Zerc - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Have not heard someone use JIF since the early (Score 1) 128

by Zerc on Thursday March 24, 2022 @12:56AM (#62385173) Attached to: Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF, Has Died

My reason for not pronouncing it 'jif' is because when I first came across it on the internet I assumed it would be pronounced similar to gift but without the T. Fortunately I didn't decide on the Afrikaans pronounciation which is similar to ghhh-if and means poison.

Comment Re: Private companies playing the sheriff (Score 1) 26

by Zerc on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @10:12AM (#62055261) Attached to: Microsoft Seizes Domains Used By Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group 'Nickel'

Like when Microsoft took over no-ip.com? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/... That didn't work out so well for my email and for many other people either

Comment Re:Seems I am the odd man out with "Joe". (Score 0) 195

by Zerc on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:35PM (#56276513) Attached to: Vim Beats Emacs in 'Linux Journal' Reader Survey

I am another joe user,also because I learnt the keystrokes from Turbo Pascal. The only minor irritation is that it is not part of the standard repositories in CentOS/Redhat.

Comment Re:Kanboard (Score 0) 278

by Zerc on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:11AM (#56208911) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best To-Do/Task List Software?

I'll second Kanboard although I am a bit lax in keeping my tasks updated. I can confitm that the installation is pretty simple.

Comment 110v/220v? (Score 0) 229

by Zerc on Thursday October 15, 2015 @09:42AM (#50734991) Attached to: USB Killer 2.0: a Harmless-Looking USB Stick That Destroys Computers

So the first version only generated 110v while the second generated 220v, is this because of the different USA/Europe markets?

Submission + - Finnish anti-piracy site pirates thepiratebay content (piraattilahti.fi)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:18AM

An anonymous reader writes: Finnish copyright lobby TTVK Ry, that earlier ordered the artist promotion site http://promobay.org/ to be censored as "thepiratebay subpage" and later admitted that it's legal (http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-promos-unblocked-in-finland-with-music-industry-blessing-130206/) and got the police to confiscate 9-year-old's winnie the pooh laptop on suspicion of having illegally downloaded a single album (http://torrentfreak.com/police-raid-9-year-old-pirate-bay-girl-confiscate-winnie-the-pooh-laptop-121122/) launched an anti-piracy website http://piraattilahti.fi./ The site closely resembles thepiratebay, and if you take a closer look, you'll notice that css has been directly copied from thepiratebay.se, complete with original site name in comments (http://piraattilahti.fi/css/css.css, pastebin mirror: http://pastebin.com/pV2rjNyb)

Of course one interesting question is, how on earth did they manage to pirate thepiratebay content, considering that they managed to get court orders for major ISP's to censor access to thepiratebay? (http://torrentfreak.com/court-issues-new-blocking-order-against-the-pirate-bay-120611/)

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