Psycosys - Slashdot User

Submission + - Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project? (pwnage.ca)

Submitted by blozza2070 on Friday December 11, 2009 @09:39PM

blozza2070 writes: According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote. Stormy Peters claims she doesn’t agree with this but then gives everyone instructions on how to achieve this goal. She mentions that roughly 20 members are needed to agree.

Submission + - What is the state of Linux security DVR Software?

Submitted by StonyCreekBare on Friday December 11, 2009 @07:43PM

StonyCreekBare writes: I am wondering what slashdotters have to offer on the idea of Linux based security systems, especially DVR software. I am aware of Zoneminder, but wonder what else is out there? Are there applications that will not only monitor video cameras, but motion sensors and contact closure alarms? What is state of the art in this area, and how do the various Linux platforms stack up in comparison to dedicated embedded solutions? Will these "play nice" with other software, such as Asterisk, and Misterhouse? Can one server host three or four services applications of this nature, assuming CPU/memory/disk resources are sufficient?

Comment Re:The most important unit of measurement (Score 1) 245

by Psycosys on Wednesday April 23, 2008 @06:48PM (#23176952) Attached to: Seagate Ships Billionth Hard Drive

Quoth the wiki...

"It is estimated that the print holdings of the Library of Congress would, if digitized and stored as plain text, constitute 17 to 20 terabytes of information.[citation needed] This leads many people to conclude that 20 terabytes is equivalent to the entire holdings of the Library, but this is misleading because the Library contains many items in addition to books, such as photographs, maps, and sound recordings. The Library currently has no plans for systematic digitization of any significant portion of its books."

I do tend to agree with you on this perhaps a change is in order. A little off the cuff calculation is in order. Assuming 250 words per page with an average of 6 characters used per word give us approximately 1500 bytes per page in plain text. Also assuming that a 1 megabyte image be used per page instead of that 1500 bytes then we get something like the following.

20TB*(1048576/1500) ~= 14 Petabytes

Submission + - How To Find And Connect To WiFi Networks (israel-on-blog.com)

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday November 22, 2007 @05:05AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "WeFi software makes it easy for you to find and connect to WiFi networks. With WeFi, each user contributes to the rest of the community by using the client and discovering more networks around. All this is reported to a centralized server and shared seamlessly among all users, resulting in easy connection. With the software you can also map your favorite hotspots, find your friends, share your WiFi with other WeFi members and do many other cool things."

Submission + - The PC is still the best games machine!

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:24AM

An anonymous reader writes: Here's an interesting feature that says the PC is still the best games platform, despite the strong Xbox 360 showing and the potential of Sony's PS3. Yes the latest batch of consoles are good, but will we ever really see anything that can match Crysis visually or WoW for sheer user support? PC gaming may be expensive, but this guy reckons it's still worth every penny. http://www.trustedreviews.com/gaming/review/2007/11/22/PC-Gaming-The-Original-Best-Platform/p1

Submission + - How do you find new non-RIAA music? 4

Submitted by burgundysizzle on Thursday November 22, 2007 @04:20AM

burgundysizzle writes: Hey this is /. (almost) everyone hates the RIAA and a lot of people say that they don't buy anything from the companies that are part of that trade group. What alternatives do you use or more importantly what methods do you use to discover alternative sources of music?

I use http://www.sellaband.com/ (some free legal music available) and http://www.amiestreet.com/ (new music is free and most music really cheap) to find new music, but I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting places to discover new music. Tell me about your experiences and any other interesting places you get new music from (that's inexpensive and legal).

Submission + - Guitar Hero's Publishers Got Sued By A Rock Band (xuecast.com)

Submitted by

XueCast

on Wednesday November 21, 2007 @08:55PM

XueCast writes: "The Romantics, a classic rock band from the United States has just filed a lawsuit against the popular Guitar Hero's developer and publishers, which are : Harmonix Music Systems, Activision and RedOctane. In Guitar Hero Encore: Rocks the 80s game title, Harmonix used sound-alike musicians in recording a song from the Romantics rock band in order to reduce cost, but according to the members of the rock band, the sound-alike musicians sound too much like them."

