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  1. Re:Nope on Remus Project Brings Transparent High Availability To Xen · · Score: 1

    the remus paper references vmware's high availibility. (also was published in 2008 about 1.5 years ago, though dont know when it first started to be used, possibly before then)

    however, incremental checkpoint precedes both. See (pulling from my bibtex for paper I helped write)

    author = "J. S. Plank and J. Xu and R. H. B. Netzer",
    title = "{Compressed Differences: An Algorithm for Fast
                                    Incremental Checkpointing}",

    author = {Roberto Gioiosa and Jose Carlos Sancho and Song Jiang and Fabrizio Petrini},
    title = "{Transparent, Incremental Checkpointing at Kernel Level: a Foundation for Fault Tolerance for Parallel Computers}",

    author = {Ashok Joshi and William Bridge and Juan Loaiza and Tirthankar Lahiri},
    title = "{Checkpointing in Oracle}",

    author = "Angkul Kongmunvattana and Santipong Tanchatchawal and Nian-Feng Tzeng",
    title = "{Coherence-based Coordinated Checkpointing for Software Distributed Shared Memory Systems}",

    as well as a paper I was a coauthor on where we continuously checkpointed a regular gnome desktop (along with its file system) and enabled you to restart it at any point in the past.

    author = "Oren Laadan and Ricardo Baratto and Dan Phung and Shaya Potter and Jason Nieh",
    title = {{DejaView: A Personal Virtual Computer Recorder}},

  2. Re:Err, so just like the Pre? on Nokia Leaks Phone With Full GNU/Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    native code applications exist on the pre. the only thing that has to be created via html/javascript is the outer ui of the app. the inner ui can be implemented as a native browser plugin and do whatever native code can do.

    furthermore, any language that has dbus bindings, say whatever scripting language you want, can run in the background and communicate with the html/javascript ui that users see.

  3. article is so wrong on The Technology Keeping Information Flowing in Iran · · Score: 5, Informative

    the reporter of that article is an idiot.

    Onion Routing was invented at the Naval Research Lab, but it had nothing to do with ships.

    If the reporter would have done a cursory reading of http://www.onion-router.net/, which is the page the creators made, the reporter would not have found any mention of ships on the description or summary of what onion routing is.

  4. Re:Article mentions Baltimore on US Plans To Bulldoze 50 Shrinking Cities · · Score: 1

    The stadium wasn't built by the Orioles. It was built (and owned) by the state, financed by lottery revenue. Though, both they and the Ravens get a sweetheart deal on their stadiums.

  5. Re:Two Year Associate's Degree of Liberal Arts on 11-Year-Old Graduates With Degree In Astrophysics · · Score: 1

    sounds pretty close to the first 2 years of physics at a regular college (2-3 semesters of general physics, depending on what they include, though generally 2), though where I went optics and modern physics were separate courses.

    modern physics was fun. optics was a bitch with the PDEs. No more wave equations for me.

  6. Re:all these articles ignore one point on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1

    the first one was posted by mistake and I didn't even realize it was posted to after the fact.

  7. all these articles ignore one point on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Dells, HPs, Lenovos..... they all go on sale for significant discounts.

    Do Macs? Not from my experience.

    I can buy a souped up T series lenovo laptop for probably around half the price of an equivalent macbook (in the 1250-1500 range vs. 2500-3000 range for the macbook pro.

    And one can get features in the T series that apple just doesn't think there's any market for (such as the old T42p I'm currently typing on that had a 15" 4x3 lcd w/ 1600x1200). Try to find any mac that has anything approaching that pixel density.

    Buying a mac is like shopping at Macy's and always having to pay their non sale prices. Buying a Dell, HP.... Is like shopping at macy's and knowing that they always have sales and that the non sale price is mostly a joke.

  8. Re:We looked at this question... on Mac Tax, Dell Tax, HP Tax · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dells, HPs, Lenovos..... they all go on sale for significant discounts.

    Do Macs? Not from my experience.

    I can buy a souped up T series lenovo laptop for probably around half the price of an equivalent macbook (in the 1250-1500 range vs. 2500-3000 range for the macbook pro.

    And one can get features in the T series that apple just doesn't think there's any market for (such as the old T42p I'm currently typing on that had a 15" 4x3 lcd w/ 1600x1200). Try to find any mac that has anything approaching that pixel density.

  9. Re:Telling the situation and solution? on Streaming March Madness On Linux? · · Score: 1

    wrong, they are not encrypting anything. if you can figure out how to get to the streams, they play fine in mplayer, vlc and totem-xine (albiet not totem-gstreamer, as no support for windows media audio v3).

    and yes, I have figured out how to get to the streams. someone even posted my setup to this thread already.

  10. Re:reverse engineer their website on Streaming March Madness On Linux? · · Score: 1

    and yes, I mean to be a bit obtuse about this. sorry. not hiding it, just not advertising it either.

    When my cable modem comes back up, I'm hoping to see if I can figure out how to get the HQ streams working, the streams I'm getting right now are viewable and smooth, but crappy resolution wise.

  11. reverse engineer their website on Streaming March Madness On Linux? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    search deadspin, you'll find my site ;)

  12. Re:Is LaTeX worth it for humanities/soc. sciences? on Collaborative Academic Writing Software? · · Score: 1

    autocorrect doesn't help you if you change the name. yes, you can now search and replace it, but all these things are more prone to error.

