Urthwhyte - Slashdot User

Comment Re:OOh (Score 1) 803

by Urthwhyte on Thursday July 16, 2009 @09:30AM (#28715691) Attached to: Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe

1) So all of the time I was connecting to WPA2 networks (with SP2) I was really just imagining it? I'd also be incredibly impressed to see an Ubuntu install from 2001 run WPA2 out of the box, seeing as the standard wasn't even ratified until late 2004. 2) This is true, but it was also a brand new OS and a free firewall was added in SP1 only a year later. 3) and it's a good thing Linux has *never* had any exploitable vulnerabilities, right....http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/13/1533212

Comment Re:GDDR3 (Score 1) 212

by Urthwhyte on Saturday May 30, 2009 @10:08AM (#28149123) Attached to: ASUS Designs Monster Dual-GTX285 4GB Graphics Card

And you do realize that null is different from zero?

Comment Re:This has been a long time coming (Score 4, Insightful) 364

by Urthwhyte on Saturday April 25, 2009 @12:04PM (#27713419) Attached to: Windows 7 To Include "Windows XP Mode"

Where's the "+1 Paranoid" mod?

Arranging Electronic Access For Your Survivors? 335

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @01:20PM from the leave-a-note-on-the-fridge dept.

smee2 writes "In the past, when a family member died, you could look through their files and address books to find all the people and businesses that should be notified that the person is deceased. Now the hard-copy address book is becoming a thing of the past. I keep some contact information in a spreadsheet, but I have many online friends that I only have contact with through web sites such as Flickr. My email accounts have many more people listed than my address book spreadsheet. I have no interest in collecting real world info from all my online contacts. The sites where I have social contact with people from around the world (obviously) require user names and passwords. Two questions: 1. How do you intend to let the executors of your estate or family members know which online sites/people you'd like them to notify of your demise? 2. How are you going to give access to the passwords, etc. needed to access those sites in a way that doesn't cause a security concern while you're still alive?"

Comment Re:Seems to me like a bit of a role reversal (Score 1) 543

by Urthwhyte on Thursday November 06, 2008 @05:22AM (#25658343) Attached to: Microsoft Begs Hardware Makers To Take Support Seriously

I have the exact same mouse as well and its worked perfectly without installing any drivers with both XP and Vista.

Sending Excess Load To the Cloud? 153

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @02:46AM from the failing-over-into-the-mist dept.

TristanBrotherton writes "Cloud computing seems to be a good choice for startups like ours, looking to scale easily with users. (We're providing a series of Web services, assets, and Web applications to users of our mobile client.) There are the obvious choices of Google, Amazon, and smaller shops like EngineYard. The biggest issue we have in choosing cloud computing to run our applications is trust in their robustness. If the provider goes down, we suffer. In traditional hosting environments we mitigate this with multiple sites / vendors. It's not really feasible to host on multiple compute services, so I wondered if a better option might be to set up a small (perhaps two servers) origin infrastructure in a traditional manner at a datacenter, running our applications, but then send excess load, or in the event of our origin servers failing, all load, to compute services. This would give us the best of both worlds. Has anyone done this, or had experience in designing Web applications to scale seamlessly across both environments? Is there particular load-balancing hardware we can use to do this?"

How Microsoft Dropped the Ball With Developers 814

Posted by kdawson on Monday May 05, 2008 @08:17PM from the new-vistas dept.

cremou writes "As part of an Ars Technica series on how one developer migrated from Windows to OS X (and why), this second article concentrates on how Microsoft bungled the transition from XP to Vista. The author looks at some unfortunate decisions Microsoft made that have made Windows an unpleasant development platform. 'So Windows is just a disaster to write programs for. It's miserable. It's quite nice if you want to use the same techniques you learned 15 years ago and not bother to change how you do, well, anything, but for anyone else it's all pain... And it's not just third parties who suffer. It causes trouble for Microsoft, too. The code isn't just inconsistent and ugly on the outside; it's that way on the inside, too. There's a lot of software for Windows, a lot of business-critical software, that's not maintained any more. And that software is usually buggy. It passes bad parameters to API calls, uses memory that it has released, assumes that files live in particular hard-coded locations, all sorts of things that it shouldn't do.'"

Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future 174

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 27, 2006 @09:28AM from the hadn't-thought-of-that dept.

Anonymous Cow writes "This week, the editors of TechEBlog have compiled a list of the 'Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future,' from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all there." Urinal gaming stations! How did no one implement this sooner?

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