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  1. Jetblue?? on Cellphones On Airplanes · · Score: 5, Informative

    When on a cross-country flight this past december on JetBlue airlines, they specifically told us that we were permitted to use cell phones once we got above 10,000 ft.

    People were using them during the whole flight. They would get constantly cut off and have to re-connect as we went over areas that didn't have service.

    So, I don't get this whole thing. Every other airline specifically has said that cell phones need to be off once they close the cabin door. If it works for one, why not all the rest? What does the FAA or FCC have to say about all this?

  2. Re:Maybe it's too much to ask, but . . . on Debian Desktop Subproject Launched · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Debian unstable is doing this where performance is critical. For example:

    > ls -1 /usr/lib/i686/
    libcrypto.so@
    libcrypto.so.0.9.6
    libssl.so@
    libssl.so.0.9.6

    There were experiments doing custom glibcs a while back, but there were bugs and it was backed out. I'd like to see that working though.

  3. Transcripts.. on Eldred v. Ashcroft Oral Arguments · · Score: 2

    Did anyone notice that the newest transcript on that site was from April 15, 2002? Do we really have to wait six months for a free transcript of the proceding??

    Yes, there are earlier transcripts available for a fee on that page, but shit, this stuff is important.

  4. Re:IP6 ready on Vint Cerf Talks About Internet Changes · · Score: 2

    How can you run a box with the IP6 protocol when nothing on your net will talk to it?

    There is a common solution to this, called tunneling. Basicly, each IPV6 packet is encapsulated in an IPV4 packet and sent to a remote site where the IPV4 shell is dropped and the IPV6 packet is routed to its destination.

    There are public services that do this, most prominently, the 6Bone.

  5. Re:Damn users.... on Bugbear Windows Virus Making the Rounds · · Score: 2

    Dear god.

    Two BOFH rants in one day. You should make a website. You are officially on my Friends list. Keep writing!

    -molo

  6. Linux support for Hyperthreading.. on Ars Technica on Hyperthreading · · Score: 3, Informative

    KernelTrap has had some articles on Linux's support of HT. Ingo Molinar has been working on tuning the scheduler for HT systems. Articles are here:

    http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=391
    http://ke rneltrap.org/node.php?id=406

    </karmawhoring>

  7. Re:Trying to be helpful? on Malaria Genome Mapped · · Score: 2

    He noted the cost of traditional malaria prevention methods, such as spraying stagnant water and pesticide-soaked sleeping nets

    Yeah, that sounds real safe. We'll just douse everything we own in pesticides. I'm sure a malaria treatment would cost much less in the long run compared to the health problems from pesticide use.

  8. Re:Sign on the door on MIT Scientists Demo 150 Ton Magnet For Plasma Research · · Score: 2

    Or, even worse.. I hope you don't have any implants using surgical steel. I used to have an internal fixation on my femur, and I used to have a good time at metal detectors. Lets just say I never would have been able to get a MRI.

  9. Try these links.. on A Shocking Space Movie · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are the links you want:

    movies
    article/images
    more images

    Can someone mirror these?

  10. One year, and still.. on 1 Year Anniversary of Nimda Outbreak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Its hard to believe that its been one year and I'm still getting scans on my apache server. Are there really that many braindead admins??

  11. You pay for support. on Costs Associated with the Storage of Terabytes? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When you get a Symmetrix frame from EMC, you also get a support contract. EMC will send multiple people to your installation for maintenance. EMC will remtoely monitor your Symm via modem. They will help you plan your storage needs (including what kind of backup and reliability you need). EMC will provide 24x7 support for everything you need. Then there's management software, etc.

    Don't forget that the hardware isn't cheap: Frame, multiple redundant hot swappable power supplies (requires specialty power connection), dozens of scsi drives, dozens of scsi controllers, 10-20 fibre channel connections, an interconnection network between FC and SCSI controllers that includes fiber and copper ethernet, hubs, etc., and a management x86 laptop integrated into the frame.

    $20 mil for this is a fair price in my opinion. Anyone who rolls their own is just insane. There are hundreds of engineers behind each of these boxes, and it shows.

