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Comment Wiki infrastructure (Score 1) 176

I am wondering since a long time, why the Arch wiki does contain so much more (high-quality) content than the Debian wiki, although the developer and user base of Debian should be much higher.

One reason also here could be infrastructure. The Arch wiki

-> https://wiki.archlinux.org/

is a mediawiki instance, which looks much more attractive than Debian's wiki

-> https://wiki.debian.org/

which is a moinmoin wiki instance. I can understand that the motivation of users and developers is higher if they can create something beautiful.

Are the other reasons for the quality difference?

Comment GPU support is the main issue (Score 1) 24

I am using the i.MX6 inside the cubox-i from SolidRun. It works nicely and very stable as a home server with a standard linux distro (I use an unmodifie Debian 8.0). It has 2 USB ports, gigabit ethernet (which delivers around 500 MBit), and even an eSATA port. Also Openelec dirstibutes a nice image with Kodi for the (higher-end versions of the) Cubox-i.

My main painpoint is the lack of open source support for the GPU. This makes it pain to use it with a display and keyboard as very low power desktop. If that part would be fixed, I would be happy to get more i.MX6 systems.

Comment Re:Wouldn't really matter (Score 1) 447

I am wondering if safety is improved, if we go one step further:

We want to have internet on the plane, why could we not stream video and audio to the ground continously.
It is only used, if the pilots do not respond at all, and if there is no doubt that things go wrong in the plane, the flight ground control can take contol over the plane.

This needs to be a well defined process with several people involved and the control part of the communication clearly needs to be secure.

Comment W32.Blaster caused power outage? (Score 1) 1074

The German newsticker Heise reports that National Grid USA is a reference customer of Northern Dynamics. Northern Dynamics denote themselves on their homepage "Home of the OPC Experts". OPE stands for "OLE for Process Control", which uses Microsofts COM/DCOM. And this one has the security hole used by W32.Blaster.

They think, that affected machines do a frequent reboot and thus communication in the National Grid USA is made impossible and the grid might go down.

More details are in the report on heise:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ju-15. 08.03-00 1/

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