Comment Manypulation? (Score 1) 168
Those not on the list should be suspected of manipulating the list
Comment Disks? (Score 5, Informative) 533
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359
I regret that posting. Anyway, that letter is "L" if capitalized. (curricululm)
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 1) 1359
Sorry, I'm not entirely sober. Please remove an "l" from my previous post.
Comment Re:What languages? (Score 0, Troll) 1359
As a non-native english speaking person I can say that your written english is lacking somewhat for a serious curricululm vitae. At least your post is.
Comment Great idea (Score 1) 849
I wouldn't suspect my roomie of peeking over my shoulder when I type in a password.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS
Automated Migration From Cobol To Java On Linux 195
Didier DURAND writes "Just published an article about our 100% automated migration from IBM mainframe with Cobol to Linux Java: we could convert of our own application (4 million lines of code) through the tools that we developed. Those tools are open-sourced under GPL for other companies to benefit from them. We save 3 millions euros / year after this migration!"
GPL Firmware For Canon 5D Mk II Adds Features For Filmmakers 117
tramm writes "I've released an extension for the Canon 5D Mark II DSLR's video mode to enable functions that are useful for independent film makers. While the camera produces a great movie out of the box, the audio is a severely limited. My code adds features that should have been in the software, like on-screen stereo audio meters, live audio monitoring, reduced audio noise and crop marks for different formats. An introductory video shows the new features in use and an audio evaluation compares it to the stock firmware with very good results. It's similar to the incredibly flexible CHDK software for Canon's point-and-shoot cameras, but targeted at the film makers using the 5D. The Magic Lantern firmware is GPLed and new features will be written to make the camera even more useful on set. There is a wiki for documentation and development."
Submission + - US State Dept asks Twitter to Postpone Maintenance (cnn.com)
viyh writes: "The US State Department asked Twitter to postpone it's maintenance window scheduled for June 16th at 2pm PST. The maintenance window was already previously scheduled to take place at 9:45pm on June 15th, but was postponed due to a massive uprising by Twitter users since it has been such a critical tool for communication during the Iran election aftermath. The window is not directly being scheduled from Twitter, rather, it's coming down from their hosting provider, NTT America. No word as of yet on a decision from Twitter or NTT America."
Submission + - Last week's patches tank Internet Explorer (networkworld.com)
Julie188 writes: "The chances that last week's massive Patch Tuesday would go flawlessly for everyone who patched their systems was small indeed. One of the unintended consequences was from patch kb969897. IE users who installed it suddenly could not print, use Find or use the browser's help function. Robear Dyer, Microsoft MVP-IE, assisted participants (ironically enough, via a Google support forum) to diagnose and resolve the issue. Uninstalling patch kb969897 resolves the problem but leaves Windows systems wide open to a vulnerability which has exploit code out in the wild."
Submission + - IE8 edits boot.ini, can trash it (oneandoneis2.org) 1
David Gerard writes: "OneAndOneIs2 was trying to fix his parents' broken PC. boot.ini was getting deleted every startup. It turns out that IE 8 tries to edit boot.ini to enable NX protection (because of course you want a web browser to reconfigure your system!), and if it fails it trashes the file. Not a Trojan or a toolbar, others have seen the same, and this is even documented by Microsoft. "So well done, Microsoft! You've released a browser that deletes a system file it shouldn't even LOOK at! That's true creativity, that is. Who wouldn't think that a piece of software designed for looking at web pages might be deleting boot files even before it's told to load and run?""
Submission + - Iranian Twitter Revolution
Richard.Tao writes: The Iranian elections have widely been considered as rigged across the world, further proof of oppressiveness of the Iranian government is it's clamp down on protests from the results. They've blocked many media sites and social networking sites and it seems, for some reason, that Twitter is the bastion of the revolution.
I recently got a twitter account to follow the feed and rumors abound as to how best fight the Iranian government. A real worry is that people posting legitimate news from Iran will be noticed and imprisoned by the government, which has sadly been happening a lot.
There have been a ton of posts of supposed cures to protect the Iranian posters. The most prevalent is having people outside of Iran change their time and location to Tehran so the authorities have too many Iranians to sift through, would that help? Another major suggestion is hosting proxy servers so people can bypass the Iranian filters. Also there's a roomer that the government is blocking the tag people have been using to communicate, #iranelections, is that possible?
With so many roomers flying it seems impossible to separate fact from fiction, and ideas possibly suggested by the Iranian government to sabotage the twitter revolution. What is the best and most efficient way to run a twitter revolution and protect the people giving us news from Iran?
I recently got a twitter account to follow the feed and rumors abound as to how best fight the Iranian government. A real worry is that people posting legitimate news from Iran will be noticed and imprisoned by the government, which has sadly been happening a lot.
There have been a ton of posts of supposed cures to protect the Iranian posters. The most prevalent is having people outside of Iran change their time and location to Tehran so the authorities have too many Iranians to sift through, would that help? Another major suggestion is hosting proxy servers so people can bypass the Iranian filters. Also there's a roomer that the government is blocking the tag people have been using to communicate, #iranelections, is that possible?
With so many roomers flying it seems impossible to separate fact from fiction, and ideas possibly suggested by the Iranian government to sabotage the twitter revolution. What is the best and most efficient way to run a twitter revolution and protect the people giving us news from Iran?
Submission + - From Voodoo to GeForce:Awesome History of 3D Cards (maximumpc.com)
Ant writes: "Maximum PC article (one print page) shares the past and current 3D video cards — "Try to imagine where 3D gaming would be today if not for the graphics processing unit, or GPU. Without it, you wouldn't be tredging through the jungles of Crysis in all its visual splendor, nor would you be fending off endless hordes of fast-moving zombies at high resolutions. For that to happen, it takes a highly specialized chip designed for parallel processing to pull off the kinds of games you see today, the same ones that wouldn't be possible on a CPU alone. Going forward, GPU makers will try to extend the reliance on videocards to also include physics processing, video encoding/decoding, and other tasks that where once handled by the CPU.
It's pretty amazing when you think about how far graphics technology has come. To help you do that, we're going to take a look back at every major GPU release since the infancy of 3D graphics. Join us as we travel back in time and relive releases like 3dfx's Voodoo3 and S3's ViRGE lineup. This is one nostalgiac ride you don't want to miss! ..."
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Comment Re:The Achilles heel of this... (Score 1) 394
But they won't sell their replacement model.
Comment Re:WTF? Parent was modded down unfairly. (Score 1) 1870
How old are you?
