Abasher - Slashdot User

Fix To Chinese Internet Traffic Hijack Due In Jan. 92

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday December 08 2010, @02:00PM
from the route-around-it dept.

alphadogg writes "Policymakers disagree about whether the recent Chinese hijacking of Internet traffic was malicious or accidental, but there's no question about the underlying cause of this incident: the lack of built-in security in the Internet's main routing protocol. Network engineers have been talking about this weakness in the Internet infrastructure for a decade. Now a fix is finally on the way."

Comment: Re:Ubuntu? No way. (Score 1) 544

by Abasher on Tuesday October 28 2008, @06:04AM (#25538877) Attached to: Is Ubuntu Getting Slower?

Ehm, how many forks of Linux can you list? I know of none that have wide enough use to be confusing to anyone susceptible to confusion over the matter.

Martian Global Warming?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02 2007, @01:20PM

An anonymous reader writes "A Russian scientist believes that global warming on Earth may be caused by the Sun and cites warming on Mars as evidence:

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of the St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun. "The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars," he said.

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UPS Cancellation Impacts Airbus Program

Submitted by Good on Friday March 02 2007, @01:16PM

Good writes "The Airbus superjumbo program suffered a major new setback Friday as UPS Inc. said it would cancel its order for 10 A380s, leaving the aircraft maker with an empty order book for the cargo version of its much-delayed flagship. The move comes just a week after UPS, the world's largest shipping carrier, said it had agreed with Airbus to postpone its first freighter delivery until 2012 — three years later than originally promised"

8 Great Linux Smart Phones->

From feed by wiredfeed on Friday March 02 2007, @01:12PM

Forget Windows Mobile 6 -- these open-source handsets might succeed while Linux-on-the-desktop flounders. In Gadget Lab.

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Xen trademark stirs up virtualization community

Submitted by

Jane Walker

on Friday March 02 2007, @01:06PM

Jane Walker writes "Virtual Iron and possibly Red Hat have stopped using the word 'Xen' to describe their virtualization offerings, but it's VMware that trademark holder XenSource really wants to protect against."

Alien Arena 2007 6.04, freeware game released!

Submitted by

John

on Friday March 02 2007, @12:59PM

John writes "COR Entertainment LLC announces the release of Alien Arena 2007 version 6.04 today, the latest installment of it's freeware online deathmatch game! Version 6.04 is a massive, blockbuster content update, with the largest amount of new content of any previous release in the game's history. Eleven striking new maps are included, spanning over CTF, Deathball, DM, and All Out Assault modes. The CRX client has been upgraded as well, with menu revisions that allow for the combination of mutators and multiple font selection, various bugfixes, enhanced Deathball and Team Core Assault modes. Also included is Galaxy 2.0, the server browser/IRC client with a shiny new GUI and faster refresh times. For more information, screenshots and video, and to download the game visit http://red.planetarena.org/"