Presenting The CDR-ROM

nachoboy writes "Here's a cool new idea: the CDR-ROM. Allows a portion of the CD to be written and them mass produced, leaving the remaining area recordable by the user. It may sound funny, but if AOL started sending out CD's like this I might just start keeping them around."

Comments

speaking of aol...

[Anonymous Coward]

how's that million-cd march going along?

Re:speaking of aol...

[Shit...that's a good]

Around the Net

Apache on Windows Struggling?

One of the goals of Apache/2.0 was to better support operating systems other than Unix. While the Windows version of Apache/1.3 was advertised as experimental, it was hoped that in Apache/2.0 it would become much more widely established. However, since the first general release of Apache/2.0 there have been a string of security problems in the Windows (and other non-Unix) versions that may undermine confidence in the suitability of Apache for these platforms. msapache.gif

Windows Apache entries listed at mitre.org's common vulnerabilities database include directory traversal using dot-dot paths, revealing script source by appending invalid characters, and DOS device names causing a denial-of-service. The striking thing is that these are sterotypical vulnerabilities that over the years many other products have suffered from, and fixed. Apache developers will be disappointed that they were not able to learn from other people's mistakes sufficiently well to pre-empt the same vulnerabilities appearing in their own server.

In the current month's survey we find over 16,000 Apache Win32 sites on the 'Web which may be vulnerable to one of these problems.

Notwithstanding the security problems, the support for threading in Apache/2.0 is a major performance breakthrough for the Windows version and consquently sites using Apache on Windows have a bigger incentive to upgrade to version 2 than sites on Unix. This is reflected in the relative uptake of Apache/2.0: a little over 1% of all Apache sites are running version 2, but amongst Windows servers the proportion is over 7%.

World's second largest vendor of Windows machines chooses NT4 for Web Site What reason might Dell give for running www.dell.co.uk on NT4?

* When we say "Upgrade!" you must do what we say, not do what we do
* We're still waiting for our order to be delivered
* It's not broke, and we dont need to fix it.
* We're less of a target for attackers. There's no kudos in hacking anything more than 5 years old.
* We've been evaluating Linux, and have not yet reached a decision.
* It's just the front end machines. Everything else has been running Windows 2003 for months. Honest!
* The cobblers children didnt have shoes, either.
* That site doesnt see a lot of traffic. It just redirects to www.euro.dell.com
* If you think that running NT4 doesnt do a lot for our product advocacy, then you haven't seen what our evil competitor runs

www.byteandswitch.com reboots after two years

Last month we pointed out a Windows 2000 site that had gone over two years without a reboot.

Unfortunately, www.byteandswitch.com's proud run came to an end coinciding with the SQL-Slammer worm at the end of January.

Reports and Interactive Queries Reports are provided showing server usage for the Internet as a whole, and for selected domains, with links to all the sites responding to the survey. A facility for you to check what server a particular site is running now is also available. The same form can be used to ensure that a particular site is included in future surveys. A directory of sites running in developer domains is also provided, while the sites discovered by the survey can be explored.

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[PyrotekNX]

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FP!

[ericmc42]

Suck it, BITCH!

fp ma niggz

[Anonymous Coward]

Suck it down Debian bizn0tch3s!!!!!1111!!!

Mr Rogers Dead at 74

[Anonymous Coward]

I just read some sad news on the internet - reknowned childrens TV host and christian minister Mr. Rogers was found dead in his Maine home this morning. Stomach cancer, they said. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon. (No, Really!)

s/mr rogers// && print

Re:Mr Rogers Dead at 74

[Anonymous Coward]

If by "real discussion" you mean a bunch of people rephrasing the same boring sentiments, sure.

"It made me sad to hear of Mr. Rogers' passing. Such a kind and gentle man, truly one of a kind. I feel like I lost a friend."

"Now, at the ripe old age of thirty-five, I can see just how much better his show was than most of the half-hour toy commercials and anime that pass for children's programming nowadays. Bye, Fred. You will be missed."

"If each of us got to one-tenth the grace of Fred Rogers, that'd be a fantastic run indeed. "

"What is wrong with the world and my view of it when I somehow can't accept that someone that sincerely wholesome and so totally secure can actually exist in front of a television camera?! God bless Fred Rogers, and may God help me and the other jaded cynics on our journeys into the Land of Make Believe."

Christ! Gag me with a fucking stuffed animal, already. Ah, here we go:

gparizot: "I noticed Fred Rogers died from reading Yahoo! news this morning."
jackal: "Wow, I didn't know Yahoo! news was that awful. I'll be sure just to stick to Google news from now on! "

(all comments property of their respective owners, reproduced with written permission from each, in accordance with DMCA Section x509-501c3.)

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[Anonymous Coward]

fifth post!

Do you like humping trees?

[Anonymous Coward]

Then you'll love this tree-humping website!!!!!

YOU ARE A FAILURE!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't have the YOU FAIL IT account so this will have to do.

Re:What would be better

[ericmc42]

Dude!!! My 9th grade physics teacher made that joke back in middle school!!

Yeah......and it wasn't funny then either...

Not a troll--he actually is dead.

[SexyTr0llGal]

I saw this right before I went to bed, it's sad news indeed. It definately deserves a front page Slashdot story.

Re:Not a troll--he actually is dead.

[Anonymous Coward]

I know! I submitted the above text under "news", now we wait...

he's right, you know.

[Anonymous Coward]

this is not a joke.
although it's pretty funny.

Sad News ... Fred Rodgers dead at 74

[Lethyos]

I just heard some sad news on public radio - star of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood and community advocate Fred Rodgers was found dead in his Pittsburgh home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him -- even if you didn't enjoy his television show, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

Re:Sad News ... Fred Rodgers dead at 74

[noitalever]

especially considering all the OTHER false news they print...

Shawn

Re:Sad News ... Fred Rodgers dead at 74

[Anonymous Coward]

(Score:-1, Sad)

Stephen King died too.

NOW LET'S ALL GET DRUNK AND PLAY PINGPONG

[Anonymous Coward]

yay!

EBAY is DOWN!!!

[noitalever]

ok, so totally off topic, but is ebay down? the page comes up but no items...

do a search for anything and try to click on the item...

Shawn

Re:EBAY is DOWN!!!

[ericmc42]

HOLY LIVING FUCK!

Dear god no, not ebay!!

Re:EBAY is DOWN!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

no, but totally off topic, I really hate Cheerios. HTH, HAND.

Re:EBAY is DOWN!!!

[noitalever]

Thank you for that inspirational message, had I but a handful of mod points, I would send you to Karma heaven...

Re:Not a bad idea! Units conversion

[sazim]

OFF-TOPIC

"Tons of people.."

Always interesting that people use a mass descripter to indicate a quantity of people.

1 Ton of people = 13 people (@ 75kg each)

Re:Canada Rejoices!

[Shrubbman]

CDRs are like 40-50 cents a piece (Canadian!!!), with the levy (well, if you buy in bulk/spindles). I'm not too crazy about the levy myself, but God man its only a few cents per disc, overstating it to such proportions does nothing but breed hysteria.