Graphic Map of Linux-2.6.36 25

Posted by timothy on Sunday January 16, 2011 @08:51PM from the under-the-hood dept.

conan.sh writes "The Interactive map of Linux Kernel was expanded and updated to the recent kernel linux-2.6.36. Now the map contains more than four hundred important source items (functions and structures) with links to source code and documentation."

Embedded Linux 1-Second Cold Boot To QT 141

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 13, 2011 @06:31PM from the why-does-my-phone-need-2-minutes? dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The blog post shows an embedded device cold booting Linux to a QT application all in just one second. This post also includes a link which describes what modifications were made to achieve this."

Denver Rejects UFO Agency To Track Aliens 80

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @11:24AM from the name-and-galaxy-of-origin-please dept.

Republicans weren't the only ones to win big yesterday. Aliens in The Mile-High City can breathe easier thanks to voters rejecting a plan to officially track them. From the article: "The proposal defeated soundly Tuesday night would have established a commission to track extraterrestrials. It also would have allowed residents to post their observations on Denver's city Web page and report sightings." Let the anonymous probings begin!

Major ISPs Help Fund BitTorrent User Tracking Research 190

Posted by Soulskill on Monday March 08, 2010 @06:15PM from the santa-and-comcast-both-know-if-you've-been-naughty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I was scanning conference proceedings to come up with ideas for a reading group I run at my workplace, and I noticed an interesting paper from the new IEEE WIFS forensics conference. Researchers from the University of Colorado have published a technique for tracking BitTorrent users (PDF) by joining and actively probing torrent swarms using low-cost cloud computing services. They claim their methods allowed them to monitor the entire Pirate Bay torrent set for as little as $13/mo using EC2. But that's not even the interesting part. Their work appears to have been 'funded in part through gifts from PolyCipher' — a broadband ISP consortium. That's right; three major national ISPs funded this round of BitTorrent tracking research, not the MPAA/RIAA. Could this be evidence of ISP support for ACTA and a global three-strikes law?"

Eight PHP IDEs Compared 206

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 03, 2010 @10:32AM from the colonic-extraction dept.

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Rick Grehen provides an in-depth comparative review of eight PHP IDEs: ActiveState's Komodo IDE, CodeLobster PHP Edition, Eclipse PHP Development Tools (PDT), MPSoftware's phpDesigner, NetBeans IDE for PHP, NuSphere's PhpED, WaterProof's PHPEdit, and Zend Studio. 'All of these PHP toolkits offer strong support for the other languages and environments (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL database) that a PHP developer encounters. The key differences we discovered were in the tools they provide (HTML inspector, SQL management system) for various tasks, the quality of their documentation, and general ease-of-use,' Grehen writes.'"

Nmap 5.20 Released 36

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 23, 2010 @10:32AM from the more-and-better dept.

ruphus13 writes "Nmap has a new release out, and it's a major one. It includes a GUI front-end called Zenmap, and, according to the post, 'Network admins will no doubt be excited to learn that Nmap is now ready to identify Snow Leopard systems, Android Linux smartphones, and Chumbies, among other OSes that Nmap can now identify. This release also brings an additional 31 Nmap Scripting Engine scripts, bringing the total collection up to 80 pre-written scripts for Nmap. The scripts include X11 access checks to see if X.org on a system allows remote access, a script to retrieve and print an SSL certificate, and a script designed to see whether a host is serving malware. Nmap also comes with netcat and Ndiff. Source code and binaries are available from the Nmap site, including RPMs for x86 and x86_64 systems, and binaries for Windows and Mac OS X. '"

Forrester Says Tech Downturn Is "Unofficially Over" 130

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @10:51PM from the unofficial-whoopee dept.

alphadogg writes "The US IT market will grow by 6.6% as high-tech spending rebounds in 2010, according to Forrester Research's latest estimates. The research firm based its projections on data reported for 2009, though its fourth quarter numbers are incomplete. Forrester says hints of a recovery surfaced in the third quarter, and now the company expects the global IT market to grow by 8.1% in 2010. Forrester's US and Global IT Market Outlook: Q4 2009 reads: 'The tech downturn of 2008 and 2009 is unofficially over, while the Q3 2009 data for the US and the global market showed continued declines in tech purchases (as we expected). We predict that the Q4 2009 data will show a small increase in buying activity, or at worst, just a small decline.'"

Canadian Blood Services Promotes Pseudoscience 219

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @06:49PM from the type-A-negative-personality dept.

trianglecat writes "The not-for-profit agency Canadian Blood Services has a section of their website based on the Japanese cultural belief of ketsueki-gata, which claims that a person's blood group determines or predicts their personality type. Disappointing for a self-proclaimed 'science-based' organization. The Ottawa Skeptics, based in the nation's capital, appear to be taking some action."

Comment Oh Michael (Score 1) 567

by Player Parker on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @07:46PM (#28356061) Attached to: Windows 7 Licensing a "Disaster" For XP Shops

You're only hurting yourself!

Comment MDS - Mandriva Directory Server (Score 2, Informative) 149

by Player Parker on Thursday June 04, 2009 @07:40PM (#28217171) Attached to: Directory Service Implementation From Scratch?

I find myself in the same situation and am considering either MDS or FDS, which is now 389 Directory Server btw, to address this need. My goal is to stay away from Microsoft's AD primarily because my boss looks for $100 solutions for $10 (or less). I won't banter on here about the merits of what MDS will and will not do, but I will say it's a very good package, well documented and certainly worth consideration. I setup a VMware server which I'd be happy to ZIP up and post on our company's sftp site for you to download and check out if you so wish. Look me up and I'll hook you up, no worries...