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Comment Re:why bother? (Score 1) 121

by 6of9 on Thursday September 12, 2013 @01:16AM (#44826997) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Cloud Service On a Budget?

+1

According to my calcs, you've got bandwidth to spare to complete the transfer overnight. If for some reason you do need to do this during the day, find a competent network engineer to implement QoS on your network so your VoIP/pr0n/WoW doesn't suffer.

Submission + - EFF: Trust Twitter -- not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy (networkworld.com)

Submitted by tdog17 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @06:03PM

tdog17 writes: Verizon and MySpace scored a zero out of a possible six stars in a test of how far 18 technology service providers will go to protect user data from government data demands.Twitter and Internet service provider Sonic.net scored a perfect six in the third annual Electronic Frontier Foundation "Who Has Your Back?" report.Apple, AT&T and Yahoo ranked near the bottom, each scoring just one star,

Submission + - High End Graphics Cards Tested at 4K Resolutions 1

Submitted by Vigile on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @05:00PM

Vigile writes: One of the drawbacks to high end graphics has been the lack of low cost and massively available displays with a resolution higher than 1920x1080. Yes, 25x16/25x14 panels are coming down in price but it might be the influx of 4K monitors that makes a splash. PC Perspective purchased a 4K TV for under $1500 recently and set to benchmarking high end graphics cards from AMD and NVIDIA at 3840x2160. For under $500, the Radeon HD 7970 provided the best experience though the GTX Titan was the most powerful single GPU option. At the $1000 price point the GeForce GTX 690 appears to be the card to beat with AMD's continuing problems on CrossFire scaling. PC Perspective has also included YouTube and downloadable 4K video files (~100 mbps) as well as screenshots, in addition to a full suite of benchmarks.

Submission + - FSF certifies Atheros-based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB adapter (fsf.org) 1

Submitted by gnujoshua on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:55PM

gnujoshua writes: You may recall that last Fall, the LulzBot AO-100 3D printer was awarded the use of the Free Software Foundation's Respects Your Freedom certification mark. Today, the FSF announced certification of the ThinkPenguin TPE-N150USB, Wireless N USB Adapter, which uses the Atheros ARAR9271 chip. The FSF's RYF certification requirements are focused on the software (not the hardware designs) of a product, which in this case was primarily the device firmware and ath9k-htc module in the Linux-libre kernel.

The submitter of this story hopes you will overlook the fact that he works for the FSF, but more importantly, that you will notice cool story that is within this story... which is that the firmware for the Atheros AR9271 chipset was released as a result of a small device seller (ThinkPenguin) striking a deal with a large electronic device manufacturer (Qualcomm Atheros) to build a WLAN USB adapter that shipped with 100% free software firmware. This deal was possible largely because two motivated Qualcomm Atheros employees, Adrian Chadd and Luis Rodriguez, made the internal-push to get the firmware released as free software.

Submission + - Does antimatter fall up? Experiment could provide the answer. (arstechnica.com) 3

Submitted by Doug Otto on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:48PM

Doug Otto writes: Scientists at CERN ask the question:
But one interesting question remains unanswered: does antimatter possess antigravity, experiencing a repulsive force when matter experiences attraction? And, even if antimatter experiences plain old gravity, does it behave in exactly the same way as matter does? And if it does fall up, could a dog see it?

Submission + - British Telecom patents SIP .. (theregister.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:46PM

An anonymous reader writes: "VoIP-to-PSTN termination providers and SIP vendors will be watching their inboxes for a lawyer's letter from BT, which has kicked off a taxing licensing program levying a fee on the industry, based on a list of 99 patents .. The British incumbent is offering to allow third parties to use the Session Initiation Protocol under a license agreement published here".

Submission + - Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Pirate Bay Moves To Island Of Sint Maarten (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by coolnumbr12 on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @03:08PM

coolnumbr12 writes: For the second time in a week, The Pirate Bay has found a new home for its popular torrent website. A complaint issued Tuesday by Swedish prosecutors threated the Icelandic domain, forcing the file-sharing pirates to take harbor in the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten with a new .sx domain name.

Comment Re:YAGOD (Yet Another Geek-Only Distro) (Score 1) 89

by 6of9 on Tuesday November 13, 2001 @05:53PM (#2560460) Attached to: Conectiva Linux 7.0 Review

The beauty of this distribution is that it doesn't cater only to geeks, its made for and is very usable/maintainable by mere humans. I was able wean my Mom off her Mac with Conectiva, which isn't that big a deal, but I was also actually able to show her how to maintain her software via Synaptic, which is nothing short of incredible, IMHO. (I'm very used to the "set it up for the friend/family member and then support/upgrade it until the end of the world over a modem" type scenario.)

I've been using Linux since RH4.0 days (not forever, but not since last night, either ;-) and this distribution is the most exciting thing I've seen in a long time.

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