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wendroidon Picasa Web experiencing outage.. blogger blogs affected too.

The fallacies are summarized as follows: 1. The network is reliable. ...

wendroidon High Electric Bills Saved The Computing Industry

> The problem is that most software applications couldn't take advantage of all those cores, even after investing hundreds of millions of dollars in computer science.

This is such a tired argument. All these problems have been long solved in Computer Science. Intel had 4000 CPUs in its Paragon System in the 199Os.

The software has been around long enough, my particular lineage is : Newsqueek, Alef, Limbo, Go.

The commercial world chased the Mhz (2 oxen or 1024 chickens? as Cray put it). It's not my fault you all thought C++ and Java was the way to build the future. It wasn't in 1995, it isn't now.

wendroidon Google's Chrome leaves another hackathon unscathed

pwning Chrome would give you more Kudos than pwning either of the other two. "IE on Windows was owned, yawn"

wendroidon Open source needs business revenue to survive

I'm getting bored of ex-MySQL guys pontificating. Your one-hit-wonder days are over and, tbh., it wasn't even that good a product.

wendroidon Rats Cooperate in Prisoners' Dilemma

Human experimenters are full of themselves. See recent experiments in self awareness in crows / apes / etc.

The vivesectors would have it that it's ok to use animals because they are lower forms of life and yet assert that doesn't affect the results!

wendroidon Miguel de Icaza's answer to "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities?"

> I still believe that Microsoft lost a great opportunity of having .NET become the universal runtime of the net

Phew, I'm sure glad we dodged that bullet. Imagine that !

wendroidon Miguel de Icaza: MS has shot the .NET ecosystem in the foot (Google cache)

Everything he has ever done for FOSS is a waste of time. Bonobo and Mono are utterly pointless. It might not be a direct bribe but taking MS' money via Novell and pissing ten years on it is exactly what I expect from a developer of Miguel's caliber [sic].

wendroidon Leaked PDF with secret plan to install child porn blocking filter for Europe

Aggh it makes me so mad, these people are either fools or take me for one.

wendroidon Innovators get Linux to boot in 1 second

Impressive.

You too can have Linux 3s boot time on one of 214 supported motherboards from the likes of Asus, MSI, SuperMicro, Intel and Tyan with Coreboot (GPL)

http://www.coreboot.org/Welcome_to_coreboot

wendroidon The Right to Work

Full employment is a threat, not a promise.

wendroidon How to Crack the Account Password on Any Operating System

As we already know that physical access = game over so design your systems accordingly.

Plan 9 does this by having a central auth server. You lock the it a cupboard and add some armed guards if you need. In fact, booting a Plan9 terminal doesn't even need a password. However if you want to connect to the other systems you're going to need an auth ticket.

Other systems should be using something like Kerberos or a domain controller or whatever schemes are available.

If it is likely someone will have access to your terminal and they might steal from you, storing passwords there is d u m b.

wendroidon Energizer battery charger contains backdoor

You can read write system memory at addresses that fit in 32bits even when the Kernel has crashed.

wendroidon Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

Ah, stupid me. I was going by the copyright notices. I was using it before Dec 2009 when I had my concerns.

Go Chickenfoot !

wendroidon Should governments vaccinate computers the same way they vaccinate children?

over 40 million people have died in car crashes. That license thing doesn't work so well.

wendroidon Chickenfoot for Firefox: Rewrite the Web

I have used it before now. I made it write the URL of the currentp age to a listener than processed it and sent back any js it decided to run (whcih sounds a bit inner platform but I had my reasons). It is a nifty little tool though I have a slight concern because it has had no updates since 2008 and looks like it might be an orphan.

wendroidon Aha Moments When Learning Git

Epiphany

wendroidon Energizer battery charger contains backdoor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access

And the description of how to exploit it

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/06/hacking_comput...

The FireWire version http://www.storm.net.nz/static/files/ab_firewire_rux2k6-fina...

wendroidon Ask HN: Looking for suggestions for a desktop rich GUI

Something like Flash but not Flash ?

wendroidon Energizer battery charger contains backdoor

get a better manual

wendroidon Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not Killing Any Sites