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  1. Re:No thanks... on Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    You use borg backup and upload it to the cloud. Offsite backups are super important, but probably not ones that allow google to dig through and market for free. Although, I suppose you could accept that, and that's the "payment" for the offsite storage. Fortunately it's super cheap to not have anyone dig through your stuff, and just back it up encryptedly.

  2. Yes on Slashdot Asks: Do You Still Use RSS? · · Score: 2

    Yep. I've been using TinyTiny RSS (https://tt-rss.org/) since the Original Google Reader went away. Syndicated webcomics is the way to go for those. Hosting my own, and paid for the Android APP. For news, I've not come up with a great solution.

  3. Re:Clocking It on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    This is really nice! Finally a multi-user replacement for microsoft project :D
    I'm going to try it out today :D Not that slashdot cares :)

  4. Re:redmine on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Could sub every "trac" in that post with "redmine" and it'd be the same thing.

    I like the feel of redmine more than trac, but that's just about the only difference.

    I do wish redmine had a more robust bug tracker. Some of the features that bugzilla has would be nice specifically this one (Yes I'm shamelessly pushing my bug on slashdot in the hopes that someone with more time than I have will get 'er done :D

  5. Re:Teaching SOA using a single language? on Service Oriented Architecture With Java · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, the book is called "Service Oriented Architecutres with Java."
    If you're concerned about interoperability, then you will obviously test with other languages. But if you're building multiple services in your company/business for your use, and you're all using Java, then I don't see any reason to use another language. Although, I'd prefer to use OSGi as then you avoid the whole XML thingy.

  6. Re:"Enhance"? on New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested · · Score: 1

    I'm not certain that's correct. Aluminum will burn http://www.g2mil.com/aluminum.htm
    So you've got ice there also, and when it vaporizes, it's adding more oxygen and hydrogen to the fire, thus keeping it burning, since in space, you don't have enough of those.

  7. Re:Need a way to encrypt Limewire now on 30,000 UK ISP Users Face Threat Letters For Suspected Illegal File Sharing · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://torrentfreak.com/how-to-encrypt-bittorrent-traffic/
    Just turn on encryption in your favorite torrent client, and only allow encrypted connections. In combination with the Distributed Hash Table, Magnet Links, and Peer Exchange, an entirely decentralized file sharing system will work

  8. Re:Netbeans just isn't there on Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think that might be part of the reason I don't like Eclipse. I don't get the functionality I want without customizing the crap out of it. That might be useful for some, but not for me. I like power, but I also like convention, so long as it follows the convention I use.

  9. Re:Consider the source. on Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans · · Score: 1

    I think that's fairly non-committal, which is what the slashdot summary stated.
    Most of the comments state that they're missing out on something by not throwing their full weight behind Netbeans.
    Then again, Oracle could just be waiting to see what they're gonna do...

  10. Re:Netbeans just isn't there on Oracle Outlines Plans for Sun Products, Casts Doubt on NetBeans · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm, as a java development platform (and as a C/C++ development IDE) it is unrivaled by Eclipse. Things seem to work so much smoother in netbeans. You don't have to configure the shit out of it to use it. Most stuff follows the convention over configuration principle. At least that's the way it seems to me
    Every time I use eclipse I'm surprised at the exceptional amount of options there are to do something simple. I rarely use them. Most of the options could be done with a couple bits of typing anyway.
    As for the RCP stuff, I don't particularly care about that. I think eclipse has the upper hand in that stuff, as that's what it was designed to be in the first place, unlike Netbeans, which was designed to be a Java IDE.

  11. Re:Links? on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    Too bad the original goatse is gone. Oh the fun times.

  12. Re:What about INSTEON? on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, geocities is closing today, but it lives on at x10.com

  13. Re:Insteon, but not all that OSS friendly on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: 4, Informative
    from http://misterhouse.wikispaces.com/Insteon It appears that you can actually use insteon quite well with Open Source stuff.

    As of 2009/03, Insteon is fully supported for open source on unix or windows, but for this you must use a P(ower)L(ine)M(odem) (not a serial or USB PLC) and use it with misterhouse.

    A favorite site of mine is Linux Home Automation. Decent amounts of good information.
    I am of the opinion that Home Automation isn't as far along as it should be.

  14. Re:Links? on What is the Current State of Home Automation? · · Score: -1, Redundant

    http://tinyurl.com/yg7pqg9 That should get you reasonably close

  15. Steel plates on Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? · · Score: 1

    Etch the 1s and 0s into a steel plate. Then seal it in one of those food vacuum seal bags. Then put that bag in another bag.

    That should do it. It'll last forever, and can be manually recovered easily.

    Side note:
    This was on the bottom of the page: " There's nothing like a girl with a plunging neckline to keep a man on his toes. "

  16. Love & Respect on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    http://www.loveandrespect.com/

    This was an excellent foundation to our marriage. Built on foundations described in the Bible, following the tenents in this series has helped us stay out of trouble.

