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Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly on Thursday March 24, 2011 @01:53PM (#2365146)
I'm an astrophysicist at a world famous institution - hence the dummy account.

I just feel strongly about a corporate CTO deciding to upgrade himself by calling himself "chief scientist" - mind you it's not as bad as how my colleagues in the School of Engineering feel when the man who connects your new washing machine calls himself an "engineer".

Re:Interview with Hillary Mason, Chief Scientist of Bit.ly on Thursday March 24, 2011 @01:22PM (#2365021)
Size doesn't always mean clever. I just plugged an HDMI cable into my TV all by myself, it shifts more than 7Billion bytes/SEC to the screen.
Re:ClamAV: The top 5 misconceptions on Thursday March 24, 2011 @12:41PM (#2364806)
It's not fast - but you can tune what/when it scans

Just did a test, C drive with 40Gb of Windows + program installs, a default settings initial full scan on a reasonably good machine.

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------

Known viruses: 925205 Engine version: 0.97 Scanned directories: 17693 Scanned files: 99960 Infected files: 0

Data scanned: 15352.83 MB Data read: 15506.05 MB (ratio 0.99:1) Time: 2863.965 sec (47 m 43 s)

Re:ClamAV: The top 5 misconceptions on Thursday March 24, 2011 @12:05PM (#2364620)
Well I heard that Steve Jobs puts subliminal messages in MP3s on iTunes to make you buy Big Macs because of a conspiracy by an international group of ......

You can set an ignore list (at least in the clamwin gui) by default a lot of data files (images, mp3s, avi etc) are set to ignore since they shouldn't be executed anyway unless your player is buggy

Re:IPv4 addresses are becoming valuable on Thursday March 24, 2011 @11:49AM (#2364543)
No - a secret cabal of big-IP companies will conspire to prevent it, like they do with the electric car