Comment Re:FUD (Score 3, Interesting) 341
...so you're saying Linux needs something like the OS X Keychain?
Submission + - Nmap team releases 5 gigapixel favicon map 1
iago-vL writes: From the creators of Nmap comes the largest survey of this its kind ever performed: the favicon.ico files of over a million Web sites were scanned, compiled, and sorted to create a 5 gigapixel image, blowing their 2010 survey out of the water! It's searchable, zoomable, and incredibly fun to play with! Can you find Slashdot without cheating? (Hint: it's near Facebook)
Submission + - Wireshark switches to Qt (wireshark.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Beginning with Wireshark 1.11.0 the project has switched its user interface library from GTK+ to Qt. "Both libraries make it easy for developers write applications that will run on different platforms without having to rewrite a lot of code. GTK+ has had a huge impact on the way Wireshark looks and feels and on its popularity but it doesn’t cover our supported platforms as effectively as it should and the situation is getting worse as time goes on."
Comment Re:Its NOT smartphones. (Score 1) 376
FWIW we're in the process of porting Wireshark to Qt.
Comment Re:"provider of intelligent cybersecurity solution (Score 2) 38
You misspelled Wireshark.
Comment Re:I recommend (Score 1) 141
They're called panniers. Some are specially made for laptops, or at least have compartments for them. They'd probably work well for a similar-sized monitor. (I'm assuming you weren't trying to make a smartass comment about biking to work.)
Comment Re:No plans for LLVM (Score 1) 102
...is a really good dynamic analyzer. Again, not nearly the same.
Comment Re:No plans for LLVM (Score 2) 102
Because GCC doesn't have a static analyzer (you do analyze your code, right?) LLVM's analyzer (Clang's scan-build) is very good. Visual C++'s analyzer was crap a few releases ago but even it is getting better. I like GCC but it has a lot of catching up to do in this regard. And no, "-Wall" isn't nearly the same.
Comment Re:All? (Score 1) 576
The outstanding absentee ballots are from areas that lean Obama, which is why most places have at least unofficially called the state for Obama.
Comment Re:What's the clear advantage of LLVM? (Score 2) 360
It has a pretty good static analyzer.
Comment Re:Hardly surprising... (Score 4, Interesting) 57
The barrier for GSM is getting lower every day so it wouldn't surprise me if bugs like this start showing up more often.
Submission + - ntpd timebomb on modern linuxes (serverfault.com)
Bronster writes: "On recent linux kernels, ntpd prepares the kernel for the upcoming insertion of a leapsecond — which under some circumstances can trigger a livelock. At least Redhat and Debian users are confirmed to be at risk on busy servers."
Submission + - Leapsecond is here! Are your systems ready or going to crash? (redhat.com) 1
Tmack writes: The last time we had a leapsecond, sysadmins were taken a bit by surprise when a random smattering of systems locked up (including Slashdot itself) due to a kernel bug causing a race condition specific to the way leapseconds are handled/notified by ntp. The vulnerable kernel versions (prior to 2.6.29) are still common amongst older versions of popular distributions (Debian Lenny, RHEL/Centos 5) and embeded/black-box style appliances (Switches, load balancers, spam filters/email gateways, NAS devices, etc). Several vendors have released patches and bulletins about the possibility of a repeat of last time. Are you/your team/company ready? Are you upgraded or are you going to bypass this by simply turning off NTP for the weekend?
Comment Re:If my work inbox is any indication... (Score 4, Funny) 314
We're talking about real email that's connected to the outside world here, not your Compuserve account.
Comment Re:Wait, what now? (Score 1) 462
Their C/C++ compiler is pretty good. Their static analyzer (which requires one of the full-frontal editions of Visual Studio) is crap compared to Clang's scan-build or cppcheck.
