chunk08 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:This stuff is so cool (Score 1) 238

by chunk08 on Friday August 28, 2009 @04:18PM (#29235599) Attached to: Big, Beautiful Boxes From Computer History

(Hands up if you would actually consider using a graphical interface without a task bar.)

Posts using ratpoison. (Before everyone starts screaming, yes, I'm an efficiency nerd, I do a lot of things reflexively, and I cannot imagine trying to teach a high percentage normal lusers to use this.)

Comment Re:Laughably Medieval (Score 1) 346

by chunk08 on Monday May 18, 2009 @05:30PM (#28003461) Attached to: Ball And Chain To Force Children To Study

? </taking a joke far past absurdity>

Comment Public education... (Score 5, Insightful) 1322

by chunk08 on Sunday May 03, 2009 @05:30PM (#27809307) Attached to: Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers?

"The erroneous assumption is to the effort that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence .... Nothing could be further from the truth." Not sure where that quote is from, but it's good and I had it lying around.

Comment Oh dear (Score 5, Interesting) 413

by chunk08 on Monday April 20, 2009 @12:29PM (#27647569) Attached to: Stephen Hawking Is "Very Ill" In Hospital

I do hope he pulls through, he is an amazing man.

Comment Re:Who wants this? (Score 5, Insightful) 291

by chunk08 on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @01:25PM (#27153553) Attached to: Apple Touch-Screen Netbook?

I'm currently looking at getting a netbookas a college student. Not because of cost concerns, but simply because I want something to type notes on with a battery life that will work for my 7 consecutive hours of lecture. There are uses for these things, not every computer has to be able to run folding@home, Crysis, and my web server at the same time.

Comment Re:The new graphics (Score 5, Informative) 305

by chunk08 on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @06:52PM (#26226679) Attached to: Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents

Hm, sry to reply to myself but according to Wikipedia it seems that the drivers have to be rewritten to support GEM. Still not sure about user-land software tho...

Comment The new graphics (Score 1) 305

by chunk08 on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @06:48PM (#26226657) Attached to: Linux 2.6.28 Promises Year-End Presents

Haven't read read the article yet but it does it require doing things differently in drivers or user-land software?

Comment Re:And the morale of the story is: (Score 1) 547

by chunk08 on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @09:32AM (#25540291) Attached to: Student Charged With Three Felonies For Finding Security Flaw — and Reporting it

"And the morale of the story is:"

Apparently it is not very confident anymore...

New Linux Distribution — Exherbo, Announced 322

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 19, 2008 @03:19PM from the too-many-already dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Former Gentoo developer Bryan Østergaard recently announced a new linux distribution aptly named Exherbo. The distribution, which has been underway for a couple of months and is based on ideas and experiences from his long work with Gentoo, features a new packaging format and several subprojects, such as a redesigned init system. Currently no installation medium is available but their package tree is public for the daring ones who want to play with the upcoming distribution. The developers strongly discourage any serious use though, as it's still highly experimental."

Boot Sector Viruses & Rootkits Poised For Comeback 95

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 03, 2008 @04:54PM from the oldies-but-goodies dept.

Ant writes "Ars Technica says Panda Labs' first quarter 2008 malware report raises a new concern, though it comes from a surprising direction. According to the company, boot sector viruses loaded with rootkits are poised to make a comeback. This honestly sounds a bit odd, considering how long it has been since a boot virus has topped the malware charts, but it's at least theoretically possible (pdf). Such viruses have a simple method of operation. The virus copies itself into the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard drive, and rewrites the actual MBR data in a different section of the drive. The report also covers a number of other topics and makes predictions about the types of attacks computer users may see in the future. Forecasting these trends is always tricky."

Last Year's CanSecWest Winner Repeats on Vista, Ubuntu Wins 337

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday March 29, 2008 @11:02AM from the tough-nut-to-crack dept.

DimitryGH followed up on the earlier news that the MacBook Air lost CanSecWest by noting that "Last year's winner of the CanSecWest hacking contest has won the Vista laptop in this year's competition. According to the sponsor TippingPoint's blog, Shane Macaulay used a new 0day exploit against Adobe Flash in order to secure his win. At the end of the day, the only laptop (of OS X, Vista, and Ubuntu) that remained unharmed was the one running Ubuntu. How's that for fueling religious platform wars?"

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