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  1. You're actually not going far enough. on How Concrete Contributed To the Downfall of the Roman Empire · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think that I remember reading in Livy that Rome was to last 1,300 years - 100 years for each eagle seen in a ceremony for Romulus. The Western empire continued for a time after the split that was sufficient to satisfy the prophesy.

  2. Proliant Nightmare on HP Server Killer Firmware Update On the Loose · · Score: 2

    I deployed a DL380p Gen8 last year, and it gave me heart failure.

    Under Red Hat, I needed to change the IP address, so I modified the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 then did a "service network restart"

    Alas, the box did not come up on the new IP. Got to the console which was blank and unresponsive. Power cycled, and the RAID array was GONE (and let's just say this was EXTREMELY inconvenient timing).

    Support was able to walk us through some BIOS disk recovery that (thankfully) worked. But I'll never change the IP address on a Proliant without a full reboot.

  3. I can't say that I understand systemd... on Not Just a Cleanup Any More: LibreSSL Project Announced · · Score: 1

    ...but it seems to be a key player in Project Atomic.

    This seems to be Red Hat's analog of Solaris "Zones" which let you give root to someone you don't trust in an isolated sandbox on your system. It appears to go further than zones in that you can exchange these sandbox images, with all of their installed software, with other systems. This lets you virtualize without running multiple kernels, yeilding a tremendous savings of memory. The additional assertion is that 3rd party software sales will be of these complete sandbox images, not an RPM/tarfile.

    I will have a bit of studying to do for Red Hat 7. These are compelling new features, seemingly well worth the initial bugs.

    p.s. just don't pass debug to grub.

  4. Dear Red Hat... on Linus Torvalds Suspends Key Linux Developer · · Score: 1

    ...How about you crank out one of those custom patches to add a "systemd-" prefix to all of the systemd-specific kernel parameters, then bundle it into the SRPM?

    Warmest regards... an Oracle Linux user.

  5. How big are these? This big... on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 2
  6. Cyanogenmod Privacy Guard on One Billion Android Devices Open To Privilege Escalation · · Score: 4, Interesting
    http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/...

    Using Privacy Guard, I can see that Facebook has attempted to read my contact list 94 times. These attempts were blocked.

  7. Au contrare, mon frere. on Google To Replace GTK+ With Its Own Aura In Chrome · · Score: 1

    The "free software community" had quite a bit to say on gtk vs qt.

    The design of KDE was based on a fundamental mistake: use of the Qt library, which at the time was non-free software. Despite the good intentions of the KDE developers, and despite the fact that the code of KDE itself was free software, KDE could never be part of a completely free operating system as long as it needed a non-free program to function.

  8. Re:Raspberry Pi-class hardware - BeagleBone Black? on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 1

    Those are x86 parts. I'd prefer a low-power ARM, as long as I get W^X, rodata, and I otherwise do not have to compromise on security.

    Perhaps the recent source release from Broadcom is sufficient to make OpenBSD support easier, but I fear that the developers' perspective is now set.

  9. Raspberry Pi-class hardware - BeagleBone Black? on Interview: Ask Theo de Raadt What You Will · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would like to run OpenBSD on the Raspberry Pi.

    I understand, sympathize, and accept your decision to avoid that platform, but what would you recommend as a stable substitute?

    The BeagleBone Black seems like the endorsed alternative, although there were stability warnings until recently. The current status reads: "There are generally still a fair number of things to do on each of these boards, however OpenBSD is generally considered to be usuable on them. The platform is now self hosting, however there is no SMP support."

    Would you point OpenBSD users interested in this hardware class at the BeagleBone Black? Any other advice? SLC media preference?

    TI has announced that it is discontinuing the OMAP line. Will Beagle move to another ARM licensee, and does that matter much for OpenBSD?

  10. Encrypt phone? on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    I loaded Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my Nook last weekend, and there is now an option to "Encrypt Tablet" - supposedly it takes about a half hour, and it must be done on a full battery while connected to external power.

    Will Cyanogenmod 10.2 do the same thing when running on a phone?

