Comment Re:hmm (Score 1) 187
fuck.db
Comment A little credit where it's due (Score 2, Informative) 213
Two thirds of the summary are lifted directly from the sdtimes link...
Comment Hey Wordpress... (Score 4, Insightful) 103
Maybe you should stop putting the Wordpress version in meta tags on the page? Or at least make it opt(-in)ional?
Comment Re:I hope this isn't a new trend. (Score 4, Insightful) 81
If you converted Apache into a web browser that might actually be worthy of a story...
Comment Re:I don't think you understood (Score 1) 230
OSX is a multi-user OS. This turns any local account compromise, even an unprivileged account (sshd privsep user? nobody?) into a full compromise of the machine.
Local escalations are always scary on a multi-user machine.
Comment I don't think you understood (Score 5, Informative) 230
What are you, a Linux kernel dev?
The bug lets you write arbitrary, user-controlled bytes into kernel space. The first thing that comes to mind is that you could change the current process' priv structure in memory. Now you're root. Or why not use it to hook syscalls, or do really whatever you want? You're in ring0, go nuts.
It's far more than just a DoS.
Highly-Paid Developers As ScrumMasters? 434
An anonymous reader writes 'At my company, our mis-implementation of Agile includes the employment of some of our most highly-paid, principal engineers as ScrumMasters. This has effectively resulted in a loss of those engineering functions as these engineers now dedicate their time to ScrumMastery. Furthermore, the ScrumMasters either cannot or do not separate their roles as Team Leads with those of ScrumMastery and — worse — seem to be completely unaware that this poor implementation of Agile development is harmful to our velocity. To date, I have chalked this up to poor leadership, a general lack of understanding of Agile, and an inability to change from traditional roles left over from the waterfall development mode. In addition, I have contended that, for a given Scrum Team, the role of ScrumMaster should be filled by someone of lower impact, such as an intern brought in specifically for that purpose. But I would like to put the questions to Slashdotters as to whether they have seen these same transitional difficulties, what the results have been at their respective companies, or whether they just plain disagree with my assertion that principal engineers should not be relegated to the roles of ScrumMasters.'
Comment Re:why would you ... (Score 1) 435
It will vary by provider. After being hit by a hurricane, the telco's landlines did fine -- they were centrally powered, and assuming the lines between you and the CO were fine, your phone worked the whole time. The local Cable provider did not fare so well. They had pole-top boxes that were battery-backed -- initially they put out some generators for those, but the generators had a tendency to... vanish. After a couple days, no phone service.
Cell continued to work fine, although nothing to charge it with
Comment Code is Poetry (Score 3, Interesting) 100
If Code is Poetry then Wordpress is some 15 year old's notebook scribblings on angst, Twilight and Dashboard Confessional.
If you're looking for alternatives that don't have gaping security issues with seemingly every release, check out Serendipity.
Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" 909
The Slashdolt writes "After a stern criticism from Linus, the long-time kernel hacker Alan Cox has decided to walk away as the maintainer of the TTY subsystem of the Linux Kernel, stating '...I've had enough. If you think that problem is easy to fix you fix it. Have fun. I've zapped the tty merge queue so anyone with patches for the tty layer
can send them to the new maintainer.'" A response to a subsequent post on the list makes it quite clear that he is serious.
Comment Re:Not a disease, Tribalism (Score 1) 634
I dislike many things, spinach is one of them, and yet I have a disease because I hate it?
No you don't have a disease. If you join a group of vegetable lovers (my god is this a bad analogy) and spend half your time rambling about how awful $pinach (note 'clever' use of $ instead of S that totally isn't tired by this point...), then you ARE the disease. You're entitled to your opinions, just try to avoid poisoning the community.
I use FOSS because it works the way I want it to not because of a blind Microsoft-spawned rage, and I'm not in the minority here. As proof, what do you suppose the usage stats are for gNewSense vs. Ubuntu?
Futurama Voices Could Be Recast 260
Svippy writes "According to reports surfacing on the Internet, Futurama may be recast. The animated series is due to return next year on Comedy Central, but may not be the same as we once knew it. 'As part of the announcement, the show's producers said stars including West, Sagal and DiMaggio had all signed on to return. Turns out that wasn't true. The stars had all expressed interest in returning. But with the budget for Futurama dramatically slashed, the salary offers came in well below what the thesps were asking.' Phil LaMarr posted 20th Century Fox's request for auditions on his Facebook page. However, some are skeptical about whether it's a real casting call or purely a stunt to reduce the salaries of the voice actors."
Comment Re:It works? (Score 2, Informative) 310
I've never heard that referring to anyone in the BSDs but Theo himself. When was the last time you heard complaints about NetBSD or the FreeBSD core team?
Matt Dillon, before the FreeBSD -> DragonflyBSD split. I liked him, there were plenty of people who felt otherwise though. I don't pay attention to NetBSD.
Why OpenBSD's Release Process Works 310
An anonymous reader writes "Twelve years ago OpenBSD developers started engineering a release process that has resulted in quality software being delivered on a consistent 6 month schedule — 25 times in a row, exactly on the date promised, and with no critical bugs. This on-time delivery process is very different from how corporations manage their product releases and much more in tune with how volunteer driven communities are supposed to function.
Theo de Raadt explains in this presentation how the OpenBSD release process is managed (video) and why it has been such a success."
Comment Re:This is surprising (Score 1) 90
I agree Marvell is garbage but it's not like "high-end" board shops (whoever you think those are) are above including shitty parts. My Intel desktop board (D975XBX2)'s primary SATA controller is Intel, the second group of four is powered by some Marvell piece of shit though... 88SE6145 I think. The 4 drives on the Intel chip have no problems. The 4 drives on the Marvell chip randomly reset and have generally poor performance.
