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Linux

Quick Boot Linux Hopes To Win Over Windows Users 440

Al writes "A company called Presto hopes to exploit the painful amount of time it takes for Windows computers to start up by offering a streamlined version of Linux that boots in just seconds. Presto's distro comes with Firefox, Skype and other goodies pre-installed and the company has also created an app store so that users can install only what they really need. The software was demonstrated at this year's Demo conference in Palm Desert, CA. Interestingly, the company barely mentions the name Linux on its website. Is this a clever stealth-marketing ploy for converting Windows users to Linux?"
Microsoft

Microsoft and Red Hat Team Up On Virtualization 168

mjasay writes "For years Microsoft has insisted that open-source vendors acknowledge its patent portfolio as a precursor to interoperability discussions. Today, Microsoft shed that charade and announced an interoperability alliance with Red Hat for virtualization. The nuts-and-bolts of the agreement are somewhat pedantic, providing for Red Hat to validate Windows Server guests to be supported on Red Hat Enterprise virtualization technologies, and other technical support details. But the real crux of the agreement is what isn't there: patents. Red Hat has long held that open standards and open APIs are the key to interoperability, even as Microsoft insisted patents play a critical role in working together, and got Novell to buy in. Today, Red Hat's vision seems to have won out with an interoperability deal heavy on technical integration and light on lawyers."
Power

Energy Star Program Needs an Overhaul 306

Martin Hellman writes "DeviceGuru.com ran my piece raising questions about the EPA's Energy Star program. For example, an Energy Star compliant TV that claims to draw 0.1 watts in sleep mode appears to do that — but only seems to sleep about 25% of the time that it is 'off.' The other 75% of the time it draws about 20 watts, for an effective sleep power draw from the user's perspective that is 150 times what the manufacturer claims. Based on the observations described, it is also questionable how many PC's really are sleeping when their screens are blank, even if the user has turned sleep mode on. Given the billions of dollars and tons of CO2 that are at stake, this situation demands more attention."
Apple

Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote 371

Many readers including thermopile wrote in about Apple withdrawing from Macworld Expo after this year. The other bad news for Apple fans is that Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote in 3 weeks — we may have seen his last "one more thing." Apple VP Phil Schiller will be doing the honors. He's "an Apple executive notably lacking in Jobs's showmanship and star power," according to the Fortune blogger. Apple's press release states that "trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers." While this may be true, the keynote addresses have been a critical venue for major new product announcements. Apple's stock is taking a 6% hit in after-hours trading, possibly on concerns about Jobs's health. Reader Harry has gathered together YouTube clips from most of the Macworld keynotes Jobs given since 1997.
Debian

Ubuntu 6.06 'Dapper Drake' Released 435

BBSeXoDuS writes "Ubuntu Dapper Drake has been finally been released. Run on over to the download site while it's still hot. From the announcement: 'Ubuntu 6.06 LTS introduces functionality that simplifies common Linux server deployment processes. For system administrators setting up large numbers of web, mail and related servers, Ubuntu 6.06 LTS offers the fastest and most consistent path to deployment, combined with the availability of global commercial support where needed.' "
Announcements

Journal Journal: 116 pics of assorted ladies 8

Just to show that I can use curl as well as wget: of course, now you can have fun writing it in perl for a change :-)

#!/bin/bash

User Journal

Journal Journal: Okay friends, here's some more 5

And this time NO TYPOS (I hope).

#!/usr/bin/perl

# sample url http://www.hardloveart.com/34/inf8.0015.jpg
for ($i = 1; $i <=8; $i++) {
for ($j = 1; $j <= 15; $j++) {
if ($j < 10) {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/000$j.jpg -w4";
} else {
$cmd = "wget www.hardloveart.com/34/inf$i/00$j.jpg -w4";
}
`$cmd`;
}
}

About 7 megs of pix, 120 images.

Announcements

Journal Journal: I'm B-A-A-A-C-K !!! 4

Corrected Script - transposed an el and a one" (thanks to Nucleardog for pointing out I made a fuckup). Corrected script below :-)

Sorry for the hiatus (holidays, stupid dog that eats EVERYTHING, work, etc., but I'm back, and here we go with another simple script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$site="www.met-art.com";
$dir= "g1";
$file="met-art_fl_00";
$ext=".jpg -w 4";

Anime

Journal Journal: Anime Pr0n?! and a (bigotted racist) new foe ... 22

Well, I guess it had to happen - Anime porn.

And thanks and welcome to the 25 people who friended Porn Whitelist today :-) (guess I'll have to come up with something special for the 100th sooner than I would have thought ... darn)

So, here's a script to download more pix.

Upgrades

Journal Journal: Close enough - heres 11,000 pix 4

Posted under "Upgrades", so you can (ahem) upgrade your collection.

Yesterday I wrote that if we got this journal up to 50 people friending it, I'd post a script that get a decent chunk of pr0n.

Well, 47 friends/fans is close enough among friends so:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=105;$i<=859;$i++) {
`wget -r www.pornodonkey.com/$i/1176.html`
}

User Journal

Journal Journal: Some curl 3

As promised, I've found something fairly large (several hundred meg - thousands of pix, both thumbnails and full-sized) for when we've got 50 people who have friended this blog. In the meantime, here's some quickie curl commands to get 5 meg of porn (or you can convert it to wget as an exercise for the reader).

curl http://www.nikkygalore.com/w200412/d10-2/pics/pp[01-20].jpg -o "nikkygalore.com.#1.jpg"

X

Journal Journal: 47 meg of ... um ... something. 1

I'm not going to comment on what this is - it's not up to me to judge. That's why it's filed under "X".

Here's the perl script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

for ($i=1; $i <=48; $i++) {
for ($j=1; $j <=16; $j++) {
$url = "www.fetishhub.net/mip/gal";
if($i<10) {$url = $url . '0'; }
$url = $url . $i . '/big_';
if ($j<10) {$url = $url . '0'; }
$url = $url . $j . '.jpg';
`wget -r $url`;
}
}

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