    I've noticed that most of the advice on here pertains to guys alone. The woman has a part in the marriage too. She's supposed to respect her husband unconditionally. The man is supposed to love her unconditionally, a sacrificial love, "as Christ so loved the church."

    It's worked out wonderfully for my wife and I, and you don't really need to be a Christian to take the advice to heart.

  17. Re:OMG! on Cure For Radiation Sickness Found? · · Score: 1

    And it's still carbonated!

  18. Re:So if I understand this correctly... on US Offering $45M For Huge Wind Energy Test Bed · · Score: 1

    Save the money for nuclear plants. http://mises.org/story/3536

  19. Re:The worst part on DHS Allowed To Take Laptops Indefinitely · · Score: 4, Informative
  20. The hacker's diet on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    The Hacker's Diet

    Provides statistics, weight tracking, and a simple, yet rigorous workout plan. It works when one sticks to it, heh. I need to get back to sticking to it.

  21. Re:Copy? on Wall-E Supervising Animator Tells His Story · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not E.T. Johnny 5 is alive!

  22. Actually mine seems to be from.... on Spammers Choose GMail · · Score: 1

    "Opera's revolutionary new email client."

    or

    FROM MR PHILLIPS ODUOZA
    EXCUTTIVE DIRECTOR ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION BANKING

    While my dspam has noticed a substantial amount of misses, most of the ones it's missing are the Opera ones, because they contain so few tokens similar to most other spam. They seem to be using absurd titles "Obama killed in bathroom luncheon" or "40,000 Troops die in Iraq" Oh well, retrain FTW!

  23. Re:I want my coasters on Neverwinter Nights for Linux · · Score: 1

    Dude, you're a ho. Support the company and buy the software. If people don't pay for this stuff, then it won't be developed.

    Come on, cough up the $50 spot it'll take to forward the future of Linux gaming.

  24. Re:AOL Fucked it Up on AOL Bridges AIM and ICQ · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that ICQ always had too much bloat. It defaulted to clicking sounds when you typed. the "Uh-oh!" we all know too well. I never really liked ICQ anyway.

    Jabber's pretty slick though, if someone sets up their sever correctly, you could talk to anyone on any network through it.

  25. Re:Why did you bother? on Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser · · Score: 1
    Forgive me for karma whoring, but the three reasons to your question are on the main page for reiserFS

    and for those that don't feel like clicking to read a few paragraphs (like you'd read them anyway :P)
    Three reasons why ReiserFS is great for you:
    ReiserFS has fast journaling, which means that you don't spend your life waiting for fsck every time your laptop battery dies, or the UPS for your mission critical server gets its batteries disconnected accidentally by the UPS company's service crew, or your kernel was not as ready for prime time as you hoped, or the silly thing decides you mounted it too many times today.

    ReiserFS is based on fast balanced trees. Balanced trees are more robust in their performance, and are a more sophisticated algorithmic foundation for a filesystem. When we started our project, there was a consensus in the industry that balanced trees were too slow for filesystem usage patterns. We proved that if you just do them right they are better. We have fewer worst case performance scenarios than other filesystems and generally better overall performance. If you put 100,000 files in one directory, we think its fine; many other filesystems try to tell you that you are wrong to want to do it.

    ReiserFS is more space efficient. If you write 100 byte files, we pack many of them into one block. Other filesystems put each of them into their own block. We don't have fixed space allocation for inodes. That saves 6% of your disk.

    Ok, it's time to fess up. The interesting stuff is still in the future. Because they are nifty, we are going to add database and hypertext like features into the filesystem. Only by using balanced trees, with their effective handling of small files (database small fields, hypertext keywords), as our technical foundation can we hope to do this. That was our real motivation. As for performance, we may already be slightly better than the traditional filesystems (and substantially better than the journaling ones). But they have been tweaking for decades, while we have just got started. This means that over the next few years we are going to improve faster than they are.

    Speaking more technically:
    ReiserFS is a filesystem using a plug-in based object oriented variant on classical balanced tree algorithms. The results when compared to the ext2fs conventional block allocation based filesystem, running under the same operating system and employing the same buffering code, suggest that these algorithms are overall more efficient and every passing month are becoming yet more so. Loosely speaking, every month we find another performance cranny that needs work; we fix it. And every month we find some way of improving our overall general usage performance.

    The improvement in small file space and time performance suggests that we may now revisit a common OS design assumption that one should aggregate small objects using layers above the filesystem layer. Being more effective at small files does not make us less effective for other files. This is truly a general purpose FS. Our overall traditional FS usage performance is high enough to establish that. ReiserFS has a commitment to opening up the FS design to contributions; we are now adding plug-ins so that you can create your own types of directories and files.