Comment Re:Which OpenSSL? (Score 1) 179
Well, I just upgraded, and openssl version says: OpenSSL 1.0.1f 6 Jan 2014.
So, is it vulnerable?
Comment Probably true at large corporations (Score 1) 397
where you have to handle the typical asshole IT manager, who in turn has to handle his asshole manager and so on.
I'm an admin in a small company, above me is my boss, and above him the owner. They just don't give a shit until everything works fine. So no, I don't consider my job extremely stressful, my users are software developers, they seem more stressed to me than I am.
Not posting anonymously, 'caue I don't give a shit either.
Kim Dotcom's 'Mega' Storage Site Arrives 314
An anonymous reader writes "After months of hype riding the coattails of the MegaUpload controversy, Kim Dotcom's new cloud storage site, Mega, is finally going live. After being available to early adopters briefly, it's now open to the public with 50GB of free storage and end-to-end encryption. Several outlets have posted early hands-on reports for the service, including Ars Technica and The Next Web. In an interview, Dotcom spoke about how Mega's encryption scheme benefits both the users and the company: 'The Mega business plan will be a distributed model, with hundreds of companies large and small, around the world, hosting files. A hosting company can be huge or it can own just two or three servers Dotcom says—just as long as it's located outside the U.S. "Each file will be kept with at least two different hosters, [in] at least two different locations," said Dotcom. "That's a great added benefit for us because you can work with the smallest, most unreliable [hosting] companies. It doesn't matter because they can't do anything with that data." More than 1000 hosts answered a request for expressions of interest on the Mega home page. Dotcom says several hundred will be active partners within months.' On top of that, the way it's designed will protect Mega from legal problems: 'It's all about the plausible deniability. Mega doesn't know what you're uploading. ... Mega isn't so much securing your files for you as it is securing itself from your files. If Mega just takes down all the DMCAed links, it will have a 100 percent copyrighted material takedown record as far as its own knowledge is concerned. It literally can't know about cases that aren't actively pointed out to it, complete with file decryption keys.'"
Comment Re:Python VS PHP (Score 4, Informative) 261
What do you mean? Skydrive has a 2GB limit on filesize (just found this out the other day, when trying to store a 3 GB encrypted backup there).
On Dropbox the only limit is your available storage. (I have 10 GB:) )
Skydrive has no differential sync. Change 1 byte in a 2GB file, it uploads the whole thing again. Dropbox breaks down the files in (I think) 4 MB pieces, uploads only what changed.
I'm in no way affiliated with Dropbox, I just think it's more flexible. It's true that Skydrive offers more free storage space though.
Comment Re:To match Windows 8... (Score 1) 249
I have actually installed it in the meantime to try out. It actually has the Windows 8 style start screen, but no real "Metro apps" installed. The new server manager runs on the desktop, but it has Metro-style controls. Horrible.
Comment Re:To match Windows 8... (Score 1) 249
That's a screenshot from Windows server 2008 R2.
Check the image caption: "The old Server Manager on Windows Server 2008 R2, for comparison purposes."
Comment To match Windows 8... (Score 5, Funny) 249
... it will need Metro-style management tools!
Comment Re:tegra 2 (Score 1) 118
Yeah, QuickTime integrates much better with the system, especially on Windows.
Axis, Yahoo's New Browser 194
markjhood2003 writes "Fresh on the heels of Slashdot's discussion of the lack of browser choice on mobile devices comes the announcement of Yahoo's new web browser Axis. According to VentureBeat, the browser runs on iPad and iPhone as a separate standalone browser and as an extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, with support for Android and Windows Phone coming soon. It actually appears to bring some innovation to mobile search, displaying results and queries on the same page for more productive navigation between the two."
Comment Re:Newbie question hour? (Score 2) 247
I think this is the root of the problem here, he chose the wrong filesystem to share between the three OSes.
Sadly there are not too many choices. FAT32 is the only one natively supported by all three, with its well known limitations. He might have been better with NTFS though, using NTFS-3G on Linux and OS X, but that has some performance hit.
There's really no perfect solution for this kind of problem.
Comment Re:Romania ... (Score 2) 140
Yes dumbass, we have Internet. It's dirt cheap and very fast. I pay less than 10 euros for an FTTB connection which goes up to 100 Mbps. At least we are good at something.
Comment Re:Eh? This is how Skype works? (Score 1) 396
Well maybe, but the average user at some point will usually turn it on to get some p2p software working properly, it is easier than setting up the ports manually.
The average home user also doesn't read security blogs or their router's documentation for that matter :)
Comment Re:Eh? This is how Skype works? (Score 1) 396
Not that hard, because the skype client will automatically open ports via upnp if it is possible, and that is the case for most home users. What is harder, find users which are running the skype client almost all the time.
Comment Re:DuckDuckGo (Score 1) 128
Let's hope the same thing will not happen to them.
Comment Oh, maan (Score 1) 174
This guy represents the average romanian "hacker" perfectly. Romanian readers might agree that the cocalar term might also be applicable.
Oh yes, and "shoarec" means mouse. :))
Oh yes, and "shoarec" means mouse.
PS. Yes, I live in Romania.
