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 Kuro5hin

  • Cocoa Memory Management: the 7 Step Program
    Cocoa memory management is fairly straightforward, so I shouldn't have to post this. But I will, if only to prevent someone else from doing so. Only longer. And wronger.
  • BANANA CARAMEL PIE
    BANANA CARAMEL PIE IS NOT THAT HARD IF YOU THINK IT IS HARD THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU BANANA CARAMEL PIE REQUIRES BOTH PATIENCE AND RICE IF YOU HAVE NEITHER GO TO HELL
  • Games People Play: A Book Review
    Welcome to the K5 Book Club! Discussions on K5 have brought up this book. In an unrelated situation, real life people have recommended the same book to me. Mildly cultish following and also a nice short read. Dated but charming, and provides plenty of ammo for accusing your fellows of pathological behavior, which is probably the best reason to read psych books! Definitely up there with Freud and LRH. A true classic.
  • To Save The Gulf, Send The Enterprise
    The real Planet Earth has an ongoing situation that could use a ship of superheros like those in Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek soap opera. 60+ days have passed since the Deepwater Horizon's explosion and sinking. BP company engineers have been working continuously to stop the oil, but all efforts to plug the gusher in the gulf have failed. Efforts to contain the oil are ongoing, but the best case scenario calls for the well to run until the relief wells are completed in August. In short, people are becoming aware that BP's Big Problem in the Gulf of Mexico is probably the most epic environmental catastrophe of the past 1000 years. If only the Enterprise was available to help.
  • Salaryman's Bank Performance Report
    Salaryman arrived to the car-park just as Boss's chauffeur was stamping on his cigarette. “Boss will be down in a second,” the chauffeur said. “You don't happen to have a laptop running OS/2, do you?” “No, I don't,” Salaryman said, tuning his cufflinks. “Darn,” the chauffeur said, staring at the doorway he expected Boss to walk through any minute. “I wanted to check my email.” Just then the door opened. Boss walked through, followed by whoever had held the door for him. Salaryman kept a keen eye on the new fellow. He was dark, thin, and tall and wore a meticulously-brushed three-piece suit.
  • Booting Up with Salaryman
    Salaryman set his coffee mug on his desk. On a coaster, of course. Salaryman respected his banking firm too much to stain their solid oak desks with his fresh-ground Brazilian coffee. Smacking his lips, Salaryman hit the space bar on his black keyboard with his index finger and sat back. There was a quick electronic beep and some fans under his gargantuan desk whirled to life. The LCD lit up and Salaryman typed his BIOS username and password. Username: salarymanPassword: •••••••••
  • Why I Almost Gave OpenBSD $100,000--But Didn't
    It is never a happy occasion to realize that a not-for-profit group, no matter how destitute or successful, is undeserving of charitable donations. And just last week I had such an unhappy realization. I wanted to donate a sizable sum of money to the OpenBSD Foundation for development of the OpeBSD operating system and other related projects. My uncle, an old Unix graybeard from the Seventies, devoted his retirement and considerable savings to teaching inner-city youth about computers and programming. He recently passed away and left instructions in his will that I donate money, in the amount of US $100,000, to "the most meritorious Free, Unix-like operating system" as according to my own research into the matter. [From http://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-almost-gave-openbsd-100000-didnt.html.]
  • Murder the Chinese People!...with Red Dawn (2010)
    Like many of my childhood friends, I was deeply moved by the 1984 B survival movie Red Dawn (Chinese title: 《赤色黎明》)--but that was during the peak of the Cold War when people still believed MAD was on the horizon...Patrick Swayze (RIP), C Thomas Howell, Charlie Sheen, and the then still lovely Lea Thompson played the most 'heroic' characters I'd ever seen on screen because Ronnie Reagan was in office and we were fighting the red menace of Soviet invaders deep in the American heartland. It's no wonder then that today, exiled here on the brink in semi-colonized .TW, I'm thrilled to learn this film is being remade to feature PLA divisions roaring across the Great Plains and my countrymen rising up to "murder Chinamen"!
