Juba - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Dreadful name (Score 2) 45

by Juba on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @07:12PM (#34933902) Attached to: Amazon, Rackspace Add New Cloud Capabilities

Next services they're going to offer : "rubberized wheelbarrow" to help you migrate from one cloud to another, and "ducttaped showerhose" to ease communication between several cloud-deplyed load-balanced webapps.

Comment Re:Why not wait? (Score 1) 481

by Juba on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @04:47PM (#34932122) Attached to: Firefox 4, A Huge Pile of Bugs

Did you try the notscripts chrome extension ? Not as complete and efficient as noscript, but it allows to control javascript on a domain based level...

Comment How many times will we have to tell you ? (Score 1) 233

by Juba on Friday August 06, 2010 @06:29PM (#33169406) Attached to: HP CEO Resigns During Sexual Harassment Investigation

The name is not "Hurd". It is "GNU/Hurd".
And I think we should not be too harsh with someone whose kernel is quite small and who is permanently surrounded by daemons...

Comment For those who may ask... (Score 4, Funny) 95

by Juba on Wednesday May 05, 2010 @05:16PM (#32104618) Attached to: Google Releases a Web-App Case Study For Hackers

The webapp is written in Python.

Submission + - Google Launches Public DNS Resolver (blogspot.com)

Submitted by AdmiralXyz on Thursday December 03, 2009 @01:02PM

AdmiralXyz writes: Google has announced the launch of their free DNS resolution service, called Google Public DNS. According to their blog post, Google Public DNS uses continuous record prefetching to avoid cache misses- hopefully making the service faster- and implements a variety of techniques to block spoofing attempts. They also say that (unlike an increasing number of ISPs), Google Public DNS behaves exactly according to the DNS standard, and will not redirect you to advertising in the event of a failed lookup. Very cool, but of course there are questions about Google's true motivations behind knowing every site you visit...

Comment Re:How many bits does it take to kill a human? (Score 1) 300

by Juba on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @05:22PM (#29278389) Attached to: How Many Bits Does It Take To Kill You?

640 bits ought to be enough for anyone...

Comment Re:party like it's 1997! (Score 3, Funny) 636

by Juba on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @03:37AM (#20820413) Attached to: Slashdot Turns 10 But You Get The Presents

Bah... you must be new here. I'm sure you missed at least one.

Of course he missed one, you insensitive clod !

Submission + - Northwest Passage Now Open

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 09, 2007 @05:36PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Guardian is reporting that the Northwest Passage is now navigable due to arctic sea ice melting much faster than previously. This will only continue to get worse next year as the additional open water absorbs more heat and delays the refreezing of the water this winter.

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