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Comment: Re:slashcode (Score 1) 2254

by kad77 on Tuesday January 25 2011, @11:08PM (#35003550) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Ok, I am using SRWare Iron 8 (stripped chromium webkit build for win32) with this user agent string as it's same WebKit build as Safari 5 ---

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0 Safari/534.10 ... I get SPORADIC errors trying to post comments ... site works in IE8 ... gave up on FF until they multi-thread the UI

Comment: slashcode (Score 1) 2254

by kad77 on Tuesday January 25 2011, @10:51PM (#35003210) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Has the underlying slashcode base been made more shiny? "There was an unknown error in the submission." ???

Doesn't work in Chrome/Iron ... .... but works in IE 8 ... :(

Comment: Re:What's the point. (Score 4, Interesting) 268

by kad77 on Monday September 28 2009, @10:21AM (#29566147) Attached to: FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

I'm sort of curious why the slashdot story summary is so annoyingly biased in it's phrasing - "FreeBSD rather ends up taking a wallop to Ubuntu Linux, but there are a few areas where FreeBSD 8 ran well", when the arguably flawed test suite shows NO SUCH THING!

The FreeBSD system has very comparable or better benchmarks on nearly every metric in the test, just click through TFA and see for yourself.

Tripe.

Besides the needless and counterproductive bias, the phrase X "rather ends up taking a wallop to" Y is clunky and sophomoric. Editors, get a life.

Haiku Project Reaches First Alpha Milestone 0

Submitted by kad77 on Monday September 14 2009, @02:46PM

kad77 writes "After eight years of hard work, the open source reinvention of the proprietary BeOS operating system has reached it's first official alpha (developer) release. The Haiku operating system is a very active MIT licensed project, showcasing some of the best open source tools and building blocks alongside it's massive unique codebase. Guided by their ideals, the Haiku team is steadily creating a unified user experience best described in their own words: "Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels." More information and download options available at their website. A press release is also available."

Haiku, the Open Source BeOS Project Issues First A-> 0

Submitted by kad77 on Monday September 14 2009, @02:34PM

kad77 writes "After eight years of hard work, the open source reinvention of the proprietary BeOS operating system has reached it's first official alpha (developer) release. The Haiku operating system is a very active MIT licensed project, showcasing some of the best open source tools and building blocks alongside it's massive unique codebase. Guided by their ideals, the Haiku team is steadily creating a unified user experience best described in their own words: "Haiku is an open source operating system currently in development that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the Be Operating System, Haiku aims to become a fast, efficient, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful system for computer users of all levels." More information and download options available at their website. A press release is also available."
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Comment: Re:lasers? (Score 2, Interesting) 569

by kad77 on Tuesday July 07 2009, @04:36AM (#28605417) Attached to: Incandescent Bulbs Return To the Cutting Edge

Exactly what I clicked on comments to post...

Wouldn't they be motivated to reach a cross-licensing agreement on the patents?

It would seem there would be mutual interest, but maybe I'm missing something?

Comment: Re:Yes, let's do just that... (Score 1) 208

by kad77 on Wednesday January 09 2008, @03:43PM (#21974108) Attached to: XP/Vista IGMP Buffer Overflow — Explained

Well here one reason: strlen() relies on the input data being zero terminated.

The code: char foo[20] = "test string" would not have provided that, so the result would have been unknown (probably a large int) and the loop would have performed unexpectedly.

SPAM: Barksdale -- Tehran 2

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday September 07 2007, @01:55PM

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can't imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

Multiple .gov web sites hacked, serving exploits-> 0

Submitted by cottagetrees on Friday September 07 2007, @01:52PM

cottagetrees writes "Security researcher Roger Thompson has discovered at least a dozen freshly hacked .gov web sites — all cities — hosting driveby-downloaded exploits and malware. Thompson blogged about his discovery here: http://explabs.blogspot.com/ and he posted a YouTube video documenting the hack here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_jh8lHb49w "The attacking pages seem to try one of three things. First they try an exploit to install their malware, and if that doesn't work, they try to trick you into installing a fake codec, and if that doesn't work, they run a fake antispy scan, and try to convince you that your machine is already compromised, but their software can fix it... just click the install button." According to the video, updated security patches will protect you from the driveby downloaded exploit, but won't protect victims of the social engineering ploy that tries to get them to download the fake codec, or install the fake anti-spyware."
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OpenGL 3 Announced-> 0

Submitted by treak007 on Saturday August 11 2007, @08:42PM

treak007 writes "On August 8th 2007 the OpenGL ARB officially announced OpenGL 3. This version number is now the official name for "OpenGL Longs Peak." The specification could be publicly available at the end of September."
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