Diebold is a large manufacturer of ATMs and other (supposedly) secure electronic equipment. In 2002, Diebold acquired a smaller company that manufactured computerized voting machines, and created the Diebold Election Systems subsidiary, which has been mired in scandal ever since. Some reasons include:
Bob Urosevich, the president of Diebold Election Systems, as well as Walden […]
It’s 1 am. I am driving; almost empty street, four lanes, no streetlights. Still, there are occasional headlights and neon signs in store windows, so there is a nice pattern of occasional light amid deep shadow. It’s cold; I have my windows closed; the (rather noisy) heating fans are on. Suddenly, I notice a guy […]
It seems that Greg KH had gotten fed up with people (SGI, more SGI, IBM, OSDL Japan) trying to get their patches into the Linux kernel without understanding how the kernel is being developed or maintained. So he has decided to write a HOWTO for beginning kernel developers. He wants to eventually see the document […]
Interesting developments in the Gtk world. First, Federico Mena-Quintero, superhero programmer from Novell (formerly Ximian), had started to profile to profile the performance of common Gtk+ widgets back in July, presumably in response to the collective wailing of thousands of OSNews readers about glacial Gtk+ performance. Eventually, he decided to focus on the filechooser dialog, […]
Finally, a piece of good news on “anti-terror” laws: the proposed British law that would have allowed detaining terrorist suspects for 90 days has been defeated in the British Parliament. Notably, 49 Labour MP’s voted against Blair’s bill, despite intense pressure from the Labour party’s leadership. The Parliament instead passed an alternative bill to allow […]
I have a Dell Inspiron 6000 laptop. I knew that the chipset and the motherboard were capable of supporting PC2 4200 (533 MHz DDR2) memory. Thus, I was quite shocked when I flipped over the stick of RAM that came with the laptop (it is installed sticker-side down) and read Hynix 512MB 2Rx16 PC2-3200S-333-12. Looks […]
Literally seconds after I put up a post, some loser writes a spam comment advertising some kind of Polish gambling site. As far as I am aware, almost nobody actually reads this blog. The only explanation seems to be that the spammers are mining the major aggregator sites…
Good thing I installed Spam Karma 2. It […]
For some time, I had noticed that after a few days on my laptop, the Xv extension would break. For those who don’t know: Xv lets Unix programs use hardware acceleration for displaying video. You can go without Xv — for instance, you could use Xshm to set up a shared-memory pixbuf between your X […]
In the past few days, stories about Sony’s unique DRM technology have been circulating on the old Intarweb. Basically, when you insert some Sony or BMG music CD’s into your Windows machine, a window with a EULA pops up. As soon as you click “accept”, you get a rootkit from the good folks at […]