  • Why I Left OpenBSD
    I was a long-time OpenBSD user since the 3.1 days, and cut my teeth on Unix development there. I was attracted by its focus on security and conscientious coding practices. I was happy through the early 4.x days, but the more I got involved in developing for OpenBSD the more I was dissuaded from doing so.Part of the issue was this focus on security. After I began to use OpenBSD at home and at work in earnest, I realized that it was limited in hardware support compared to other operating systems. I purchased a new workstation and portable within a year of each other, and both times came to some unhappy realizations about OpenBSD support.I began to seriously look at Linux and FreeBSD at this point, knowing hardware support was much more robust. (I had also looked at NetBSD, but even though it booted on nearly everything, driver support was anemic.) I started to dual-boot FreeBSD on my workstation, and spent more and more time there. But it wasn't only hardware support that pushed me away from OpenBSD.[http://www.trollaxor.com/2010/06/why-i-left-openbsd.html]
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 The Register

  • Symantec Snoop Dogg rap contest site rickrolled
    #hackiswacked Symantec's attempts to link up with Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest have descended into farce after it emerged that vulnerabilities with a dedicated site can be easily rickrolled.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • Virgin punts cheap BlackBerry Curve
    Yours for £12 a month Virgin Media is offering the BlackBerry Curve 8520 - reviewed here - in what it claims os the "most competitive" pay-monthly package this smartphone can be found on.
  • Toshiba warns of fiery laptops
    Worldwide recall of ball burners Toshiba and US and Canadian consumer watchdogs are recalling three laptop models after receiving reports that people have been burned by the AC adapters.
  • 'Rock star' spewed guts after emitting vast pearl necklace
    Prehistoric luminary's explosive antics revealed The equivalent of a "rock star", having lived a "fast, flashy life and died young" apparently exploded with unimaginable violence in the year 161,000 BC and spewed "guts" across an enormous area. The exploding prehistoric luminary had previously ejected a "string of pearls", according to investigating boffins.
  • Phone bugging scandal re-ignited as NotW suspends reporter
    The story that refuses to die New allegations of phone hacking at the News of the World have resulted in the suspension of one of the Sunday paper's reporters, pending legal and disciplinary action over allegations of tapping into the voicemail messages of an unnamed television personality.
  • Ubuntu 10.10 released to beta
    Maverick Meerkat skips Alpha 4 The beta instalment of Ubuntu's Maverick Meerkat has arrived slightly earlier than expected.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • Nokia seeks to tap the X-Factor
    Ovi could do with the support Nokia is backing ITV's X Factor with a dedicated application and exclusive content, but it will take more then Auto Tune to make Ovi a Christmas number one.
  • Acer Stream Android smartphone
    PMP trickle-down effect Review Typically, smartphones make less than satisfying PMPs, especially given the issue of video formats, with very few phones supporting the good old AVI container or Xvid/DivX codecs. Also, sound quality is usually a bit iffy and there is often little in the way of external controls for media navigation that you can use without looking.
  • Chrome celebrates second b-day with sixth release
    Remember the Googasm Google is celebrating Chrome's second birthday by releasing a new stable version of its rapidly evolving browser, offering a slightly simpler user interface, an automatic form filler, and the ability to synchronize extensions and form data across machines.
  • Semi biz starts to cool off
    Mobile chips warming up as PC chips chill While chip makers are not white-knuckled with fear as they were during the economic meltdown of late 2008 and early 2009, they were hoping that the recent boom in chip sales would hold for a couple of quarters — and it probably won't.
  • Microsoft freshens retro code lock-down tool
    Teaching old apps new tricks Microsoft has released a new version of a software tool that developers and administrators can use to harden older applications against common vulnerabilities.
  • Jobs moves to the heavens with Apple TV
    You rent from his cloud Analysis With its Apple TV revamp announced Wednesday, Apple dipped its toes into the entertainment cloud — if you'll forgive a muddled metaphor. It's a tentative baby step, but expect more cloudy offerings from Cupertino if the experiment is a success.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • Microsoft buffs Silverlight for HTML5 video contest
    'We're more consistent. And we're here' Microsoft has tried to justify its Silverlight media player in the age of HTML5.
  • Twitter tightens grip on own firehose
    Microbloggy thing tracks all links clicked Twitter is on a mission to regain control of its own firehose.
