Posts by dave lawless

VMware reach exceeds grasp

@show me another

I hope you virtualizers are putting money into FOSS projects too. I already run Qemu images on Windows, Linux & OSX of Plan 9, Linux & Windows2k which I can control via the Qemu console or the virtual serial port (plan9 is particularly suited to this - no surprise there).

I'm not pretending to know anything about datacentres or speed comparisons etc. but money into FOSS is an investment, even if it just keeps competition around for the highly financed ventures.

'I can see dinosaurs from my back porch'

Hey, you forgot Ron Paul!

Ron Paul says “It’s a Theory … I don’t accept it

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

Net Suicide Bill would breathe life into government censorship

Down not across

I guess alt.sysadmin.recovery is now a banned site!

I've had one lifestyle (hunt sabbing &c.) already legislated out of existence, then I turned to Pen Testing and they made that illegal. Now the support group for my latest activities is being made illegal. i'm going to become a council tax colelctor next, let's see them get rid of that !

BitTorrent crackdown cops fail to pay music copyright fees

The stereo does have an off switch, copper!

"We continue to assess the position and are seeking advice to determine if we are required by law to spend a significant amount of public money, which we consider is better committed to crime fighting, in this way."

What a weasel. "If we can't have free music we're going to stop policing."

How does that work!?!

I'm going to try it when the electric bill comes : "We're a public funded charity and think it's better to spend a significant amount of our funding on our entertaining our employees than giving it to Eon?"

Mayor Boris wants 'WiFi London'

yummy, can't wait

Come on Boris, hurry up and paint that elephant white so we can do some anonymous crimes.

EU slaughterhouses may get animal welfare officers

meat is murder

fuck your meaty murder

Fancy a shattering ORG45M for £150k?

Someone's committing a crime

According to the DVLA computer PEN 15 is registered to a BLACK MCC SMART PULSE SOFTIP SEMI-AUTO not a yellow one as shown in the picture.

And what a "softip" is I can only imagine.

ORG 45M is currently unregistered which is a bit of a slur against BMW drivers!

Senator saves YouTube from al Qaeda

What about the CNLA

Bah, Graham Hart's pro-CNLA video got taken down too!!

Probably since he got arrested in connection with the threats against Jamie Oliver and Rick Stein

these will have to do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K782zEesfEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guj1lLZRREI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCW9PT7Qe00

this one's the scariest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdk4v11U4tQ

Web designer sues Brat City for assaulting hyperlink

@The Mole & blocking via refer

Copyright a URL - that's like copyrighting a phone number + extension

The clue is in the U - Universal

blocking via refer is also stupid, some places strip them out of outgoing requests via DPI so you'd be potentially punishing your customers.

The only way is to add a personal identifier to *every* URI and redirecting based on a lack of it / expired - if you can find a suitable expiry time. And then you are punishing your customers because they can't cache anything.

Besides the story isn't even about deep linking, she linked to the HOMEPAGE.

Morans

Literacy leads to happiness and luuurv

@dave

> Im still living with my parents and its got bugger all to do with my literacy leval,

I'm still living with my parents and it's got bugger all to do with my literacy level.

I do hope you did that on purpose

Net-talking toaster to burn news onto bread

scroll error

reading - top down

toast eating - bottom up

So I guess it's best to print in two halves

PA Consulting begs for mercy after data loss axing

single human, pull the other one

It's called a systematic failure where I come from.

Highly sensitive info on a PC with a USB port and individuals with the power to stream it all off. Rogues 1 Systems 0

Can CDP render backup redundant?

pah, old hat

try one that coalesces the blocks too, and provides a encryption mechanism

http://netlib.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/venti/venti.html

Plan 9 ftw.

People have been telling us it's irrelevant but the ideas are creeping into other products all over the industry.

French storm the bastille over 'Sarkozy's Big Sister' database

The Daily Mail agin it?

say it aint so !

Besides, with RIPA they don't need a central database, they just let you keep the data at home, saves losing those pesky USB dongles.

US wireless pioneer to carriers: Don't be European

I'm not an industry leader but ....

There is a seminal paper on the subject :

http://www.maht0x0r.net/library/Content-Is-not-King.pdf

The lessons within have served me well, you won't catch me without me trousers.

BPM unravelled - a live, interactive event

Where?

