Gerald - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:It's Legal (Score 2) 231

by Gerald on Thursday December 08, @07:12PM (#38310068) Attached to: Cnet Apologizes For Nmap Adware Mess

The stub installer conflates "CNET" with the name of the software package, both in its file name and in its installation wizard. For projects and products that that are registered trademarks, wouldn't that constitute some sort of violation?

Android ICS source code-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 14, @06:43PM

An anonymous reader writes "Go get your ice cream. Android 4.0.1 which will ship on the new google Galaxy Nexus is available for download."
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Google releases Ice Cream Sandwich and Honeycomb s-> 0

Submitted by

kallisti5

on Monday November 14, @06:39PM

kallisti5 writes "Google's Jean-Baptiste Queru posted Monday afternoon that the Android Ice Cream Sandwich release is moving into the open source arena and can be cloned from the Google repository now! This clone will also include Honeycomb sources."
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Comment: Re:Andrew Tanenbaum (Score 3, Insightful) 343

by Gerald on Monday November 07, @04:06PM (#37977784) Attached to: Slashdot Asks: Whom Do You Want To Ask About 2012's U.S. Elections?

Seconded. His analysis running up to 2008 was spot-on.

Comment: Re:Not really that surprising (Score 3) 548

by Gerald on Wednesday November 02, @10:27PM (#37929856) Attached to: No Windows 8 Plot To Lock Out Linux

I'm confused. Are we supposed to go "tsk tsk" and be dismissive or be impressed that she had clear and concise specs which the vendor was able to meet?

Comment: Re:Boring (Score 4, Interesting) 141

by Gerald on Wednesday August 31, @06:27PM (#37270242) Attached to: Hackers May Have Nabbed Over 200 SSL Certificates

"If you think it's nice that you can remove the DigiNotar CA, imagine a world where you couldn't, and they knew you couldn't. That's DNSSEC." -- Moxie Marlinspike

Comment: Re:Was .NET all a mistake? (Score 3, Insightful) 688

by Gerald on Wednesday August 03 2011, @05:45PM (#36978672) Attached to: Was<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET All a Mistake?

I think they have. The lesson the guys who decide which technology to use have learned is that if you invest in MS technologies and put them in your customers you'll have several good years. Then Microsoft will outdate those technologies soon and give you another round at the same consulting money.

The open source world is completely different. We stabilized on Perl^WPHP^WRuby^WNode^WEastAsia years ago and never looked back.

isostick Aims to Alleviate Physical Disk Annoyance-> 4

Submitted by

tekgoblin

on Sunday July 31 2011, @05:48PM

tekgoblin writes "A new project by Elegant Invention in South Bend, IN began on Kickstarter which poses the idea of a USB stick that pretends that it is an optical (CD/DVD) drive. They call it isostick, and it makes the computer believe that there is a USB flash drive and an optical drive plugged in so you can use any CD/DVD images known as ISO files. This is a very cool invention."
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Comment: Re:Well (Score 1) 305

by Gerald on Friday July 08 2011, @10:32AM (#36695280) Attached to: Could PSTN Go Away By 2018?

It hasn't stopped these guys.

Comment: Re:Or just let IPv6 die (Score 2) 104

by Gerald on Thursday July 07 2011, @06:01PM (#36688852) Attached to: IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking

How old is your data? It's about 3.2% on my servers and growing. I'm going to pop open a bottle of champagne when the percentage of IPv6 users exceeds the percentage of IE6 users.