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  1. Re:Closed source drivers still a bane on Android 4.3 Based CyanogenMod 10.2 Nightlies Arrive · · Score: 1

    I second that. I have a gs3 with ting and cm10.1.2, it works a treat.

  2. Re:1st post. on Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009 · · Score: 1

    Seriously though. Apache, nginx, lighthttpd, hell.. mongrel, thin, etc... Anything before IIS. The point and click mentality works for people that know how to follow instructions but don't care how things work. That having been said I guess this news is legit.

  3. 1st post. on Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    apache 4 life!

  4. Re:Start your own on Ask Slashdot: Getting Hired As a Self-Taught Old Guy? · · Score: 1

    Wow. I am from St. Louis. I left about 12 years ago as because of a total lack of any technical opportunity (especially for folks that look like me). I was interviewing for every tech low level support position I could find, while going home at night building openmosix clusters from P2s. I took a job at office depot, saved every scrap and moved to upstate NY. Within weeks I had a job working for a large ISP. FF --> 10 years, I work as a linux admin for profitable/stable enough NYC startup and have popped that 6 figure bubble. My point is, St. Louis burned itself down 10 years ago by forcing anyone that could to flee. I experienced blatant racism, ageism, ism-ism, you name it. You can't find anyone that isn't terrible because you ran them (or their brethren) out of town years ago. Talk to your city leadership to turn things around, and consider actually training the right person that has no skills. You could be turning that persons life around, and thusly improving us all (humanity).

  5. Re:Ting! on Ask Slashdot: Best Pay-as-You-Go Plan For Text and Voice Only? · · Score: 1

    This. 1000x. mod parent up.

  6. Re:Ting has the cheapest data plans on Ask Slashdot: Best Cell Phone Carrier In the US? · · Score: 1

    I'll second Ting. They are pretty obviously the best bang for your buck if you live in an area with decent Sprint coverage.

  7. You need an ipkvm. on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    Or a remote access card. or the IBM machines, they are called RSA cards, on the dell machines they are called a DRAC. There is an equivalent for HP called iLO, and every other large brand. I also know that supermicro sells them for some of their server boards too. I think these may be generic: http://www.ami.com/serviceprocessors/

  8. Re:Black Family Channel on FCC Head Supports Ala Carte Cable · · Score: 1

    As an african american male, I agree. Thats wrong.

  9. Wasn't this thing supposed to have gps? on Open Source Linux Phone Goes On Sale · · Score: 1

    Whatever happened to the agps the wiki says it was http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Hardware:AGPS , was this dropped or just no longer mentioned?

  10. Re:Transmeta Crusoe on A Hardware-Software Symbiosis · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing.

  11. Re:Red Hat offers hands-on training on Where Do You Go For Linux Training? · · Score: 1

    I third that option. Have em go for the well respected rhct, rhce coarses.

  12. I want to buid an open iptv architecture on 2008 - The Year Internet TV Became Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    I want to legally buy content from a C band provider like the national programming service. This is what the cable companies do. Then I want to encode it into mpeg-4 w/ h.264 and multicast it with no drm over the net as an rtsp stream. I don't want to use drm but if I have to I think there is an open source drm implementation out there. I will have to come up with some sort of acl. I want to offer a free basic service which is just a few channels as a teaser, but come up with some new pricing model (a la carte maybe?). I just need some c band dishes, some servers to do the encoding, and streaming (vlc can do dvb to mpeg4 on the fly I think), some developers to write glue code, and some money for bandwidth and other costs. Anyone game?

  13. Re:Man I just had a moment on Earth's Species To Be Cataloged On the Web · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just had my first "damn I wish they had this when I was in grade school" moment. Next there will be a you spoiled kids don't know how to work for your knowlege moment.

  14. Re:Frequencies on Can You Run an Open GSM Network? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Don't forget to mention the coming possibility of wimax/ voip. It is my opinion that voip over wimax has the potential to replace the existing gsm network with a network built for data and voice. If Google, Intel, Skype, Yahoo, along with DirecTV, and EchoStar get there way regarding what is going to be done with the 700mhz spectum then we may see a national wireless broadband alternative. Check http://www.dailywireless.org/. In the mean time while an open gsm network may be something of dreams, there is at least one truely open gsm phone google: openmoko. One other note ubnt.com sells an atheros chipset based 802.11b/g card that does some majic to use 900MHz instead of 2.4GHz. I have read that people are getting near pico cell type range with these things. But thats not exactly what you want is it.

