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Prince Says Internet Is Over 450

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @10:18AM from the it-was-fun-while-it-lasted dept.

the_arrow writes "According to the artist currently known as Prince, 'The internet's completely over.' At least that what he says in an interview with the British newspaper Mirror. Quoting Prince: 'The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.'"

How To Replace FileVault With EncFS 65

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 14, 2010 @04:14PM from the for-secretive-tweakers dept.

agoston.horvath writes "I've written a HOWTO on replacing Mac OS X's built-in encryption (FileVault) with the well-known FUSE-based EncFS. It worked well for me, and most importantly: it is a lot handier than what Apple has put together. This is especially useful if you are using a backup solution like Time Machine. Includes Whys, Why Nots, and step-by-step instructions."

Music By Natural Selection 164

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 21, 2009 @03:57PM from the survival-of-the-grooviest dept.

maccallr writes "The DarwinTunes experiment needs you! Using an evolutionary algorithm and the ears of you the general public, we've been evolving a four bar loop that started out as pretty dismal primordial auditory soup and now after >27k ratings and 200 generations is sounding pretty good. Given that the only ingredients are sine waves, we're impressed. We got some coverage in the New Scientist CultureLab blog but now things have gone quiet and we'd really appreciate some Slashdotter idle time. We recently upped the maximum 'genome size' and we think that the music is already benefiting from the change."

Comment setup a honeynet and queueing (Score 3, Interesting) 87

by pr0m on Saturday November 12, 2005 @05:50AM (#14014626) Attached to: How Can You Screw up a Network?

setup a honeynet on a network that connects to the internet through the same router as your private lan. i found this challenging because i had to think of the worse case scenarios to mitigate with the firewall on the router. be sure to implement a working queue with altq so that your private network gets a higher priority than the honeynet on outbound traffic. it's also interesting because you learn about how "hackers", "crackers", and "script kiddies" launch attacks and what they do with the machines that they take over.

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