Comment Re: Random number generators are hard (Score 0) 240
Sounds interesting. Can you name any Distros?
Comment Slashdot will be dead, too. if they don't fix it (Score 1) 3
Hi,
I am, no, I was the last packager of Slashcode for Debian. Slashcode is no more packaged for Debian, since it has two big problems:
It doesn't run with Apache 2.x and Apache 1.3 is no more present in many Linux distributions. That's the main reason why it dropped out of Debian, too. 5 years ago a mod_perl 2.0 patch has been posted on Slashcode.com, but it seems as it never got incorporated by Slashcode and Slashcode continued to evolve without Apache 2 compatibility. Two years ago someone submitted a question what's the current state of Slashcode on Apache 2, but this submission seems still pending.
Slashdot.org btw. still runs on Apache 1.3. Probably for the very same reason. They missed that train and I don't want to know what effort it will be today, to move over to Apache 2.0. I expect that even when Slashdot dies, it will die running on a prehistoric Apache 1.3.
The second big problem: There are no official stable releases since many, many years. Only code out of the VCS repository. This also has problems with security fixes. Statements like "all 2.x releases" are affected usually aren't true and you have to check the code yourself if it is affected or not. This drives every distributor crazy.
I don't know how I will proceed with my Slashsite. Probably use the last official stable release 2.2.6 and see if I get it running with Apache 2.2 somehow. Or hope that Slashcode will once run on Apache 2.2 out-of-the-box against all fears. But despite that I'm usually an optimist, I don't expect this to happen.
Comment Re:The federal is big... (Score 1) 19
Yeah, good question. I only know XTaran and Neil in person. Well, I am wearing a browngreen Shirt with "Linuxdays Luxembourg" written on the front and a blurred out Tux on the back.
Comment Re: List (Score 1) 19
Ehm, I think the sorting is some kind of Schwanzlängenvergleich and therefore by purpose.
Plan to come. Maybe I can persuaded one or two colleagues to come, too.
Comment Re:But EIT has limitations (Score 1) 569
I don't know with ATSC, but in the DVB world (Europe), it is certainly possible to transmit a week's data (or more) for 100s of channels.
Though you can only transmit a set of EITs in a session, nothing prevents the box at the other end from caching the results so you can transmit different slots in sequence and the box will eventually receive them all.
Though you can only transmit a set of EITs in a session, nothing prevents the box at the other end from caching the results so you can transmit different slots in sequence and the box will eventually receive them all.
Journal Journal: Immigration bill vastly increases H1-B visas
The Raleigh News and Observer is reporting that the McCain-Kennedy Immigration Reform bill would increase the number of H1-B visas from its current level of 65,000 to 115,000.
One wonders whether hi-tech companies are pushing this just to deflate wages of their U.S. talent or to avoid costs of training U.S. workers to fill the new positions.
Feed Cheetah's GPSMirror detects red-light / speed cameras (engadget.com)
Filed under: GPS, Transportation
Giving you yet another venue to throw down your hard-earned dollars instead of just taking it easy and obeying traffic laws while motoring, Cheetah has introduced a GPSMirror that can detect just about anything you'd need to know about whilst cruising down the highway. Sporting a SiRF Star III GPS receiver, anti-glare coating, and the ability to divulge alerts via voice, visuals, or frighteningly loud sounds, this rear view mirror replacement purportedly keeps you informed of upcoming speed cameras of all varieties, radar / laser detectors, and accident zones. Additionally, the device can even display your speed from behind the mirrored glass in case the speedometer in your '72 Beetle has been pleasantly perched on zero for the past decade. The unit supposedly plays nice with your current radar / laser detector, and can relay data via its aural abilities to slow you down. Speedsters can pick up the GPSMirror now for £199.99 ($395), and thanks to the PC-based interface and internet database downloads, there are no monthly fees for its handy services.[Via NaviGadget]
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Journal Journal: Is Microsoft actively astroturfing slashdot? 3
Could Microsoft be actively astroturfing slashdot? When a discussion starts with an offhand comment laughing at an MS Products' supposed security and ends with attacks on Apache and Linux you really start to wonder.
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Comment Re:Slashcode (Score 2, Informative) 66
You should know better... have a look at the YASS section of slashcode.com (Yet Another Slash Site) and try to find a unique looking site... quite difficult (but not impossible, I agree).
I really like the work this guy (just click through the core styles to select the different CSS stylesheets) has done for Slash in CSS/XHTML.
PS: I'm running the German Slash Site Symlink.
I really like the work this guy (just click through the core styles to select the different CSS stylesheets) has done for Slash in CSS/XHTML.
PS: I'm running the German Slash Site Symlink.
Journal Journal: maol symbolisch
Besuch maol symbolisch, das Blog der Blogs.
Don't speak German? Visit maol.ch/en, the old fubar'd part of maol.ch.
Don't speak German? Visit maol.ch/en, the old fubar'd part of maol.ch.
Comment Re:As an employee of SETI@home ... (Score 0, Offtopic) 246
I hope you are not the one who will have the job of decoding the signal, because you cannot even speak english.
But the ETs will - huh ?
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