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Comment Re:Oh well ... (Score 4, Insightful) 314

by Kvorg (#47851093) Attached to: GSOC Project Works To Emulate Systemd For OpenBSD

Exactly, it would seem this will simply emulate the behaviour for applications that expect it, sitting on a DBUS interface. Since it now seems the whole systemd mess will not go away, I would assume this is the "correct" approach to manage it.

I can only wish non-RH GNU/Linux distrost adopted the same approach.

Submission + - Mojolicious 5.0: The Very Modern Perl Web Framework (kraih.com) 1

Submitted by Kvorg
Kvorg writes: Back in 2012 Slashdot noticed how a the time of Perl 5.16 the modern Perl projects, including Mojolicious, form a new and expanding movement of a Perl Renaissance. With Perl 5.20 and Mojolicious 5.0, the Modern Perl Renaissance is ever more striking.

Faster, neater, sharper with its asynchronious APIs, Mojolicious is the modern age swiss-army toolchest in your pocket, and it cuts it beyond the web, too. It is extremely flexible with its advanced request routing, plugin system, perl templating and hook API. But its adherence to the modern interfaces and standards and its implementation of advanced features in support tools, DOM and CSS selectors makes it a joy to program with.

Mojolicious with its filosophy of optimized code-generation (think metaprogramming), enabled-by-default support for endcodings and UTF-8, zero dependency deployment with wide support for existing CPAN packages, zero downtime restarts and fully tested implementations remind us of how fun and flexible programming in scripting langauges use to be. Of course, integrated documentation and a very supportive bundled development server don't hurt, either.

The new Perl release with new postfix dereference syntax, subroutine signatures, new slice syntax and numerous optimizations makes it all even more fun.

Comment Slashboxes (Score 1) 60

by Kvorg (#46172623) Attached to: Slashdot BETA Discussion

Also slashboxes, the rss boxes on the right, have been removed. Actually, mostly replaced by ads.

In my book, this means Slashdot can't fulfill the role of a tech news hub anymore.

Please, add and improve on usability of slashboxes instead.
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Saudi Aramco Reveals Cyber Attack Hit 30,000 Workstations 65

Posted by timothy from the running-windows-for-workstations-I-guess dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. The group, calling itself the 'Cutting Sword of Justice,' claimed to have hacked Aramco systems in several countries before sending a virus across 30,000 computers, achieving a 75 percent infection rate of all the company's systems. It refuted suggestions that a nation state was behind the attack."

Submission + - Mojolicious 2.0: Modern Perl for the Web (kraih.com) 3

Submitted by Kvorg
Kvorg writes: After a year of rapid development, newly released version 2.0 of Mojolicious, the new generation real-time Perl web framework written by Sebastian Riedel and many others, offers a versatile and elegant web framework that is as good at web scraping and simple scripts as it is at building complex, interactive real-time applications with HTML5 and websockets. It supports easy 0-dependency installs, excellent developer mode, multiple deployment scenarios, many CPAN modules and plugins.

Feed Engadget: Intel launches desktop and server-class 45nm Penryn processors: a sweet 16 indee (engadget.com)

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Filed under: Desktops

Right on schedule, we've got 16 new server and high-end desktop processors based on Intel's new 45nm manufacturing and Penryn architecture. The procs all deliver more power from jess juice while eliminating lead for a more eco-friendly impact over time. The QX9650 desktop proc receives the spotlight, again, as does the "world-record" setting performance of a 3.2GHz quad-core Xeon 5400 "Stoakley" proc with a 1600MHz front side bus and 12MB cache. Right, the same chip that Apple's rumored to be waiting on for their Mac Pro update. At least some of the new processors will be available today inside pre-built systems -- the rest will arrive within the next 45 days. Bulk pricing begins at $177 for the 1.86Ghz dual-core Xenon on up to $1,279 for the 3.2GHz quad-core mother.

[Via Electronista]

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Submission + - Cosmic 'Bullets' Traced to Galactic Black Holes 1

Submitted by dork
dork writes: The Pierre Auger Observatory announced that active galactic nuclei are the most likely candidates for the source of the highest-energy cosmic rays that hit Earth. Using the Southern Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, the largest cosmic-ray observatory in the world, spanning over more than 3000 square kilometers, they found that the sources of the highest-energy particles are not distributed uniformly across the sky, linking the origins of these "cosmic bullets" to the locations of nearby galaxies, hosting active nuclei in their centers. These galaxies are thought to be powered by supermassive monster black holes that are devouring large amounts of matter. The exact mechanism of how particles get accelerated to energies 100 million times higher than achievable by the most powerful particle accelerators on Earth is still a mystery. A fraction of recorded events is also available through a public online event display.

Comment Gled (Score 2, Interesting) 658

by Kvorg (#19885627) Attached to: Any "Pretty" Code Out There?
Take Gled (http://www.gled.org/ - a recent CVS snapshot is preferable), a distributed C++ application builder with OpenGL/OpenAL/FLTK interfaces, object persistence and excellent extensibility.

It certainly is not pretty the first time you look at it, that is probably true for any unique project, but if you look harder, you will see a strange tangle using ROOT, CINT the C++ interpreter, built-in C++ object dictionaries, elegant and fast network stack for object streaming and synchronization, and strangely effective remote procedure call interface. But my favourite is the auto-building FLTK gui.

While remotely involved, I do enjoy this code immensely.
Try building a new library for it and enjoy GUI-enabled objects in minutes... (There is even a scratch for a TA-like game in one of the demos, not yet playable.)

Which Web Statistics Package Would You Use? 83

Posted by Cliff from the MRTG-anyone dept.
ken-doh asks: "We host about 200 customers web sites on a Windows platform, we want to provide them with a simple web statistics package, to track hits and other useful pieces of information. We have been using Deepmetrix LiveStats XSP which has been perfect for our customers, but since Microsoft purchased it, the product is no more, with support ending next year. So we need to buy a new stats package. Any ideas?"

NASA Struggles To Contact Lost Mars Probe 125

Posted by CowboyNeal from the lost-in-space dept.
David Shiga writes "Just when NASA was about to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft, the probe suddenly lost contact with Earth, New Scientist Space reports. NASA last heard from the MGS probe on November 5, two days before the 10th anniversary of its launch from Earth. The MGS team is not sure yet what the problem is, but a micrometeorite could have jolted the spacecraft's main antenna out of alignment with Earth, or it might have a solar array problem and too little power to talk to Earth as a result. If they can't re-establish communication this week, NASA may try to diagnose the problem by taking pictures of MGS with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The two spacecraft come within about 100 kilometers of each other several times each week."

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