'Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse. ... So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems.' This has the DNS community fuming. Especially when you consider that Nominum was one of the companies affected by the DNS cache poisoning problem of last year, something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS (all open source) weren't vulnerable to."

Submission + - Nominum calls Open Source DNS 'a recipe for proble

Submitted by

Raindeer

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @07:19AM

Raindeer writes: "In an effort to promote its new Cloud based DNS service SKYE, Nominum one of the commercial DNS-software, providers slaundered all open source/freeware DNS packages. It said: "Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse.(....) So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems. " This has the DNS community fuming. Especially when you know Nominum was one of the companies affected by the DNS Cache poisoning problem of last year. Something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS all open source weren't vulnerable too."

Comment Re:Recycle them (Score 1) 546

by Koos on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @05:52AM (#27147791) Attached to: What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives?

Securely wipe them if you must

Securely wipe them even if you intend to store them for a while until you get better use for them or will throw them away. It's boring work, but you're making sure no private data gets out. Even a simple operating system installation has a store of encrypted passwords which can be abused.

Submission + - Spying on the TOR anonymisation network (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by

juct

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @11:41AM

juct writes: "The long standing suspicion, that the anonymizing network TOR is (ab)used to catch sensitive data by Chinese, Russian and American government agencies as well as hacking groups gets new support. Members of the Teamfurry community found TOR exit-nodes which only forward unencrypted versions of certain protocols. These peculiar configurations invite speculation as to why they are set up in this way. Another tor exit node has been caught doing MITM attacks using fake SSL certificates."

Verizon vs. the Needham Fire Department 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 15, 2007 @08:35AM from the never-had-that-problem-before dept.

netbuzz writes "At issue is whether — or not — there was a minor fire in a house on Pine Grove Street in Needham, Mass., caused by a Verizon employee drilling through an electrical main. Everyone agrees that whatever happened — or didn't happen — was indeed the fault of the Verizon employee; it's "fire or no fire" that is at issue. Verizon says no fire, not even smoke. The Needham Fire Department begs to differ. New eye-witness reports are emerging ... and it's not looking good for Verizon."

Submission + - Reading lists mined from Wikipedia

Submitted by

holy_calamity

on Tuesday January 02, 2007 @08:28AM

holy_calamity writes: "A Harvard PhD student has come up with a way to automatically generate lists of reading material from Wikipedia. His algorithm analyses the structure of links between Wikipedia pages to produce a list of entries to make you an instant well-rounded expert on any given subject. A portable version runs on an iPod — perfect for brushing up on, say, the history of art, on the way to a date. He's using it to teach Harvard undergrads physics."

Submission + - Christmas is a busy time for avoiding work

Submitted by

coondoggie

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @10:35AM

coondoggie writes: "Work productivity notoriously dips during the winter holiday season but a survey to be released Tuesday suggests that employee productivity takes a nosedive for an entire month surrounding Christmas. Whether it's due to laziness, vacation time or other factors, productivity begins dropping during the two-week period before Christmas, according to a survey of computer usage by Arlington, Mass., Glance Networks, a maker of Web demos software. Based on past trends, productivity will begin its annual pre-Christmas drop this week, said Rich Baker, founder and CEO of the company. "It's striking," Baker said in a phone interview. "We looked at the last three years and the trends were almost identical year to year ... [Employees are] not doing as much business-oriented work." http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/121106-slack ing-off.html"

Submission + - Real Time Radar Weather

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @10:22AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Great way to view Real Time NEXRAD radar data from the National Weather Service. This service provides users a way to input their home address and see nearby storms. Link"

Submission + - Dutch analog television over the air stopped

Submitted by

Koos

on Tuesday December 12, 2006 @09:59AM

Koos writes: "In the night between 10 and 11 December 2006, the terrestrial analogue TV transmitters for the Netherlands were switched off, and digital (DVB-T) transmitters took over (page in Dutch!).

For 55 years analogue over-the-air television was available in the Netherlands (history page in Dutch!). The switch to digital was prompted by European regulations pushing the switch to digital and because of the running costs of the high-power VHF and UHF transmitters. The Netherlands was the first country to end analogue terrestrial television broadcast.

About 74000 to 200000 (estimates differ) households depend on terrestrial broadcast for receiving television. In this densely populated country cable tv is available almost everywhere. Satellite receivers are used a lot by people wanting more channels.

The interesting part about the switch was that the same channels used by the old analogue transmitters were going to be occupied by the DVB-T transmitters, so very little testing for correct reach and signal could be done before the switch. Some tests with DVB-T were seen in the previous weeks. DVB-T was available already in the 'Randstad' (area in the west of the country, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht and all the cities in between) but transmitters closer to our borders have to be set up not to interfere with German and Belgium transmitters."

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