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  1. Not too hard on Ask Slashdot: Security Digests For the Home Network Admin? · · Score: 4, Informative

    The best place to start is here

    http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/signup.html

    then onto the security announce list of whatever distro you use.

    Those two alone will probably give you enough information to keep your system safe

  2. Re:Different markets on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For a lot of people it will be about the community. You know the Pi will have a huge community that will offer a lot of additional options.

  3. Re:A more important question... on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    Both suppliers are worldwide. Simply order one... although that will involve a waiting list at this point

  4. Re:At what point does 'improvement' become a downs on Minecraft Mod Adds Emulated 6502 Processor · · Score: 1

    Since the only mod I know of that uses LUA and has programming, it very likely _is_ the same mod. RedPower2. This is just the newest version with a bigger "computer"

  5. Re:The easy way on Ask Slashdot: How To Make My Own Hardware Multimedia Player? · · Score: 1

    XBMC runs quite happily on an Apple TV2

    You have hardware accelerated H.264 in m4v, mp4 and mkv. Everything else is software decoded so doesn't handle HD, but it pretty hard to find anything in HD that isn't in H.264 anyway.

  6. Re:Hard Drive Testing on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? · · Score: 1

    ALL the drive manufacturers have drive testing software, WD's is called Data Lifeguard.

    Download the software from the drive manufacturer, run extended test which will do a full disk scan for bad sectors. Then do their full write test.

    If it passes those, it's good to go... until it fails

  7. Re:Bogus article on US, EU, Japan Complain To WTO Over China's Rare Earth Ban · · Score: 1

    Except none of the large countries actually change when the WTO tells them to, because they know the WTO can't do anything to them

  8. Re:Humans or no? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    When talking space distances controlling them remotely quickly becomes impractical due to the time it takes for commands to be sent.

    The Babylon 5 creators spent a lot of time thinking about this too. So from that aspect the show is quite good, except they put sound in space.

  9. Re:Products on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're doing something wrong, either it's overclocked, the heatsink isn't seated properly or you have no thermal compound, or your case sucks pretty badly for airflow.

    I have a high end i5, running on the stock heatsink, at stock speed, in a 10 year old case with crap airflow and can do renders quite happily with no issues whatsoever.

  10. Re:Products on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Clock for clock, yes. But it's never been clock for clock, AMD have been clock lower in the areas that matter (anything before Athlon64 and anything competing against Core and above).

    The Athlon 64 was the bright moment, it was a fantastic chip in all it's incarnations, but AMD sat on their hands with it for damn near a decade while Intel moved from Pentium 3's all the way through to Core. Since then, Intel has been faster for the same money in the mid to high end.

  11. Re:You had me at.. on Firefox Javascript Engine Becomes Single Threaded · · Score: 4, Informative

    Have you told firefox not to remember all your downloads indefinately? It gets a little slow when it's remembered a couple of hundred downloads, and that was the default setting a long time ago, if you've been upgrading and never reinstalled your OS you've probably still got that default setting.

    In saying that, I use chrome now, once they decided to start bumping major versions every month or so, and upgrading broke at least one extension for a week, it was time to move to chrome. Oddly when I did I still preferred the FF UI, course now they have changed that to be more like chrome anyway.

  12. Re:Some disagreements in recent history on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I can see that if she encrypted the drive after the warrant was presented (as hard as that would be). But how can she have destroyed it when she chose to protect it from prying eyes before any charges were laid. Not to mention the actual clear data isn't destroyed, simply obscured.

    Additionally, if the warrant gives them the right to read or recover the data on the drive, well they can do that now. It may not make any sense but there are 1's and 0's on the drive to read.

    Now if the warrnt states decrypted/clear data, then things would get interesting :)

  13. Re:Not being a troll, Serious question. on Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released · · Score: 2

    Uh.. what?

    To begin with, if you go to the official site, you'll see a linux port is also coming.

    As this is a jailbreak for an iOS device. All the host computer does is connect to the iPhone/iPad and throw data at it until the exploits can be... exploited.

    So spending the time to port an application that only needs to be run once, to OS's with a small userbase just isn't worth the time. If you have one of the devices that needs this JB, and don't have access to a Windows, linunx or Mac based system, then you wouldn't have been waiting for this JB to begin with, since you never would have done it before and probably aren't even aware you could, or why you would.