    I'm not against Word. i use it a lot (heck, I'd rather do my resume in it than in Latex). However, for regular paper writing, its so much easier. Honestly, any paper writing system that requires the use of a mouse is going to make a lot of people significantly less efficient, i.e. in latex all I have to do is \cite{tag}, to make a footnote, in word, I'd have to take my hands off the keyboard, go into a menu and search for the proper reference (or perhaps type it in. But for most people this is back and forth mouse to keyboard.

    but then again, I'm one of those people that likes thinkpad keyboards and disables the trackpad, for the same reason, keep my hands on the keyboard.

  13. Re:Is LaTeX worth it for humanities/soc. sciences? on Collaborative Academic Writing Software? · · Score: 1

    uh. any thing you can use to make a figure for word you can use for latex.

    latex can include, eps, png, pdf, gif..... as figures. All word is doing is embedding some image, and generally any program that generates that image can also save it to a file.

    I honestly find using latex to be much much easier than word, just because there's much less stuff to get in my way. Also, the ability to macroize things (i.e. type \rlcn{} for really long chemical name) makes life much easier and less error prone to typos.

  14. Re:Needs Table of Authorities Functionality on An Early Look At New Features In OpenOffice.org 3.1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://cmchoatelaw.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/table-of-authorities-and-openoffice-how-to/

    while not as "simple" as word, word isn't really that simple either, and the majority of the additional effort here is an initial setup that doesn't have to be repeated, at least if one makes the effort to script it. The hardest part then is tagging which one has to do in word as well. basically, I think this is solvable without major programming skill, just some macro programming.

  15. Re:Wow.... $170 is cheap? on Getting Away With a Cheap Graphics Card · · Score: 1

    eh, there were deals at amazon a month ago for the 8800 GT for $80. That's considered a relatively high mid range card.

    http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=907667

  16. it needs friggen lasers on ISS Dodges Space Junk For First Time In Five Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    this post made me wonder. could they repurpose the nautilus anti missle laser system to knock the space junk that threatens the station out of the vacum of space. Or could it make things worse? (lots of tiny particles you can't avoid vs. a couple of big particles.

  17. Re:website supports https on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    not the duracell page, the softcoin page the duracell page takes you to, that actually contains the form. sheesh

  18. website supports https on Websites Still Failing Basic Privacy Practices · · Score: 1

    so just stick an s after the http and you're golden.

    unsure if that makes it better or worse for them though.

  19. Re:Does not work if comprimised on site side on Browser Extension Defeats Internet Eavesdropping · · Score: 2, Insightful

    this is probably a stupid question.

    Making a (possibly incorrect) assumption
    ---
    In general, a MITM attack is either going to attack a user or a site. Namely, I'm going to interpose between the site and all users, or between a user and all sites.
    ---
    In the former, if the attacker gets there early enough, how does the notary help? Especially as most sites where this would be in play are only single homed.

    In the latter, doesn't this just add an additional burden to MITM attacking the notaries (i.e. intercept the request to the notaries and return a hunky dory a-o-k message). Don't attack the notaries, just prevent the message from ever reaching them. This can be solved with ssl, but then you've just moved the need for ssl to a different location.

    I could be totally misunderstanding, haven't read the paper (trying to write my thesis to get out of school :), slashdot was a temporary distraction).

  20. Re:Good News for Blizzard, bad news for copyright on Blizzard Wins Major Lawsuit Against Bot Developers · · Score: 1

    and what if one could make it so that it worked in an "execute in place" (xip) type system? no copying to ram would be done then.

  21. Not a real issue with Debian today on Package Managers As Achilles Heel · · Score: 2, Informative

    they basically say so themselves

    Use signed repository metadata. If your package manager or distribution does not yet support signed metadata but only signed packages, at least require signed packages until signed metadata is supported.

    Debian does that. The Release file defines what Package database files are available, and their md5sum's. It is signed.

    the Package files include md5sum for the packages (can't modify the Package file otherwise signed md5sum in Release file will fail, can't modify the actual package as wont match md5sum in package file).

    I would argue, that manually using the package manager (dpkg over apt) is less secure if one has apt set up correctly.

  22. Re:So... on Clash of the Titans Over USB 3.0 Specification Process · · Score: 1

    no.

    currently, one has to write 1 driver for usb. no matter what chip is used, 1 driver should support it.

    In linux you'll see "uhci" and "ehci" modules.

    All this means is that one will have to write 2 drivers to support all usb 3 chips.

    its a mountain out of a moehill.

  23. Re:Fire up the soldering irons... on Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    you don't get it.

    tpm works the same way SSL works.

    namely there's a PKI.

    i.e. each chip has its own key which the user cant get to, which is verified by a certificate chain (ala SSL).

    if the software can't verify the chain, it will refuse.

    so attacking the TPM chip isn't how you attack it.

    you attack is by simply getting the software to verify with a trojaned certificate. We can do that today w/ web browsers by inserting our own "top level" certificate. You think it be difficult w/ games?

  24. Re:Speaking of terroists... on Terrorist Recognition Handbook · · Score: 2, Interesting

    except, what cory doesn't get is that you've now limited your set from 1 mil to 10,000. What may not be efficient to test on 1mil, may be efficient to test on 10,000.

    Its like NP complete problem. You have an algorithm that works, but it doesn't scale. If you can make an approximation solution that trims the set to a reasonable size where the scaling problems of algorithm don't hurt you as much, you have a win.

    So, it doesn't matter that it identifies 10,000 wrong people. What matters is how do you deal with those 10,000 wrong people. Do you automatically assume they are bad, or do you say we put them through a tougher form of screening.

  25. Is this only itunes? on Beatles and iTunes At Last? · · Score: 1

    or is it going to be available on things like Amazon, and rhapsody? If not, that a major coup for Apple.