mediis - Slashdot User

Comment: How about: they prevented my research (Score 1) 128

by mediis on Saturday April 17 2010, @02:00PM (#31882996) Attached to: Comcast Customers Urged To Opt-Out of Settlement

I could tell you they blocked Legit p2p traffic 24/7 because I was trying to download vmware player iso's just to see what they were talking about. I wanted to see if they were a good solution what I did. I guess preventing someone from working isn't that important.

Comment: They are digging their own grave (Score 1) 392

by mediis on Wednesday March 31 2010, @09:18AM (#31687216) Attached to: Solaris No Longer Free As In Beer

Given my current Oracle "Support" ticket (for their database) will go a weeks without them touching it, looking at it, or working it, I see no reason why I should buy Oracle hardware. We buy Dells for Windows servers. We might as well buy Dell for Linux servers. Closing out Solaris, is just another reason-- in a long line of reasons --to switch.

Comment: Re:Too bad (Score 1) 849

by mediis on Wednesday February 10 2010, @10:29PM (#31095186) Attached to: Subversive Groups Must Now Register In South Carolina

Too bad they didn't think of doing this pre-1861

Comment: We've been doing this for years! (Score 3, Interesting) 268

by mediis on Friday February 05 2010, @08:46AM (#31033836) Attached to: Routine DNA Tests For Newborns Mean Looming Privacy Problems

Don't you remember the 80's and 90's when there was the big push to get your children's registered -- just in case they were abducted. What do you think happened to THOSE databases.

Comment: I'd say OpenSolaris (Score 1) 405

by mediis on Saturday November 28 2009, @10:50AM (#30254804) Attached to: OpenSolaris Or FreeBSD?

Or even Solaris proper. Solaris 10 changed the game from the ground up, much to the point where it's Unix on roids. Run levels have been replaced with milestones, init.d has been replaced with SMF and the contract file system. Dtrace makes life worth living. Look, vmstat is great; but with Dtrace you can recreate vmstat/iostat/mpstat from the ground up! Get the picture of what this tool can do for you?!?! Containers/Zones for virtual hosts. OpenCluster for building and working with an HA cluster. Crossbow, for building whole networks inside your machine.

I think my only complaint about OpenSolaris is packages. After 8 years of Debian apt calls I find *Solaris to be a little too retro-RedHat (before YUM) for dependencies and new software.

Comment: Yea! Faster Far East Outsourcing!!!! (Score 1) 136

by mediis on Monday November 02 2009, @11:37AM (#29951454) Attached to: Transpacific Unity Fiber Optic Cable Leaves Japan

I can't wait for the job postings once this mother is turned up to full!

AT&T, Verizon Moving Into Gaming 45

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday June 16 2009, @02:54AM
from the stop-wiretapping-my-railgun dept.

Verizon announced today that they are working on a service to deliver games through their broadband service for a monthly fee. The service will begin this summer in New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. Along similar lines, IndustryGamers reports that AT&T is "investing millions in gaming." In addition to revamping the games section of their website, they are also working on an IPTV service and trying to find a way to unify the gaming experience across mobile platforms, computers, and consoles. "[AT&T's Executive Director of Gaming, Glenn Broderick, said,] 'What we're doing is trying to incentivize [gaming companies] to take some risks by tethering mobile games to console or PC experiences.' ... He continued, 'We're putting a ton of money into back-end systems for both mobile and the broadband site... We're making serious investments in the games space because it's now seen as a huge strategic initiative for AT&T. And before it just wasn't; it wasn't on the executive agenda.' Broderick also is optimistic that cloud-based gaming services like OnLive that provide games on demand will take off in the next 5-10 years, and he sees AT&T and its network as a big player in that."

Comment: Have you ever read a ULA? (Score 1) 699

by mediis on Saturday June 06 2009, @02:01PM (#28235201) Attached to: Solution For College's Bad Network Policy?

If you think this is bad, then you better freaking skip working in the IT field; where everything is scanned, deep packet inspections, and if you ever place a personal laptop on the network they install a secret application to monitor you.

Comment: Good (Score 1) 1142

by mediis on Saturday June 06 2009, @09:48AM (#28232923) Attached to: Ballmer Threatens To Pull Out of the US

Then the MS workers can finally work from their own home country! And it would free up a large number of H1B visas for the rest of U.S..

Comment: If it had power it was being used (Score 2, Interesting) 576

by mediis on Thursday April 16 2009, @01:58PM (#27601219) Attached to: Why IT Won't Power Down PCs

... and thus could not be moved. So IT powered everything where they wanted to make a squatters claim to data center floor space. My favorite example was an SGI Challenge, we hadn't used SGI in 3 years, let alone the Challenge. The only thing plugged into this thing was power, no other cables of any type.