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Comment Re:Mistake after mistake after mistake (Score 1) 97

by pOwl on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:32AM (#60314011) Attached to: Samsung Blu-ray Players Reportedly Bricked By XML Parsing Error

Did you read the article? That downloaded file was valid XML file. The problem was that it did not contain data they expected it will always contain. They did not check existence of nodes and blindly requested them. And, by the way, they ARE using libxml2 to parse those files.

Comment Re:Google Translate (Score 1) 676

by pOwl on Thursday November 18, 2010 @04:00PM (#34272806) Attached to: Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle?

As far I know russian. Google translated it correctly.

5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed 153

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 18, 2009 @06:33PM from the floor-to-floor dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Most people who can't or won't hardwire for broadband have an obvious alternative: Wi-Fi. Unfortunately, there can be architectural anomalies between floors or even between rooms that can interfere with Wi-Fi signals, resulting in spotty, or even dead, signals. So what do you do? Well, you can try using a powerline device. Computerworld reviewer Bill O'Brien tests powerline units from Belkin, D-Link, Linksys, Netgear and Zyxel, and compares their performance to that of his wired and wireless setups."

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