When is all well and good but where ?

Google launching its own navy?

international waters?

that fibre has to come to shore somewhere & wherever it does there'll be an individual from the Inland Revenue and an individual from Customs and Excise waiting (or whatever their regional nomenclature would be) oh and maybe an individual from the Ministry of Culture and Sport with a set of extreme porn guidelines.

Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility

@Alexander

jeesh, do you even know what "user space" means?

Your OS presents one interface : system calls - hooks into the devices to provide user land services. It's a KERNEL, not a command line or GUI.

You'll be telling me next Notepad is part of the Windows OS.

Your GUI is provided by USER space programs making (abstracted) calls to your graphics device (VGA card maybe).

"Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad." Rob Pike - circa 1991

Linux is a crock.

Javascript comparison

if you want to compare javascript speeds try this :

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider.html

Intel q6600 quad core duo 2.4gz 4Gb ram

IE7 - 25077.4ms (Win64)

Iceweasel 2.0.0.16 (gecko 1.8.1.6) 11845.8ms (Debian i386)

Epihpany 2.14.3 (Gecko 1.8) 11792.8ms (Debian i386)

Opera 9.52 - 3948.6ms (Win64)

FF 3.0.1 - 2868.6ms (Win64)

10x improvement is not to be sniffed at if you use javascript heavy sites

Can't play games in a Browser ?

You need to stay in more !

http://necromanthus.com/Games/ShockWave/quake3.html

http://necromanthus.com/

Facebook app shows botnet risk

pah, at least be malicious

http://riosec.com/how-to-create-a-gifar

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:Y2kd8XolyJkJ:www.hackaday.com/2008/08/04/the-gifar-image-vulnerability/+gifar

Cloud computing: A catchphrase in puberty

Hands up if you can use ed !

In place editing of config files via scripts - check!

echo 'g / host$/ d

a

192.168.1.2 host

.

w

q

' | ed /etc/hosts

what's that in C++ ?

Those that don't know etc.

Ex-BT boss off to Alcatel-Lucent

Good luck Ben

Please be kind to Plan 9 and Bell-Labs, it's been hellish for years, they even removed every other light bulb but I guess that didn't have much impact on the $1bn after all.

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/curse_of_glenda.html

Bell-Labs inventing the future since forever - the transistor and the CCD and Unix and C and and ......

Oh though there is some shit in there, I'm looking at you C++ (he got upset when the guys in the Unix lab were non-plussed)

Scotland's oldest newspaper exposes readers' smalls in public

ye old "id primary key auto increment" blunder

beginners snafu

"How would I sidejack this" should be thought number 1

Intel buys up UK Linux lab

svelte ?

That's not how I think of fatty Linux, it's getting as porky as the fat faced Finn himself.

Remember when the kernel fitted on a floppy ?

Thus passes to C&W

bye bye demon

and good riddance Trumpet Winsock !

US to give some rendition info at Gitmo trial

A stain on our country and its history.

Yeah, we were much more honourable when we flooded China with opium.

Or stood by and watched 25 million Indians starve as we exported the bumper harvests.

Or ran the "press gang > slave ships > slaves to sugar plantations > rum & sugar to Blighty" operation.

Or exported Ethopian food in the 1980s during their worst famine.

Excuse me while I shower in glory.

Concrete-jet 'printers' to build houses, Moonbases in hours

Edison did something similar

The sweaty yank tried pouring cement houses and furniture!

Didn't catch on though some are still around

http://flyingmoose.org/truthfic/edison.htm

Malicious gossip could cost you your job

Weekend teachers not humans ?

Come off it, what the teachers do at the weekends should be none of my business.

China's The9 earns epic loot from The World of Warcraft

Everyone's dead

Bummer, I guess I'll play some Warcraft, at least my buddies will be there.

Oh Noes .....

German hackers poke hole in great firewall of China

What's wrong with a VPN or an SSH tunnel ?

Surely better to teach a man to fish than to give fish away.

Suprise at spelling snafu sanctions

spelling schmelling

If you read some 18th century text such as Adam Smith's "On The Wealth of Nations" you will expose yourself to many of what we would term spelling mistakes. Rigid & standardised spelling is a 20th century invention.

I'm all for flexibility, so long as text speak isn't permitted !