  • Wikileaks founder blasts reopening of rape probe
    New 'unrelated' case filed in US Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has blasted Sweden's investigation into allegations against him for sexual misconduct after prosecutors reopened a probe into charges he raped a woman last month.
  • Microsoft slings mud in VMware living room
    Taunts estranged son VMworld Microsoft's assault on VMware knows no bounds.
  • LaCie catches ultra-small USB Flash drive bug
    MosKeyto flies in Ordinary USB Flash drives to darn big for you? LaCie's new MosKeyto protrudes a mere 6mm from the USB port it's connected to.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • HyTrust takes auditing, monitoring to the clouds
    Safe SOX for your virtual box VMworld Virtual security appliance maker HyTrust is revving up its wares with a new 2.1 release and positioning itself as the go-to partner for auditing and compliance for VMware's new vCloud Director.
  • Dell throws in 3PAR towel
    HP pumps fist Dell has admitted defeat in its attempt to buy 3PAR.
  • HMRC issues CD-rom alert to employers
    Quaint system to be replaced in 2011 HM Revenue and Customs has warned employers who use its Employer CD-rom to update it immediately to avoid miscalculations.
  • Toshiba touts £329 Folio Android tablet
    'Failio' spec? Do computer companies never learn from history? Clearly not, if Toshiba is anything to go by. Today, it launched its Android tablet, revealing the gadget is called Folio.
  • US loses last chance for free wireless
    Never a flyer, but finally grounded for good An audacious plan to provide free wireless internet access across the US has finally been killed off by the FCC, much to the delight of the cellular industry.
  • AOL goes soul-searching with Google in 5-year deal
    Gets into mobile search (result), agrees to provide content to YouTube (not so much) AOL has signed a deal with Google to make it the sole provider for paid text-based search and contextual ads on the company's US websites for the next five years.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • iTunes update plugs WebKit flaw
    Ping-pong The latest version of iTunes for Windows addresses 13 security vulnerabilities, as well as adding much-publicised social networking functionality.
  • Boris bikes for tourists delayed till year end
    Systems not robust enough Visitors to London, and anyone else without a full account, will not be able to hire Boris bikes until the end of the year.
  • HP bids $2.4bn for 3PAR
    Dell's new offer given drubbing HP has raised its bid for 3PAR to $33 a share, around $2.4bn, beating a revised Dell offer made earlier today.
  • Apple states tax take on UK iPod pricing
    You pay this, we take that, George Osborne gets the other, Eurocrats get the rest Apple has made it explicitly clear how much more its charging UK consumers for its kit than US-based buyers.
  • Jobs takes swing at Google over Android activations
    Who's got the bigger count? Google and Apple's bush war flared up again as Steve Jobs apparently cast aspersions over Android's activation numbers as he unveiled Apple's latest iPod and TV scrub-up yesterday.
  • Apple inks Ping trademark deal with golf gear maker
    Orange Ping sticks to sweet stuff Apple cleared the use of the word Ping with golf company PING before using the name for its new Web2.0 music look-up feature in iTunes.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • General Motors bitchslaps Tesla with Range Anxiety™
    Fixed grins at cheeks-aflame 'leccycar firm As US motor mammoth GM gears up for the launch of its plug-in hybrid Chevrolet Volt, it has applied to trademark the term "range anxiety" - meaning the fear suffered by battery-car owners regarding their ability to get home again after a given journey. Upstart battery car maker Tesla Motors has issued a panicky and unconvincing statement in response.
  • Verbatim InSight 500GB external hard drive
    Coming clean on capacity Review Verbatim's InSight external hard drive is an unusual-looking offering, but that odd wave-like curve at the front is home to the unit's status readout screen.
  • StreetView passed by Kiwi cops
    Google's data slurp legal in New Zealand Police in New Zealand have bounced a complaint about Google's StreetView service back to the country's Privacy Commissioner.
  • RFID patent pool prices up wireless
    0.08 cents per tag The RFID Consortium has opened for business after five years of negotiations, providing a one-stop shop for all the patents needed to manufacture RFID tags and readers.
  • Punters still puzzled by broadband ads
    Thanks for that Sherlock It will come as no surprise to regular readers that 90 per cent of UK consumers are confused by broadband advertising - we'd have to assume the missing ten per cent are marketing bods for ISPs.
