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Comment Very Old?! (Score 1) 184

by artlogic on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:06AM (#51947437) Attached to: Rogue Source Code Repos Can Compromise Mac Security Due To Old Git Version

Since when does "very old" qualify as an accurate description of a release that occurred just over 4 months ago? While I believe Apple should fix this (and it shouldn't really be that hard), I think it's a bit disingenuous to characterize what they distributed this way. Especially when Debian is still distributing (patched) 2.1.4!

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 169

by artlogic on Thursday June 11, 2009 @02:55PM (#28298039) Attached to: Saving Unix Heritage, One Kernel At a Time

Plan9 is a reaction to some of the problems in Unix and still includes a lot of common ideas.

Comment Re:first post! (Score 1) 820

by artlogic on Monday May 11, 2009 @03:36PM (#27911635) Attached to: Is a $72.5m Opening Weekend Enough For Star Trek?

...oh and he could fence. Was that an attempt to pay tribute to Picard or just an excuse to do a pointless and extremely cheesy sword fighting scene...

FYI - Sulu's fencing has it's roots in TOS - see "The Naked Time".

Comment Re:the writing is on the wall (Score 1) 500

by artlogic on Monday November 03, 2008 @01:13PM (#25614623) Attached to: Video Games Linked To Child Aggression

Not to pick, but A Clockwork Orange was written by Anthony Burgess, and actually suggests that when you don't have the choice to do wrong, there is no right. Instead of blaming video games, we should be blaming the adults that allow their grade school kids to play games like GTA. As an adult, I can make the choice to play such a game, and not act out the images it shows. I can also make the choice not to allow my (theoretical) children to be exposed to such things until they are old enough to understand the difference between entertainment and reality. If you take away that choice, then, according to Burgess, we've lost something as a society, becoming more like a "clockwork orange".

Journal SPAM: Linus fires latest shot in GNOME Wars 4

Journal by stoolpigeon on Friday February 16, 2007 @06:03PM

Linux.com is running a story about the continuing feud between Linus and some GNOME folks.Some bad blood between Linus Torvalds and GNOME developers is flaring up again. Previously, Torvalds has said that Linux users should switch to KDE instead of GNOME because of the GNOME team's "users are idiots" mentality. Now he has "put his money where his mouth is" by submitting patches to GNOME in orde

Game Developers Sound Off On 'Quality Of Life' 67

Posted by Zonk on Friday May 05, 2006 @06:11PM from the step-one-get-a-life dept.

simoniker writes "At the recent WIGI Conference in Dallas, a number of game industry veterans discussed the ever-problematic issue of 'quality of life' in the game industry, or, as moderator and The 7th Guest creator Graeme Devine commented: "What does that mean to most of you? Well, it means crunch." Aspyr's Lori Durham suggested of the issue: "You won't always have a perfect balance as far as how many hours you're outside of the office, and how many hours you're inside the office", but, for game developers: "As long as you feel good about where you are at that moment, Durham thinks that's what matters.""

High End Video Capture? 75

Posted by Cliff on Thursday April 06, 2006 @11:50PM from the hardware-image-acquisition dept.

A reader asks: "I work for a very well known company specializing in Game Engine Middleware. Recently we've been trying to gather together marketing material for some new products, and one step towards that end is capturing high resolution gameplay footage (1280x1024) into some kind of movie file for editing. According to the 'experts', the best solution is to scan convert the DVI out into HDTV 1080p, and then HD capture it back into another PC for editing. Surely all this conversion to 'broadcast' quality is pointless - has anyone come across a pure DVI capture solution?"

Gamers Itching To Switch To Macs? 261

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 06, 2006 @10:57AM from the need-a-little-time-in-boot-camp dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET.com.au is forecasting Windows gamers will be flocking to Intel-based Apples, saying many 'have been looking for an excuse to switch to Macs.' The article says: 'Of course, games enthusiasts who like to customise their systems and upgrade their hardware (such as graphics cards) at the drop of a hat may still prefer the tinkering freedom a PC allows. But then there are the legions of more casual gamers who only upgrade every several years or so -- as long as they can play what's available at their local games shop, I'm sure they won't be fussed that they're not running off the latest gear from ATI or NVIDIA.'"

EU Throws out Microsoft's Vista Font Trademark 82

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday April 04, 2006 @05:27PM from the stirred-up-a-hornets-nest dept.

vitaly.friedman writes "Microsoft has lost another round at the EU though this time it has nothing to do with the antitrust case. This time the dispute is over fonts; specifically Segoe, one of the typefaces Microsoft wants to use in Vista. Microsoft filed its "registered community design" for the font back in January of 2004, paid the required fee, and everything was great until December." A copy of the decision is also available.

Ballmer Babies Banned From iPods and Google 554

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 29, 2006 @11:55AM from the thats-one-way-to-slow-the-competition dept.

Valah writes "In a recent Fortune interview with Steve Ballmer, the newer kinder Microsoft CEO is not only ready to take on the videogaming, search, music download and mobile markets - but he's also laying down the law in his own house. Steve says that his kids are not allowed to use Google or have an iPod."

Google Wireless Patents Published 186

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday March 28, 2006 @11:27AM from the going-onto-the-aethernet dept.

Ian wrote to mention a ZDNet article about several patents on wireless technology held by Google employees. From the article: "The patent applications, filed by Google employees Wesley Chan, Shioupyn Shen and former Google product management director Georges Harik, propose lowering the cost of wireless access by offsetting the costs via advertisements on the service. Google, which receives the bulk of its revenue from advertisers, is seeking to expand its potential advertising base by moving further into the wireless market."

Sendmail Hit by Data Interception Flaw 208

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday March 23, 2006 @08:22PM from the bumps-in-the-night dept.

ricepudd writes "Computer Weekly reports that Internet security researchers have discovered a serious flaw in Sendmail. The flaw could allow remote attackers to take control of users' PCs. The Sendmail Consortium urged users to upgrade to version 8.13.6 of the software, which contains a fix to the problem. Computer Weekly seems to think that the fact that the Windows version isn't affected will help curtail the threat."

Highly Critical Hole Found in IE 336

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday March 23, 2006 @03:20PM from the must-be-thursday dept.

dotpavan writes "Eweek reports on a highly critical MS Internet Explorer hole found by Secunia Research's Andreas Sandblad. The vulnerability is due to the processing of the "createTextRange()" method call applied on a radio button control. From Secunia, "The vulnerability has been confirmed on a fully patched system with Internet Explorer 6.0 and Microsoft Windows XP SP2." The vulnerability has also been confirmed in Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2 Preview (January edition) though it could be avoided by turning off Active Scripting, as suggested by Microsoft Security Response Center blog. How would this put MS in the market, hit by the ever-growing shots of vulnerabilties? And would the divorce of IE7 from Vista's Windows Explorer help?"

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