kspn78 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:CDs? (Score 2, Insightful) 334

by kspn78 on Thursday July 30 2009, @01:07AM (#28878081) Attached to: EMI Only Selling CDs To Mega-Chains From Now On

A CD is a funky mirror (at least according to my workmates)

I can't imagine that this is going to do EMI much long term good!

Comment: Oh dear! (Score 1) 202

by kspn78 on Wednesday July 29 2009, @06:59PM (#28875693) Attached to: Company Awarded "The Patent For Podcasting"

I can't imagine this going well :|

Although I would have thought that this would have been covered under 'prior art'?

Comment: Re:You don't get better by not doing (Score 2, Informative) 315

by kspn78 on Wednesday July 29 2009, @06:51PM (#28875617) Attached to: Funds Dwindle To Dismantle Old Nuclear Plants

I agree, I would rather not be 'inside' a crash, but it is a fact that Nuclear technology has not been able to develop due to fears that people have about radioactivity ect.
Coal vs Nuclear (Take your pick of these articles)
Coal evil: http://www.restoringeden.org/community/CreationVoice/january2009/coalash
Nuclear evil: http://www.cejournal.net/?p=410
There are issues (primarily with the Radioactive waste) but we still have what amounts to cira 1970/1980 Nuclear technology. pity that.

Comment: Interesting (Score 2, Funny) 361

by kspn78 on Monday June 01 2009, @08:55PM (#28176681) Attached to: When VMware Performance Fails, Try BSD Jails

I wonder if this would help me, I am running 2 VMWare servers on an older box and it is a little lethargic at the moment. If I could ever get to the story I might be able to find out :|

Comment: Re:Primary? (Score 1) 596

by kspn78 on Thursday May 14 2009, @01:36AM (#27948163) Attached to: How often do you reboot your primary computer?

That process sounds rather familiar to me :)

Comment: Re:Good Writeup! (Score 1) 368

by kspn78 on Tuesday June 26 2007, @01:59AM (#19646471) Attached to: Space Elevator Rebuttal From LiftPort Founder

I think that if they had all the answers then they would be building the Space Elevator now rather than a planned finish date of around 25 years!

Keylogger Hardware Embedded in New Dell Laptop->

Submitted by

kendbluze

on Tuesday June 19 2007, @01:39AM

kendbluze writes "Here's an EE who was doing a simple repair to a nearly-new Dell 600m laptop when he noticed something a bit curious. Turns out he found a hardware keylogger sitting between the keyboard and ethernet controllers! See what Homeland Security didn't have to say about it."
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AntiVirus kills PCs? Have some more, Symantec says->

Submitted by Tort reformation on Tuesday June 19 2007, @01:32AM

Tort reformation writes "Dubious 'compensation' settlements from companies that have done wrong are nothing new (examples: 1,2,3). But Symantec may have hit a new low. After tens of thousands of PCs in China were crippled by Symantec's Norton AntiVirus when it went beserk last month and decided Windows XP was a virus, users demanded financial compensation for lost data, days of lost business, and repair fees. Symantec's counter-offer: a further year's free use of Norton Antivirus."
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ZFS on Linux: It's alive!->

Submitted by lymeca on Tuesday June 19 2007, @01:30AM

lymeca writes "LinuxWorld reports that Sun Microsystem's ZFS filesystem has been converted from its incanartion in OpenSolaris to a module capable of running in the Linux user-space filsystem project, FUSE. Because of the license incompatibilities with the Linux kernel, it has not yet been integrated for distribution within the kernel itself. This project, called ZFS on FUSE, aims to enable GNU/Linux users to use ZFS as a process in userspace, bypassing the legal barrier inherent in having the filesystem coded into the Linux kernel itself. Booting from a ZFS partition has been confirmed to work. The performance currently clocks in at about half as fast as XFS, but with all the success the NTFS-3g project has had creating a high performance FUSE implementation of the NTFS filesystem, there's hope that performance tweaking could yield a practical elimination of barriers for GNU/Linux users to make use of all that ZFS has to offer."
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Are there any good educational toys for babies?

Submitted by

dichotom

on Tuesday June 19 2007, @01:22AM

dichotom writes "My sister is only a few days from having her first baby and I have been scouring the internet for an advanced learning toy. I started looking recently after seeing the movie "The Last Mimzy"(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768212/) where a young girl comes into possession of a toy rabbit from the future that teaches her things. Nanotechnology aside, is there anything out there that will constantly tell random facts to a child when they interact with it? Would this kind of learning even be feasible in the respect of any information sticking with a child as they grow? In my mind I imagine this as something I could upload information to from a computer, and then in turn it would say a quote when it is shaken or picked up. Okay slashdot, what can you imagine? And better yet how can we build it or where can we buy it?"