Submission + - Portraits of the Homeworld (esa.int)

Submitted by

Riding with Robots

on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @05:11AM

Riding with Robots writes: "Two space probes have delivered striking new images of Earth in the past few days. Yesterday, Japan's space agency released still frames from new HDTV videos that capture stunning vistas of Earth rising and setting over the lunar horizon. Today, the European Space Agency has posted the first shots from the Rosetta probe's latest encounter with its home planet as that spacecraft swung by to get a speed boost on its way to a distant encounter with a comet. These first views come from Rosetta's navcam — the full-color views will be up soon."

Submission + - IBM's Blue Brain project simulates a "rat brai (hostingprod.com)

Submitted by

Brian Mingus

on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @04:27AM

Brian Mingus writes: "Yesterday at the Supercomputing 2007 Conference, Dharmendra Modha of IBM's Blue Brain project reported that, "we represented a rat-scale cortical model (55 million neurons, 442 billion synapses) in 8TB memory of a 32,768-processor BlueGene/L." (pdf) This model is seven times larger than their previous simulation of half a mouse brain earlier this year, making it the largest cortical model in history. While it doesn't have the large-scale anatomical connectivity of a rat brain, which give rats their smarts, this model of neuron soup is significant in size, speed and efficiency. They were able to simulate one second of rat brain in nine seconds of real time using their C2 cortical simulator."

Submission + - Microsoft underplays severity of DNS vulnerability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @02:56AM

An anonymous reader writes: Tuesday's Microsoft security bulletin MS07-062 describes a possible DNS pharming attack on Microsoft DNS servers (reported by Scanit's Alla Berzroutchko and Trusteer's Amit Klein). Microsoft assigned this issue an "important" severity rating. However, security experts argue that it should be ranked "critical" instead. It is unclear why Microsoft underplayed the severity of this issue. One thing is known — this issue was scheduled for release in October, and for some reason was postponed to November.

Submission + - Ballmer Amuses With Hilarious Vista Comments (osweekly.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @02:31AM

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer continues to amuse journalists and readers alike with amusing comments. In his latest interview, he said: "The exchange continues with the fact that the mother involved with this Vista upgrade quickly dumped Vista and went back to XP. Why? It appears to be hardware related issues. Again, this is someone using a machine designed for XP, but still. Ballmer's response? This will blow your mind... "Let's start with the end user. Your daughter saw a lot of value." Keeping in mind that this is regarding a 13-year old kid that thought gadgets are cool.

Submission + - Pop-up Ad Points to Storm Worm Botnet Members

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @01:52AM

An anonymous reader writes: If your Windows PC served you with a pop-up ad on Tuesday urging you to buy a particular penny stock (Hemisphere Gold Inc. [HPGI.PK]) there's a good chance it's infected with the Storm worm. The Washington Post's Security Fix blog explains: "Criminal groups that control the pool of Storm-infected computers have traditionally used those systems to pump out junk e-mail ads touting thinly traded penny stocks as part of an elaborate and ongoing series of "pump-and-dump" schemes. But today, according to security researchers, the Storm worm authors went a step further by causing a pop-up ad for a particular penny stock to be shown on all infected machines. According to the story, there are more than 200,000 Storm-infected PCs currently.

Submission + - Earthrise/earthset (www.jaxa.jp) 1

Submitted by GSGKT on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @12:38AM

GSGKT writes: The iconic "Earthrise" photo taken during Apollo 8 mission has been hailed as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken". Japanese lunar explorer, Kaguya (a moon princess in Japanese folklore), has entered lunar orbit on Oct 19. It has been sending back pictures/movies of the moon taking with its high-resolution camera before that. Movies of earthrise and earthset taken by the Kaguya are now available. This is the first of such a movie since NASA's 1969 Appolo 11 mission, and the first taken using HD camera, according to Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's press release.

