Comment Re:cover up for Kim Jong-il death and being replac (Score 1) 4
If drinking this stuff turns you into a Fearless Leader look-alike, make mine hemlock.
Submission + - Wine 1.2 release candidate announced (winehq.org)
An anonymous reader writes: After evolving over 15 years to get to 1.0, a mere 2 years later and Wine 1.2 is just about here.
There have been many many improvements and plenty of new features added. Listing just a few (doing no justice to the complete change set)
— Many new toolbar icons.
— Support for alpha blending in image lists.
— Much more complete shader assembler.
— Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.
— A number of fixes for video rendering.
— Font anti-aliasing configuration through fontconfig.
— Improved handling of desktop link files.
Win64 support is the milestone that marks this release.
Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here.
There have been many many improvements and plenty of new features added. Listing just a few (doing no justice to the complete change set)
— Many new toolbar icons.
— Support for alpha blending in image lists.
— Much more complete shader assembler.
— Support for Arabic font shaping and joining.
— A number of fixes for video rendering.
— Font anti-aliasing configuration through fontconfig.
— Improved handling of desktop link files.
Win64 support is the milestone that marks this release.
Please test your favorite applications for problems and regressions and let the Wine team know so fixes can be made before the final release. Find the release candidate here.
Supermassive Black Hole Is Thrown Out of Galaxy 167
DarkKnightRadick writes "An undergrad student at the University of Utrecht, Marianne Heida, has found evidence of a supermassive black hole being tossed out of its galaxy. According to the article, the black hole — which has a mass equivalent to one billion suns — is possibly the culmination of two galaxies merging (or colliding, depending on how you like to look at it) and their black holes merging, creating one supermassive beast. The black hole was found using the Chandra Source Catalog (from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory). The direction of the expulsion is also possibly indicative of the direction of rotation of the two black holes as they circled each other before merging."
Comment Re:Nuke blast in Gulf (Score 1) 799
I'm all set for the pre-cooked shrimp dinner of a lifetime.
Comment LISA - deja vu?? (Score 0) 109
As I recall, the last LISA was [also] a grossly overpriced failure.
Comment The mouse that roared (Score 1) 2
'JLK' is presumably a citizen of the UK and should be fully aware that he enjoys no constitutional rights remotely like those he may read about on this side of The Pond. Still, I wonder how different this story might be if 'JLK' were a U.S. citizen stopping off in the UK on his way home from a vacation in France. I'd like to think if I were in that situation I'd do exactly what 'JLK' is doing, knowing I'd have the book deal of the decade waiting for me when I'm freed.
Serious Apache Exploit Discovered 160
bennyboy64 writes "An IT security company has discovered a serious exploit in Apache's HTTP web server, which could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control of a database. ZDNet reports the vulnerability exists in Apache's core mod_isapi module. By exploiting the module, an attacker could remotely gain system privileges that would compromise data security. Users of Apache 2.2.14 and earlier are advised to upgrade to Apache 2.2.15, which fixes the exploit."
Note: according to the advisory, this exploit is exclusive to Windows.
Comment They know not what they do... (Score 1) 1
In 1973 my grandmother was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The chemotherapies we have today were unknown back then. Following surgery to remove the visible parts of the cancer she was subjected to cobalt radiation therapy to kill or suppress the rest. I was away at college during her treatment, but at my grandmother's funeral I remember my mother bitterly saying through her tears that it wasn't the cancer that killed her but the radiation "treatments".
Comment Re:I have to say... (Score 1) 215
Ahem... Perhaps a glorious year to *become* a Red Hat stockholder. 2008 and 2001, on the other hand, were horrible.
What I can't figure out is why it dropped a buck and a half today, unless one of the corporate bigwigs dumped a ton of it.
Comment Wrong doorbell (Score 1) 4
Why are you asking this question on
Comment Re:Local uniqueness is all that's required (Score 1) 4
Nope. Consider the scope requirements for ARP/RARP. Neither is routable, and they don't have to be. Similarly, consider non-routable IP addresses (e.g. 192.168.xxx.xxx) that are mapped to routable (global) IP addresses using NAT. Those are often duplicated in separate domains without causing conflicts. As long as the global IP address that a non-routable IP address or MAC address maps to is unique, that's all that's required.
Comment Local uniqueness is all that's required (Score 1) 4
MAC addresses need only be unique in the local Layer 2 network. A distant Layer 2 is not visible to a local Layer 2.
Comment I can name two (Score 1) 2
Ruggedized tablets with smartcard readers and high contrast displays visible in strong sunlight would be great for USAF flight line maintainers as replacements for Panasonic Toughbooks. Tablets without USB or other I/O ports would be very useful by medical practitioners in highly mobile HIPAA environments like hospitals and EMT use.
Comment Who? (Score 1) 139
Captain Dunsel comes to mind...
Comment What's next? (Score 1) 1
Duke Nukem Forever ???
