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  1. Directnic DNS moved out of NO on DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans · · Score: 1

    They briefly borked DNS (looked like a typo in the IP address), but appears they've got the DNS servers moved outside of the affected area, so if their last internet connection goes down, or they encounter internal problems (power, food, looting, etc), their DNS clients should stay up.

  2. it doesn't have to be annoying on How Voice Enhances Life Online · · Score: 1

    A good implementation, such as Fords F150 website, can be a powerful marketing tool, but a bad implementation can be horrible.

    When creating the tools in vobbo to embed video blogs in other sites, we went out of our way to create nice placeholders that were silent and bandwidth friendly UNTIL the user decided they were ready to get video and sound. This saves us bandwidth, and saves the user a potential annoyance. As with all things web related, its really the implementation that makes the difference

  3. Re:Maybe they need the money to get some engineers on VoIP Provider Vonage Planning IPO? · · Score: 1
  4. Maybe they need the money to get some engineers... on VoIP Provider Vonage Planning IPO? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who are smart enough not to use TFTP to download configuration and images, knowing full well that major internet operators block TFTP, and have for years.

  5. Re:wrong direction? on Robot Bat With Echolocation · · Score: 1

    Actually, you need more than one sensor before you can synthesize a 3D model... and because in echolocation, the sending sensor is not the same as receving sensor, you really need 4 sensors total.

    For light/video sensors, you'd need 2 cameras/lasers, plus you'd gain the ability to use edges and colors to identify meaningful objects...

  6. Re:Hmm... on Video Tombstones · · Score: 1

    More useful would be good-bye messages. Easy to do with video blog services like vobbo.

  7. Re:meh on Expert Network Time Protocol · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Agreed. It should be sufficient to point out a few facts:

    1) It's important
    2) You want to sync at least 2 internal machines to more than one outside system
    3) You want to have internal machines sync against your two internal machines from (2)

    The philosophy of time doesn't need to be in a book about NTP. Waste of paper, waste of print, waste of ... time.

  8. Give the guy some credit on Virtual Muggings in Lineage II · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's pretty clever.

  9. Re:not minimal on ZOTOB Not Quite as Bad as Expected? · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the record:

    The reason the risk to XP and 2k3 are minimal is that they require authentication for the particular vulnerability to be exploited, where Win2k can be exploited using a NULL session.

    Setting RestrictAnonymous=2 in the registry will disable null sessions and prevent infection on Win2k systems.

  10. Re:Video isn't Image on YouTube -- The Flickr of Video? · · Score: 1

    It's also has the potential to be much more meaningful - consider that it takes an amateur a great amount of time to learn the concepts that allow them to make 'great', meaningful photographs - composition, lighting, patience, whereas it takes only seconds to record a video of a baby stumbling around.

    Given the opportunity to send a few great pictures or a single quick video to friends and family, I'd choose video every time.

    And judging by the number of baby videos on vobbo, I'm not alone.

  11. Re:Not the first.... on YouTube -- The Flickr of Video? · · Score: 1

    Vobbo.com does the same sort of thing, but is focused more on video blogs - lots of tools for embedding video in other pages (such as MySpace). Also have direct webcam recording, ability to upload arbitrary filetypes, ability to post by video/camera phone, XML/RSS feeds for arbitrary search terms (if you want an RSS feed for every post mentioning 'puppy' or 'boobies', go for it), and the list goes on.

  12. Re:fantastic on Yahoo Passes Google in Total Items Searched · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google's index should be growing faster in the coming months. With more and more webmasters implementing Google's sitemap helpers, a lot of unlinked/dynamic pages should start showing up very, very soon.

  13. Re:not a web search engine on Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Google appliance is marketed (if not in the online docs, at least in person) as an enterprise tool for organizations to search their internal data. While this ceratinly isn't their primary revenue stream, this tool would in fact compete with that aspect of Google's business.

  14. Re:Yay. on Could IBM Shake up the Search Engine World? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Size of index, speed (requiring hardware, content nodes, etc), tuning (algorithms may be alike, but small tuning makes all the difference with the SEO spam going around), and anti-abuse (worms searching for phpBB urls are bad, m-kay) will keep this from being a 'free perfect search for everyone' tool.

  15. Re:Guess I'll be signing up on Yahoo to Launch Blog Ad Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Probably for "test" clicking your own ads. It's happened before. That $0.07 really hurts Google's bottom line.

  16. Re:Futurama.. on Discovery's Dangling Gapfiller Removed by Hand · · Score: 1

    Something tells me that the re-entry is going to be watched by more people than any other re-entry in recent history...

