Kalak - Slashdot User

Pac man meets Zork 0

Submitted by Kalak on Sunday November 04 2007, @11:51AM

Kalak writes "Combine Pac Man, Zork, and some alcohol, and you get a text adventure version of Pac Man called Pac-Txt. It's an amusing way to kill some time and feel like you're in series of long corridors. Some credit was also given to the Balmer Peak"

Systems administration via iPhone w/o Hacking-> 0

Submitted by Kalak on Monday October 15 2007, @11:20AM

Kalak writes "tuaw.com has an interview with the developer of Inco, a remote systems administration application for the iPhone (and some other smart phones it's implied) that does not require hacking the iPhone or installing software on the phone itself. It runs on the server via Ruby on Rails, and is for those times where the wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/kid forces you to leave the laptop at home. "Inco runs pretty well on Linux right now. What [he's] been testing so far is a mix of XServes, FreeBSD, and CentOS machines." So for those who are looking to get a fix on checking on the servers, while still having a life, this is one possible key. The app is still in beta, with a release due later this year.

Full Disclosure: I've met the application author, and would try to line myself up for the beta if I had a phone to run it on."
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Duke Network problems with Routers not iPhone-> 0

Submitted by Kalak on Monday July 23 2007, @10:03AM

Kalak writes "The reported problem with Duke's wireless network that was suspected to be caused by iPhones, was in fact, a problem in the Cisco wireless routers, which have been patched. Officials have exonerated the initial suspect, Apple Inc.'s new iPhone."
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Map of Social Networking Sites

Submitted by Kalak on Wednesday May 02 2007, @10:04AM

Kalak writes "In the spirit of his Map of the internet the Author of xkcd has posted a Map of Online Communities. Though I would suggest that "Your Base" should be in the "Sea of Memes.""

Vista Activation Server Cracked

Submitted by Kalak on Friday December 08 2006, @12:41PM

Kalak writes "Windows Vista includes a new activation scheme for enterprise users that can connect to a non-Microsoft server, called PKS, to authenticate. This allows for non-internet computers to activate once every 180 days without having to connect directly to the internet (along with other enterprise scenerios). The PKS server has been obtained, though not released yet, and hacked to run from a VMware image, allowing pirated copies of Vista to be activated."