Slashdot Mirror


User: goarilla

goarilla's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
928
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 928

  1. Re:Kids aspiring to be CEOs? on 13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON · · Score: 1

    the reason i posted it was because it was simply false i dont care if some markup was lost!
    anyway on the subject we learned to simplify multiplication as well but we learned it like this
    21x13 = ( 21 * 10 ) + ( 21 * 3 ) = 210 + 63 = 273 and NOT 253 !
    since multiplying a number by 10 or a number divisible by 10 is EASY

  2. Re:Kids aspiring to be CEOs? on 13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON · · Score: 0, Troll
    hehehe have you even read that entry

    The Egyptian method of multiplication of integers and fractions, documented in the Ahmes Papyrus, was by successive additions and doubling. For instance, to find the product of 13 and 21 one had to double 21 three times, obtaining 2 × 21 = 42, 4 × 21 = 84, 8 × 21 = 168. The full product could then be found by adding the correct terms found in the doubling: 13\times 21 = (1\times 21) + (4\times 21) + (8 \times 21) = 253.
    HAHHAHAHAH
  3. Re:Circus physics on New Form of Matter Melds Lasers, Superconductors · · Score: 1

    Perhaps the biologists should just combine mitochondria and chromosomes too
    why not they're all just thingies in our innies, no ? :D
  4. Re:Start using 'good' analogies on Better Communication with Non-Technical People? · · Score: 1

    routers are PBX/Centrix machines and DNS is the Internet equivalent of calling Information

    i wouldn't use that one since i have trouble understanding it.
    With PBX do you mean setups which utilise asterisk,... eg an in-house intercom system that typically runs over ethernet and/or IP?
     
    i agree with you on using real-world analogies when trying to educate someone
    but in that particular case i would rather use this example: a router is like a traffic cop on an intersection.
  5. Re:Bejeweled? on Your Mom And Gaming · · Score: 1

    so ... bejeweled hasn't been copied (ripped off) over and over ?
    heck even MSN messenger has a bejeweled game. the parent just told that probably
    because it's much easier to get your hands on frozen bubble than on the real bust-a-move

  6. specs ??? on OLPC Project Rollout Begins In Uruguay · · Score: 1
    i was googling for specs and found out everyone was either wrong or the wiki is outdated

    Core electronics:
    * CPU: AMD Geode LX-700@0.8W
    * CPU clock speed: 433 MHz
    this comes from here http://wiki.laptop.org/wiki/Hardware_specification
    also amd seems to benchmark their systems with a plethora of common system utilities like SiSoft Sandra, Winbench, ...
    look here for more details http://www.amd.com/us-en/ConnectivitySolutions/Pro ductInformation/0,,50_2330_9863_13022%5E13072,00.h tml?redir=PCS10149ABC-04
    Although the benchmarks seem to be outlined relative to the geode line (previous models)
    it could be very well be that the LX-700's performance comes very close to a full-fledged athlon 700 ...
    anyway i want one the screen is really impressive
  7. Re:It's amazing people still use windows. on Windows PowerShell in Action · · Score: 1

    what's the point of the named pipes?
    aren't those mkfifo's redundant since your lsa and lsb will be created in CWD and not in dir a/ or dir b/?
    i just don't get the point but i do admit i really don't use named pipes that often so i have no clue about when, how or why one would use them

  8. Re:OpenBSD as a firewall? on Best Buy Acquires SpeakEasy · · Score: 1

    it's iptables since kernel v 2.4.x iirc

  9. Re:Computer bots on Bot Infestations Reach Nearly 1.2M · · Score: 1

    yeah i thought so wasn't sure tho !

  10. Re:Computer bots on Bot Infestations Reach Nearly 1.2M · · Score: 1

    tcpdump (nix), ethereal/wireshark (nix+win), netstat (nix), iptraf (nix), htop (nix), lsof (nix), antivirus
    adaware, psybot, process explorer autoruns TCPview RootKitRevealer (windows -- Sysinternals) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/defa ult.mspx/, etc ...
    if your computer isn't supposed to do anything and it's opening connections to ports 6667 (irc), 25 (smtp), 20 & 21 (ftp) then
    it would be a good assumption that your pc has been zombified
    there are people over here who have more experience in this area and they will comment :D

  11. Re:Carefully chosen competitors on Surprise, Windows Listed as Most Secure OS · · Score: 1

    This report completely fails to illustrate any useful information. Insecure machines can be protected with firewalls which run secure OSs, none of which were in this list (OpenBSD, anyone?)

    All that, and I still doubt that any sort of stability could be achieved on a network running these three OSs exclusively, without the protection of at least one OS not in this report.
    a barebone linux firewall can be a very secure OS as well !

    just look at the plethora of router/firewall distributions
    But it'll have to be just that! a router and or firewall
    not a desktop machine or an intranet fileserver also acting like a firewall but this is the same for every server
    every server should be decently isolated an perform one task and one task only: let an apache server be just a server serving GET,POST,... requests
    Are you using your desktop OpenBSD system as a router ?

    i'm quite offended of not seeing a BSD in the list also but making such a bold claim sounds like someone who has never used pf
    nor iptables and is just spawning a security buzzword
  12. Re:this is kinda weird on ReactOS 0.3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    why don't you skip all the hard stuff and just build a complete interface replacement for XP or Vista
    i don't get it are you talking about a new shell/graphical interface like geoshell, liteshell, ...
    and all the others which can be easily found on this page http://www.shellfront.org/
    i know what the goal is of ReactOS, to create an open-source free Windows alike os
    and they are obviously doing an incredible job, they are kinda reverse-engineering windows if i can call it that

    but ILuvRamen i really don't understand what you're saying, please explain
  13. CFO of the week? on Tax Accounting Evil at Google? · · Score: 1

    this just seems like good business practice to me and c'mon who wouldn't try to evade taxes anyway :D