Submission + - Where are people going... CNN.com? No....Mininova. (fastsilicon.com)

Submitted by

mrneutron2003

on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @04:10PM

mrneutron2003 writes: "As proof positive of the relative disconnect mainstream media experiences on the internet, multibillion dollar news organization CNN is now outranked in sheer web traffic by......a torrent search engine. It appears that sometime in mid September mininova.org surpassed CNN , and as you can see from the accompanying Alexa graph continues to skyrocket well ahead of the worlds #1 news organization. Seems people are more interested in the next episode of Heroes, than they are the 2008 Presidential Election. I can't half blame them. http://www.fastsilicon.com/off-the-wall/where-are-people-going-.-cnn.com-no-mininova.org.html?Itemid=60"

Submission + - SCO found guilty of lying about Unix code in Linux (linux-watch.com)

Submitted by

mlauzon

on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @02:22PM

mlauzon writes: "In the United States, SCO's Linux/Unix litigation has been stalled out while the company's bankruptcy trial is being dealt with. In Germany, however, several court cases have found SCO Group GmbH, SCO's Germany branch, guilty of lying about Linux containing stolen Unix code.

In the first case, reported on by Heise Online, the pro-Linux German companies, Tarent GmbH and Univention found that SCO was once more making claims that Linux contained Unix IP (intellectual property). Specifically, SCO GmbH made the familiar claims that "As we have progressed in our discovery related to this action, SCO has found compelling evidence that the Linux operating system contains unauthorized SCO UNIX intellectual property (IP)." This was followed by the usual threat "If a customer refuses to compensate SCO for its UNIX intellectual property found in Linux by purchasing a license, then SCO may consider litigation."

The German Linux companies had already successfully protested against these statements in 2003. Then they were granted an injunction against SCO from making its claims that Linux contains illegally obtained SCO IP, a.k.a. Unix source code. If SCO violated this injunction, SCO would have to pay a fine of 250,000 Euros.

Since Tarent and Univention brought the matter to the attention of the courts, SCO has taken down the offending page with its claims.

Of course, in the U.S. court system, it has already been ruled that SCO has no Unix IP. Novell, not SCO, owns Unix.

Tarent's managing director told Heise Online that he found "It disconcerting, though not surprising, to see SCO trying to do towards the end what it is really being paid for by its supporters: spreading falsities as disparaging as possible about Linux." Unlike 2003, where Linux companies had to nip things in the bud, exercising vigilance is due now where things are coming to an end: "Even though SCO has reached the end of the line in our opinion, one should not let them get away with this."

In a similar case, Andreas Kuckartz, a German Linux advocate, had been publicly stating since 2003 that "SCO IP Licenses for Linux" amounted to little more than "protection money pricelists" and that SCO is "spreading rumors about copyright violations in Linux." Further, Kuckartz claimed that "The SCO Group Inc. is probably is involved in crimes such as stock manipulation and filing a fraudulent complaint against IBM."

SCO took him to court over these claims and SCO has lost (German PDF document). The Higher Regional Court in Munich ruled, Kuckartz said in e-mails to Linux-Watch, "that my statements are allowed because none of the factual statements I made to support those accusations are false. I can now even go to a business partner of The SCO Group GmbH and tell him or her that SCO is probably involved in the named crimes."

Kuckartz claim that he believes is the most important one is that in the four years the case has dragged out, SCO never objected "to my statement that SCO has not presented any proof of copyright violations in the lawsuit SCO vs. IBM."

In the United States, however, SCO, even now, continues to drag out its unsubstantiated claims that IBM has stolen SCO's Unix IP. In the SCO bankruptcy hearing, SCO attorney Arthur Spector once more claims, "Our litigation is a tremendous asset" and "Our litigation with IBM could bring in hundreds of millions of dollars.""

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