Comment The big feature, KARL (Score 2, Insightful) 114
Seems that the post is missing the big feature to appear in 6.2, KARL - Kernel Address Randomized Link.
Comment Please ensure you are actually quoting directly (Score 5, Informative) 164
I was in this talk, actually the person behind this camera and at no time did Bob state the following above:
Linux Foundation is turning a blind eye to LibreSSL
This is totally incorrect and should be removed. The slide doesn't even state that. Slashdot editorial committee needs to review their posts a lot closer prior to posting in a public space.
Comment Re:Huh? (Score 1) 409
Too many characters.
init 5
bye bye.
Comment Real Rocket Men (Score 1) 255
Submission + - How to build a fully encrypted NAS on OpenBSD (geektechnique.org)
mistermark writes: "Two years ago my encrypted fileserver was already covered here. Now that machine keeps running and running and the only thing that kept it from going in between has been a failing drive and a power-outage this last week.
So, it's about time to revise everything and add RAID to it as well. Now you can have a on-the-fly encrypting/decrypting NAS with the data-security of RAID, all in one:
How to build a fully encrypted NAS on OpenBSD
and the actual how to:
OpenBSD encrypted NAS HOWTO"
So, it's about time to revise everything and add RAID to it as well. Now you can have a on-the-fly encrypting/decrypting NAS with the data-security of RAID, all in one:
How to build a fully encrypted NAS on OpenBSD
and the actual how to:
OpenBSD encrypted NAS HOWTO"
Submission + - 1935 Meccano "Dam Busters" Computer restor (computerworld.co.nz)
rob1959 writes: "A 1935 analogue computer, built at Cambridge University and used to help plan the "Dam Busters" attacks on the Ruhr hyro dams in WWII has been restored and put on diplay at Auckland's Museum of Transport and Technology.
The computers came to NZ around 1950 and was used, ironically, to build hydro dams there — and to calculate rabbit population numbers."
Submission + - Moebius strip riddle solved at last (abc.net.au) 2
BigLug writes: "In a study to appear in Nature Materials, two experts in non-linear dynamics, Gert van der Heijden and Eugene Starostin of University College London, resolve the Moebius Strip algebraically.
From the ABC (Australia):
From the ABC (Australia):
"
What determines the strip's shape is its differing areas of "energy density," they say.
"Energy density" means the stored, elastic energy that is contained in the strip as a result of the folding. Places where the strip is most bent have the highest energy density; conversely, places that are flat and unstressed by a fold have the least energy density.
America's First Cellulosic Ethanol Plant 522
hankmt writes "The state of Georgia just granted Range Fuels a permit to create the first cellulosic ethanol plant in America. Cellulosic ethanol produces ethanol from cellulose, which all plants have, instead of from sugar, which is only abundant in food crops. Corn ethanol only produces 1.3 units of energy for every unit of energy that goes into growing the crop and converting the sugar to ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol can produce as much as 16 units of energy for every one unit of energy put into the process. The new plant will be online in 2008 and aims to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year."
Feed Engadget: Old PSP model to be phased out (engadget.com)
Filed under: Gaming
Not that we weren't assuming this anyway, but Sony has gone on record to say that when the new PSP starts shipping in September, it will completely replace the original, 19 percent fatter PSP model. Sony definitely ain't no Nintendo, which continues to sell GameBoy Advance models alongside the DS. We've got to wonder how likely it is that the PSP will suffer from a kind of Osbourne effect until September: would you pick up a PSP knowing that a thinner, faster version of the same device is just around the corner?[Via PSP Fanboy]
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Patents Don't Pay 210
tarball_tinkerbell sends us to the NY Times for word on a book due out next year that claims that beginning in the late 1990s, on average patents cost companies more than they earned them. A big exception was pharmaceuticals, which accounted for 2/3 of the revenues attributable to patents. The authors of the book Do Patents Work? (synopsis and sample chapters), James Bessen and Michael J. Meurer of the Boston University School of Law, have crunched the numbers and say that, especially in the IT industry, patents no longer make economic sense. Their views are less radical than those of a pair of Washington University at St. Louis economists who argue that the patent system should be abolished outright.
Journal Journal: Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn far from perfect....
Just finished installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn x64. I had the typical 64 bit problems but I also had some that are really annoying and frankly just shouldn't be problems.
The first problem is that Ubuntu just couldn't detect my monitor. Now the thing that I find unacceptable is that OpenSuse's SAX2 can find and configure it. Opensuse isn't perfect but SAX2 seems to be the best X configuration tool around. It is also FOSS so here is the big question. Why doesn't Ubuntu use it?
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