beardz - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Well let me be the first to say... (Score 2) 721

by beardz on Friday May 18, 2012 @03:43PM (#40045209) Attached to: Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50%

Diesel is more expensive than petrol here in the UK : http://www.theaa.com/motoring_advice/fuel/index.html

Comment Re:They could disable the majority of botnets (Score 1) 94

by beardz on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:24PM (#37532972) Attached to: Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet

Btw you don't have to completely "root" the system to be part of a botnet, but it helps, at least if you want your bot to keep running when the user reboots (though it could easily add itself to ~/.bash_profile to restart next time the user logs back in)

Or even just add a @reboot entry to that user's crontab, for execution post-boot.

Comment Re:Just For You Disgusting Fatbodies (Score 1) 132

by beardz on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:52PM (#36854302) Attached to: BlackBerry PlayBook First Tablet To Gain NIST Approval

Cool story, bro.

Comment Re:I love this (Score 1) 363

by beardz on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @01:28PM (#36813666) Attached to: Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails

I wonder how much was paid on his behalf to have this orchestrated?

Comment Re:Lets look at it (Score 1) 292

by beardz on Friday May 20, 2011 @01:42AM (#36188488) Attached to: Proposal For Gnome To Become Linux-Only

You do realise that nvidia has had freebsd amd64 drivers for over a year and a half now? The latest of which is 270.4106

Comment Re:A better idea (Score 1) 562

by beardz on Monday April 25, 2011 @12:25AM (#35926560) Attached to: Rep. Bill Posey Introduces 'Back To the Moon' Bill

That never stopped them from sanctioning military operations in Iraq or Afghanistan. Just how much a day is it costing to keep those operations on-going?

Comment Re:Hackers, obviously... (Score 1) 1200

by beardz on Saturday March 12, 2011 @04:28AM (#35462032) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies?

If you want to make fun of something, how about the fact that they NEVER made a Pentium Pro laptop.

Never say never! "PGI’s Condor Applique+ is a rugged, dual 200-MHz Pentium Pro notebook with 64M of RAM, expandable to 512M, and a 2.4G hard drive, in a removable, shock-resistant cartridge.The Condor has a detachable keyboard and a 10.4- or 12.1-inch touch-screen display that can be viewed in full sunlight." c/o http://gcn.com/articles/1998/08/31/army-finishes-tests-on-two-combat-notebooks.aspx

Comment Re:ClamAV is a big deal (Score 1) 127

by beardz on Sunday January 16, 2011 @03:31PM (#34898562) Attached to: ClamAV For Windows Open Beta Begins

And? MS Security Essentials is a zero-cost option as long as the OS isn't pirated.

It's a zero cost option even if the OS is pirated.

Comment Re:how (Score 4, Informative) 266

by beardz on Thursday January 13, 2011 @04:00PM (#34866950) Attached to: Mozilla To Release Firefox 4 Next Month

That's a show stopper for me.

Same here for quite a while - fortunately Status-4-Evar plugin showed up to remedy that particular ill.

Comment Re:Am I the only one who is confused... (Score 1) 140

by beardz on Saturday November 06, 2010 @03:43PM (#34148558) Attached to: Despite FTC Settlement, Intel Can Ship Oak Trail Without PCIe

So, you simply choose not to buy such a system in the first place - cuh.

Comment Re:There were some damn fine games in that era... (Score 1) 274

by beardz on Tuesday September 07, 2010 @11:34AM (#33498382) Attached to: Breathing New Life Into Old DirectDraw Games

Actually Windows 7 wont work with MOST OpenGL games either. I tried running a couple of OSS games that used OpenGL on a really outdated Geforce 9800GT and a quad core i5 and it failed to run outside of software render mode.

Granted BZFlag is a super high end game that makes Crysys look like Wolfenstine 3d (That everyone is sarcasim)

BZFlag works just fine here in OpenGL mode on Win 7 Ult x64 (w/ 8800GT and v258.96 drivers).

If you are into gaming, dont use Windows 7 64 bit. It's incompatible as hell.

Every single modern game I've tried has worked perfectly well on 7 x64, /shrug.

Comment Re:For ZFS alone it's worth it (Score 1) 161

by beardz on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @07:01PM (#33131780) Attached to: Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris

Except that not all of the FreeBSD world prefers a compile-the-world approach, which is why there's a freebsd-update utility now in base for binary updates of the base OS.

Comment Re:Is it worth the effort? (Score 2, Informative) 161

by beardz on Tuesday August 03, 2010 @06:56PM (#33131742) Attached to: Illumos Sporks OpenSolaris

FreeBSD jails are certainly no longer ill-supported second-rate tack-ons. Care for virtualised network stacks per Zone? ;)

Comment Re:Now What? (Score 5, Informative) 415

by beardz on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @05:52PM (#32671372) Attached to: Intel Says Farewell To PCI Bus

There's still a few manufacturers making C2D boards with a limited number of ISA slots : http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.htm and http://www.commell.com.tw/product/SBC/P4BWA.HTM are two examples.

Comment Re:Does he know something nobody else knows? (Score 1) 329

by beardz on Friday October 23, 2009 @11:48PM (#29854081) Attached to: Apple Discontinues ZFS Project

Perhaps you're confusing NetBSD with FreeBSD ?

To quote, "Interestingly, our advanced ONTAP GX architecture is built on top of a full UNIX release. We took Data ONTAP, including WAFL and RAID, combined it with the new code from our Spinnaker acquisition, and hosted the combined result on FreeBSD in a combination of user processes and kernel modules. For security and simplicity we have disabled and hidden many parts of FreeBSD." : http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/04/is_data_ontap_b.html

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