Comment Re:dm-crypt (Score 1) 312
On Windows, TrueCrypt system partition encryption works as well.
Linux Foundation Asks Who Says "I'm Linux" Best 459
An anonymous reader writes "Everyone has seen Apple's clever 'I'm a Mac' ads, and Microsoft's attempted responses, first with Jerry Seinfeld, and next with 'I'm a PC.' The Linux Foundation tries to fire back with its community-generated 'We're Linux' video contest: all of the eligible videos have now been submitted and are ready to be voted on. Thankfully, the quality of Linux is much higher than the quality of some of these entries: entries range from the hilarious but inappropriate, to the well-made but creepy, to the 'I'm sure it sounded good in your head.' Thankfully, there are one or two that could actually be real commercials."
Comment Brilliant! (Score 3, Insightful) 326
Wait...let me see if I've got this right.
1) Take a random group of polygons
2) Randomly change those polygons until they're more like the Mona Lisa
3) Repeat
And people are surprised that the end result is something that looks more like the Mona Lisa than when he started?
1) Take a random group of polygons
2) Randomly change those polygons until they're more like the Mona Lisa
3) Repeat
And people are surprised that the end result is something that looks more like the Mona Lisa than when he started?
Obama's "ZuneGate" 608
theodp writes "Barack Obama supporters were left shaking their heads after a report surfaced that the president-elect was using a Zune at the gym instead of an iPod. So why would Mac-user Obama be Zune-ing out? Could be one of those special-edition preloaded Zunes that Microsoft bestowed on Democratic National Convention attendees, suggests TechFlash, nixing the idea that the soon-to-be Leader of the Free World would waste time loading Parallels or Boot Camp in OS X just to use a Zune."
Comment Re:Difficult in practice (Score 1) 119
What about environments which have the same hardware build deployed, such as corporate/enterprise networks?
Submission + - Patch Linux Kernel Without Reboots (zdnet.com)
evanbro writes: ZDNet is reporting on ksplice, a system for applying patches to the Linux kernel without having to reboot. ksplice requires no kernel modifications, just the source, the config files, and a patch. Author Jeff Arnold discusses the system in a technical overview paper. Ted Ts'o comments, "Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a while. If you are a carrier in telephony and don't want downtime, this stuff is pure gold."
