Comment Re: Seriously? Who's the... (Score 1) 227
PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
Comment Re:This is the way of MySQL too? (Score 2, Insightful) 128
Well, considering, there is no official announcement from Oracle that they are pulling OpenSSO from their product lineup. This article/blog entry is mere speculation.
Comment OpenSSO isn't trademarked by Oracle/Sun (Score 2, Insightful) 128
OpenSSO is not a trademark of Oracle/Sun, you can see a list of trademarks for Sun at http://www.sun.com/suntrademarks/
Comment Re:Ugh, this isn't good. (Score 1) 141
It's a good thing this vulnerability doesn't allow the host system to be compromised, otherwise we'd be in real trouble!
(AKA: Parent poster is wrong.)
Comment Subjective summary is subjective (Score 1, Funny) 191
"You get the chance to support the most important free software project on the planet"
What? This sounds like something Theo or a GNU zealot would write
Comment Re:Important point (Score 2, Interesting) 389
Pretty much, I've been documenting on and off for the past while the various (negative) things that have been happening with the games. It's a shame really.
My (somewhat) compiled list is available at http://peterkieser.com/vancouver-2010/
Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming 355
An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at Foreground Security have found an issue with Adobe Flash. Any site that allows files to be uploaded could be vulnerable to this issue (whether they serve Flash or not!). Adobe has said that no easy fix exists and no patch is forthcoming. Adobe puts the responsibility on the website administrators themselves to fix this problem, but they themselves seem to be vulnerable to these problems. Every user with Flash installed is vulnerable to this new type of attack and — until IT administrators fix their sites — will continue to be."
Comment Firefox has the ability to set a master password (Score 1) 1007
I don't know why this hasn't been mentioned, but you can set a master password on your Firefox password manager to make sure that your passwords are kept secure via encryption.
Comment Re:How is warning given? (Score 2, Informative) 184
You can forward shaw.ca e-mail addresses to your personal email elsewhere.
Comment Re:We've been doing this for years (Score 1) 419
We have those in Vancouver as well, except we have articulated and single electric trolleys. Great idea, virtually silent.
Comment Re:Isn't this the same as a trolley? (Score 1) 419
I don't know where you live, but in Vancouver no roads were torn up to put in tracks or stations built. Our trolley system relies on overhead wires which caused minimal disruption when installation was done and no modification to existing roadways.
Comment Re:OCCT (Score 3, Informative) 274
Did you actually install it? (or are you a typical
Comment OCCT (Score 4, Interesting) 274
It will stress your RAM, CPU, and GPU or all at once with pretty temperature and utilization graphs (for Windows only): http://www.ocbase.com/perestroika_en/
Comment Re:Odd timing... they've finally got competition (Score 1) 257
How is TELUS competition to Shaw? They have a very small footprint for deployment and inferior technology:
You can get a maximum of 2 TV's streaming at the same time with TTV assuming you're right next to a DSLAM/CO and you can only get 3.0Mbps Internet if you have TTV.
Comment Smoke & mirrors (Score 4, Interesting) 77
The site was announced on Friday July 17 with the first consultation for Vancouver scheduled the following Monday July 20.
Typical weasel politics and tactics used by Conservatives.
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