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  1. Cisco's Website on Impressing Security Upon End-Users Visually? · · Score: 1

    Check out Cisco's website. Really. Most of the time, they have some videos geared towards marketing and business types. They even have some cute superhero thing about threats. It drives me crazy because usually I go there for technical purposes, I want to see configuration commands and tech docs. But every once in a while I'll find a good diagram or video which gets my point across to non-techie types.

  2. It's the sad state of cellular networks on The Sad State of the Mobile Web · · Score: 1

    Cell networks, like the old telephone networks were built for voice, not data. They had almost zero foresight in planning. I've mentioned this before. And at least someone is working hard to try and remedy the situation.

  3. Rupert Murdoch is something else. on Rupert Murdoch Says Google Is Stealing His Content · · Score: 4, Funny

    I bet he thinks the dewey decimal system "steals" content from libraries by classifying and categorizing books.

  4. Know what it would be good for? on "Time Telescope" Could Boost Fibre-Optic Communications · · Score: 3, Funny

    I can think of a myriad of uses ..|||..|.||. eady using it for that.

  5. Muahahahaha on AU Government To Build "Unhackable" Netbooks · · Score: 1

    Our evil plan to control the students has become reality. Muahahhahaa!

  6. Non-Open Networks on MMS Arrives For the iPhone — Will It Crash AT&T's Network? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow if cell phone networks were open like the internet, there wouldn't be these types of problems.

  7. Re:Interview Bet on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    I had bet another friend to use the words "optimus prime" in a legit work email...

  8. Re:Interview Bet on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    ;oD

    Well, ok. I had lost my job and I showed my buddy a link to an RV, and I said, look my new house!

    So a few days later, I got an interview, and he said "don't forget to say chemical toilet in the interview."

    Sooo, during the interview, I said something to the effect of, if I don't find a job soon, I'll be living out of an RV and I'll have to dump my chemical toilet in places like your parking lot.

    I established camaraderie with the hiring manager from day one ...

  9. Interview Bet on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    I once bet a friend (ironically a manager from a previous job) I could use the word "chemical toilet" in an interview. I got the job and won the bet.

  10. Re:Wireless broadband data charges are insane... on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    ...for the last time... cell phone data networks != regular internet networks. Duh. Cell networks are proprietary crap networks. If you want freedom, use a wifi voip phone at hotspots and stop sending the wireless carriers your money. They made a wireless version of the landline, not a wireless version of the internet.

  11. Wow, who can't do math? on AT&T's Bad Math Strikes MythBusters' Savage · · Score: 1

    You know it took me all of a few seconds to read the writeup, click on the link and read the first paragraph.

      Anyone ever think the customer service person was mistaken and said .015 cents == 1.5 cents and instead meant .015 dollars?

      We're all human and make mistakes.

      The real goofballs are the ones who think AT&T (or any "wireless cellular carrier") has a data network like the internet. Square peg, round hole. You're only enabling them by sending them your dollars.

  12. Simple on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Use common sense. Ask for something personal in return. Collateral. I want your cell phone/wallet/purse/bra/phone number in exchange for use of my laptop. Make sure to mention as they feel comfortable using your laptop during the duration, you'll feel just as comfortable using their personal items. Of course you'll return it in the shape it was in when they borrowed it, when both you and they are finished.

  13. Three Classifications of Users on Lenovo On the Future of the Netbook · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned there's three classifications of users, and this can be measured by the users' tech-savviness level.

    1) User - this includes most people. Including self-proclaimed "gamers". Yes, your grandma. And the janitor. And probably everyone in sales and accounting.

    2) SysAdmin - These guys run the show. Usually power users. Sometimes they game too, but they know how things work and how to get things done and keep them running. I fall in this category for example.

    3) Developers - Top of the ladder. Some piss poor devs are probably #1s or #2s, but these coders are the real problem solvers who probably know a bit of everything. Linus falls here, as well as every other kernel dev, or anyone who's done more than simple web development (ok, they're probably 2.5's).

    This article was strictly geared towards the #1's of the world...

  14. RMS' point on RMS Says "Software As a Service" Is Non-free · · Score: 1

    I think his point was that, you probably couldn't convince Lincoln that "slavery as a service" would be ok.

  15. Meritocracy on How Do I Make My Netbook More Manly? · · Score: 1

    "Yea, it's cute, and you should see what I can do with it."

  16. In this economy on 5 Powerline Networking Devices Reviewed · · Score: 1

    O'Reilly Wireless Hacks. Page 164, Hack #68 -- "Homebrew Power over Ethernet".

  17. Re:Oh Man! on Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar · · Score: 1

    (It's a joke my friend. Laugh, I jest.)

  18. Oh Man! on Facebook Reverts ToS Change After User Uproar · · Score: 1

    I *just* changed all my pictures to files with the same name, but instead of my pictures, they were a white square with the words "Facebook sucks donkey balls."

  19. Advice. on Confessed Botnet Master Is a Security Professional · · Score: 1

    Don't.
    Be.
    Stupid.

  20. Re:So what? on When Teachers Are Obstacles To Linux In Education · · Score: 1

    You weren't tasked with helping educate the young minds of brussel sprouts so they grow up to be cooperative, diverse and tolerant members of society. Also, somehow I don't think she was eating the kids.

  21. The Internet! on How to Deal With an Aging Brain? · · Score: 2, Funny

    The internet helps you remember things. I call it a pornographic memory.

  22. I thought this was slashdot. on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    This is still slashdot, right?

      Why not have a few thousand people call their tech support, and when you get a human on the phone, try and sell them something?

  23. Re:sudo bash on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    Even better... at a place I worked for, the admins were given "sudo bash" (so they could work with root access), but techs were given lesser commands. You know, like less (and a few others).

      Problem was, sudo less then type "!" gave you a root prompt ...

  24. Ignorance is bliss on Sprint Cuts Cogent Off the Internet · · Score: 1

    Great, fantastic! For a moment there, I thought maybe Sprint and Cogent were trying to "spread the packets around" ...

  25. Re:The eyes? on Leaping the Uncanny Valley · · Score: 1

    Yes there's something definitely wrong with the eyes. When you look at someone and look into their eyes, you are sort of concentrating, you see the wheels turning. This looked like gazing into the eyes of a robot or animal, or even a stuffed toy. They weren't engaging, they didn't stay in once place long enough. It's almost as if they were trying too hard, especially with the blinking. It was almost too random, no rhyme or reason to it.