Comment: Let's make this official (Score 0) 129
from now on, January 18 "Thiago Macieira Appreciation Day".
Comment: Requires Oracle Java (Score 0) 71
No, I'm not going to even try to install that piece of crap. It's a shame that after so many years the OpenJDK is still so useless.
In this state of affairs, for me Java is dead and buried. In all respects.
Comment: Re:A man in the middle attack (Score 1) 326
That's why people keeps their diamonds in safe-deposit boxes, you fool.
Comment: Read this first (Score 1) 569
"A $150 Camera vs. a $5,000 Camera"
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/150-vs-5000-dollar-camera.htm
Comment: Cool (Score 0) 171
but I haven't yet finished fine tuning my new and shiny Kubuntu installation.
Comment: Mikrotik (Score 1) 319
I'm very happy using Mikrotik (mikrotik.com) products. You can buy a ~49$ license and install their software -RouterOS, a Linux derivative- on an old PC.
You can also get one of their hardware products (routerboard.com), excellent choice if you care about power consumption. I highly recommend the RB750G wich is a small SOHO router in a nice plastic case.
With RouterOS you can do a whole lot of interesting things, monitoring bandwidth usage is just one of these things.
Comment: Openwall site (Score 1) 122
the Openwall website groans and moans imploring for a facelift.
it's so poignant..
Comment: Re:The most successful trolls (Score 1) 383
Not so anonymous, though:
http://i53.tinypic.com/faa61k.png
7 of the Best Free Linux Calculators 289
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timothy
from the open-in-tabs dept.
from the open-in-tabs dept.
An anonymous reader writes "One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function. However, the calculators featured in this article are significantly more sophisticated with the ability to process difficult mathematical functions, to plot graphs in 2D and 3D, and much more. Occasionally, the calculator tool provided with an operating system did not engender any confidence. The classic example being the calculator shipped with Windows 3.1 which could not even reliably subtract two numbers. Rest assured, the calculators listed below are of precision quality."
FCC's Net Neutrality Plan Blocks BitTorrent 303
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CmdrTaco
from the well-of-course-it-does dept.
from the well-of-course-it-does dept.
master_p writes "The FCC's formally issued draft net neutrality regulations have a huge copyright loophole in them; a loophole that would theoretically permit Comcast to block BitTorrent just like it did in 2007 — simply by claiming that it was 'reasonable network management' intended to 'prevent the unlawful transfer of content.' The new proposed net neutrality regulations would allow the same practices that net neutrality was first invoked to prevent, even if these ISP practices end up inflicting collateral damage on perfectly lawful content and activities."
Smartphones Receive Holy Blessing
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samzenpus
from the blessed-are-the-phone-makers dept.
from the blessed-are-the-phone-makers dept.
jeffmeden writes "Plow Monday is normally for blessing laborers and their tools; as the name suggests it is aimed at those who work the land. A church service in London, England Monday decided to go after a more modern audience: office workers and their modern communication gadgets. From the Times article: 'The congregation at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London raised their mobiles and iPods above their heads and Canon Parrott raised his voice to the heavens to address the Lord God of all Creation. "May our tongues be gentle, our e-mails be simple and our websites be accessible," he said.'"
New Zealand Cyber Spies Win New Powers 132
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timothy
from the mmm-new-powers dept.
from the mmm-new-powers dept.
caeos writes "New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced in New Zealand giving police and Security Intelligence Service officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone's online life. The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand. The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS or SIS) is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government."
How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
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timothy
from the hypnotherapy-might-work dept.
from the hypnotherapy-might-work dept.
thelordx writes "I've got a much younger brother who I'd like to teach how to program. When I was younger, you'd often start off with something like BASIC or Apple BASIC, maybe move on to Pascal, and eventually get to C and Java. Is something like Pascal still a dominant teaching language? I'd love to get low-level with him, and I firmly believe that C is the best language to eventually learn, but I'm not sure how to get him there. Can anyone recommend a language I can start to teach him that is simple enough to learn quickly, but powerful enough to do interesting things and lead him down a path towards C/C++?"
Meet Uzbl — a Web Browser With the Unix Philosophy 318
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timothy
from the simple-if-you-know-how dept.
from the simple-if-you-know-how dept.
DigDuality writes "Dieter@be over at Arch Linux forums, a release engineer for Arch Linux, got inspired by this post. The idea? To create a browser based on the Unix philosophy: 'Write programs that do one thing and do it well, programs that work well together, programs to handle text streams because that is a universal interface,' among other points. The result? A fast, low-resource browser named Uzbl, based on WebKit, which passes the Acid3 Test with a perfect score. The browser is controlled (by default) by vim-like keybindings, not too dissimilar to vimperator for Firefox. Things like URL changing, loading/saving of bookmarks, saving history, and downloads are handled through external scripts that you write (though the Uzbl software does come with some nice scripts for you to use). It fits great in a tiling window manager and plays extremely well with dmenu. The learning curve is a bit steep, but once you get used to it, it's smooth sailing. Not bad for alpha software. Though built for Arch, it has been reported to work on Ubuntu."
Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator 232
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timothy
from the send-some-love-to-flightgear dept.
from the send-some-love-to-flightgear dept.
scrubl writes "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual worlds that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground. The visuals software was written in OpenGL, using commercial and open source scene graph engines and making 'heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs.'"