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  1. My experiance with Oracle. on Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? · · Score: 1

    Installing and testing.
    I installed Oracle a few times and played with it. I didn't put a proper shutdown method in the shutdown scripts and there was also a mishap while testing the UPS. Both times I was unable to recover the Oracle database and had to reinstall. I had never had that much trouble with mysql. I installed it for someone else that had an Oracle expert and they where able to recover when we had a similar mishap there but all the googling in the world is nearly useless without a properly trained Oracle administrator. I'd suggest sticking with a database where the documentation is fully available and many many more people that can help you. There are easy free forums for mysql, maraiadb and postgresql.

  2. This is extreamly unfair. on Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind · · Score: 1

    First off: Why does it need to? Its a desktop OS the buisness aspect is minimal as a domain. The amount they charge vs usefullness is a bit over bearing any sufficent admin should look into samba and make do. It is easyier dealing with users with a Microsoft Server but I don't see it as a necessity. The new versions are getting better with command line tools you can use in scripting. But they lack so much in making scripting easy that it is a pain to get things all the way you want. How hard it was getting printer settings via having to create registry entries for example is just a bit of crap. Even on the buisness side it really doesn't need to be. Secondly: There are millions more linux programs all greed(good greedy) in their own right of what they want in a kernel. Some benifit from others and even companies that have steake in it to make it better for all sorts of crazy reasons. Thirdly: What difference would it make for Windows? They aren't after that aspect of the market. With linux being capable of getting free and replicating at no extra cost for super computers. Trying to come in now and sell something just doesn't make sense.

  3. China may just be a stepping stone for Hackers. on China Behind 96% of All Cyber-Espionage Data Breaches, Verizon Report Claims · · Score: 2

    While watching ssh brute force on some of my systems I found myself blocking whole subnets based in China. I also discovered some in the US. Long before this one of my machines (old slax bootable CD) at home had been attacked itself and used as a stepping stone for hacker for the few hours it had gone unnoticed, a slow internet has the advantage of when I hacker was on it would get unbearably slow. I rebuilt that machine even looking for MBR trojans. However a sufficiently fast internet might not be bogged down enough for people to notice and hackers can use machines as stepping stones. Couldn't we give China the benefit of doubt and suspect they are hacked? Just a thought.

  4. How did it pass the House? on CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto · · Score: 1

    Fact: The Tea Party is against the bill.

  5. Concious about energy. on Why Earth Hour Is a Waste of Time and Energy · · Score: 1

    Hell even the hour without light does save some. I know I'm not the most conservative about energy but it was proven that it takes less energy to turn off and on a light even for minutes then leaving the light on even CFLs. I think it was on mythbusters. I leave a computer on at home 24/7 as a DVR and as a complete home server. This waists a lot of energy. If I could afford it I'd put more efficient stuff in it. I consider it a necessity. Unplugging all devices would increase the electricity saving. All smart home stuff like x10 and others uses a small amount of power to be able to turn items on and off. Computers that can be turned on via ethernet use power to watch for the magic packet. There are no modern convinces that don't waist some amount of power. Maybe get solar powered outside lights to read a book for a few hours and flip the main breaker to the house would save the most electricity. If your family does it enough you can lower your electric bill to.

  6. They Live app on Developers Begin Hunt For a Killer App For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Makes everyone with an iphone look like an alien.

  7. Sloth Pit anyone? on New Process Takes Energy From Coal Without Burning It · · Score: 1

    In the early 90's I remember reading a Poular Mechanics or maybe Scientific America talking about cheapest ways of getting hydrogen for fuel cells. One method mentioned was using coal in a Sloth Pit. Something about adding water with it and shacking it to release hydrogen gas or something.

  8. A better way. on SSH Password Gropers Are Now Trying High Ports · · Score: 1

    I have my ssh port blocked with iptables. I have a script that reads email once a minute. If I type the write stuff in the email and the email comes from me (my email provider does good with emails claiming to come from me and acctually comming from someplace else I tested it they go to junk) it unblocks port 22 for the ip address I specify in the email. I use fetchmail to download new emails I use the standard "mail" program to pick off the first email and I parse the email for all the commands I type in. I check in on it from time to time and have never seen anyone attempting to even send emails that will open ports. I originally went one step further using pgp on both sides(encrypting then decrypting) but sending from my phone got to hard with pgp.

  9. name ideas on Vote To Name Two Newly Discovered Moons of Pluto · · Score: 1

    Rock1 and Pebble1

  10. Oh nooo!!!! on IBM's Watson Goes To College To Extend Abilities · · Score: 1

    He'll come out owing hundreds of thousands of dollars. With an attitude of "I'm better than you." And end up in a job at Mc Donald's.