  11. What surprises me... on The Phone Dragnet That Caught the World's Top Drug Lord · · Score: 1

    ...is that these people did not invest in a "Backup & Reset -> Factory data reset -> Reset Phone" shortcut directly on their primary homescreen. You would think that anyone carrying a phone with sensitive data that can be seized would want lots of practice in erasing a phone.

  12. Italian fascists? on Ask Slashdot: What Essays and Short Stories Should Be In a Course On Futurism? · · Score: 1

    Why does slashdot have an article about a WWII-era Italian art movement?

    Or was this in reference to the Chicago theater?

    If this was an article about "singulitarians," then we need to be more specific.

  13. I installed alien sheild goodness. on Why Does Facebook Need To Read My Text Messages? · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Cyanogenmod Privacy Guard on NSA and GCHQ Target "Leaky" Phone Apps To Scoop User Data · · Score: 1

    Does this feature have any ability to secure a phone?

    I take no small pleasure in doing this to Facebook.

  15. Full pardon, and here is why. on Ask Slashdot: What Does Edward Snowden Deserve? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Pardoning Snowden for all past crimes and enabling his return would prevent the release of any further damaging documents. If Snowden remains within US jurisdiction, any new leaks of his material can lead prosecutors directly to him.

    Once the bleeding has stopped, the NSA and the Justice Department should together explain to the voting population the legal concept of "the fruit of the poison tree" - any intelligence gained by espionage should be inadmissible in court outside of direct, existential threats.

    All governments engage in espionage to some extent, and our goal should not be to remove our "poison garden" and blind ourselves, but to ensure that state secrets are not used as a weapon against the populace.

  16. Neutron & Proton decay on Bizarre Star Could Host a Neutron Star In Its Core · · Score: 1

    Protons are stable to a period greater than 2.1 * 10^29 years (also listed as 10^36 years in the article). Free protons will/might fall apart after that time.

    Free neutrons have a very short period of stability (about 15 minutes). Within dense confinement, one would wager them to be on the order of proton decay.

  17. Re:Digg reader updates due to device crashes on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    It might be possible to get counts from Google, crittercism, or from ACRA. Go ahead and try if you want, but none of those organizations is going to make getting that data easy, since Apple would use that data for marketing. Meanwhile, there was a Facebook update on play this morning that crashed my phone. Sure, Android is rock solid. I'll sing its praises if it will shut you up. I will be drowned out with the curses from everyone else.

  18. ACRA on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1
  19. ACRA on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    If Android doesn't crash, then why is this developer using ACRA for various exploding devices?

  20. Re:Digg reader updates due to device crashes on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Pardon me for not having a peer-approved double blind. http://hubpages.com/hub/10-Things-I-Hate-About-Android-Smart-Phones "Even though Android is based on Linux, it feels more like a smartphone version of Windows Vista. Always crashing and freezing." I am hardly the only person saying this.

  21. Re:Thank you for your work. on Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps · · Score: 1

    Well, thanks for copying, even if I do feel a few neurons short for not realizing the repost.

  22. Re:Digg reader updates due to device crashes on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    This would never happen on Android; they must have loaded a rom for windows:. http://www.slashgear.com/nexus-flaw-sees-android-phones-crash-after-sms-overload-29307177/

  23. Re:Digg reader updates due to device crashes on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't own an Apple device if you paid me. My playbook has never crashed. The browser has locked up, but it never took down the OS. All my coworkers with Verizon Android have moved to the iOS dark side because of constant crashes. My stock firmware crashed like the Titanic on a replay loop. CM10.1 has greatly reduced the frequency. You sir, need to lay off the psychotropic drugs and get with reality.

  24. Thank you for your work. on Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps · · Score: 1

    I'm a user of CM10.1, and I appreciate your efforts and participation. I wish you could have found a more satisfying solution. I will look forward to Focal's availability.

    It seems hard to commercialize a GPL codebase. Even RedHat had to abandon their community distribution to keep their developers paid, which upset a lot of people (including me).

    Perhaps you can try again in another project. I hope you can make it work if you do.

  25. Digg reader updates due to device crashes on BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn · · Score: 1

    Check the latest release notes. Apps that crash the OS are the fault of the OS, not the app. Android turns Linux into a Windows95 reliability experience.