Submission + - EveryDNS taken over by DynDNS: update (dyn.com)

Submitted by Claws Of Doom on Thursday February 04, 2010 @07:34AM

Claws Of Doom writes: The users of EveryDNS have been updated with more information about the DynDNS takeover by email. The email says that if you donated to EveryDNS, you will get what is apparently the same service for free from DynDNS.
... anyone who has donated to David and EveryDNS since 2001 will be grandfathered into free Custom DNS hosting with DynDNS.com. Back in 2001 we made an announcement to our 19,000 free Custom DNS users that they would have service for life because of their early adopter loyalty. We promise to honor that same commitment to you. Have no fear.

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Submission + - Free public wi-fi for Swindon, England. (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Claws Of Doom on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @09:08AM

Claws Of Doom writes: The BBC are reporting that Swindon Borough Council is to offer free public wi-fi internet access to all the town's residents. Subscribers to the service — to be called Signal — will have limited access but could pay for enhancements to the service, such as 20Mb/s speed upgrades. This fee would be "significantly less" than current broadband suppliers, scheme bosses estimate. The £1m project will be run by Digital City UK Ltd, in which Swindon Borough Council has a 35% share.

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Comment Re:You Don't. That's the point. (Score 1) 218

by Claws Of Doom on Friday November 13, 2009 @05:43AM (#30084784) Attached to: Recovering the Slums of the Internet?

Car Analogy: If you're doing your own oil changes, and instead of hauling the waste oil to a recycler, you dump it into your backyard, don't complain when you try and sell your house and the highest bid still leaves you $100,000 underwater on your mortgage, or requires you to spend $150,000 remediating it. Your property is worth less than it could have been, had you only been a better steward of it.

I'd hate to see your house analogies.

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Comment Re:Rule of thumb with the Daily Mail (Score 1) 366

by Claws Of Doom on Wednesday September 09, 2009 @01:36PM (#29368413) Attached to: Teenager Invents Cheap Solar Panel From Human Hair

I'd have just gone with: if daily mail, no. This is the paper that is (unknown to them, apparently) the British cousin of The Onion - despite Private Eye's best efforts.

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The Internet Is 'Built Wrong' 452

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:11PM from the because-he-said-so dept.

An anonymous reader writes "API Lead at Twitter, Alex Payne, writes today that the Internet was 'built wrong,' and continues to be accepted as an inferior system, due to a software engineering philosophy called Worse Is Better. 'We now know, for example, that IPv4 won't scale to the projected size of the future Internet. We know too that near-universal deployment of technologies with inadequate security and trust models, like SMTP, can mean millions if not billions lost to electronic crime, defensive measures, and reduced productivity,' says Payne, who calls for a 'content-centric approach to networking.' Payne doesn't mention, however, that his own system, Twitter, was built wrong and is consistently down."

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Comment As an astrophys graduate (Score 1) 276

by Claws Of Doom on Monday July 14, 2008 @06:15AM (#24178979) Attached to: Book Recommendations For Maths To Astrophysics?

I have to confess that sometimes the gentlest intoductions were the best. The most expensive book on my reading list was Astronomy: The Evolving Universe, by Zeilik. I still love reading it to this day. Yes, maybe too many pictures for those that like the heavy stuff. If you really want to understand the basic principles - introduced in an absolutely clear manner - you won't get better.

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Submission + - Yoper 3.0 - Codename 'TITANIUM' released (yoper.com)

Submitted by

User_Program

on Saturday June 16, 2007 @08:38AM

User_Program writes: "The Yoper team, together with lead-developer Tobias Gerschner, are proud to announce the long awaited stable release of Yoper GNU/Linux 3.0, codename 'Titanium'. This release ships with Kernel 2.6.21.1 including the ck-patchset including the SD scheduler, Xorg 7.2, KDE 3.5.7, Koffice 1.6.3, Firefox 2.0.0.4 and a vaste range of other cutting-edge desktop packages. If you want to see what has changed since the rc2 release check out the changelog. This release is available in 4 fashions: The slim cd is approx. 142 MB big and for those who like to build a rather custom system. The single cd is approx. 690 MB big and the appriate choice for the average user. The live cd is approx. 705 MB big and for those who rather want to have installed all in 1 go and also like to preview what they get. The DVD Version is approx. 3.7 GB big. It is purely intended for those who do not have internet at home and really need as many packages locally as they can get. This version will only be available as a torrent seed due to the traffic this ISO will generate. The information about the tracker will be available here approx on Monday 12 a.m. CET."

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Why Does Everyone Hate Microsoft? 1540

Posted by Cliff on Thursday December 14, 2006 @11:42PM from the don't-hold-back dept.

MrSplog asks: "I'm doing a short project on Microsoft and its impact on society. A considerable part of this project has been looking into people's perceptions of Microsoft and the heavily negative bias of that perception. Since Slashdot is one of the world's forefront leaders on Microsoft hatred, I wanted to know: just why do you hate Microsoft? Please be as descriptive and as thorough as you like. Counter arguments and positive comments are also appreciated."

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