    No, I don't work for EMC.

  12. One record in question.. on VeriSign DNS in Trouble · · Score: 2, Informative

    One of the records in question is that for dundjerski.com, in which there is false information for the Administrative Contact:

    Dundjerski, Marina (MDE220)
    Marina Dundjerski
    000 Blank St.
    No city, XX 00000
    US
    123-123-1234

    However, on the same record, the "Registrant" field lists an address for the same name as above. If this is the worst that they can come up with, I hardly consider this a big deal.

    -molo

  13. Fun with blowtorches.. on Cases That Can House Multiple Motherboards? · · Score: 5, Funny

    can it be (cheaply) assembled from parts?

    Yes. All you need are two of those 2U cases and a blowtorch. Be sure to remove your two motherboards first. :)

  14. Are you kidding? on How Serious is Static Electricity? · · Score: 2

    Silicon Valley is a fairly humid area so that may be a contributing factor.

    Is this a joke? I just moved here from the NYC area. This place is dry as a bone. You obviously don't know real humidity.

    Secondly, I just had a floppy drive die from ESD the other night. I guess thats what I get for not having it (or I) properly grounded. Oh well. It was old.

  15. HP48. on Scientifically Oriented PDAs? · · Score: 2

    You want a HP48 calculator. You will comply. Resistance is futile. RPN is godly.

  16. Re:Great service with Vonage. .. Latency?? on Internet Phones Replacing POTS In Japan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    VOIP is a great idea and all, but what about latency? When I'm on a cell phone, the latency (and echo) is really annoying and noticeable. International calls are even worse.

    How bad have you found it?

  17. Yea! on Perl & LWP · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yea! Perl finally natively supports Light-Weight-Processes (threading)!

    Oh, wait...

  18. Re:Conspiracy theory or desperate truth? on Interview with ICANN's Karl Auerbach · · Score: 1

    FYI, looks good to me.

  19. Re:Checking which packages you never use on RPM Dependency Graph · · Score: 2

    Looks like a bug on line 405. I don't use rpm, so we have taken different code paths here.

    But the output you did get is the # of days ago each of those packages were used. i.e.: libgtkhtm20 was used within 24 hours. perl-XML-Recods was used within 148 days.

    -molo

  20. Slashdot is irresponsible. on VNC Server for Toasters and Light-Switches · · Score: 2

    This Server

    The pages you are currently watching are served by a web server running on a an Ethernet equipped 6510-based system with 64k RAM running at 1 MHz (a Commodore 64 with a TFE cartridge). The same system also exports two displays using VNC and the small uVNC server software.


    When will the Slashdot editors learn that what they are doing to servers is totally rediculous? Will it take a lawsuit to stop the slashdot effect? Why shouldn't this poor machine be mirrored?

    This is like the third time today. Blah.

    -molo

  21. HAHAhaha on RIAA Smacked by DoS · · Score: 2

    HTTP Error 403

    403.9 Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected

    Gotta love it!

  22. Re:Checking which packages you never use on RPM Dependency Graph · · Score: 2

    I used this on my workstation at home. It works quite well, thank you!

    -molo

  23. Re:This is really cool.. on NCSA Releases Beta of Milky Way Galaxy · · Score: 2

    Yeah, after I read the manual, and saw where the galactic center is, I came to a similar conclusion. I was assuming that the bulge around the observation point was the galactic center.. very wrong.

    Thanks for the note.

  24. Re:It was at the Klassy Kat, and it sucked on Slashdot Readers Visit Meatspace · · Score: 2

    Gah, you must go to RIT or something. Perfect place for a meeting. A place full of old women strippers.

    I hope I never go back to Rochester.

  25. This is really cool.. on NCSA Releases Beta of Milky Way Galaxy · · Score: 2

    I checked it out, and it works really well under Linux.

    I have a question though.. I've always been told that our Sun was on one of the outter arms of our galazy, and that our galaxy was spiral shaped. However, from this data, it seems that the sun is towards the middle of the galaxy, and that our galaxy is disk-shaped.

    Can anyone fill me in?

    Thanks.