Slashdot Mirror


User: cciRRus

cciRRus's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
346
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 346

  1. Lucky me... on Apple Mac OS X Update For 17 Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    Good thing I'm using Windows! Oh wait...

  2. Old news, pics here on Surprising Further Evidence for a Wet Mars · · Score: 1

    How much evidence do we need in order to show that there's water on mars?

  3. How about P2P TV? on English Premier Football League Sues YouTube · · Score: 1

    it's impossible to find games on the internet.
    I watch some live (actually 5 to 10 mins lag) football matches on P2P TV networks. In the past PPLive used to air football matches but all that has changed. Now, I depend on TVants. There are many other good P2P TV networks around that shows live football, so keep a lookout for them.
  4. Re:Poor choice of words ... on Astronomers Again Baffled by Solar Observations · · Score: 1
    Let's give them credit when they deserve.

    In light of past and present research revealing the electrical nature of the universe,
    Ho ho ho.
  5. Re:Target market on Microsoft CEO Claims iPhone Will Be Bust · · Score: 2, Funny

    Think about that for a second.
    His uncle would rather die than to buy a Zune?
  6. Whew! on Critical Security Hole in Linux Wi-Fi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Good thing I'm using Windows.

    Oh wait... nevermind.

  7. Re:Adblock and Adblock Plus?!?! on Top 10 Firefox Extensions to Avoid · · Score: 1

    Really, sites like Slashdot, Google, etc. have it right. Minimally intrusive ads with quality content == a good experience for most users.
    Wait a second, you mean they have ads? *disables Adblock Plus* Oh, right...yeah.
  8. Re:.ANI problem is what? on .ANI Vulnerability Patch Breaks Applications · · Score: 1

    Basically, IE/Outlook users can get owned by visiting sites fitting with the ANI exploit, which is reported to be in the wild. Read more here.

  9. Re:Popular FUD. on How To Speed Up Linux Booting · · Score: 1

    21 users on a laptop? Doesn't it get a bit crowded around the keyboard?
    Maybe the users are not there physically? Good thing I'm using a secure OS like Windows XP. Whew!
  10. Re:This is the first I've heard of this. on Researchers Building Computers That Run on Light · · Score: 1

    Yeah, many thanks to the submitter for shedding light on this new technology!

  11. The real question... on DIY Laptop · · Score: 1

    Does it run Linux From Scratch?

  12. Re:mitigate the problems on Chinese Hack Attacks on DoD Networks Coordinated · · Score: 1

    The DoD should create a firewall rule to automatically drop any packets it recieves from China, North Korea, South Korea, or any of those countries trying to root its machines.
    So you think that the (Asian) attackers would be launching their attacks directly from their boxes (in Asia)? Usually attackers would go through several compromised hosts /servers distributed over the globe to cover their tracks. For example, the attacker may be in China but the packets are forwarded through hosts / servers in Australia, Germany and Argentina before hitting the target in the US.

    If they have the abilities and the determination to attack defense network infrastructure, I'm quite sure that they could have easily gotten themselves a few innocent boxes across the globe to act as packet forwarders.
  13. Wow, I can't wait! on Intel Squeezes 1.8 TFlops Out of One Processor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Gonna get one of these. That should bump up my Vista Experience score.

  14. Whew! on Vulnerability In Firefox Popup Blocker · · Score: 1

    Good thing I'm using the Internet Explorer.

  15. Re:...and where is the torrent slowing down the ne on Net Neutrality and BitTorrent - No More Throttling? · · Score: 1

    I doubt it has to do with your ISP. In the past I used a Linksys BERSR11 and it crumbled when my P2P ate up thousands of connections. The situation continued when I switched to a WRT54G. It would be easy to blame the ISP for not being able to support the large number of connections, but after some reading up, I was glad to know that the fault in my case lies with the router.

    Somehow, Linksys routers have a low limit of maximum number of connections. On the WRT54G, it is a mere 512, which means that your web experience would suffer when BitTorrent sucks up 500+ connections. Thankfully, I managed to change this limit from 512 to 4096 (through the DD-WRT firmware) and I am able to surf and use P2P at the same time. In addition, I enabled the service-level QoS feature in DD-WRT such that P2P traffic gets the lowest class while real-time traffic like SSH and RTP get above-normal class; this allowed me to download and upload the latest Linux distro torrent while at the same time, remotely administer Linux boxes through SSH.

  16. Degree Celcius conversion on US Military Tests Non-Lethal Heat Ray · · Score: 1

    For the benefit of those who are not familiar with the Fahrenheit scale, 130 F is 54.444 C.

  17. Here's the reason why... on Microwave Experiments Cause Sponge Disasters · · Score: 2, Funny

    There are really intelligent folks around.

    *ducks*

  18. Re:Intel Video hardware is just nice... on Intel Discrete Graphics Chips Confirmed · · Score: 1
    Intel drivers for Linux Just Work(TM).
    Just to add on, Intel drivers for Mac OS X 10.4.8 on the x86 platform works real fine. I get Quartz Extreme and Core Image the moment my HP D7600 (onboard Intel graphics chip) boots into OS X. However, things weren't so smooth on my other boxes with Radeon and Geforce cards.
  19. Re:No Electronics? on Undersea Cable Repair Via 19th Century Tech · · Score: 1

    Alternatively, these sharks may be trying to get themselves their favorite weapon.

  20. Re:Gaming mod community on The Power of the Hacking Community · · Score: 1

    And now... many are playing the mod (map actually) DotA on Warcraft III. It may be the next big hit.

  21. Re:Yet Another Black Hole on Black Hole Found Inside Globular Cluster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually there is just one; the rest were dupes. =)

  22. Re:Memory effect on Memories of a Media Card · · Score: 1
    Yes, they exist in the form of software tools etc. but they're for NON CLASSIFIED DATA ONLY. For top-level classification their specification to ensure data destruction remains to this day in the belly of an incinerator.
    This is true for government agencies outside US as well. Hard disks that store highly-classified files are to be degaussed before they are crushed. I'm not sure if incinerating the hard disk is safer than crushing it, but degaussing it is a must before any following steps.
  23. No DRM! on HD DVD's AACS Protection Bypassed · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's what happens when Slashdot articles are not protected by DRM. You get dupes, lots of them!

  24. Re:IBM ThinkPad 2662-35U on The Well-Tempered Debian desktop · · Score: 1
    Not enough RAM.
    So he should install Windows 98 instead?
  25. Re:The problem is... on Siemens Reaches 107 Gbps Data Transfer Record · · Score: 1
    Yes it will actually, this is a bigger pipe, and since the internet is a series of pipes..
    I think you meant tubes instead.