Comment Re:Oracle ? (Score 0) 666
Because you cannot get ULN updates without a support 'subscription', so you're advising people to simply go unpatched until they find it necessary to pony up money to do so?
Comment Re:Support them from your own money (Score 0) 666
5) Oracle Enterprise Linux is cheaper than RHEL, and in some ways better. The yum repo's are open and free, and they offer support that cost less then RHEL, and it can be purchased per incident instead of a subscription.
The yum repos are free from Oracle? Since when? They do the same thing RH does, charges you to access them via a yearly subscription fee. Though, yes I can get 3 years of ULN for the price of 1 year of RHN.
Comment Meh... (Score 0) 282
I bought 6 Seagate Savvio 300GB (2.5" SAS 10k spin) drives yesterday. They were $199 (relatively cheap) and now are $267 or higher at most eTailers.
I'm sure most of it's fear mongering but some "analysts" have suggested it may take "several quarters" for the drive mfg's to recover from this. So I figured why chance it and bought what I needed rather than deal with potential inflation for 2 years.
Comment Re:$200 phone, $200 hearing aid (Score 0) 698
Interesting link. Thanks for that.
Comment Re:Since no one ever buys them... (Score 0) 698
Most insurance plans do not cover purchases of hearing aids.
MOST? Almost none do. I wear a HA and I've come out of pocket about 7 grand in the last 10 years.
Submission + - Virginia Says Slashdot Users May Be Terrorists 6
megamerican writes: A leaked document from a Virginia Fusion Center titled 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment lists Slashdot users and other websites alongside Al-Qaeda, HAMAS, "Lone-Wolf Extremists" and many others as potential terrorists. Slashdot and other websites have been labeled under the ominous sounding title of Anonymous:
A "loose coalition of Internet denizens", Anonymous consists largely of users from multiple internet sites such as 4chan, 711chan, 420chan, Something Awful, Fark, Encyclopedia Dramatica, Slashdot, IRC channels, and YouTube. Other social networking sites are also utilized to mobilize physical protests. Anonymous has no leader and is reliant on the collective power of individuals acting in such a way that benefits the movement.
According to the Report, cell phones, digital music players are signs that you may be a terrorist. It lists podcasting as a cause for concern citing a recent ban by Australia. Citizens for a legitimate government, where the document was leaked to has a write-up here.
Comment Unimpressed by Roomba (Score 0) 243
I was largely unimpressed by a Roomba Scheduler I bought at Best Buy last year, so I took it back. I have a 1400 square foot house, and mainly I wanted it to take care of the main area (kitchen/living room). This thing would get down one of my hallways that is maybe 4 feet wide and 8 feet deep (leading to a bathroom and bedroom) and circle endlessly in that hall because it couldn't figure out how to get out.
It would also get stuck on a floor(tile or wood) to an area rug transition, it couldn't climb it but it could get down it.
Queue the "DO NOT WANT" broccoli dog.
It would also get stuck on a floor(tile or wood) to an area rug transition, it couldn't climb it but it could get down it.
Queue the "DO NOT WANT" broccoli dog.
OLPC Manufacturer to Sell $200 Laptop On Open Market 214
srinravi writes "ArsTechnica reports that Quanta, the company manufacturing the XO laptops, has plans to begin selling low-cost budget mobile computers for $200 later this year. 'According to Quanta president Michael Wang, the company plans to leverage the underlying technologies associated with OLPC's XO laptop to produce laptop computers that are significantly less expensive than conventional laptops.' While OLPC plans to sell the laptops in bulk to governments, which will then distribute the hardware to school children, the XO computer itself is not for sale on the open market. These XO-like commercial devices are still something of an unknown, but it has been announced they'll be using Open Source software."
Windows Vulnerability in Animated Cursor Handling 338
MoreDruid writes "Secunia reports a vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling. According to the linked article, the rating is "extremely critical". Microsoft has put up their own advisory on the subject, confirming this is a vulnerability that affects Windows 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. The exploit has already been used in the wild. From the Secunia page: The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error in the handling of animated cursors and can e.g. be exploited by tricking a user into visiting a malicious website using Internet Explorer or opening a malicious e-mail message. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code."
Submission + - Students sue anti-plagiarism service
jazzbazzfazz writes: It seems that some students in Virginia are not happy with the anti-plagiarism service Turnitin. The company checks prose submitted by its customers for signs that it has been copied in whole or part by comparing it to a large database of works that it maintains.
Trouble is, it also adds the submitted prose to its files and stores it for use by the company in future scans, which the students feel is illegal use of their copyrighted materials. I think they've got an excellent case, especially since they seem to have prepared for this eventuality: they're A-students, never been accused of plagiarism, and they formally copyrighted their papers prior to their submission to Turnitin.
Anyone out there know there copyright laws?
Submission + - Dyson preparing a Roomba killer?
Anonymous Coward writes: "New Scientist's technology blog reports that Dyson, the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner, is recruiting robotics engineers. They're looking for people with experience of machine vision and mobile robots that create their own maps. Are Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?"
Is KDE 4.0 the Holy Grail of Desktops? 511
An anonymous reader writes "With KDE 4.0 being expected some time this year, expectation runs high in the linux/unix users camp and the media read a lot between the lines of what the KDE developers say and do. In some ways KDE will provide a standard as to how a desktop should look and behave. This interesting article wonders whether KDE 4.0 will become the complete desktop which will meet the needs of a wide cross section of computer users. One of the common complaints that some Linux users have over KDE is that it is too cluttered. And by addressing this need without putting off the power users, the KDE developers could make it an all in one Desktop. Keep in mind that KDE 4.0 is based on Qt 4.0 and so can be easily ported to Windows and other OSes too which makes this thought doubly relevant."
Torvalds "Pretty Pleased" With Latest GPLv3 295
Novus Ordo Seclorum writes "According to CNet, Linus Torvalds is 'pretty pleased' with the current GPL v3 draft. He said, 'Unlike the earlier drafts, it at least seems to not sully the good name of the GPL any more.' After his earlier criticism, some had questioned whether such controversies would lead to rifts in the community, especially if the kernel ended up under a different license than the GNU tools. But with the latest revisions, Linus will entertain moving the kernel over to the GPL v3."
Making OpenBSD Binary Patches With Chroot 66
Lawrence Teo writes "Unlike other operating systems, patches for the OpenBSD base system are distributed as source code patches. These patches are usually applied by compiling and installing them onto the target system. While that upgrade procedure is well documented, it is not suitable for systems that don't have the OpenBSD compiler set installed for whatever reason, such as disk-space constraints. To fill this gap, open source projects like binpatch were started to allow administrators to create binary patches using the BSD make system. This article proposes an alternative method to build binary patches using a chroot environment in an attempt to more closely mirror the instructions given in the OpenBSD patch files."
Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel Transparently 55
An anonymous reader writes "To debug the FreeBSD kernel core dump efficiently, it is best to set up a remote debugging session between a development machine and the target machine, and remotely debug the kernel using serial communication. This article shows you how you can debug as many kernel images as you want; it becomes transparent to users once debugging starts, and your system's performance is not affected at all."
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