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  1. Re:Call me an Apple Apologist, but.. by DeltaSigma · · Score: 2, Informative · on New Remote Root in Mac OS X

    Seriously, Liu Die Yu has once again torn IE a new one. He's a very talented vulnerability researcher. I wish I had the money to help him get a computer, but I don't.

    People can donate via paypal here, if they want.

    He's very good, very responsible. Doesn't bash on Microsoft in his reports. It all appears to be acedemic with him. Help him out if you can.

  2. ISP Regulations and the Future by Alien54 · · Score: 3 · on CPUC Tells Northpoint To Restart Network
    Let me look at this. The idea of regulating ISPs etc presents the possibilities for certain legal precedants

    Question: under the .NET program, would Microsoft be an ISP and/or similar service provider?

    If MS becomes wildly successful with the .NET initive, and if it is a monopoly as ruled in court, does this legal action open the door to the government takeover of Microsoft down the road, in the Public interest, since they are a monopoly, since they will have made themselves essential to the welfare of America?

    [Insert Fantasy sequence] And further, under such a take over, could they regulate the quality of code? such as making it some sort of criminal offense to write code with an excessive number of bugs. - think of it - microsoft code being reviewed and managed like they do it for the Space Shuttle. (see original story here.)

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  3. What about the Sony Appliance? by Alien54 · · Score: 3 · on Be, Inc. Says Cash Can't Last Past Q2
    Just maybe. As reported here and here on slash, and later Updated here at the register, Sony has signed with BE for the BEIA for the eVilla

    [Side Note: check out the Register for their April Fools edition of the website. It's a good poke in the eye with a sharp stick to some of our favorite people]

    In any case, with that inflow of $$ from Sony, I do not think that the company is going to go under all that quickly, unless it is bleeding green really bad. The news story might not be be giving all of the details, unless it is one of those things of "well everyone is being careful with their money".

    Sort of like saying to a man in the water "well rope is scarce, and we got to be careful on who we hand it out to"

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  4. practical barriers by Alien54 · · Score: 4 · on Why Isn't BSD a Desktop Operating System?
    I think that the practical barrier is likely the install program, which I did not find particularly hard when I first fired it up. In fact for someone technically savvy, it is pretty easy.

    But that is the problem. You need to be technically savvy.

    If you have someone that is clueless on this stuff, then the answer is "Start X? how the hell am I supposed to know that?"

    The latest Redhat has a nice pretty gui type install. But if you have odd ball hardware setup, it is a problem.

    I have one guy teaching himself how to do work with Unix by installing Redhat. He has a nice desktop with gnome fired up. By default it installs with Dialup (not Ethernet), even though he choose a server config. The computer doesn't have a modem, but it does lan card. He is going to figure this out on his own, but hasn't yet.

    Redhat has the prettier program, and sets up the dial up for you. FreeBSD is "Uglier" (I think it is better) but you have to know more. But in both cases you still have to be fairly knowledgable.

    The bottom line is that I still think that Unix is still not for beginners. This is a practical problem for widespread adoption. I happen to prefer FreeBSD.

    Alot of impressions are highly dependant of the Distribution, which deals with items like installation, ease of changing components, changing setups, installing programs, etc. Not the underlying soundness of the system, the drivers, etc.

    But that (your fav distro) is a different flamewar indeed. (I need a cup of coffee, my mind is too fuzzy for this, this early in the morning)

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  5. Living in Dog Years by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on UNIVAC's 50th Anniversary
    The old Adage is that life on the Net is like living life in Dog Years.

    Univac = 50 years old. 50 x 7 = 350 dog years.

    Y'know, the Univac is not doing bad for something invented in the internet equivalent of 1650.

    ;-)

    [For those not USian, the folk adage is that one year in a dogs life is equivalent to 7 years in the life of a human. Thus the term "Dog Years". Internet development time, etc has been seen as being very similar to this]

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  6. Re:Other sources of RFI by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on The Joys of Microwaves And Wireless
    How about a hair dryer, an espresso machine, an electric razor, a TV (phlat panel and CRT types), a nearby PC running a benchmark, a washing machine and/or dryer? Gotta give it that lived in environmental background noise. :)

    I recall one office that was over a metal shop, where alot of the RFI came from the Arc Welders.

    Very nasty stuff, messed with the desktops big time, even though they were on separate power systems.

    Being located directly over the stop didn't help.

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  7. I can understand this, sort of ... by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on Politics Without Geopolitical Boundaries?
    In a weird way, I can see this from a geek view point.

    It is sort of similar to the Problem of the US Navy submarine submarine hitting the tourist boat, because of the civilians on board.

    but in a more ordinary context, the sysadmins can relate to this. Under what conditions would you allow a user into the server/router closet to twiddle with the knobs and watch the flashing lights? Even if it was a paying customer of the company, and the system also doubled as a kick ass gaming lan.

