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Comment Not really an answer just input (Score 1) 349

by likuidkewl (#40505737) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: VPN Service For a Deployed US Navy Ship?

After being deployed for nine months aboard a US carrier a few years back I can completely understand where the want for an external network is coming from. I assume you are looking for a in-port solution, at sea this is completely against IT policy. I would get in-touch with the MWR rep they may be able to pull some strings back home.

Comment Use semi-current infection location to be worth it (Score 1) 366

by likuidkewl (#33819490) Attached to: Simple Virus For Teaching?

So with this type of example in today's computing world, I would suggest a simple program that is autorun at start say in the registry under windows/current version/run or the like. it could write a copy of itself to the temp folder and check every 5 seconds to see if the key or file has been modified/removed. This can all be done easily with say a vbs/batch/pshel script.

example location:
HKLM\software\microsoft\windows\current version\run\

Just keep say the main copy in %TEMP% and try to keep persistence in the %windir%.....The possibilities are endless

and using $ for variables was awful i will $variable any day!

If I effed up the Windows registry locales, sorry. I don't use windows much anymore.
Apple

Submission + - Apple RAISES eBook Prices for Everyone

Submitted by Nom du Keyboard
Nom du Keyboard writes: I was informed by my publisher this week that they would have to raise my eBook prices because they planned to sell them through the Apple iBooks store. How could this happen? A lot of my individual stories sell in the $1 to $3 range, which is well within the impulse purchase amount for many people. In this price range a 50 cent price difference may well be the difference between a purchase and a pass. Meanwhile Apple is touting their new "Agency Model" whereby the publishers set the prices. However, it seems that Apple requires books sold in their iBook store have prices ending in .99 – nothing else. Furthermore, Apple requires that if you sell books through them that you absolutely cannot sell them for less through anyone else. To my understanding Amazon also requires this, so Apple and Amazon prices should be identical in the future, but Amazon doesn't force prices to end in .99. What this means is that an eBook that the author was quite happy to sell for $2.29 or $2.49 is now going to cost you $2.99 from everybody. While that sounds like only a few extra cents, it adds up over time and can lead to resentment against author for charging higher prices, even though they have little real control over pricing. I, for one, do not understand why Apple computers only understand numbers ending in .99, or just how Apple is making it better for the consumer this way.

Comment LTSP (Score 1) 349

by likuidkewl (#31892246) Attached to: Virtualizing Workstations For Common Hardware?

I don't exactly know what you are looking to accomplish, but aside from spending money to make the machine identical, you can look into LTSP or the OpenSuse version Life. These allow your normal workstations to boot over the network and then depending on what you are looking to accomplish you can have them call a Terminal services session or just use the Linux distribution that is loaded. 20 Workstations are a breeze for 1 4CPU/8GB ram server especially with the progress of local apps on the client side. Have a look :)

Submission + - Scientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Entropy98
Entropy98 writes: From the article: "Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers — skin and lung — a move they say could revolutionise cancer care.

Not only will the cancer maps pave the way for blood tests to spot tumours far earlier, they will also yield new drug targets, say the Wellcome Trust team. The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma contained more than 30,000 errors almost entirely caused by too much sun exposure.

The lung cancer DNA code had more than 23,000 errors largely triggered by cigarette smoke exposure.

From this, the experts estimate a typical smoker acquires one new mutation for every 15 cigarettes they smoke.

Although many of these mutations will be harmless, some will trigger cancer."

Yet another step towards curing cancer. Though it will probably take many years to study so many mutations. My moneys still on viruses as the cure for cancer.

Submission + - What does everyone use for task/project tracking? 4

Submitted by
JerBear0
JerBear0 writes: "I work as the sole IT employee at a company of about 50 people. I handle programming, support, pretty much anything that is IT related, or even that plugs in. As seems to be true with many small companies, the priorities seem to shift quite frequently. As a result, I've always got multiple programming (both new systems and improvements/changes to existing systems), integration, research, maintenance tasks/projects on my To Do list, in varying stages of completion. At any given time, I need to be able to jump back to one of these items and pick up where I left off.

I am currently using Outlook Tasks, and then end up referencing my notebook and email for those dates to figure out exactly where I left off. It works, but not well. If its been a while, I'll end up losing an hour or two just tracking everything down. I looked at using MS Project / OpenProj, but they want an individual file for each project, and I want at least the project/task list all on one screen.

Essentially what I'd want would be a Task List on steroids, allowing for hierarchal subtasks, attachments, and prioritization. Ideally it would be a desktop app, but a locally-hostable web app would be okay. In some of these projects I may want to include proprietary information, which I really don't want floating out in the cloud outside of my control.

I know I'm not alone in this problem, so what do you guys (gals) use to address this?"
NASA

Submission + - New Hubble Ultra Deep Field in infrared (hubblesite.org)

Submitted by Hynee
Hynee writes: Just in time for Christmas, HubbleSite has released a Hubble Ultra Deep Field redux. The original was in visible light, this version, five years on, is in infrared (1.05, 1.25 and 1.6 um).

The observation is in support of the upcoming JWST which will observe exclusively in infrared, but the newly installed WFC3 does seem to provide some extra resolution over the 2004 visible observations with WFC2.

All the mainstream media has picked up on this, but strangely not even a tweet from NASA or any of its centers. (There's been one tweet in the last 12 hours, I wonder if they're reviewing their tweeting policy. Maybe they finally decided their tweetups were dumb. No text releases either, maybe too close to the holidays.)

Good luck in comparing observations, this new release covers a region about 70% x 70% of the original, aligned with the top left corner (the North corner).

Submission + - Microsoft applies for patent on Tufte's sparklines (blogspot.com) 1

Submitted by jenkin sear
jenkin sear writes: Data Visualization Guru Edward Tufte developed Sparklines, a great way to display condensed data as an inline graphic. Excel's new version has incorporated the design element- and Microsoft has applied for a patent on them- without so much as a by-your-leave from Tufte. So much for a kinder, gentler Microsoft.

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