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Comment Re:ClearCase again (Score 1) 150

I originally thought much as you do, that it was an attempt to bring Git in line with the old centralized server concept, but then I researched it a little more. Git, as it currently stands, is incredibly slow on very large repos. You might argue that the problem is that the repo is too large, but the solution to that problem frequently requires a Tardis.
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New Ebola Case Emerges In Sierra Leone (bbc.com) 19

Posted by Soulskill from the not-over-yet dept.
An anonymous reader writes: Just hours after the World Health Organization declared an end to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, officials from Sierra Leone confirmed a death from the virus. The country was declared free of Ebola on November 7. "Ebola test center spokesman Sidi Yahya Tunis told the BBC that the patient had died in the Tonkolili district. He had traveled there from Kambia, close to the border with Guinea." WHO was quick to put out another press release saying there is an ongoing risk of flareups, and local governments and medical workers need to remain vigilant.
Earth

Kyoto Protocol Renewal Efforts Struggling 393

Posted by Soulskill from the fizzle-sounds-better-than-countered-upon-resolution dept.
Hugh Pickens writes "Economics trumps the environment. The emission targets set by the Kyoto Protocol will expire next year, and negotiators are fighting to keep UN climate talks on track while efforts to save the Euro push the struggle to save the planet down the priority list. In the United States, seen as the biggest single obstacle to a new global climate deal, academic opinion says an 'iron law' means economics trumps the environment in times of crisis. Meanwhile, some leading voices on climate science have suggested the Kyoto Protocol be put to pasture, since clinging to hopes of a renewal of that agreement does more harm than good in achieving meaningful dialogue on how to fight climate change. When the agreement was negotiated in the 1990s, the world was more clearly divided into 'rich and poor' countries. However, China and India have seen unexpectedly strong economic growth since then, and currently make up 58 per cent of global emissions. 'Against this backdrop, it is no surprise that countries such as Japan, Canada and Russia adamantly refuse to assume new binding targets unless the other major economies at present outside Kyoto's reach — most notably, the United States and China — do so as well,' writes Elliot Diringer, executive vice-president of the U.S.-based Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. 'And for now, the odds of that happening are nil.'"
Security

Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? 159

Posted by timothy from the lonely-job dept.
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that repairs specialty devices that have an embedded Mini-ATX motherboard without a CD-ROM drive and run Windows XP Home. And while the USB flash drives we insert into them have a physical write-protect tab, we still encounter a (rather annoying) display dialog from malware/viruses to remove the write-protect so the malware can infect the flash drive. We don't remove the write-protect, obviously, but would like to offer our customers the option of removing the malware/virus without having to install any software. We would rather not install/uninstall antivirus software even for one-time use, due to various licensing issues, nor do we want to connect to the Internet to use web-based online scanners. Is there any stand-alone anti-virus/anti-malware software for Windows that can be run directly from the write-protected flash drive itself?"

Comment Re:Computing Comes Full Circle (Score 3, Interesting) 34

by A. Craig West (#7458764) Attached to: Computer-Controlled Embroidery Machines?
Those Jacquard Looms are REALLY impressive pieces of machinery. Some of my customers still use them. They tend to have a paper tape that is probably 30cm across (I suspect exactly a foot, in primitive units...) and the machine reads the tape mechanically with a set of metal fingers to detect the holes in the tape. I have seen some of these equipped with a slightly more modern computer interface where the machine has a hardware device fitted which emulates the paper tape, but is connected to a computer.

More modern industrial embroidery machines have a standard 1" paper tape, although even those are getting hard to find. Most embroidery machines now caught up to double-density 3.5" floppy disks. The files on the disk are usually just a byte-dump of the contents of one of the paper tapes, though.

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