Wünderbra! German policewomen take 'Action Brassiere'

Springtime for Hitler

@Tom

> No Jewish colleagues at the Reg then, I assume?

Yeah, because the only people murdered by the Nazis were Jewish !

Obama critical of Bush regime's bioterror fearmonger gap

Let them blow us up

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

Stormtrooper helmet sales still legal in Britain

Sue Roffman for slander

for calling the legitimate sales illegal

Amazon launches self-cloning experiment

Put your hands by your pockets and step away from the bong!

Why does buying cheap second hand books make me brainwashed and hypnotized ?

Or is the author trying to be cute. Sorry mate it's just aggravating.

Peroxide girl with a false ID

Lost and lonely she can't see

Peroxide hair and burnt out eyes

Blinded by so many lies.

Apple skewered over missing DNS patch

Unix security ..... lolz

> Yes, being based on Unix, OS X has a lot of inherent security lacking ...

I read that as "inherent insecurity" and was surprised to find the reverse.

Macs used to be interesting because :

a) they were not Intel

and

b) they were not Unix

Austrian official fuels Skype backdoor rumours

Radovan Karadžić

The weirdy beardy would-be dictator was caught because of who he phoned, not because he phoned to say goodbye.

Sun may or may not be about to obliterate Oracle and Microsoft

Get a better thread library

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/thread

(available for Lunix too via http://swtch.com)

CSP ftw!

Free for all on London Underground

Hacker conspiracy - blegh!

I don't think for 1 sec it is the card dupers but even if it was if a shoddily duplicated card that returns invalid data crashed the system the blame lies not with the card duplicators but the input validation & verification code.

If I'd built the card system I would have made sure I'd fuzzed the nuts off it prior to deployment because one can guarantee that if I didn't then someone would be giving it a go down the ine.

Ubuntu man challenges open source to out-pretty Apple

Hey Steve, try mine

http://www.proweb.co.uk/~matt/plan9/desktop.gif

How to beat AVG's fake traffic spew

Windows - an Epic FAIL

Anti virus & anti malware are the worst indictment for an OS I can imagine.

If I wrote an piece of commercial software that needed a 3rd party anti-virus suite to keep it running I would be mortified. For shame.

Verizon sends text messages to the big screen

Digital Cinema

@Daniel - which cinema claims that. Ours has been digital since 2006.

Not "all digital" mind because that sort of narrow mindedness means you can't show art house prints, and with that we wouldn't be in the top 10 cinemas in the world according to "Total Film" Magazine.

@Chris C - There's more to cinema than Hollywood pap, check out your local film club I'm sure they'll guide you to an art house cinema in the vicinity.

@Verizon - stick your crap up your arse :)

UK.gov plans central database for all your communications

Cue the death of email over SMTP.

They should make it mandatory for everyone and give free access to the data collected.

If everyone has it, we're all equally f'ed in the a.

W3C 'clarifies' HTML 5 v XHTML

Pixel perfect fool

@Plankmeister

> Imagine that... KNOWING with 100% certainty that your page will look pixel-for-pixel identical on every browser. Ah, bliss!

That's the problem, it's not SUPPOSED to look the same in each browser, that's the whole point of HTML.

My favourite web browser doesn't even support TABLES, so smoke that !!

goddam penguin, where's MY mascot !!

Number crunching knife crime and online ID verification

Beware the cookie monster

Nothing is safer for verifying things than a client side text file!

Where's my OS mascot?

Government orders data retention by ISPs

We're all police officers now.

Being as I run my own mailserver and send emails direct with SMTP does that make me my own ISP ?

Penguin ! pah where's OS mascots from the one's I use !

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

http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/glenda.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffy_(mascot)

Frustration and joy - Microsoft's CTP in action

Is that it ? In DB soft links

When will the penny drop for Winboys. You're shiny tools are ten years behind the curve. You can keep smashing your head into the GUI administration wall and running on the MSDN treadmill or step off and get yourself in a sports car.

Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features

Great news

MySQL is a toy, get over it

Concerns build over Debian delays

Happy Debian User

I use Debian *because* of the package system, not despite it.

Mind you, BSD's /usr/ports is still the best around.

Smug anti-Linux / anti-OSS bitches contribute NOTHING, so it's safe to ignore you.