    How long before things like this are treated only as somebodies toy to ride? I grant some PR value, but ...

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  8. SP2 by Alien54 · · Score: 3 · on Serious Security Flaw in MSIE 5.01, 5.5
    For those of us not so enlightened as to use netscape or mozilla, this means another trip to the microsoft website.

    Special note of warning, the website has been more messed up than usual over the past few days, especially in trying to download the 5.01 sp2. I'm still trying to find the full package in one compressed file so that some folks can save the bandwidth.

    My opinion: reports and pr to the contrary, the bit and piece auto install over the net is not more convenient. Especially when you have poeple mobbing sites for an update.

    But if you are here reading this, you probably know this already.

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  9. Thoughts go out by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on Northpoint Points South
    As a former Flashcom victim, my thoughts go out.

    Maybe this is not supposed to be related to the common phrase "my heart/feelings go out to them"

    Maybe this means the thoughts go out, like "the lights go out", or like sending email out.

    I got it. With the service shut down, his connections to the outside world are shutting down, and his thoughts are literally going out(that is, shutting down), sort of like HAL singing Daisy in 2001. His connection is so sssllloowww. Loosing touch with the digital world

    What a horrible fate!

    Watch out people. This could happen to you.

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  10. 90% of Everthing is junk by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on Everything2 Hits One Million Nodes
    Consider.

    Collect together a million nodes supplied by a bunch of young adolescent boys. Compare this collection to a similar collection by the wizened moderators of Usenet (not the alt hierarchy). While each will have deficiencies, which will probably be more useful? For fun, repeat the experiment comparing different areas of the planet.

    The old saw is that 90% of everything is junk. While it might not be a self fullfilling prophecy, it is interesting to speculate just how true it is, in this case.

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  11. Old Hat Indeed by Alien54 · · Score: 4 · on Slashback: Failure, Errors, Misery
    Why we used these back in the boiler room, a hundred years ago, and they were old-hat then, too!

    Seems like alot of what we have seen over the past few weeks is re-cycled one way or another.

    For Example, the Latest from Microsoft: The Tablet PC. (formerly know back in Win 3.1 days as Pen Computing)

    but pen computing isn't old hat (to read the article at my link) - I wonder what is available in Linux? it would be amusing to steal his thunder there as well.

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  12. Slash Sig: proposed change? by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on 2b Or !2b: Shakespeare TxtMsg Contest
    Maybe Slash should have it's own contest.

    And change the allowed length of the sig to match. What's forty more characters?

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  13. ILM by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on Update From Cray World
    While, ILM will certainly keep going with the low end cluster technology, you can bet that Lucas will want one or two of the high end product just to be able to render the high end special effects that he is so fond off. If the US Navy is going to buy one at 5.2 million us dollars, then you can be sure that this would be a worthy investment for some one like Lucas.

    I can see the programmers and designers drooling now.

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  14. Bullies in Politics by Alien54 · · Score: 2 · on Are Kids Turning Your Kids Into Killers?
    I don't know, but it seems to me that people who were part of the Bully culture growing up would tend to have a natural blind spot when it comes to this kind of stuff.

    Now years later, when they are grown up, and go to work, say, in politics, what kind of solutions will they looks at? They sure as heck will not be inclined to blame the bullies, because for them, it was not a problem. After all they were on top, even if they were not the top bully. To do otherwise means they would have toi admit they were wrong.

    It is interesting to speculate on their management style, although that crawls off into another topic.

    In Any Case, because of the blind spot, they will tend to protect their own blindness.

    Yes, shootings happened. But the root cause in the dangerous enviroment that the kids find themselve in. I do not blame them for wanting to strike back. In that enviroment, it is quite easy to go numb, to shut down the emotions that make you feel bad about different things. Toss in the psych drugs that make you feel like everything is alright, and it is just icing on the cake.

    boom.

    But the bullies will only blame the shooters, and never see how they caused it themselves. and so endangered innocent lives.

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  15. Even More Erin Gray (Buck Rogers) by WildBill1941 · · Score: 1 · on New Episodes Of Battlestar Galactica?

    There's an unofficial fan site that's got TONS of pictures -- Erin Gray Unofficial FanSite

  16. What's next? by / · · Score: 4 · on Apple Gets Testy About GUI

    I'm patiently waiting for the folks at Universal Church of Sidus Julium (a bunch of people worshiping Julius Caesar as a deity) to launch a lawsuit against Apple, claiming a look-and-feel violation from Apple's use of Roman numerals in the name of OS X. After all, years of research and development that went into inventing the Roman-numeral system, and Apple is clearly a latecomer hoping to cash in on the numeral X's sexiness and consumer appeal.

    I normally tend to support Apple, but this one is rediculous.