"In a separate development, The Times of India reports that the founder of Lxlabs, K T Ligesh, was found dead at his home after hanging himself. It is not known whether Ligesh's death is in any way related to the attacks on HyperVM and Kloxo, or what the future for Lxlabs may be."
Source: http://www.h-online.com/security/UK-Web-host-falls-victim-to-attack--/news/113483
Since no one so far cared to provide a link to the actual Chromium Linux builds, here it is:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-linux/
Yes, it looks like a troll, nothing to do with Microsoft or ASUS whatsoever.
If you google rdcpro@hotmail.com email address from the WHOIS record of that domain, you'll find this:
"I am an independant web and application developer, specializing in Content Management and Collaboration. My company, CollaborationPeople, Inc. serves clients in Seattle, Washington and the greater Puget Sound Region, although I have clients as far away as Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, CA and Portland, Or."
Regards,
Mike Sharp
rdcpro@hotmail.com"
http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_1301691.html
And also this site:
http://rdcpro.com/
Wait a minute, are you implying that the US attacked Afghanistan to spur the stalled production of opium? I can't see other parallels to the Opium wars here.
Frankly I indeed wanted to point out a possible involvement of the US in the flourishing Afghanistan drug business, but you went even further than that!
On another note, I wouldn't exactly call heroin a "recreational" drug.
Interesting that while US is trying to do something about Mexican drug smuggling (probably because it borders with US), they turn the blind eye (or even worse) to the Afghanistan drug production, which floods the Europe with locally-produced opium. It is estimated that Afghanistan is accountable for more than 90% of world's opium production, and most of it goes to the Europe.
It is also worth to note that before the US invasion of Afghanistan, Taliban was able to contain the problem - the drug production declined some 94% during its reign.
But ever since the fall of Taliban regime, opium production has continued to rise each year at an alarming rate:
"The increase in opium production in Afghanistan was from 185 metric tons in 2001 to 6,100 metric tons in 2006." http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/drugs-market.htm
One has to wonder about the US involvement in this:
"Who benefits from the Afghan Opium Trade?" http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=3294
Evidence suggests first zombie Mac botnet is active: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/04/evidence-suggests-first-zombie-mac-botnet-is-active.ars
They also do not count non-HTTP servers:
The survey does not attempt to count back-end servers (application or database servers) or servers other than web (HTTP) servers.
One more thing: some hosting companies provide private network only servers, not visible outside of the virtual private network assigned to the customer. Perfect for the backend.
Softlayer does that, for example.
Alas - Lenin was in Geneva in 1908. Hardly Western Russia, or even Eastern Europe.
BTW, I think the GP means that if the explosion was off a few hours, it would have happened almost exactly over St. Petersburg - a capital of Russia back then.
It was shown back in 1966 that the butterfly shape of the fallen trees may be caused by the several explosions combined with the ballistic wave.
The Russian researchers built a model of the site (1:10000), with explosion modeled by an explosive cord with an explosive charge at the end. The forest model was built from the tiny flexible wires with plastic crowns.
They have shown that placing the cord at some inclination angle (close to 30 degrees) the impact shape was clearly resembling the butterfly shape of Tunguska event.
The abstract (in Russian) is here:
http://tunguska.tsc.ru/ru/science/conf/1966/zotkin/
Maybe you mean Russian Tzar?
You see, Lenin came to power only in late 1917...
I guess 50% of slashdot visitors do not even finish the summary to begin with
Even less are going to the linked source. And watching the video? Unlikely!
Here's "lost in translation" explanation from linked article comments:
http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/36591
Yes it does, and surprisingly, so do many many more Sony products:
http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/search.html
Seeing that more than two dozen recent Sony cameras already run Linux ( http://www.sony.net/Products/Linux/Download/category14.html ), I find this new piece quite obsolete.
You probably mean CHDK for Canon Powershot series cameras, which isn't firmware per se - it's a firmware addon, and you don't flash it into the camera, but load it separately from the inserted flash card. From here: http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
CHDK does not replace the original firmware, and does not make any permanent changes to the camera. Instead, it is loaded from the SD card, either at startup or using the built in menu.
You are correct that it's open source indeed.
I'm using it on Powershot A650 and its feature set is amazing. The killer feature is probably recording RAW files, but there are many many more cool things to explore.
Just imagine the things possible to achieve with such camera if the firmware and specifications were open.
A notebook with Fedora 8 (2.6.26.6-49_1.cubbi_tuxonice.fc8) has survived the New Year leap.
Here's a followup to this Slashdot story:
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/01/post-leap-seconds/
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
