* Posts by foo_bar_baz

752 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Oct 2007

Nokia to launch low-cost Android phone this month – report

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Re: Confused

It's the Microkia side. It's all a calculated move by Microborg, doing what they do best: shafting the competition by cooperating with them.

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Re: Nickname the 'Snide Phone' ?

You read it here first, predicted by Alan D. Anyone else remember Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?

Microsoft didn't buy Nokia, just their mobile business.

Greenland glacier QUADRUPLES speed, swells seas

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Cool photos from glaciers

James Balog's extreme ice survey

Globe grabbin,’ sphere slammin’, orb-tossin’, pill poppin’... Speedball

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Re: Amiga graphics

It was in 32 colour mode, but with a lot more colours on screen. The beauty of old crappy (by today's standards) hardware was that it made programmers push the hardware beyond what should be possible.

For example you would change the 32 colour palette from one raster line to the next and have more colours than that on screen.

Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_bar

WHEW! OpenBSD won't CloseBSD (for now) after $100,000 cash windfall

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Re: How many are there?

You probably mean BSD OS's.

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

Get lost, fanbois: Nokia pulls HERE Maps from Apple's App Store

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Re: 10% market share

"that's what they're doing isn't it?"

No it's not.

They're stopping making phones full stop.

US military's RAY-GUN truck BLASTS DRONES, mortars OUT OF THE SKY

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Re: Drawback

Not only that, there are mortars that can fire multiple rounds at the same target using different trajectories, meaning up to 14 rounds from a single weapon land simultaneously (MRSI)

Fedora 20 Heisenbug makes ARM chips 'a primary architecture'

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Re: Heisenbug?

Heisenbug is old school geek jargon.

EC competition chief points troll-hunting guns at Nokia

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Struggling = permit for damaging and unethical business practices?

One word: SCO.

They are protecting the market from damaging practices to ensure fair competition, not persecuting a single company. Good on them.

To fel with you! There's an NSA spook in my World of Warcraft

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Should monitor every single FPS server as well then

I was playing CS:GO on a French server not too long ago, which had a guy screaming long streams of what sounded like Arabic into his microphone. I'm not sure if it was a player damning us to hell or a jihadi giving directions to his agents, probably both.

On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns

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Hand held shotgun?

You lack imagination

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/diy/paintball-gun-on-quadrotor-but-dont-panic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QcfZGDvHU8

I thought I was being DDOSed. Turns out I'm not that important...

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@bob

Comparatively little. Open relays were a problem in the 90s, but now the main issue is hordes of zombie PCs. Looking at the article attachment and own my mail and ssh logs confirms this: spam and probes come from home user PCs. It's fairly easy to confirm with whois lookups and hostnames which contain clues like "dialup", "ras", "dynamic" and such.

This is also relevant to using iptables: it is helpful for ssh probes but not so much spam.

Chester Cathedral smites net in Wi-Fi SMUT OUTRAGE

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Another technical fix for a social issue

Would the idiotard journalist read a paper porn mag in the church cafe or the childrens' section of a bookshop? Or a laptop or mobile device using mobile Internet?

Get off my Internet lawn.

Julie Larson-Green: Yes, MICROSOFT is going to KILL WINDOWS

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The lure of the cloud

MS figures the desktop is dead and you just need a Hardware Secured ™ Microsoft Approved ™ thin client to access the Microsoft Cloud™.

Microsoft gets GIANT GLASS HQ in FINLAND as part of Nokia deal

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Re: Espoo

"Espaw" and you're really close.

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Winamp is still a thing? NOPE: It'll be silenced forever in December

foo_bar_baz

Security updates?

Eg.

https://secunia.com/advisories/46624/

https://secunia.com/advisories/45279/

https://secunia.com/advisories/46882/

Microsoft's $7.1bn Nokia gobble: Why you should expect the unexpected

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Re: ???Question

MS is not buying all of Nokia, just devices and services (phones and Ovi to you and I).

Nokia will use that cash and extra MS cash to help pay off loans it took to buy Siemens out of NSN.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-02AnnouncementPR.aspx

http://press.nokia.com/2013/09/06/nokia-to-issue-convertible-bonds-of-eur-1-5-billion-to-microsoft/

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stop trading as an independent company?

Really? It sold a division to MS.

The REAL winner of Microsoft's Nokia buy: GOOGLE

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@Tyrion

And can you develop iOS apps on anything but OSX?

Who is the mystery sixth member of LulzSec?

foo_bar_baz

Re: Extradition should be mandatory for all digital crimes

Why not just establish sharia law while you're at it?

Review: Nokia Lumia 520

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Re: @ Andrew

http://languageandgrammar.com/2008/07/29/has-your-curiosity-been-peaked-or-piqued/

Game designer spills beans on chubby-fancying chap with his stolen Mac

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Re: I like it !

Plumpy was also selling stuff on Ebay that matched purchases made on his credit card.

Inuit all along: Pirate Bay flees Sweden for Greenland

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@Paul Crawford

Just a couple days ago I realized I haven't used my media server for film or tv for ages, and decided to delete all of it. My TV appetite is more than sated by Netflix, which costs me some pocket change per month. Only thing missing is sports.

Website which 'could have prevented Rwandan genocide' goes live

foo_bar_baz

Re: Of course it couldnt stop it....

Do you mean extraction operations that line the pockets of local elites? Or "aid" of which 90% goes back to domestic contractors, kills competing local businesses and creates dependence on foreign aid?

Or do you mean investment in businesses that actually help foster the local economies? Yeah, I'm really interested in hearing about *those* trillions.

