Comment tis called https (Score 1) 125
quite effective at deep packet inspection and other man in middle attacks.
Comment This could work in one of 3 ways none very good (Score 1) 182
1) a true swf to html5/JavaScript engine on the fly - believe that when I see it running
2) slurps out any rtmp url's it finds doing dynamic conversion to h.264 - won't work with sites using dynamic logic inside swf to assemble resource URL
3) virtual machine on server running flash which then streams result to iPhone - huge expense for app owner
Plus not sure sites using rtmpe like hulu would work
Comment 50cents per gbyte per month (Score 1) 420
Is worst case for redundant secure two site storage for volumes over 2tbytes
Comment This has saved me loads of time (Score 1) 186
I had 3 backups of home data of about 300gbytes each.
Each one was almost but not quite the same due to some rather poor backup policies on mypart.
I was able to dedup per backup to get them small enough to combine and dedup the combo.
Left with one pure 150gbytes combo. Rsync is amazing
Comment Anyone anytime can modify Linux (Score 1) 177
Only problem is getting your changes into the trunk.
For that I am glad they are very picky.
Comment Just one bit of advice (Score 1) 268
Ensuring everyone in project is using same one is more important than which one is chosen.
If you can use the same one for a whole company even better
Comment Done this before (Score 1) 121
1) Install Wikipedia software locally and use this for any locally created articles
2) The web server running this simply proxies out to en.wikipedia.org for that request if not available in the local version. The easiest way to do this is with Apache + rewrite rules
This means that users can get to articles locally and on wikipedia from the same command
You then need to consider the following
1) The search request needs to go to the local version of wikipedia then the external one and concatinate the results together - a small proxy script should be more than capable of doing this
2) You may want to create a reference table which maps external wiki articles to related internal ones. Again a small script could insert these into the external wikipedia articles during rendering
New Zealand Introduces Internet Filtering 215
Thomas Beagle writes "The New Zealand government has been stealthily introducing a centralised internet child-pornography specific filtering system. Voluntary for ISPs but not for their users, ISPs representing over 94% of the market are already intending to join. Read the general FAQ and technical FAQ about the proposed Netclean Whitebox implementation."
Apple's Mac OS X Update Breaks Perl 264
mir writes "It looks like if you use CPAN to install modules, Apple's latest security update might just have broken your Perl. According to Tatsuhiko Miyagawa 'The Security Update brings (old) IO.bundle with version 1.22 but your IO.pm has been updated to the latest 1.23 on CPAN shell. (But hey, 1.23 was released in 2006...Why do you bring that ancient version back, Apple!?)'."
Top 10 Objects That Have Flown In Space 5
boef writes "New Scientist has a gallery showing the top 10 unusual objects that have flown in space — from a small communion kit (that resulted in a lawsuit) to small toys to indicate when crew are in weightless conditions."
Comment all desktop operating systema are rubbish (Score 1) 983
If you are running a bog standard desktop or laptop you probably have some basic requirement
* when I turn up at my computer after having a cup of coffee and hit slashdot.org into firefox I expect it to launch straight away
* when I shutdown my computer I expect it to happen instantly
* when I start up my computer I expect it to happen instantly
* when I save my music/words/picture I expect it to be reliable and nothing my computer will do after I save my file will affect it
* under no circumstance will my mouse, keyboard or icons on desktop not perform to my actions - I want no hang.
This is not the fault of disk swapping it is just an example about how 5 utterly straightforward requirements have not been addressed in over 20 years of desktop development.
First OS which has this gets my vote
