kinko - Slashdot User

Comment Re:240/4 subnets (Score 1) 312

by kinko on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @04:42AM (#35065142) Attached to: Last Available IPv4 Blocks Allocated

> Isn't it a bit idiotic to hard code refusal to route addresses reserved for "future use"?

they were reserved for multicast, back when everyone thought TV/movies would be distributed through the web. Multicast (1 server stream sending to lots of clients) never really took off though....

It's not so much a "refusal to route" to them as they are handled specially, and aren't designed to be routed as normal. Lots of home routers (eg my WRT54) will occasionally send out multicast broadcast packets onto the LAN, which you can see with a network capture tool.

Submission + - ex-HP CEO Hurd Pays $14 Million Oracle Pledge Fee

Submitted by theodp on Monday September 20, 2010 @11:40PM

theodp writes: Valleywag reports that ousted HP CEO Mark Hurd is paying dearly to roll with Oracle, giving up millions of dollars to settle the HP lawsuit that threatened to prevent him from working with his tennis pal Larry Ellison. Hurd will forfeit about 345,000 restricted HP shares that he was given as part of his HP exit package, which had a market value of $13.6 million Monday. In addition to announcing the truce against the backdrop of Oracle's OpenWorld conference, HP and Oracle also reaffirmed their vows to each other.

Comment Re:How far should social responsibility reach? (Score 1) 144

by kinko on Thursday January 28, 2010 @01:51AM (#30930028) Attached to: Twitter Developing Technology To Thwart Censorship

just to pick nits, I think the Sea Shepard vessels are careful not to break any Australian or New Zealand laws when they are in Australian or New Zealand waters. All the "action" happens in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica.

They're definitely not following the established "rules" of the sea though, in terms of who has right-of-way...

Comment Re:Naming (Score 4, Informative) 305

by kinko on Monday January 25, 2010 @06:11AM (#30887804) Attached to: NZ School Goes Open Source Amid Microsoft Mandate

"Koha" is a Maori word meaning gift/donation. The Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand, so it's a pretty appropriate name for a FOSS library catalogue system written in NZ for anyone to use freely :)

PS Slashdot ate my "a macron" character - "Maori" should have a "-" over the "a".

Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday December 03, 2009 @11:04AM from the download-compile-reboot-repeat dept.

diegocg writes "Linus Torvalds has officially released the version 2.6.32 of the Linux kernel. New features include virtualization memory de-duplication, a rewrite of the writeback code faster and more scalable, many important Btrfs improvements and speedups, ATI R600/R700 3D and KMS support and other graphic improvements, a CFQ low latency mode, tracing improvements including a 'perf timechart' tool that tries to be a better bootchart, soft limits in the memory controller, support for the S+Core architecture, support for Intel Moorestown and its new firmware interface, run-time power management support, and many other improvements and new drivers. See the full changelog for more details."

Submission + - netboot.me: Turning 'netboot' into 'internetboot' (netboot.me)

Submitted by

Nick Johnson

on Wednesday August 26, 2009 @04:53PM

Nick Johnson writes: "Netboot.me takes regular netbooting and makes it a whole lot more versatile — now, you can netboot directly into the installers for many popular linux distros, as well as system tools and even live linux distributions, all directly over the Internet, and without any local configuration required!

All that's required to set up netboot.me is a spare writable CD, USB key, or floppy disk to write a small (less than 1MB) disk image to. Alternately, determined geeks can change their DHCP server to allow computers to netboot directly. Once you've done that, booting off the device on any computer with wired ethernet (wifi is a work in progress) will automatically cause the bootloader to download the current version of the menu from netboot.me, which you can then find the boot image you want to boot from. Selecting it causes the boot image to be downloaded and booted immediately.

Best of all, netboot.me lets you add your own boot configurations; once you've tested them, and if they're of general interest, you can file a bug to have them included in the menu system. netboot.me is capable of booting any linux kernel and any other standard boot image, as well as disk images and CD images, thanks to syslinux's memdisk.

The getting started and help pages have many more details on how to use netboot.me, and how to contribute to it. The more boot images in the system the better, so contributions are much appreciated."

Comment Re:Does Brother Make Any Label Printers? (Score 2, Informative) 188

by kinko on Thursday July 30, 2009 @10:28PM (#28891705) Attached to: Linux-Friendly Label Printer Recomendations?

Yes, we use the Brother P-Touch QL-550. It works fine with CUPS but we had to install a 3rd party (open source) driver for it that converts the postscript input from applications into the correct raster format for the printer.