  15. Re:A mac solution on Which Asterisk Or Other VoIP System To Deploy? · · Score: 1

    I have an asterisk installer for os x on my site. I would be willing to help anyone with a custom solution on the cheap. brandon at! dacrib.net.

  16. Re:VoIP on Voice Over IP Security Alliance Formed · · Score: 1

    Hte to reply to myself but have you guys heard of voipong, docsis (cable modems) has encryption in the standard, so should sip, and iax2 for that matter. That way I can go out and purchase a 50$ linksys ata, and trust it will work with my provider and provide a decent level of encryption. Not saying a pair of alligator clips can't circumvent the newfangled public/private key deal.

  17. Re:VoIP on Voice Over IP Security Alliance Formed · · Score: 1

    I agree, people just don't get the fact that voip isn't new. Telco's have been using voip to interconnect trunks for years. I am well in the process of starting an iax2 friendly (if your in the game you know what I mean) wholesale provider. Slashdot has a voip article a day. Trust me dude you will be talking on a voip phone in two years, be it your cell, or your landline if you aren't already.

  18. Re:Failed on RHEL, Failed for gentoo on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 1

    ./test

    child 1 VMAs 0
    [+] moved stack bfffe000, task_size=0xc0000000, map_base=0xbf800000
    [+] vmalloc area 0xdf800000 - 0xfee67000
    Segmentation fault

  19. 1st post = awesome on Best Training in Linux Administration? · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I recommend installing a distro like fedora, debian, or slackware and just getting everyting to work... then you'll come up w/ other things to try, you learn as you go

  20. Re:ADS Pyro DV on 1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your link isn't working but i found a site with a review of a similar product. What do you think?

  21. Re:Win98 on qemu on Bochs x86 IA-32 Emulator 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    All i can say is ...con mutherf***ingradulations to the qemu developers, you fellas may have the killer open source app on your hands. I do have a few recommendations to users though.
    1. The install goes alot faster if you use an iso of win98 instead of cdrom emulation, you can make one by doing the following: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win98.iso where /dev/cdrom is the pointer to your cdrom device.
    windows 98 install stats:
    real 12m58.470s
    user 12m29.184s
    sys 0m4.476s to first reboot
    2.I haven't yet gotten networking yet either but I can honestly say that performance on my athlon xp 2400+ nforce2 board w/ 1 GB 333 ddr, running gentoo linux and 2.6.2 kernel w/ mm patchset is at least equal to vmware.
    I'll post back when i get networking working properly, for now I'm off start debugging a windows 2000 install. by the by does anyone have a G4 running linux that would like to try their hand at getting gemu to compile, I am really intersted in getting a powerbook and If i can get 70% of the performance I'm getting here I can skip the now M$ owned virtual PC

  22. Re:small scale? on Xgrid Clustering Software and Demo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Have you actually run any jobs on your cluster yet? download john the ripper from http://www.openwall.com/john/ compile it and run "./john --test. I would LOVE to see the numbers using just the powoerbook in relation to the numers you get on the cluster. PLZ post back.

  23. They need an editor. on Stardust Probe Enters Comet's Tail Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    " Not until January 2006, will Stardust and its precise cargo return by parachuting a reentry capsule weighing approximately 125 pounds to the Earth's surface. The word precise should probably be replaces with "precious". NASA should know better.

  24. editor needed. on The Changing Face of Offshore Programming · · Score: 1

    The author obviously used cut and paste twice.
    Editor needed.

    Six months ago, I could find high-level programmers in India willing work for $15 an hour, vs. the $100-plus an hour I was paying Americans for the same work. In only six months, that rate has climbed to $25 an hour in India, while my domestic rates have dropped to around $35-$50. On the last project I bid out, two proposals from India came in higher than domestic contractors. Admittedly, I'm in a very small sector of the larger market, and it's too soon to tell even here whether the trend will last, but I've heard similar reports from other businesses (see BW Online, 12/2/03, ). My major arguments were that overseas labor costs would rise with increasing demand, and that increasing patronage would gradually empower workers overseas and inspire more of the local labor regulations and controls that add to labor costs in the U.S. One of those trends is already happening, at least in the labor markets I've been exploring.

    Six months ago, I could find high-level programmers in India willing work for $15 an hour, vs. the $100-plus an hour I was paying Americans for the same work. In only six months, that rate has climbed to $25 an hour in India, while my domestic rates have dropped to around $35-$50. On the last project I bid out, two proposals from India came in higher than domestic contractors. Admittedly, I'm in a very small sector of the larger market, and it's too soon to tell even here whether the trend will last, but I've heard similar reports from other businesses (see BW Online, 12/2/03, "U.S. Programmers at Overseas Salaries").