kile.morgan - Slashdot User

Comment Email Rape (Score 1) 358

by kile.morgan on Monday November 02, 2015 @10:18PM (#50852641) Attached to: Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go?

The mailing list is golang-NUTS?? This is a perfect example of cis white male ableism patriarchy! As a non-binary fluid gender attack helicopter, nuts is a very offensive term, and I am a big deal in the North American culture-sphere so my opinion matters. Also as a club footed koala I find the term go ableist. I hope they do enact this CoC so I can join the mailing list and demand that they change the mailing group name to not offend my sensibilities! Golang-nuts, fuck you. http://tech.slashdot.org/story... https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... //end sarcastic rant

Verizon CTO Says 4G Service Is On Track 74

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 15, 2010 @06:31PM from the too-many-g's dept.

Verizon has announced that it is on track to roll out their new 4G LTE service using the 700 MHz band that it acquired in the recent FCC auction. Targeted first towards USB air cards for laptop customers, the service will be extended to cell phones and other mobile devices with embedded LTE eventually. Testing in Boston and Seattle should conclude in the next couple of months and commercial deployments should follow soon thereafter. "Lynch said getting voice to work over LTE has been particularly challenging. But that challenge is getting resolved as Verizon and other members of the GSMA announced Monday they are supporting a standard that uses IMS technology to deliver voice services over LTE. Still, more work needs to be done. Until a solution is complete, Verizon will use its CDMA network to provide voice services. And the LTE network will be used for data. Eventually, when voice over LTE becomes a reality, Verizon will use that technology. Verizon will also have to integrate EV-DO into its LTE offering to ensure that customers can switch to the 3G EV-DO network when the 4G LTE network is not available. Even though Verizon is being aggressive in building its network, it won't happen overnight."

German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names 859

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 14, 2009 @12:16PM from the aim-for-foot-and-pull-trigger dept.

Jason Levine writes "Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber killed a German actor in 1990. Now that they are out of prison, German law states that they can't be referred to by name in relation to the killings. Therefore, they have sued to get Wikipedia to remove their names from the Wikipedia article about the killings. The German edition of Wikipedia has already complied, but the English edition is citing US freedom of speech and a lack of presence in Germany as reasons why they don't need to remove the name. In a bit of irony, their lawyer e-mailed the NY Times: 'In the spirit of this discussion, I trust that you will not mention my clients' names in your article.'"

A Taste of FreeBSD With VirtualBSD 43

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @09:13AM from the touches-of-os-x dept.

ReeceTarbert writes "If you wanted to try FreeBSD but didn't have the right hardware, or enough time to make it useful on the desktop, VirtualBSD might fit the bill: it's a VMware appliance based on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE and features the Xfce 4 Desktop Environment and a few of the most common applications to make it very functional right out of the box. If you're curious you can have a look at the screenshots, or proceed to the download page and grab the torrent file right away. (Note: VirtualBSD also works in VirtualBox 2.x as long as you create a new virtual machine and select the virtual disk from the archive instead of creating a new one)."

Comment Overkill (Score 1) 545

by kile.morgan on Friday July 04, 2008 @11:22AM (#24059045) Attached to: What Is the Best Way To Disinfect Your Laptop?

I know this is slightly overkill but, a few weeks ago I got MRSA. I have a room mate that is/was very worried about getting anything so I got this stuff Pure Green 24. It uses silver ions and citric acid and kills everything. You can apply it to any non porous surface and after two minutes it has killed a whole slew of nasties.

How Would You Make a Distributed Office System? 218

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 21, 2008 @06:35PM from the ip-over-avian-carriers dept.

Necrotica writes "I work for a financial company which went through a server consolidation project approximately six years ago, thanks to a wonderful suggestion by our outsourcing partner. Although originally hailed as an excellent cost cutting measure, management has finally realized that martyring the network performance of 1000+ employees in 100 remote field offices wasn't such a great idea afterall. We're now looking at various solutions to help optimize WAN performance. Dedicated servers for each field office is out of the question, due to the price gouging of our outsourcing partner. Wide area file services (WAFS) look like a good solution, but they don't address other problems, such as authenticating over a WAN, print queues, etc. 'Branch office in a box' appliances look ideal, but they don't implement WAFS. So what have your companies done to move the data and network services closer to the users, while keeping costs down to a minimum?"

Wall Street Journal's Technology Innovation Awards 58

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 24, 2005 @01:54PM from the fun-places-to-work dept.

Carl Bialik writes "Gene-sequencing company 454 Life Sciences was selected as the Gold Winner in the Wall Street Journal's 2005 Technology Innovation Awards. 'Around 750 applications were screened by a Wall Street Journal editor, who narrowed the field to 104 semifinalists. Then a panel of expert judges from industry, research organizations and academia scored each entry and picked the winners.' (Listen to an MP3 clip on how the judges chose.) Other winners include a company that has developed a low-cost method for manufacturing RFID tags; Riverbed Technology's network appliances; Fujitsu's ID system that uses the veins in a person's palm instead of fingerprints; and the Agitator tool to debug code."

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