Koos - Slashdot User

Comment: Future-proof your house (Score 1) 281

by Koos on Monday April 02, @08:14AM (#39547479) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Shortcuts To a High Tech House

On a budget: remember whatever you do now gadget-wise will be old in 5 years time. But other investments can help for any future plans: enough cabling (CAT6 or CAT7) to rooms so you can wire whatever in those rooms in the future. Not just network and computers, but also phones or temperature/motion sensors. And enough outlets.

Comment: Besides helping a few traders.. (Score 1) 158

by Koos on Wednesday March 21, @06:51AM (#39424983) Attached to: $1.5 Billion: the Cost of Cutting London-Tokyo Latency By 60ms

There is also the good side that this will bring serious bandwidth to places where dialup over satellite is currently the way to get a bit of Internet. Scarcely populated places in northern Canada and Alaska will appreciate the chances of a bit more bandwidth!

Comment: The new slashdot, now even whiter! (Score 1) 2254

by Koos on Wednesday January 26 2011, @05:17AM (#35006126) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Overall I think the new design is an improvement and in line with a larger web trend to have sites easier on the eyes. Looks good here (firefox 3.6.13 ubuntu) and makes good use of the width of the browser.

Next up, IPv6!

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13 2011, @07:31PM
from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

Comment: Re:So how about it, Slashdot? (Score 1) 247

by Koos on Thursday January 13 2011, @05:30AM (#34859154) Attached to: Major Sites To Join ‘World IPv6 Day’

According to Savvis invested in a new ipv6-capable network in 2006, to be finished in 2008. Savvis hosts sourceforge / slashdot (from the whois record). Yet, according to the nanog grapevine in 2010, Savvis is not yet able to offer IPv6 to customers. Time to put 'working ipv6' on the checklist for your new hosting?

Comment: This only affects BIND and Unbound users (Score 1) 132

by ahu on Friday April 30 2010, @04:14PM (#32048822) Attached to: DNSSEC May Cause Problems On May 5

It is generally not made clear that problems are only to be expected for those users behind DNS resolvers that ask 'DNSSEC OK=1' questions by default.

Such 'do=1' default behaviour was enabled in BIND, most likely in an effort to 'make the world safe for DNSSEC'. Even though no further DNSSEC processing is performed by default.

Other implementations, like PowerDNS & DJBDNS, do not wantonly ask 'DNSSEC OK=1' questions. This means that for these (and other) resolvers, on May 5th nothing will happen.

The 'testing' sites linked do not clarify if you are behind a resolver that asks 'do=0' or 'do=1' questions, and may thus lead to needless worry.

Cheers,
Bert - PowerDNS.

Scientists Say a Dirty Child Is a Healthy Child 331

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24 2009, @07:07PM
from the snack-is-going-to-be-on-the-floor-today dept.

Researchers from the School of Medicine at the University of California have shown that the more germs a child is exposed to, the better their immune system in later life. Their study found that keeping a child's skin too clean impaired the skin's ability to heal itself. From the article: "'These germs are actually good for us,' said Professor Richard Gallo, who led the research. Common bacterial species, known as staphylococci, which can cause inflammation when under the skin, are 'good bacteria' when on the surface, where they can reduce inflammation."

Comment: Re:Flash security has always frightened me (Score 1) 355

by RAMMS+EIN on Friday November 13 2009, @03:46AM (#30084370) Attached to: Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming

``Browser vendors have the right incentives because users have a realistic choice of browsers. Flash is an all-or-nothing affair.''

And that is a real problem for users, and not just because of its effect on security. Only Adobe makes software that can handle all the Flash applets out there, and anytime there is only a single supplier, the incentives to make things better for customers aren't there. Adobe has been pretty nice with Flash, considering.

Comment: Re:The vulnerability (Score 1) 355

by RAMMS+EIN on Friday November 13 2009, @03:41AM (#30084350) Attached to: Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming

Seems to me there _is_ an easy fix: disable that behavior by default (why would you want it, anyway?). Then, for sites that are broken by it, allow it to be selectively enabled.

Of course, the fact that Adobe isn't fixing it and we aren't allowed to fix it nicely illustrates why having the whole world depend on a piece of proprietary software is a bad idea at least from a security point of view.

Comment: Why nobody has asked him yet about robots.txt (Score 1) 549

by Koos on Thursday November 12 2009, @04:49PM (#30078652) Attached to: Murdoch To Explore Blocking Google Searches

I too wondered "why hasn't anybody asked Mr. Murdoch about web standards for blocking bots like google", and asked such a question to the BBC who wrote the original article. The answer is simple: only news organizations like sky and fox news get the chance to interview him, and for some reason they never get around to asking questions like these that would not fit the views that Mr. Murdoch wants published as news.