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  1. 85,000+ photos and going by ka9dgx · · Score: 4, Insightful · on Digital Photography Composition 101
    It's a great set of tips. The best thing about digital is that you can afford to make mistakes, and the cost of practice has gone to zero. The key is to take pictures, look at them, then take more. If you commit yourself to taking 10 pictures a day, you'll start to notice things, and develop an eye for it.

    I store mine in folders by date, in c:\photos\yyyy\yyyymmdd\DSCNxxxx.jpg, and it works very well for me.

    --Mike--

  2. Re:Single Root is Required! by ka9dgx · · Score: 3 · on Internet Governance; ICANN and Accountability
    A single root for the entire Domain Name Space is NOT required. It is only required for each TLD. If I want to get uniform handling of .COM, .NET, etc.. I just have to respect the conventions that have been agreed on so far by telling my DNS serves to use the existing root servers, for those TLDs. This is consistent with existing TLDs and doesn't break anything.

    When I want to support a new TLD such as .BIZ, or whatever, and I don't agree with ICANN, I just update my root.db to reflect my own choice for that TLD, which does break things, but only for that TLD.

    So, you can have your cake (interoperable .COM, etc) and choose your own icing (.BIZ, etc) instead of letting ICANN tell you what to do.

    --Mike--

  3. Make your own root domain server! by ka9dgx · · Score: 2 · on Internet Governance; ICANN and Accountability
    I've build my own root.db for my DNS servers to feed off of. It's simple to do, even a Windows user like myself can deal with it. It's tempting to add my own domains, which I may do at some time in the future, but for now it was just to get some independence from ICANN.

    I've got the file saved as "rebeldb.root" in my c:\bind directory, and updated named.boot with the following info at the bottom...
    ;
    ; prime the DNS with root server 'hint'
    information
    ;
    ;cache . db.cache
    cache . rebeldb.root
    ;

    So there it is, you too can declare independance from ICANN, and decide for yourself who you trust to be the authority for each domain. Let the vanity TLD games begin.

    I don't use Microsoft's DNS server, so your milage may vary, I suspect this should work with newer versions of BIND.
    --Mike--

  4. Things to try by ka9dgx · · Score: 2 · on Weird Windows Booting Issues On Athlons?
    #1. Try putting a different hard drive in, formatting it with Win98, etc.
    #2. Try FDISK /MBR from a Win98 boot disk on the existing drive (warning: may kill linux)
    #3. If you have backups elsewhere... download this and run it from the DOS prompt on a WIN98 (or DOS 5.0 for that matter) boot disk, it will ERASE the boot sector, completely. (Killing Linux along the way) zap_part.exe. The source code is in the same directory in TP 7. The password is "amber". Be VERY careful. I wrote this program to remove NT installs.

    --Mike--

  5. Things to try by ka9dgx · · Score: 2 · on Weird Windows Booting Issues On Athlons?
    #1. Try putting a different hard drive in, formatting it with Win98, etc.
    #2. Try FDISK /MBR from a Win98 boot disk on the existing drive (warning: may kill linux)
    #3. If you have backups elsewhere... download this and run it from the DOS prompt on a WIN98 (or DOS 5.0 for that matter) boot disk, it will ERASE the boot sector, completely. (Killing Linux along the way) zap_part.exe. The source code is in the same directory in TP 7. The password is "amber". Be VERY careful. I wrote this program to remove NT installs.

    --Mike--

  6. Re:So what happens if... by Simon+Brooke · · Score: 2 · on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks

    However, suppose fifty people were to download it without agreeing to the licence (I just have, from http://warot.com/freedom/kerbspec.pdf), and each quoted just one paragraph on their web site (copyright law allows for the fair-use quoting of small parts of a document), and then suppose someone else later came along independently and made a Web page which linked to all those single paragraph Web pages, what law would have been broken?

    As an example of what I mean, I have posted an example paragraph here

  7. Re:Loophole? by ka9dgx · · Score: 5 · on Kerberos, PACs And Microsoft's Dirty Tricks

    http://warot.com/freedom/kerbspec.pdf
    What happens now?
    --Mike--