Anonymous Crowbar - Slashdot User

+ - Do people still use Palm devices? 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Thursday October 23, 2014 @05:59PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "Just found the below text in my .bashrc file on fresh install of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
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# If you want to use a Palm device with Linux, uncomment the two lines below.
# For some (older) Palm Pilots, you might need to set a lower baud rate
# e.g. 57600 or 38400; lowest is 9600 (very slow!)
#
#export PILOTPORT=/dev/pilot
#export PILOTRATE=115200"

Comment: Re:List the STL? Seriously? (Score 1) 479

by Anonymous Crowbar on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @01:26PM (#47976183) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D?

I agree. You DO NOT want to work for a company that has " listing all the container classes in STL" as an interview question. That is retarded.

+ - SUSE parent group merging with Micro Focus.-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Monday September 15, 2014 @11:42AM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "The Attachmate Group brands – Attachmate, NetIQ, Novell and SUSE is being acquired by Micro Focus. http://lnkd.in/bECB9yr"
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+ - Twitter employees threatened by ISIS-affiliated group-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @11:15AM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes ""A Twitter account associated with ISIS, also known as the Islamic State, issued disturbing threats Monday, calling for the assassination of Twitter employees in San Francisco, according to a number of news outlets."

Obviously the threat is a violation of Twitter's terms of service, specifically "You may not publish or post direct, specific threats of violence against others.", but how would a company even begin to deal with an issue like this?"
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Comment: Someone got this a bit wrong (Score 1) 108

by Anonymous Crowbar on Wednesday August 20, 2014 @12:11PM (#47713409) Attached to: World's First 3D Printed Estate Coming To New York

"...and if all goes as planned the printer will automatically insert rebar into the concrete." Actually when creating a foundation the rebar should be laid first and suspended on dobies then concrete is poured on over the metal cage like structure. One can not simply print rebar & concrete simultaneously.

+ - Is there a standard Linux tool to mass-install software onto N# machines?-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Thursday April 10, 2014 @06:39PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "I'm familiar with Microsoft's SCCM which allows you to mass install software and updates, but is there a commonly used tool like this for Linux? If so what is it?
Or, do people just create SSH or remote-shell scripts to do this?"
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Comment: WorldOfTanks. (Score 1) 669

by Anonymous Crowbar on Wednesday February 19, 2014 @02:52PM (#46289149) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing?

Was a free Xbox gold game. It is awesome. I'm an over 50 kernel hack and bought the Xbox 2 years ago for 2 boys. I only played this game to see if it would be appropriate for them and ended up getting hooked. They don't like it.

Comment: Re:Representative benchmarks? (Score 2) 132

by Anonymous Crowbar on Tuesday November 26, 2013 @02:17PM (#45529757) Attached to: Speed Test 2: Comparing C++ Compilers On WIndows

Not sure if anyone already mentioned this but my take is it is NOT how fast the project compiles but rather the performance of the executable. If one is building race cars it's not how fast they come off the assembly line, it's how fast the cars go on the track.

Comment: Re:Why would you want to? (Score 1) 92

by Anonymous Crowbar on Tuesday November 05, 2013 @09:11PM (#45341903) Attached to: The First Phone You Can Actually Bend: LG's G Flex

I've laid awake at night for years hoping for a bendable phone.

Comment: Re:Actually the problem with leaking hydrogen... (Score 1) 297

by Anonymous Crowbar on Monday November 04, 2013 @04:37PM (#45330421) Attached to: 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight

I was "trying" to be funny.

Comment: I'll wait for the hydrogen model. (Score 0) 297

by Anonymous Crowbar on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:39AM (#45326607) Attached to: 6TB Helium-Filled Hard Drives Take Flight

I hear it's going to explode on the market

+ - The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:02PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "from the article "FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous thanks the long series of arrests that hit principal cells of the collective such as LulzSec, Antisec and SABU." If true then that moves Anonymous from Legion to Legend."
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+ - DHS defends suspicionless searches of laptops and cell phones-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Thursday June 06, 2013 @07:52PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "The United States government doesn’t need a reason to seize and search the cell phones, laptops and other electronic devices of Americans entering the country, according to a Department of Homeland Security document provided to the press this week."
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+ - Vast, real-time, warrantless NSA online surveillance-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Thursday June 06, 2013 @06:56PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "The slides were meant to be declassified in 2036. OOPS!

Classified information obtained by the Washington Post and The Guardian has revealed a massive, warrantless online surveillance system in use by a US military intelligence agency, giving access to Americans' search history, emails, live chats and more.

The 41-page PowerPoint presentation, which has been verified by both papers and published almost concurrently on Thursday evening, outlines details of a previously undisclosed program known as PRISM, which allows the fabled military intelligence agency to harvest massive amounts of data on everything from electronic correspondence to file transfers."
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+ - RT.com under DDOS attack, Now if only they had a dash-cam video of it. 0

Submitted by Anonymous Crowbar on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:16PM

Anonymous Crowbar (692255) writes "Why do I have a feeling this is not going to end good for those behind the DDOS attack?

From RT Monday June 3.
BREAKING: http://www.rt.com/ is under DDoS attack. Trying to bring it back online. Stay tuned for updates!

From RT Sunday June 2.
RT becomes 1st TV news channel to break YouTube 1 billion views barrier
“We proved that the mass YouTube audience isn’t just about kittens and Justin Bieber. There’s real demand for serious news online delivered in the right way”"

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