  14. he majored in marketing on The Wii's MEMS Inventor on Future Technology · · Score: 0, Troll

    Today, such products are quite big, a cube 10 centimeters on a side. We want to do this in less than a 30-millimeter cube, to serve as an image stabilizer
    he majored in marketing alright, it's really obvious since
    for most people a 30 mm cube vs a 10 cm cube must be like a 1:1000 comparison
    although roughly it's only 3 times as small
  15. Re:How much will it take? on A Bad Week for Symantec · · Score: 1

    The reason Windows has so much malware problems is because it's the most common operating system used
    yeah and most servers run a form of *Nix, most notable linux and apache
    don't you think a decent server with a 100 Mbit uplink isn't of any interest to the skilled attacker?

    why am i even bothering and feeding this troll anyway
  16. Re:convert on MP3's Loss, Open Source's Gain · · Score: 1

    that's nice and all but you're still transrating your file
    and what if say in 3 years after you've deleted your mp3-files the ogg vorbis format is being
    attacked by another money grubbing prick ... what are you gonna do then ?
    convert to yet another lossy format ... and in a decade or so all your music will sound like crap except the albums you've actually bought and can rip at any given time
    Little tip: don't use cd's as coasters!

    just hope some people will have the balls to keep hosting libmad, win32codecs, ...

  17. Re:ods - excel on Sun Releases ODF plugin for Microsoft Office · · Score: 1
    well i usually save as pdf too and i like Oo for just that reason as well
    but when i exported it to pdf, it kinda exported it like this: 1 column gets printed first
    2nd column get printed next, all sequential and that was not what i was aiming for i needed to export
    it so it would still look like a spreadsheet, there probably is a way of doing this but
    i had to act fast at that time since a friend was waiting for the info
    so eventually i chose to export it to excel which in the long run proved more
    valuable than html or pdf

    in case you're wondering i was making a spreadsheet which holds info about tv-shows i used to watch
    when i was little. the spreadsheet itself hold several columns with info like:
    • title
    • video samples
    • origin
    • studio
    • publisher
    • date
    • seen on #tv-channel
    • website (if applicable), ...

    they are mostly cartoons and a lot of them are from here (belgium), but there are some universal classics
    in there as well like: dungeons & dragons, thundercats, dommel, snorks, smurfs, he-man, king arthur and the knights of justice, ...

    a friend and me already collected 91 and i can only think about one i just can't seem to find although i can still remember it visually
  18. Re:Why are these vulnerabilities? on Campaign Sites Full of Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    hahahahahahaha that's funny :D

  19. Re:UAC is not there for *user* protection on Tricking Vista's UAC To Hide Malware · · Score: 1

    isn't the Microsoft EULA their legal CYA ?

  20. ods - excel on Sun Releases ODF plugin for Microsoft Office · · Score: 1

    is it possible to import ods (Oo,kspread) based spreadsheets into MS Excel as well?
    i hate having to fire up O.o just to convert the ods spreadsheet i created in kspread, sorry Sun
    guys kspread is just more responsive and faster to load, to xls files for others to view.

  21. Re:RAID5. on Recovering a Wrecked RAID · · Score: 1

    what i always wanted to ask a guy who clearly knows a lot about this stuff is
    what physical media do you recommend for regular snapshots/backups: tape archives, DVD's (it would take a hell lot of dvd's to backup 1 TB i think)
    or just another machine (with or without RAID), NAS, SAN, ...?

  22. Re:Could have mentioned other options on Recovering a Wrecked RAID · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what's wrong with popping in a livecd like sysreccd http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page/
    and to use dd to take an image of the disk or ghost (but iirc ghost uses dd) ?
    i have been able to successfully recover 99% of a crashed, broken, badly partitioned hard drive that way numerous of times
    offcorse i do not claim i have the expertise as ontrack but seeing as i've done this for quite
    a few friends and since well not everybody can pay what they ask for their service, i can understand
    why they get drives that have been subjected to a DIY recovery at first

    But why do we need all these expensive consumer disk recovery tools, that often do not work correctly
    i must agree on the issue that this article is mainly advertising but that is to be suspected
    i mean the dude works in that company, he's kinda obligated to praise the so called 'superiority' of their own proprietary tools.

    granted i don't have a clean room but the area in that so-called clean room doesn't seem so clean
    and well the platters hanging on the top right on the other picture doesn't strike me as a good idea neither
    that obviously wasn't a clean room and i would at least encourage the use of a static bag anyway.

  23. Re:I will only take this seriously on Ballmer Repeats Threats Against Linux · · Score: 1

    a month ago i would have said the exact same time but now that i have seen this
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc4MzqBFxZE/
    never again, i don't think he even knows what he's doing most of the time

  24. Re:Why are newspapers retarded? on Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium · · Score: 1

    crap i misread seems you're right. :D
    my sincere apologies

  25. Re:Why are newspapers retarded? on Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium · · Score: 1

    Their market is 4.2 millions of Belgian frenchspeakers, not the whole world.
    Bullshit ! the two newspapers in question: "de standaard" and "het nieuwsblad" are flemish-dutch newspapers
    so they would be addressing ~6.0 million dutch speaking Belgians
    both newspapers sell about 200.000-300.000 newspapers a day (taken from annual statistics)