Alrua - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Which company in Denmark? (Score 1) 173

by Alrua on Saturday May 21, 2011 @05:06PM (#36204168) Attached to: A New Approach To Reducing Spam: Go After Credit Processors

DnB Nord. In the paper it's labelled as being in Latvia. It's not so much a well-known Danish bank, as a Norwegian-owned bank that does business in Latvia, with its headquarters in Denmark... From their website:

Bank DnB NORD is owned by Norwegian DnB NOR. The bank, with subsidiaries and branches in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, profiting from the expertise and strengths of DnB NOR.
Bank DnB NORD offers a comprehensive range of quality financial products and services to households as well as businesses. The headquarters of Bank DnB NORD are situated in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Comment Re:why GRUB? (Score 1) 175

by Alrua on Tuesday May 17, 2011 @05:42PM (#36159186) Attached to: GRUB 1.99 Released With Support For ZFS and BtrFS

It's been a while since I compiled a kernel in Gentoo, but as I recall "make install" will get you the kernel image copied to /boot and symliked to /boot/vmlinuz or somesuch. Even backing up the old symlink to /boot/vmlinuz.old.

So all you'd have to do is point the Grub config to /boot/vmlinuz, and you wouldn't have to touch it after a recompile.

Of course there were issues with new "make install"'s overwriting old ones, etc, but as I recall generally it worked quite reliably...

iFixit Tears Down Microsoft's Kinect For Xbox 360 280

Posted by timothy on Friday November 05, 2010 @01:46AM from the will-it-fix dept.

alphadogg writes "Microsoft's new hands-free Kinect game controller is packed with four microphones, two autofocus cameras and a motion detector chip that together make for one heck of a complex toy, according to iFixit's initial teardown of the device. 'We haven't been this excited to get our hands on new hardware since the iPad,' says Kyle Wiens, CEO of the company. 'The way that we interact with computers is (finally) evolving, and Kinect is unlike any hardware we've ever taken apart. In fact, the only thing we've ever taken apart that has anywhere close to this many sensors is Pleo, the dinosaur robot.' iFixit describes Kinect as 'a horizontal bar of sensors connected to a small, motorized pivoting base.' The $150 device that Microsoft put hundreds of millions of dollars of research into can be purchased separately from the Xbox 360 or as part of a bundle. A Prime Sense PS1080-A2 is at the heart of Kinect's motion detection capabilities, as it connects to all of Kinect's sensors and processes images of your game room's color and scope before shooting them over to the Xbox. iFixit couldn't immediately identify all of the chips within the box, so plans to update its teardown."

Comment Re:I read the org post in 1998 (Score 1) 460

by Alrua on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:24AM (#30638260) Attached to: At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

Aha. Well, in that case I will get off your lawn immediately... ;)

Comment Re:I'll believe it when I see it (Score 1) 460

by Alrua on Sunday January 03, 2010 @08:18PM (#30635828) Attached to: At Current Rates, Only a Few More Years' Worth of IPv4 Addresses

It has not yet become a big enough of a problem for the large sections of unused address by universities such as MIT and Harvard to be recalled.

Well actually, from TFA:

There is an old story that Stanford University supposedly has more IPv4 addresses than the entire country of China. At the beginning of the decade, this was true: Stanford had the entire 36.0.0.0/8 class A block, more than twice the less-than 8 million addresses that were given out in China at the time. Times have changed, however. Last year, China passed Japan and took the number-two spot behind the US. This year, organizations in China obtained another 50.67 million addresses for a total of 232 million. And Stanford is one of the very few organizations that has returned a class A block.

Comment Re:nerve signals / muscle signals (Score 4, Informative) 88

by Alrua on Monday November 12, 2007 @10:03AM (#21322615) Attached to: Thought-Controlled Prosthetics

There is some research being done into bidirectional prosthetics. Kevin Warwick from Reading University in the UK has successfully implanted a chip in his own arm allowing him to control an external robotic arm and receive sensory input from it.

Some of Warwick's work is pretty controversial (see e.g. various articles from The Register), but he does do some solid research.

Wikipedia has more details

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