Comment Re:What women want (Score 1) 349

by khephera on Wednesday February 25, 2009 @04:13PM (#26985995) Attached to: How To Be A Geek Goddess

As a female geek, if I get stuck I go to resources such as safari.oreilly.com, lynda.com, or the forums for answers. And I will also go to men who I believe can help me. After all, we're in the same playing field and most times I'll get a good answer no matter who I ask, male or female. I think there are as many men as women who don't want to get into technology in quite the same depth as most of the members of this forum. I don't understand the automatic assumption by some people that women don't want to get as "up to their eyeballs" in it as their male counterparts.

Comment Re:The Boss Decides... so be the Boss (Score 1) 396

by khephera on Saturday December 20, 2008 @04:35PM (#26186011) Attached to: Is Finding Part Time Work In IT Unrealistic?

Even scaling down to 4 days a week has its consequences - I still have the same workload as before (early morning website updates from my home included), but am hit with a barrage of e-mails on my "days off" and demands for immediate additional changes to the website that I manage. So really, scaling back left me with no days off at all. I'm seriously considering changing careers so I can have some sort of life outside of the office...

Comment Re:my $0.02 (Score 1) 475

by khephera on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @02:33PM (#23827503) Attached to: How To Convince My Boss Not To Spam?

Good idea. Make it a double opt-in list (where the recipient must click on a link to be kept on your mailing list) so that when you're done you might actually have a number of usable e-mail addresses.

Journal Journal: Protein in human hair shows promise for regenerating nerves

Journal by stemceller on Thursday January 10, 2008 @06:56PM

A protein found in human hair shows promise for promoting the regeneration of nerve tissue and could lead to a new treatment option when nerves are cut or crushed from trauma. In the current issue of Biomaterials, scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine reported that in animal studies the protein keratin was able to speed up nerve regeneration and improve nerve function compared to current treatment optio

Journal Journal: Wiwex, the new browser plug-in

Journal by wiwex on Tuesday January 08, 2008 @01:30AM

Wiwex (Where I Was EXplorer) - is a browser plug-in, which provides an opportunity to search information only on the web pages that you have visited online.

Journal Journal: Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury

Journal by stemceller on Monday January 07, 2008 @08:09PM

Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. For the first time, a UCLA study shows that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow new pathw

Submission + - Gates reveals majority of PCs ship without Vista 6

Submitted by Stony Stevenson on Monday January 07, 2008 @04:37PM

Stony Stevenson writes: Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system is proving far less popular with new PC buyers than Windows XP did during XP's first year on the market, if statements by company chairman Bill Gates at this week's Consumer Electronics Show are any measure. Gates boasted that Microsoft has sold more than 100 million copies of Windows Vista since the OS launched last January. Based on Gates' statement, Windows Vista was aboard just 39% of the PC's that shipped in 2007. And Vista, in terms of units shipped, only marginally outperformed first year sales of Windows XP according to Gates' numbers. Assuming Gates is using consistent measurements across time — and any failure to do so would raise questions about Microsoft's reporting tactics — first year Vista unit sales have exceeded first year XP unit sales by little more than 10%.

Journal Journal: OLPC G1G1 offer in Europe ... possibly

Journal by sammyF70 on Monday January 07, 2008 @08:39AM

With OLPC XO Laptops selling for over 400 USD on ebay, one could just wonder WHEN the OLPC Give One Get One offer (you buy an OLPCs for the price of two, the second one is sent to a needy child in a third world country) would be restarted.
But even if it was restarted, it still left europeans out in the cold as the program was only available to US and canadian residents
This

Journal Journal: Security expert Harri Hursti testifies about voting machines

Journal by Presto Vivace on Sunday January 06, 2008 @01:55PM

Finnish computer security expert Harri Hursti testifies to NH Legislature

Journal Journal: Meraki of Mtn View to bring Mesh Networks/WiFi to SF by '08

Journal by davidsyes on Friday January 04, 2008 @09:16PM

Will Meraki succeed where Google and EarthLink failed or gave up?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/04/MNCDU8UKU.DTL

Meraki, through an initiative called Free the Net, has been testing its mesh system in San Francisco's Mission, Lower Haight and Alamo Square neighborhoods since the spring. About 500 repeaters already are in use, providing service to 40,000 users.

Journal Journal: Open Source ActionScript HTML/CSS broswer released

Journal by talltyler on Thursday January 03, 2008 @03:53PM

A public beta version of Wrapper, a formerly closed-sourced cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript has been released. Wrapper eliminates cross-browser issues and makes integrating ActionScript and HTML/CSS projects possible without needing to compile. Wrapper combines the best of both technologies into a single framework that is smaller and faster then the alternatives. At only 21K custom fonts, shapes, filters, gradient fills, blend modes, and much more all fr

Journal Journal: Data breach, voter records stolen

Journal by Presto Vivace on Tuesday January 01, 2008 @04:41PM

Computer heist puts voter IDs in danger

The names, addresses and complete Social Security numbers of more than 337,000 Davidson County voters may be in the hands of thieves, Metro election officials said Friday. The information could be used by identity thieves. County election officials are warning the public to monitor their credit accounts for any suspicious activity.

Journal Journal: Nigerian OLPC patent lawsuit

Journal by sTeF on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @04:38PM

Seems like the OLPC will have a hard time, threatening the the big players turf has it's consequences. A US-based Nigerian company has sued Nicolas Negroponte and the OLPC project, the keyboard seems to be the culprit.

Journal Journal: How Far Should Water Recycling Go?

Journal by cybermage on Tuesday November 27, 2007 @08:33AM

In much of the western U.S., water demand vastly outstrips supply. Some municipalities are moving toward a greater use of recycled waste water as a means to stretch supply. It sounds good in theory, but how far should it go?

I'm prompted to consider the issue by a story reported in The Record, a paper in California's San Jaquin valley.

Submission + - Critical .mdb flaw Found - Microsoft may Never fix (beskerming.com) 4

Submitted by

SkiifGeek

on Monday November 19, 2007 @08:51AM

SkiifGeek writes: "When independent security researcher cocoruder found a critical bug with the JET engine, via the .mdb (Access) file format, he reported it to Microsoft, but Microsoft's response came as a surprise to him — it appears that Microsoft are not inclined to fix a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability with a data technology that is at the heart of a large number of essential business and hobby applications.

Where should vendors be required to draw the line when supporting deprecated file formats and technology? In this case, leaving a serious vulnerability active in a deprecated technology could have serious effects if an exploit were to target it, but it is a matter of finding the right balance of security and usability such that Microsoft's users are not exposed to too great a danger for continuing to use Microsoft products."