blirp - Slashdot User

Comment Of course! (Score 2) 288

by blirp on Monday September 24, 2012 @11:33AM (#41437579) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should Developers Install Their Software Themselves?

But only the two or three times to perfect the automated procedure.

M.

Comment Re:So basically a thin laptop (Score 1) 712

by blirp on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @11:40AM (#40370709) Attached to: Microsoft Announces 'Surface' Tablet

and can do portrait of landscape

... aren't portraits usually of people?

M.

Inside the Duqu Worm's Source Code 157

Posted by samzenpus on Monday November 14, 2011 @12:12AM from the taking-a-closer-look dept.

angry tapir writes "Wrapped in the code the Duqu worm uses to infect computers is the message: 'Copyright (c) 2003 Showtime Inc. All rights reserved. DexterRegularDexter.' An analysis of the worm has also revealed that Duqu, which is similar to Stuxnet and may even have been written by the same developers, may be four years old and that it generally tries to steal information on Wednesdays."

Comment Maven-hell (Score 1) 391

by blirp on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @01:50AM (#37040854) Attached to: Lines of code I've written in the last 24 hours:

I'm just trying to get this project's pom-files to behave. After that, I'll do some real coding. That is, if you accept that coding in Java is 'real coding'.

Maven is such a waste of time ...

Yeah, yeah, I know, "The good old days of Turbo Pascal 3 with only one source file", but still ...

Comment Re:This site works best with... (Score 1) 171

by blirp on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:37AM (#36904910) Attached to: OK Go Goes HTML5

It's too vague to actually implement it without reverse-engineering WebKit first.

Seems somebody already did that for you.

Man! You are lucky tonight!

Comment Re:This site works best with... (Score 1) 171

by blirp on Thursday July 28, 2011 @02:28AM (#36904874) Attached to: OK Go Goes HTML5

"This site works best with..." remember the loathe 'we' used to have for that phrase, because it was almost invariably followed by "Internet Explorer"?

Oh, you youngsters.

I, for one, remember when 'we' loathed it because it was invariably followed by Netscape.
(Though some tried to be cute and claim 'Mosaic')

M.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 548

by blirp on Tuesday August 10, 2010 @06:35AM (#33201814) Attached to: Canonical Begins Tracking Ubuntu Installations

Why would they do this? It has to be something they can sell or bargain with. So does this mean they'll try to lower the price they pay to Dell for preinstalling Ubuntu (if, in fact, they're actually paying for this). Or are they planning to create an adware-version of Ubuntu?

Neither seems very likely, so ... why?

M.

Comment Re:No Thanks (Score 1) 207

by blirp on Friday August 06, 2010 @01:53AM (#33158506) Attached to: Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo

Went back today as it came up on a local newspaper. It appears they've fixed it. Now works on Moonlight (running 10.04 on an x64) ...

M

Comment Re:No Thanks (Score 4, Interesting) 207

by blirp on Saturday July 31, 2010 @02:53PM (#33096740) Attached to: Budapest Panorama, at 70GP, Now the World's Largest Digital Photo

Actually, it requires Silverlight. Even with Moonlight installed I get:

Sorry, but Silverlight is not supported on this operating system.
Silverlight works on Windows and on Mac OS (Intel only).

... kind of strange.

M.

Comment So that's where he went! (Score 1) 142

by blirp on Sunday March 07, 2010 @03:29PM (#31392760) Attached to: Herschel Space Observatory Finds Precursors of Life In Orion

God isn't dead, he just moved to Orion!

M.

Submission + - Internet is 40 today (wikipedia.org)

Submitted by blirp on Thursday October 29, 2009 @08:42AM

blirp writes: The first message ever sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. It was sent by UCLA student programmer Charley Kline and supervised by UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock. The message was sent from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The message itself was simply the word "login." The "l" and the "o" transmitted without problem but then the system crashed. Hence, the first message on the ARPANET was "lo". They were able to do the full login about an hour later.
Happy anniversary!

Comment Intelligent falling! (Score 4, Funny) 553

by blirp on Friday August 21, 2009 @08:22AM (#29144985) Attached to: Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves

This is obviously because gravity does not exist, but the observed effect is a result of an higher intelligence pushing things down.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

Comment Virtualization (Score 4, Interesting) 450

by blirp on Saturday August 01, 2009 @09:16AM (#28908129) Attached to: Why Do Hard Drives Keep Getting Bigger?

I have at least 14 virtual machines installed. Most are never used, but as long as I *can* install any OS in a VM, I do, and I check it out for a while. Then, new OS or new version.

I even try different VM's, so there's Ubuntu, Kubuntu and xUbuntu 9.04, Windows XP, Vista and 7 on VirtualBox and on VMWare... No wonder I manage to fill up even a 200GB disk.

And, in addition to video and music, each full branch of our product takes up about 1 gig...

M.

Comment Uninteresting (Score 1) 475

by blirp on Saturday July 25, 2009 @02:40PM (#28820409) Attached to: Apple Dominates "Premium PC" Market

So, if I sell laptops for $10 000, I can get 100% of the Exclusive PC-marked? Woohoo!
We've done this before, it's not very interesting. It could be interesting to look at the profits they make, but the percentage of some arbitrary set point?
Bah!

M.

A Cyber-Attack On an American City 461

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @05:02PM from the if-by-one-day-you-mean-already dept.

Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported. So I decided to change that."

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