zivan56 - Slashdot User

Comment What's the point? (Score 1) 131

by zivan56 on Friday December 28, 2012 @03:14AM (#42409405) Attached to: Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic

Just wait a few years and let nature do it for you....

Comment What about Intuit Profile? (Score 1) 304

by zivan56 on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @12:10AM (#40825339) Attached to: How Intuit Manages 10 Million Lines of Code

They don't mention Profile anywhere, which is even more horrible than Quickbooks. Last time I had to support it I remember downloading dozens of VB runtime files...

Comment good riddance (Score 1) 694

by zivan56 on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @02:23AM (#31906976) Attached to: Why Computer Science Students Cheat

As a computing science major, I have seen a number of people with absurdly high GPAs and work experience at major corporations (RIM, Business Objects, etc) that couldn't code a simple app if their life depended on it. So I would have to agree with the article...I hope more is done to catch such people who jeopardize honest peoples degrees.

Comment Re:Way to expensive! (Score 1) 155

by zivan56 on Thursday September 07, 2006 @09:17PM (#16063520) Attached to: Toronto Hydro Launches Free Wi-Fi Network

I can already do this, thanks to my local "Linksys" community ;) I guess for some people there will be benefits, but with cheap access to computers/free wifi everywhere, I don't see why anybody would pay for this. Not to mention the headache it will cause with information being transmitted in a non-encrypted form (leading to all sorts of problems)

SanDisk Baits Apple And Woos Rockbox 374

Posted by Zonk on Friday June 02, 2006 @03:20PM from the i-like-apes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "CNET reports that SanDisk is courting open source developers to port Rockbox to its popular MP3 players. SanDisk is currently the world's second most popular MP3 player manufacturer after Apple. Rockbox is an open source OS for most major MP3 players. The article also talks about SanDisk's subversive new anti-iPod advertising campaign which calls iPod owners 'iChimps' and uses a 'street graffiti style' to create the illusion of a 'counter-culture uprising against the iPod'. The writer says, 'SanDisk is the first company to market its player as an ideological rather than technological alternative to the iPod. To do so is to fight Apple on their own terms.'"

Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI 564

Posted by Hemos on Monday March 27, 2006 @10:23AM from the all-in-a-morning's-work dept.

the_harlequin writes "The Register is reporting that a city manager threatened to call the FBI over a misconfigured webserver. From the article: "The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker CentOS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's hosting provider had simply botched a web server." "

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