  17. Re:Back Button & Bookmarking broken too. on Microsoft Testing Rival to Google's Start Page · · Score: 1

    The common URL is because they're using a TON of AJAX - it's lighter once loaded because they swap out page content without having to reload things like headers/CSS/javascript/common tables. It's a pain, though, when you can't deep link.

    For what it's worth, AJAX basically leaves you with many of the same arguments you'd have for/against something like flash: it's initially heavier, but subsequent clicks are faster and ligher downloads; seo is killed by common URLs, can't deep link, and it's sure to break on some browsers.

  18. Re:Any patches from Cisco? on Wired Interviews Mike Lynn · · Score: 1

    The folks on NANOG certainly are up in arms about it. Apparently the patch was slipstreamed into a release, but it wasn't in the notes, and very few people seem to have applied the fix for various reasons (including some that involve images that are too big to fit on common memory cards).

  19. Re:Politics on Slashdot? Never! on Slashdot Goes Political: Announcing politics.slashdot.org · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's called 'bitchslapping', and the term came from 'bitchslap.pl' (which you can find in the slashcode CVS attic).

    It:
    1) Pushes you down to -10 karma
    2) Removes your 'eligible for moderation' bit
    3) Sets your default post score at -1.

    Editors can execute the script on people they consider 'abusers', though it's been used in the past to keep the readers quiet about massive editor abuse (see: the post of death, where anyone who responded was moderated to -1, and anyone who moderated them back up was bitchslapped).

    By the way: 12 minutes of your time should change your mind.

  20. $5/month is nothing... on University Tests Legal File Downloading System · · Score: 4, Insightful

    $5/month is nothing compared to what they're going to be paying for the bandwidth used up by all of the downloading.

  21. Re:Finally on Time to Try a Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yep, we're getting there...

    And once we get there, the same population that can't run windows update will still not be secure, because the latest (OpenSSH/Samba/Cups/X/KDE/Gnome/) security hole will become the new worm target, and then they're even more screwed (linux rootkits are much, much more effective than windows rootkits, as is propagation, etc).

    The solution to the current problem is to switch browsers, not operating systems.

  22. Compatibility... on Razor Blade Games? · · Score: 1

    Of course, the other offering from Phantom is the ability to customize and upgrade the hardware within the Phantom, with faster processors, larger memory, and better sound.

    This almost guarantees there will be compatibility problems somewhere down the road.

  23. Re:um on QNX: When an OS Really, Really Has to Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're missing a little ...

    QNX is a great operating system, but it's a much different market. It's not made for PCs, it's made for embedded, real time applications. You'll find QNX in routers, you'll find it in medical devices, and you'll find it in nuclear power plants.

    What you won't find in QNX is USB support, drivers for a Sound Blaster 16, or Accelerated 3D drivers.

    It's a great operating system, but comparing it to things like Windows, Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD, or even Solaris and AIX are silly. QNX isn't designed to have any frills: it manages resources, incredibly well, and that's it. It doens't do complex scheduling, it doesn't do advanced 3d tricks, and it's not going to do much with the latest firewire hard drives. It will, however, guide a laser over someone's eye for Lasik and other such procedures a thousand times a year without a glitch.

  24. Re:Linux's uptimes approaching Solaris' on Sun's Last Stand · · Score: 1

    The 497 day rollover is common across platforms.

    [10:30am] me@webserver (~): uptime
    10:30am up 594 day(s), 9:17, 4 users, load average: 0.76, 0.72, 0.82
    [10:30am] me@webserver (~): uname -a
    SunOS some.webserver.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-23 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-5

  25. Re:Why does Bush Hate America? on Executing a Mass Departmental Exodus in the Workplace? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You don't think that the mass bombing and current occupation of Iraq will cause more terrorism?


    The reports (find them yourself) indicate that between four and five thousand civilians were killed during the war against Iraq.

    Care to guess how many innocent Iraqis:
    • Were killed (shot in the back) by Iraqi forces as they tried to flee Basrah.
    • Were killed because Iraqi paramilitary hid in their apartment complexes.
    • Were killed prior to the war by the Baath party (see: Shi'a uprisings of the 1990s)


    You think 4,000 dead civilians is a lot? Care to guess how many "innocents" were killed in the decades Saddam was in power?

    To answer your question directly: If the economy of Iraq is rebuilt (I don't even care by whom it's rebuilt) such that people enjoy a greater quality of life than during Saddam's reign, the number of "new terrorists" will be less than the number of terrorists that would have come about through inaction. That is, if Iraq prospers, the world community as a whole will be in better shape.

    Yes, it's a big if. But, that's one of the reasons that I don't care of Bush and Cheney let all their friends have the contracts: at least something is getting done. Corrupt contracts are better than years of inaction, ask the people waiting on fresh drinking water: they'll agree.