Comment Oblig. (Score 0) 100
Hey! I can see my house from here!
Comment Re:Why.... (Score 2) 543
But it can be mitigated by using external USB drives and the 'dd' command, which allows an entire file system to be stored as an image file and then restored or even mounted temporarily.
No need to use 'dd' as you can just take a tar-ball of one filesystem. That way you don't waste space on storing (and more importantly moving) the garbage in unallocated space. There's nothing special about any of it, except whatever the bootloader (ie. grub hopefully) requires. You can use some Live ISO (usually the same one you used to copy the data over) to chroot into the system once the data is copied over and tell grub to reinstall itself (update-grub). The only other tweak required is patching new UUIDs to
Comment Done. (Score 1) 300
I've done this at a small (~70 room) hotel/conference center with three Linksys WRTG54Ls, one master and two repeaters plus three sets of high gain antennas.
Comment Versioning. (Score 2) 237
I think some hacker redefined Mozilla's $version as an INT.
Comment You say tomato... (Score 1) 14
Tomatoes, the other red meat.
Comment Re:Spacecraft (Score 1) 722
Wonky Print Server: Ariane5 (French rocket which blew up)
54 sucessful launches, two failures (and two partial failures) is "blowing up" now? Hm.
Comment Mirror (Score 1) 21
I'd be happy to mirror it.
Comment Re:It's obvious U R A troll, gmhowell (U said it) (Score 1) 21
This quote from you says it all about you though, scumbag:
"I do whatever amuses me at the moment. Sometimes that is trolling. As far as AC? I only do that to avoid undoing moderations." - by gmhowell (26755) on Wednesday April 20, @12:49AM (#35877174) Homepage
Your own words prove to us that you're online trash gmhowell, you scumbag troll.
After running the above through a logic analyzer, this is what remains:
"I'm a scumbag troll, posting AC to avoid undoing moderations, then I project my feeble mind unto others to feel superior because it floats my little boat.
Interesting. How does that make you feel?
Comment Re:Just one exchange (Score 1) 476
Ever heard the word "arbitrage"?
Of course. But to be effective, I'd have to be able to move USD quickly between the markets, not just bitcoins. Or deposit them there beforehand. This time, I was way too late to benefit from the swings.
Comment Just one exchange (Score 2) 476
Even though MtGox is the largest BTC exchange, this dip in value seems to have affected only that one exchange. Tradehill for example was completely unaffected. Bitcoin is still a pretty small currency so these kind of events should be expected until more people buy into it to create stability. If nothing else, it may attract daytraders.
Submission + - Bitcoin may be an economic singularity (blogspot.com)
richie2000 writes: "If the growth of bitcoin continues exponentially like most widely useful technologies, it will only be on the order of years—not centuries, not even decades, but individual years—before virtually everyone is using it.
The standard term for such a rapid change is a “singularity.”
Robin Hanson predicted an economic singularity.
Bitcoin, as I will argue, is that singularity."
The standard term for such a rapid change is a “singularity.”
Robin Hanson predicted an economic singularity.
Bitcoin, as I will argue, is that singularity."
Submission + - Steve Jobs proposes spaceship campus in Cupertino (geek.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Yesterday, Steve Jobs attended a city council meeting in Cupertino with a proposal to expand Apple‘s campus by putting 12,000 people in one new building.
While Jobs looked a little frail at the stand, he was on form to give a well-planned presentation (keynote?) trying to convince Cupertino to let him build a brand new campus down the road from Apple’s existing headquarters. The land is around 150 acres and used to belong to Hewlett-Packard. But Apple bought it as HP downsized and has had architects come up with a rather futuristic, spaceship-like building.
As you can see from the drawings in the video, this is a rather unique and special building. Apple has used its growing expertise in glass production to create a structure with no flat surfaces. It is one big curve. Also commendable is the fact the site will have its vegetation increased from 20% to 80% even though a huge building is being added.
The reason for the new building proposal is because Apple is growing fast. The current campus can hold 2,600 people, but Apple has gone way beyond that and rents several buildings in the surrounding area. The company wants and needs that to change that situation, but they also want to stay in Cupertino, so this new campus is the solution.
While Jobs looked a little frail at the stand, he was on form to give a well-planned presentation (keynote?) trying to convince Cupertino to let him build a brand new campus down the road from Apple’s existing headquarters. The land is around 150 acres and used to belong to Hewlett-Packard. But Apple bought it as HP downsized and has had architects come up with a rather futuristic, spaceship-like building.
As you can see from the drawings in the video, this is a rather unique and special building. Apple has used its growing expertise in glass production to create a structure with no flat surfaces. It is one big curve. Also commendable is the fact the site will have its vegetation increased from 20% to 80% even though a huge building is being added.
The reason for the new building proposal is because Apple is growing fast. The current campus can hold 2,600 people, but Apple has gone way beyond that and rents several buildings in the surrounding area. The company wants and needs that to change that situation, but they also want to stay in Cupertino, so this new campus is the solution.
Comment Re:"My" Password? (Score 1) 495
The MPAA and RIAA would beg to differ. they apparently own both laws and congressmen.
Comment Re:BitCoin (Score 1) 11
:-D I did put a smiley in there, you know.
That said, I think BitCoin (or another decentralized cryptocurrency) has a bright future for many uses, but for the same reasons Venezuela has problems selling oil in Euros when almost all others use dollars, BitCoin isn't right for your needs.
Comment BitCoin (Score 1) 11
How about doing it like Venezuela and ditching the dollar? http://www.weusecoins.com/
