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Comment tell bruce (Score 1) 180

by the positive path on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:19PM (#58227156) Attached to: Deflecting an Asteroid Will Be Harder Than Scientists Thought

Someone better tell Bruce Willis.

Comment o my (Score 1) 118

by the positive path on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @03:58PM (#58147060) Attached to: Emoji Are Showing Up in Court Cases Exponentially, and Courts Aren't Prepared

(sad face)

Comment Re:Where's the news for nerds in this? (Score 1) 159

by the positive path on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @05:24AM (#35427640) Attached to: Pocket Wars and Cores

alterslash.org

Comment Re:OK, for those not in the know. (Score 1) 115

by the positive path on Sunday November 29, 2009 @11:39AM (#30261628) Attached to: Record-Breaking Black Friday For eBay's PayPal

By Jove you've got it old man! Looking objectively at Black Friday as I do from up here in Canada (our Thanksgiving is spent in mid October mostly eating Turkey -- no shopping). However your point is well taken, as I see that almost all of our goods, as yours are all from foreign manufacturers. But services are always homegrown. Well done!

Comment Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... (Score 1) 254

by the positive path on Sunday September 13, 2009 @10:18AM (#29404903) Attached to: First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered

Agreed. And how about taking it one step further: Have Apache coders write the module that refuses to start the server if root password(s) are default. Period. There, that should help.

Comment Re:What providers? (Score 1) 258

by the positive path on Thursday February 12, 2009 @10:54PM (#26838495) Attached to: Microsoft Slaps $250K Bounty On Conficker Worm

Informative??? Funny maybe...but mod modder of parent -1 wtf

Comment Re:Dogbert (Score 1) 388

by the positive path on Tuesday February 10, 2009 @12:13PM (#26798303) Attached to: Slashdot.org Self-Slashdotted

Till we hear otherwise Slashdot still might have been slashdotted. Might be a while though...

Comment Woz - the apple of your i (Score 3, Funny) 183

by the positive path on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @11:39PM (#26733283) Attached to: Wozniak Accepts Post At a Storage Systems Start-Up

Good for Steve! The world needs more minds like his in the game.

On the State of Linux File Systems 319

Posted by kdawson on Saturday November 29, 2008 @04:45PM from the here-hold-this-for-me dept.

kev009 writes to recommend his editorial overview of the past, present and future of Linux file systems: ext2, ext3, ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, Reiser4, ext4, Btrfs, and Tux3. "In hindsight it seems somewhat tragic that JFS or even XFS didn't gain the traction that ext3 did to pull us through the 'classic' era, but ext3 has proven very reliable and has received consistent care and feeding to keep it performing decently. ... With ext4 coming out in kernel 2.6.28, we should have a nice holdover until Btrfs or Tux3 begin to stabilize. The Btrfs developers have been working on a development sprint and it is likely that the code will be merged into Linus's kernel within the next cycle or two."

Comment So how do we stop this? (Score 1) 120

by the positive path on Saturday November 08, 2008 @09:01AM (#25686891) Attached to: A Look At the CoreFlood Botnet

My bank has the random 3 questions plus password authentication scheme (Royal Bank Securities - Canada). I'm always wondering about the lax security, and when my account might be compromised. I bet if the bank calculated their total loses due to online fraud; then assumed RSA style token based authentication would reduce that by a significant amount, then wouldn't it make financial sense for them...?

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