  11. Where is the gaurd tower? on Lego Accused of Racism With Star Wars Set · · Score: 1

    Where is the guard tower and laser guns? Where are the big green guards with Axes?

  12. Say What? on Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" · · Score: 1

    That's one of the dumbest things I have heard. Oops you found a hole and pointed it out your expelled.

  13. Move Kelvin? on Quantum Gas Goes Below Absolute Zero · · Score: 1

    I thought if they have replicable results showing a lower temperature that they where suppose to update the Kelvin scales adjustment so that the lowest temperature is zero.

  14. What about Red Hat's method? on Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you could get a signed boot loader for $100 like what Red Hat is doing for the x86_64 architecture.

  15. My idea for cooking a turkey. on Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey? · · Score: 1

    Cook it over a Rubins tube. Point the rubins tube at about 45 degrees over an empty area and place the turkey in its cooking area on a roticery. This way any drippings fall over the open area. I don't know of anyone that has tried this but it should work.

  16. showing links infects computers? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 1

    That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard, well maybe not the dumbest but pretty dumb. QR codes are no different then simple bar codes. It is just a way to store information. What some program does with the information is up to the programmer.

  17. 64 is a bad number for switching ugh. on University Team Builds Lego and Raspberry Pi Cluster · · Score: 1

    Finding switches to do this would just suck. Most home switches are 8 port. So if you buy 9, 8 port switches and one 16 port 10 gig switch plug 7 in each of the first 9 switches that would get you to 63 that would leave one to plug into the hub. Plus each 8 port would need to be gig unless you can buy switches with single gig. or 4, 16 port gig switches with a ten gig uplink to a 10 gig switch any way you need enough to plug in all 64 +1 for the head node. any which way this is a switching nightmare. The head node needs a 10 gig so that it can handle all 64 nodes at 100 mbps. Each set of 8 gets close to a gig network traffic for the head node. so 64 nodes is 6400 mbps that is why I say 10 gig. Maybe I'm missing something but it seems complicated.

  18. Re:News Flash on Study Shows Marijuana Use In Teens Correlates To Decreasing IQ · · Score: 1

    The problem how I see it is that as they claim they can not overdose so they just keep admitting the drug. This continues to do damage. From what I have seen they don't just smoke a little they fill the room. My only close experiance was I had to help a friend move out of a place where his room mates where lighting it up. It can be smelled a block away in most cases I have come across with how far I smell it I doubt they are doing just a little.

  19. Math is a very broad subject on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 1

    I think every one uses it at some level. There are many abstract ideas in math that apply everywhere. Like the concept of transativity. Addition is certainly used by everyone. You add in combinding things. Learning computer science has brought me to a new understanding of what math really is. Math is more than number and symbols. Some of us see it better in numbers and symbols and computers certainly can only really understand things as binary represented numbers.

  20. One more correction: AOL and bigger ISPs made it. on Correcting the Record: the Government's Role In the Internet · · Score: 1

    Without the selling and usage the internet would have never been. Without contributing hardware and money to stay interconnected the ISPs would have just been isolated hubs. Before ISPs the internet was only a pipe dream. If AOL or companies like it had never existed the disinterest would have continued and the internet would have been a flop. Love it or hate the same goes for Microsoft and the computer.

  21. I know its cheating but ... on World's Hardest Sudoku · · Score: 1

    I typed it up in the format that the commandline program sudoku couls understand and it solved it flatout. I made a file with the following %World's hardest sudoku: can you crack it? 8........ ..36..... .7..9.2.. .5...7... ....457.. ...1...3. ..1....68 ..85...1. .9....4.. then ran it like so sudoku -n hardest_suduko.txt you can cheat using v solves instantly even with a slow computer.

  22. The jpeg aspect. on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1
  23. Arguments sack. on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Not the same network. Comcast's connections to the rest of internet costs them money to use. They have the right to charge extra for off network traffic.

  24. Major contributors to climate change on Ex-NASA Employees Accuse Agency of 'Extreme Position' On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Air conditioners and black top roads contribute an awful lot to climate change. I still wonder if evaporative cooling is really worse for the environment or better than refrigerated air. The amount of extra electricity in the fan and usage of clean water it puts water vapor to the environment (which might even help). vs heating the outside air more to cool down the inside via using a compressor with lots of electricity to use. I think cement roads contribute less to warming than black tops.

  25. Gives me some ideas on The Pirate Bay Plans Servers In the Sky · · Score: 1

    Small subs that go down deep enough to avoid the turbulence at the surface but shallow enough that it could use solar power and use sonar for communications. People could drop mics and speakers in the sea for a water based internet even. Or even blimps from an air tube (along with needed wires) tether that the under water subs could use as an antenna. and refill the blimps with hydrogen from electrolysis. The blimps could probably be used for the solar array as well.