Slashdot Mirror


User: shokk

shokk's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,354
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,354

  1. doubt it on LAN Turns 30, May Not See 40? · · Score: 1

    I doubt this highly. In a corporate environment, where everything must be secure, there must be absolutely no chance ever of snooping. If anything, fibre for LAN and SAN will continue. Just as with CPU advances, as systems get smaller and denser, cable runs will get shorter and there will be less LAN to speak of, but it will still be there. At some point it will just be considered another system bus that connects with fibre.

  2. Re:yet more money on Fixing US Broadband Would Cost $100 Billion · · Score: 1

    You mean the US government should pay for infrastructure that the commercial owners of that infrastructure are too lazy to pay for? You're basically asking for some sort of a subsidized upgrade so that you can blow more time on the tubes? Ask yourself what you personally are missing from the internet that $100 bln will cure for you. I'm betting that if these university IT managers had their staff properly do their jobs and filtered traffic of questionable educational value this wouldn't be a big problem.

    I question whether the centralized government should pay for ANY of this at all. Universities are already in bed with companies like Pepsi and Coke on campus for things like upgrades to football statiums. Let them roll in the hay with AT&T or Sprint for bandwidth upgrades.

  3. Re:Done their homework? on Four Indicted in Pirate Bay Case · · Score: 0

    Correction, "It might be a civil crime to download copyrighted songs and movies" should read

    "It might be a civil crime to download copyrighted songs and movies that you have not paid for".

    Otherwise Apple would be in trouble for the iTunes music store. Now, what if I own an album and can't tell one end of an MP3 rip program from the other and want some MP3s of that album I already own?

  4. new code on Time for a Vista Do-Over? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    new code == forget Vista - new operating system on its way
    Are owners of a flop OS owed anything by the software company that makes it?
    Is anyone that uses OS2 Warp owed anything by IBM because their OS didn't take off?

    Don't like the OS? Buy XP before it goese extinct. I have every trust that MSFT will make it available again after whatever artificial deadline they set when they see that no one is accepting Vista.

  5. Re:Why should this be a surprise? on Can Sun Make MySQL Pay? · · Score: 0

    Must scrub eyes harder... can't get the memory out... can still see... oh lord!!

  6. Re:ignorant on When Are Kids Old Enough to Play Videogames? · · Score: 0

    My four year old is actually pretty handy with the sniper in multiplayer Halo 3!
    He's not exactly climbing the ranks, but in a couple of years he'll be one of those 6 year olds screaming in your ear. For now he doesn't get to hear the gamer chatter.

  7. Re:Typhoons! on Personal Weather Stations Helping With Weather Forecasting · · Score: 1

    No, you'll be discarded from the system for providing false data while no one else is showing the same thing, and you'll be left with a fun paperweight.

  8. Re:The keyword in that diatribe was 'hyped'... on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    Worse. Bourne's shakiness was done to emphasize the action.
    Cloverfield's shakiness was done to distract you from the lack of storyline. Without the shakiness, it is just a bunch of kids going Wow! and OMGOMGOMG!
    That party scene at the beginning was horrendously over long.

  9. Re:I wonder on Sun Buys MySQL · · Score: 1

    There are databases with GUIs like ListRing/EdgeRM (uses MSSQL Express) available to PC users. http://infogenium.com/

  10. encrypt and pipe on How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet · · Score: 1

    Encrypted pipe using the free NX server from nomachine.com

  11. cancer - here we come! on Snortable Drug 'Replaces' Sleep For Monkeys In Trials · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a story recently about how upsetting the circadian rhythm (night shift) may be causing cancer?
    I'm betting this one is going to cause humans to evolve into one giant cancer node.
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22026660/

  12. Re:Profound...(All we are is dust in the wind) on Solar System Date of Birth Determined · · Score: 1

    You mean to say it's a good thing we only occupy such a blink. God help the universe once we spread. What other lifeforms will we make endangered or extinct?

  13. Re:Shape? on Voyager 2 Shows Solar System Is "Dented" · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Going to go out on a limb here and guess that this has to do with our sun's solar cycles. But also which star systems have passed through these areas of the galaxy thousands of years before us, and of course, their solar cycles. Next year, or 20 years after, the other side could be squashed. I think it probably more resembles a flame.

  14. Re:what is jquery? on Learning jQuery · · Score: 1

    And yet so many of the people that claim to know it are friggin retards that should not have been hired in the first place.

  15. Re:backup? on Slashdot's Setup, Part 1- Hardware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At which point, Slashdot is the least of people's worries. This is a news entertainment site, not a critical care facility.

  16. Re:wait wait on NZ Outfit Dumps Open Office For MS Office · · Score: 0

    Unfortunately it comes with the distros. You can't have it one way and not the other.
    The distro takes the credit when it is acclaimed for including it, and shies away from any contact when there is an issue with it. Because the target audience is now brain dead government users, you know damn well this is the association that will be made.

  17. Re:Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these on Matrox's Extio Reviewed · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So the laptops that are potentially carrying viruses are put into the room where all your protected systems are? I see...
    Not wise, unless you have a separate network for the laptops that is firewalled away from the servers.

  18. Re:Brute Force? on Recognizing Your Own Handwriting As A Password · · Score: 1

    Not to mention that as soon as someone peeks over your shoulder you have to change your handwriting? Isn't easier to change a silly stream of numbers? This is not as bad as someone cracking the stream for your finger print identity.

    *Now let's see, which finger do I use to log into Slashdot?*

  19. Re:No offline support on Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released · · Score: 0

    GCalDaemon gives Google Calendar offline support. http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/

  20. Re:Just sync Sunbird/Lightning with Google Calenda on Mozilla Sunbird 0.5 Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And don't forget syncing with phones/PDAs since I really don't feel like carrying my computer with me wherever I go. As a matter of fact not all of us are online all the time. Seems Google hasn't decided to do a sync client themselves yet, despite the demand.

  21. Re:From TFA: free pr0n! on IPv4 Unallocated Addresses Exhausted by 2010 · · Score: 0, Troll

    resort to NAT

    What are you finding difficult about using NAT? Maybe one of the newbs here can volunteer to help you.

  22. Re:Just leave general chat on Cleaning up Thunder Bluff · · Score: 0, Troll

    Shut up you *&!@^$*&^@ N00bZ!!!
    j/k

  23. Re:web 2.0 is a buzz word on Social Computing and Badger's Paws · · Score: 0

    Conspiracy theorist!!!

  24. Re:Because it sucks? on Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0 · · Score: 0

    So... how does that email tagging work out with IMAP? It doesn't.
    Extensions like Tag The Bird (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addo n/1832) will place the tags in an X-Tags header but this is not available directly by Thunderbird. Useless.

  25. Re:inefficiency of splitting mozilla on Must-Have Extensions for Thunderbird 2.0 · · Score: 0

    News flash! Most people use webmail than a dedicated web client. Why saddle them with the extra bloat?
    When you're doing one task, you may not be doing the other. You have the flexibility to choose.
    Isn't freedom great?

    What would be nice is if there was a "core mozilla" module that was loaded that powered the rendering engine and could be shared by any Mozilla app such as Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, Sunbird, Songbird, etc. It would still have to be separate apps so that one doesn't start up a frankenstein app like Emacs.