  • My Exchange conversion
    Exchange Server 2010 heals 2007 release trauma Sysadmin blog Recently I had the opportunity to walk through complete installs of Exchange Server 2003 and Exchange Server 2010. Although I have used Exchange Server 2007 for the past two years, as with Vista, I prefer to pretend it never happened.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • NASA seeks inflatable popup roof for camper vans on Mars
    Space 'lofts' to feature two-ply 'bummer shielding' NASA says it has selected finalists in an engineering competition to design an "inflatable loft", reminiscent of the extending roofs often fitted to camper vans, but in this case intended to deploy from the roof of a "hard-shell prototype habitat" for use by astronauts on the Moon or Mars.
  • Hands on with Motorola's Milestone 2 and Defy
    Latest Android handsets shot in the wild Video Tom Satchwell, Director of Marketing, Motorola Europe demonstrates the company's latest Android offerings, the Milestone 2 and the Defy.
  • If HP gets 3PAR, does Donatelli get HP?
    HP, Dell, everyone schtum on 3PAR bids Opinion 3Par has not issued a statement recommending HP's $2bn bid for the company, despite the ending of a three-day period for Dell to mount a counter-offer.
  • Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet
    Vodafone to sell it Samsung has posted the spec for its upcoming Android tablet, the Galaxy Tab. And Vodafone has announced availability.
  • Nokia blows Ovi Files out of the sky
    Get off our cloud Nokia has pulled the plug on Ovi Files, its cloud-based storage system, and told users they've got a month before the the system gets wiped.
  • Symantec and Snoop Dogg launch cybercrime rap contest
    Now thass geekster Symantec has teamed up with rapper Snoop Dogg to launch a cybercrime rap contest.
  • UK.gov fishes for ID ideas
    Turns to IT suppliers, says 'Er, what do you think?' Directgov has asked IT suppliers to come up with new thinking on identity verification.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • How much aircraft fatigue is too much?
    HPC eases the strain Here’s another “How HPC saves your worthless hide” type of story - our pals at InsideHPC publicized a collaboration between the Federal Aviation Administration and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) that should increase air safety for people riding on planes and for the people standing around underneath them.
  • Cyber-jihadists deface home of teddy bears' picnic
    Get their Belvoirs mixed up Geographically mixed-up Algerian hackers made themselves look rather silly by defacing the website of an English stately home instead of Belvoir Fortress in Israel, their intended target.
  • Dixons sales ain't all that
    iPads and World Cup should've been a bigger boost DSGi shares fell very slightly this morning after the company said trading had held steady in the three months ended 24 July.
  • Boffins explain greatest ever free kick
    Roberto Carlos and his amazing exponential spiral Scientists have agreeably concluded that Roberto Carlos's 1997 free kick against France - a seemingly impossible blast into the back of the net from 115ft - was not the fluke some have claimed.
  • Large companies ignore data centre advice - survey
    Feel the need for it though Large companies across the UK increasingly turn to independent consultants when they want advice on the design and specification of a data centre. Almost all of them then ignore some or all of that advice, according to research released today.
  • D-Link DHP-306AV powerline Ethernet adaptor
    Network your mains cabling Review I use a couple of Devolo dLAN AVplus powerline Ethernet adaptors at home, to hook up my wired-only Sony Bravia connected telly to my router. They're great adaptors, but with a pass-through three-pin power socket, they're bulky. D-Link's latest adaptor, the DHP-306AV, offers a more compact alternative.
  • MokaFive outs bare-metal PC hypervisor
    Somewhere between VMware and Citrix Disappointed with the ridiculously skinny PC coverage offered by the XenClient bare-metal hypervisor just announced by Citrix Systems? Annoyed that VMware took its Client Virtualization Platform, also a so-called type 1 hypervisor for PCs, out behind the barn and gave it the Old Yeller? Then MokaFive is cooking up something you might find useful.Free On-Demand Webcast - Virtualizing the Hard Stuff
  • New iPod crew: 'Phoney, futuristic, retro, doomed'
    Apple admits error shock Apple has revamped three quarters of its iPod line. Or, more accurately, it upgraded one quarter, redesigned another, took a step back in time with a third, and left the final, not-even-mentioned quarter alone.
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