Glomek - Slashdot User

Comment Re:How many ways are there to do simple things? (Score 1) 694

by Glomek on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:49AM (#31910162) Attached to: Why Computer Science Students Cheat

I can't recall ever seeing a real false positive.

How would you know? It would look just like a real positive. The student would claim innocence, and you would believe they were lying.

Comment Don't outsource it! (Score 1) 730

by Glomek on Monday August 17, 2009 @12:41AM (#29088519) Attached to: Why Should I Trust My Network Administrator?

Your network and system administrators need to be under your control. It's that simple. You need to be able to fire them and to prosecute them as individuals in the event of wrongdoing. Oursourcing reduces your control over the people doing the work. In the cases of network and system administration, it gives you far too little control over the individual people who are acting. Bite the bullet and accept the fact that it's worth paying to keep these vital services in house and under full local control.

Comment Tell them to Fuck themselves... (Score 1) 654

by Glomek on Monday October 06, 2008 @09:06AM (#25272077) Attached to: Getting Paid To Abandon an Open Source Project?

...with a broken glass bottle.. and then sit in a pool of Tabasco sauce.

Submission + - Dell to offer more Linux PCs

Submitted by

head_dunce

on Thursday July 26, 2007 @05:07PM

head_dunce writes: "According to this article, Mark Shuttleworth from the Ubuntu camp says Dell is seeing a demand for the Linux based PC and, "There are additional offerings in the pipeline."

I'm starting to see flashbacks of the days when Microsoft partnered up with IBM to gain control of the desktop market. Will other Linux flavors find there way to the likes of Lenovo or HP, etc, or will Ubuntu claim the desktop market working with other PC manufacturers?"

Submission + - Historical Look At First Linux Kernel (kerneltrap.org)

Submitted by LinuxFan on Thursday July 26, 2007 @04:59PM

LinuxFan writes: KernelTrap has a fascinating article about the first Linux kernel, version 0.01, complete with source code and photos of Linus Torvalds as a young man attending the University of Helsinki. Torvalds originally planned to call the kernel "Freax", and in his first announcement noted, "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones." He also stressed that the kernel was very much tied to the i386 processor, "simply, I'd say that porting is impossible." Humble beginnings.

Submission + - Michael Dell using Ubuntu Linux at home

Submitted by whoever57 on Wednesday April 18, 2007 @06:41PM

whoever57 writes: At the moment, Michael Dell is using a Precision M90 laptop loaded with Ubuntu Linux (7.04 — Feisty Fawn). It also has Openoffice.org and Evolution.

Submission + - Busy Lives Prompt Speedier Board Games

Submitted by BusylikeBum on Thursday March 29, 2007 @06:17PM

BusylikeBum writes: Michelle Hastings admits she's sometimes cheated to get through a game of Candy Land with her 5-year-old daughter, Campbell. The board game can take just too long, she said. Disney Monopoly is another big offender. "A game like that, it could literally take you days," said Hastings, of Holliston, Mass. "A lot of times, you don't play games because they take so long." Board game makers are heeding pleas of parents like Hastings and introducing games tailored to busy lives and shorter attention spans that take only about 20 minutes to play.

Submission + - Why DRM Cannot Open Up New Business Models

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 02, 2007 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Techdirt has a cool post up that doesn't just explain why DRM is bad, but gives a really interesting economic explanation for why DRM cannot create successful new business models. Since the RIAA and MPAA keep insisting that DRM will create new business models, it's useful to see an argument for why that's basically impossible.

Submission + - Video on Demand from the public library

Submitted by

ye oulde library lover

on Tuesday February 06, 2007 @09:44PM

ye oulde library lover writes: "In light of the recent story about Wal-Mart and movies on demand, readers should know there is a FREE service available from some public libraries that lets you download movies and tv shows. The service is just beginning, so selection is pretty mediocre, but the sponsors, Recorded Books and PermissionTV, make some big promises. If your library ponies up to the top service, you will be able to download movies on the same day as their dvd release! All you need is a library card. You can see one of the early adopters — Half Hollow Hills Community Library in the library's blog. Look for MyLibraryDV."

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