  14. Re:Not vapourware! on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 0

    It's not x86, it's ARMv6

  15. Re:I was saying maybe a raid card but non raid car on Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? · · Score: 1

    You do know, any ROM flash is just software raid right? Even SAS controllers don't have hardware RAID unless you buy a real raid card for $$$. Real raid cards have write back memory and a BBU.

    That being the case you're better off using something like linux software RAID so if your SAS controller happens to die, you can still recover your array by simply plugging it into another machine

  16. Re:you may want to have raid 5 or 6 on Ask Slashdot: Best Kit For a Home Media Server? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yup, start again.

    Pick a board with plenty of SATA ports, put a modest amount of RAM and CPU in it. Make sure it's got PCI-E slots (what hasn't these days) and go from there.

    Use bigger drives than you are currently, it's a bad time to buy drives so wait if you can but just build a new box from scratch and save yourself the headache of trying to migrate drives or retain data while upgrading drives one at a time in an existing array.

    New machine, 3TB drives x as many as you want (6 would about double your capacity), add a 4 port PCI-E SATA card if you need it and rsync all the data across, job done

  17. Re:XMBC + HP Desktop with Media Center remote on Good Disk Library Solutions? · · Score: 1

    I already have a file server, I wanted my media center to be small and silent. So I bought an Apple TV gen2, jailbroke it and dropped XBMC on it.

    It's low power, damn near instant on and completely silent. The single only down side is that it'll only play H.264 HD since that's all that's HW accelerated, but I can live with that

  18. Re:Why? on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    The reasons I switched (and switched my family) are below

    The biggest one, Chrome doesn't just .... pause.... randomly for no apparent reason for seconds at a time

    FF doesn't clear it's download history automatically (at least if you've been upgrading from old versions). This makes it get slower and slower as that grows.

    It crashes a LOT more than chrome

    It sucks memory like... well I'll let you add something colorful ;). Supposedly better in 7, but it'll get just as bad again in a few versions.

    Chrome has the extensions I really care about (adblock and something for tab management)

    Chrome doesn't get slower the longer you have it running.

  19. Re:That's also not the default home screen on More Photoshopped Evidence In Apple v. Samsung · · Score: 1

    In this context, I believe the widget would display the weather directly onto the home screen, rather than having to run the weather app. Think gadgets in Vista/Win7

  20. Re:Hamstersoft doesn't understand copyleft? on Hamstersoft Ebook App Rips Off GPL3 Code, Say Calibre Devs · · Score: 2

    Not to mention trade secrets have no protection under law, in fact that's why copyright exists in the first place

  21. Re:How do they tell? on Verizon Cracks Down On Jailbreak Tethering · · Score: 1

    Phone based traffic is sent via their WAP gateway where as tethered traffic isn't, at least that's what someone said in a previous article on the subject. If thats true then all they need to do is monitor all non WAP traffic and compare where it's coming from against the people paying for tethering.

  22. Re:Roundcube on Ask Slashdot: Self-Hosted Gmail Alternatives? · · Score: 1

    I haven't had this running myself here for a while, but when I did I ran Roundcube on top of Postfix with ASSP in front of it for spam. ASSP had ClamAV tied to it and was using a lot of third party signatures designed for spam detection.

    At the end of the day I moved over to a free Google Apps account, mostly because keeping all that up to date and secure was more time that I wanted to spend and my hardware at he time was less reliable

  23. Re:Google PowerMeter on Monitor Household Energy From Your Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Which is being discontinued, so you may want to start looking at other options

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html

  24. Re:Advanced GUI tools still available on Why IT Won't Like Mac OS X Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Gah, look I can run a command line perfectly well, but if I want to add a new staff member and then put that account in 15 different groups I'll be using the GUI thanks, simply because I can do the 20 or so clicks quicker than I can all the account to all those groups.

    And yes, when setting up a lot of servers it's easier to script them, but how many people really do that? Especially since the arguments are that OSX isn't enterprise ready and only for small shops.

  25. Tape on Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? · · Score: 2

    You probably need to define "best". How long do you really want to keep them for, and in what sort of environment.

    Traditionally the answer is tape, and probably will be in your case too for files of that size. Optical isn't proven enough (at least for the sizes your're talking about) to be trusted, and HDD's need to be run up fairly regularly to keep working.