Comment Re:lol (Score 0) 613
It means that people trust Microsoft more than mothers in general. Or they just hate mothers more.
Comment Re:Headlines are superfluous (Score 0) 578
#866112 +(1393)-
<glyph> For example - if you came in here asking "how do I use a jackhammer" we might ask "why do you need to use a jackhammer"
<glyph> If the answer to the latter question is "to knock my grandmother's head off to let out the evil spirits that gave her cancer", then maybe the problem is actually unrelated to jackhammers
Comment Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 (Score 0) 560
The dog is on fire.
Comment Re:does this mean war? (Score 0) 209
Rijk rolled!
Journal Journal: Let's English
Put
Soot
Shoot
Chute
Suit
Suite
Sweet
Journal Journal: SRP6 Outline
Client:
sends username
Server
uses username to look up hashed username:password
generates g, N, b and Salt as random big integers
calculates x = hash(Salt, hashed username:password)
calcualtes v = g ^ x % N
calculates B = ((v * k) + (g ^ b % N)) % N
sends B, g, N, Salt
Comment Re:WoW for Linux? (Score 0) 402
An open source WoW client would lead to more farming bots.
Journal Journal: Computer names meme
There are a few posts on some of the geeky planets (Debian and Ubuntu) about themes for naming computers.
My theme is "words I like".
eg:
Turnip (My main computer is always called Turnip. This goes back to Win 3.1 days)
Fennel
Flergl
Feegle (Lappy)
Circly
My domain/workgroup has been Casarapa (roughly 'turnip house') for a while.
Firefox Now Serious Threat to IE in Europe 384
Tookis writes "Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor. A study of nearly 96,000 websites carried out during the week of July 2 to July 8 found that FF had 27.8% market share across Eastern and Western Europe, IE had 66.5%, with other browsers including Safari and Opera making up the remaining 5.7%. In some key European markets FF has already reached parity and is threatening to overtake IE as the market leading browser."
Open Source Advocacy Group Quiet About Launch 31
polar_bear` writes "Yet another open source advocacy group is in the offing, but trying to keep the lid on until its official launch at LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit. Robin 'Roblimo' Miller ferrets out a few details of the nascent Open Solutions Alliance on Linux.com: 'Our anonymous interviewee says 'at least 10' companies have signed up, and that they are 'talking to dozens more.' While he refused to name any participants, Linux.com has confirmed that SpikeSource and JasperSoft are both involved.'" Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.
Journal Journal: The Interview - Part 1
This is a transcript of the interview mentioned in my previous journal entry.
They really do put those handcuffs on tight. My wrists were red and sore for the next few days. I had them photographed for the report to internal investigations ("B11"), but that's another story.
Before the interview there was a conversation like this:
HARRIS: You were there to steal weren't you?
FOOLE: No.
RIAA Drops Case In Chicago 229
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes, "The RIAA has dropped the Elektra v. Wilke case in Chicago. This is the case in which Mr. Wilke had moved for summary judgment, stating that: '1. He is not "Paule Wilke" which is the name he was sued under. 2. He has never possessed on his computer any of the songs listed in exhibit A [the list of songs the RIAA's investigator downloaded]. He only had a few of the songs from exhibit B [the screenshot] on his computer, and those were from legally purchased CDs owned by Mr. Wilke. 3. He has never used any "online media distribution system" to download, distribute, or make available for distribution, any of plaintiffs' copyrighted recordings.' The RIAA's initial response to the summary judgment motion, prior to dropping the case, had been to cross-move for discovery, indicating that it did not have enough evidence with which to defeat Mr. Wilke's summary judgment motion. P2pnet had termed the Wilke case yet another RIAA blunder."
Journal Journal: Mixed Metaphors
If it's supposed to be a 'desktop', why is the picture on it called 'wallpaper'?
Journal Journal: Woolly Thinking
I'm posting this in case someone else has the same issue.
I tried installing Avahi recently. After dpkg or whatever installed it, I saw this:
Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon: avahi-daemonTimeout reached while wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process.
failed!
Not very helpful. Running the daemon directly gave me this:
Adobe Threatens Microsoft With Suit 362
lseltzer writes "Adobe has threatened an antitrust suit against Microsoft, over PDF writing in Office 2007. Adobe wants Microsoft to separate the feature and charge extra for it. Microsoft has agreed to remove PDF writing, but won't charge extra." From the eWeek article: "In February, Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen told Reuters he considered Microsoft to be the company's biggest concern. 'The competitor I worry about most is Microsoft,' Chizen said at the time. Adobe's PDF technology lets producers create and distribute documents digitally that retain designs, pictures and formatting. "