Driver here: http://etc.nkadesign.com/Printers/QL550LabelPrinterCUPS. Brother also release a binary-only driver, but why use that when an open source one works....

DHCP Management Across a Diversified Network? 100

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 17, 2009 @05:46PM from the send-that-packet-that-way dept.

ET Admin writes "I work for a small Wireless ISP, where we are deploying new network hardware to allow for growth and contain broadcast traffic. All routing/switching equipment is Cisco. We use Linux stand-alone boxes and VMs (running on Win 2003 boxes). We have decided on a hybrid VLAN layout where we have certain VLANs limited by location, and other VLANs that are global across the network. And I want DHCP served across it all. Does anyone have experience with IPAM software that handles multiple DHCP servers? Our network is small so spending a couple grand is overkill at this point. Any recomendations to help me decide between serving DHCP from the Nix boxes, or from the Cisco gear? Knowing that a single DHCP server will handle from 100-500 hosts."

Submission + - Unusual PC upgrades (pcmag.com)

Submitted by

prostoalex

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @02:14AM

prostoalex writes: "For holiday season PC Magazine runs a list of somewhat unusual PC upgrades. They recommend Thermaltake MediaLAB A2331 for turning any PC into a media center, M-Audio FireWire 410 for basic stereo recording, Sunbeam 20 in 1 Superior Panel for increased connectivity and extra ports, Highpoint RocketRAID 2302 for extra eSATA ports and RAID backup, as well as a few other products. Any unusual upgrades Slashdot readers would recommend?"

Submission + - EVE Online update corrupts Windows installations

Submitted by on Thursday December 06, 2007 @01:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: The recent EVE Online expansion, Trinity, appears to have an unbelievably nasty bug that makes one question whether the publisher, CCP, has any QA at all; a typo in the patch results in C:\boot.ini being deleted. The patcher adds an extra backslash onto a delete command for "boot.ini" resulting in "\boot.ini", which if the game is installed on C: refers to Windows' boot.ini file. Hundreds of players have reported their computers being unable to boot, and tens of thousands more will likely encounter the same problem when they attempt to turn on their computer tomorrow. Oops?

Submission + - EVE Online Expansion Renders Computers Unbootable

Submitted by

Chuu

on Thursday December 06, 2007 @01:01AM

Chuu writes: "Today EVE Online launched a major expansion named 'Trinity' which included a major engine overhaul. The problem is that because of a bug in the install script, the graphics add-on deletes the system's boot.ini file which renders the system unbootable. There is no official word from CCP about this yet, however many large alliances in game and individuals in the official forums have confirmed the bug. Some discussion about the bug and what to do if effected is here."

Submission + - Google disables mass Gmail accounts

Submitted by bconway on Thursday December 06, 2007 @12:47AM

bconway writes: Within the past few hours, Google has mass disabled Gmail accounts for unknown reasons. The support forum quickly filled up with hundreds of posts from disabled users. Even worse than not being able to log in and access mail, email sent to these accounts is being bounced. Google has not responded at this time.

Submission + - OpenArena 0.70 Now Available

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 04, 2007 @12:29AM

An anonymous reader writes: OpenArena is a project designed to provide a free Quake 3 experience. While the source for Quake 3 is free, the data is not so OpenArena is making all new Q3A compatible data to go with an upgraded engine. Many existing Q3A maps and mods already work fine but the project needs your support. 0.70 is available for Windows, Linux and MacOSX and is mirrored at many popular sites. Try it out, and contribute if you can.

Submission + - Opalescent plastic could be both pretty and handy

Submitted by AnotherDaveB on Saturday August 04, 2007 @12:19AM

AnotherDaveB writes: A group of researchers from the University of Southampton, in England, and the German Plastics Institute in Darmstadt, led by Jeremy Baumberg, have discovered how to create a plastic with th Opal's iridescent properties. Their invention could be used to make a sparkling substitute for paint, banknotes that are hard to counterfeit and chemical sensors that can act as visible sell-by dates.

Submission + - Id Goes Full Steam Ahead

Submitted by Dr. Eggman on Friday August 03, 2007 @07:57PM

Dr. Eggman writes: Today, quite wisper and rumors became fact as two FPS giants, Id and Valve joined forces to bring Id games back catalog to Valve's Steam. This marks a huge influx of old classics as well as opening up the possibility of bringing some of the newest, most anticipated Id games to Steam. Expect to hear more from Valve's appearance at Quakecon soon.

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