IT Pro confession: How I helped in the BIGGEST DDoS OF ALL TIME

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Linux

Re: never "forget" any edge system!

RHEL (and CentOS) are meant to be used in enterprise environments where things don't change quickly. This means Red Hat maintains an "old" version of a software component way after others have upgraded, religiously backporting patches to make sure it's secure. In other words stuff like BIND and openssh will have ancient version numbers, but still be up to date.

If you want cutting edge, either compile the software yourself or use another distro. I like CentOS myself.

Apple share-price-off-a-cliff: Told you that would happen

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Alien

Re: @ Toothpick

AMFM operates on a knee'd to now bases. That belong to US. If you don't see it you aren't looking closely enough, or too close.

Nokia deflates Google's video codec thought bubble

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Echoes of SCO

Legal supernova imminent? At this point I'm almost hoping.

Chameleon botnet grabbed $6m A MONTH from online ad-slingers

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Coat

Can you please post the traffic profile?

I'd like to be blacklisted by advertisers too.

Software bug halts Curiosity: Nuke lab bot in safe mode

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Coat

"appended an unrelated file to the data"

In other words, cat killed Curiosity?

Coca Cola in the dock over illegal China GPS map claims

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Angel

In the interest of our national security

You'll have to hand over your technology for inspection by our experts from Red Flag Cola Co.

Thank you for doing business in the People's Republic.

Carrie Fisher dusts off THAT bikini for Star Wars VII

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Coat

Re: Sorry, but.....

Andus McCoatover lost Carrie Fisher's beauty! Now we know who to blame, you dizzy git.

First, servers were deep-fried... now, engineers bring you wet ones

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Boffin

Re: <Title/>

P.S. The extra clue is in the article title and the big blue "Servers" section header at the top of the page.

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Re: <Title/>

Computer != PC. The article mentions servers, and the small setup in the video is just a demo. Hint: connecting to a pipe system allows you to store and transport the heat further than your server room (or bedroom in your case). Large scale examples of using heat from servers exist..

Look out! Peak wind is coming, warns top Harvard physicist

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Re: One question I have always asked myself

If you're concerned about wind turbines having an effect on wind:

- Be concerned about the impact of cutting trees and deforestation

- Be concerned about the impact of urban buildup and tall buildings

- Think about the natural variation in wind resistance from hills, mountains, lakes and oceans

Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant

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FAIL

Re: Is this about UEFI or SecureBoot?

'Many have failed to understand that in a corporate world very little is open source, and corporate guarantees are more important than "openness and fluffy ideals".'

Openness is not fluffy ideals. It's savings in money. What you call corporate guarantees is also known as vendor lockin, which is costs big money to companies. The IT business world is all about vendors trying to lock you in and smart customers fighting it.

'I challenge you Linux obsessed to find a corporation that runs on key software that isn't in some way either bought from a big corporation or written almost entirely internally.'

And why do some opt to develop their key software internally? To avoid vendor lockin, but it's expensive. The third alternative is to demand open standards from your vendors. You know, those "fluffy ideals" you write about. Secondly, it's not either big corporate or open source. Big corporations use, contirbute to, sell and promote open source. If you haven't seen or read about it you're totally of the picture.

Sadly so many commenters here think IT = Desktop and by extension Linux = Desktop. Everything from your Android phone to your wireless router and Sony TV are running on Linux. *That* is the context you should think about when considering the stupidity of tying down the Linux kernel with specifics of one platform like secure booting a PC.

US diplomat: If EU allows 'right to be forgotten' ... it might spark TRADE WAR

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US has data protection

But only for US citizens. IIRC there was that bit where private companies handling foreigners' data on behalf of the US gov't were selling it on.

Brit mastermind of Anonymous PayPal attack gets 18 months' porridge

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Re: foo_bar_baz tolerable

By schitzophrenic I referred to the state, not you. The courts and the agency grating the permits represent the same body.

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Meh

Re: tolerable

I'm surprised by your take on the BAe case. It's pretty schizofrenic to accept their reasoning while a govenment agency has granted export permits for the plane.

How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

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Re: My head explodes!

I've yet to see a single rabid Linux fanboi zealot in this thread. I do see plenty of uninformed commenters like yourself throwing around terms like "fanboi" and "freetard", who choose to not even read the article before picking up on Linux + Brick = flame time.

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Re: Old News

Good point, in fact Reported by tadazmas on 2012-08-23

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Happy

No

"Bricked" means there is no boot screen. The clue is in the article: "dreaded black screen of no activity whatsoever."

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WTF?

@Charles 9

By definition? There's nothing special about a Live CD Linux kernel.

Support for RHEL 3 ends one year from … now!

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Re: What idiots use RHEL, any version?

You cannot find Slackware under officially supported OS's for Oracle, EMC or any other "enterprise" software or hardware vendor, while RHEL is always listed. Good luck with that support call to any of those 3rd parties with your in house Linux setup.

In short, big enterprises buy RHEL.

Pakistan Cyber Army declares war on Chinese, Bangladeshi sites

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@jake

You *really* need to include a citation when making outrageous accusations like that, or is it self evident to you that Pakistani teens cannot be behind the defacements? Really tells something about you.

Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop

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@attempt

The police were doing what the law requires them to. The law says attempted infringement is also punishable. See Lex Karpela (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Karpela) - thanks to the EU directive, in turn probably lobbied into effect by Hollywood and the global music industry.

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

If someone is to blame, it's the industry associations in Finland, Europe and worldwide.

Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

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Truancy

Cameras and RFID tags, technical solutions to a social problem. Doomed to fail.