mitoyarzun - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 67

by mitoyarzun on Monday February 13, 2012 @10:03AM (#39018301) Attached to: Twitter Gets Satellite Access

After the 2010 earthquake in Chile, I remember a guy who got stuck in a room and the phone lines were collapsed. The HSPA network was still alive, and he tweeted where he was and that he needed help. I don't know if he would've died, but it surely helped him.

Comment Re:Beta (Score 1) 142

by mitoyarzun on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:23PM (#38958935) Attached to: Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta

Good point, but I don't think that beta applies... or at least remove it sooner. Remember Gmail Beta?

Comment Beta (Score 1) 142

by mitoyarzun on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @04:17PM (#38958835) Attached to: Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta

Google should stop putting "beta" to their products, it's like we're going to see a 'final' version in the future.

Comment Anti-virus (Score 1) 175

by mitoyarzun on Wednesday February 10, 2010 @03:22AM (#31082764) Attached to: Re-Engineering the Immune System

It's all good until the 30-day trial period ends and they start showing popups...

Comment Re:HA!! Windows is at version 7 ALREADY !! Version (Score 1) 195

by mitoyarzun on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:47PM (#30314094) Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released

Windows is version 7. That's WAY MORE than linux. Linux suxors !! use old obsolete shit OS, dumasses to the max !!

I wish I had mod points, I find this funny!

Comment Re:full disclosure (Score 5, Informative) 85

by mitoyarzun on Tuesday November 17, 2009 @10:46PM (#30138830) Attached to: Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday

Here in Chile a guy reported the government about a serious bug on their outsourcing website (chilecompra.cl), they ignored him for months, and he made the bug public (you were able to know your competition's offer to the government just by changing a GET parameter).

He was condemned by a court for breaking the law, more info here (spanish)

What kind of action should one take in those cases? Has this happened before in other countries?

Comment Re:Hardware Virtualization needed. (Score 1) 315

by mitoyarzun on Friday May 08, 2009 @06:08PM (#27882885) Attached to: MS, Intel "Goofed Up" Win 7 XP Virtualization

Are you using SheepShaver or something else?

Open Source In Public K-12 Schools? 323

Posted by kdawson on Friday February 27, 2009 @12:35PM from the starting-'em-early dept.

MissMachine writes "I'm a computer science major who has been recently getting involved in local grassroots politics in my county and state. I've been discussing the idea with some of my state legislatures of submitting a couple of resolutions, opening up to the idea of switching to open source software in our state's K-12 schools. I'm looking for more information/literature about this topic, open source solutions in public K-12 education, pros and cons, studies that prove or disprove many of the assumptions of open source and linux in public schools. Any help in this field?"

Five PC Power Myths Debunked 551

Posted by timothy on Friday December 12, 2008 @10:35AM from the ones-much-easier-on-wires-than-zeros dept.

snydeq writes "Turning off PCs during periods of inactivity can save companies between $25 and $75 per PC per year, according to Energy Star, savings that can add up quickly for large organizations. Yet most organizations remain behind the times on PC power management, in large part due to common misperceptions about PC power, writes InfoWorld's Ted Samson, who outlines five PC power myths debunked in a recent report from Forrester, ranging from the energy savings of screen savers, to the energy draw of powering up, to the difficulties of issuing patches to systems in lower-power states."

An Open Source Coffee Machine 99

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @02:56PM from the quite-entirely-unlike-tea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free coffee during four days at Peak-System's booth, and has been donated to IUT of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, so that students can have fun practicing automation."

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