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  1. It means... on Cryptic Code Stumps Experts · · Score: 1

    "Hello World" of course!

  2. Ladies and Gentlemen! on The Home Parallel Universe Test · · Score: 1

    ...and for my next trick: I will prove the existence of God with a rubber band and a paper clip!

  3. Dear: Problem with passwords. on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 1

    Don't use password authentication, there are other authentication methods available.

    Just lock the passwords on root accounts and only allow Open Secure Shell private keys to be the authentication method. Each person can have their own private key, and keep the corresponding public keys in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys2 for the authorized persons on that particular machine. May be tedious to set up at first, but you won't have to remember passwords again.

    Depending on how you have your servers numbered or named, you could deploy the keys in a round-robin loop. Bash it, and forget it!

  4. RE: Browser made me do it... on Life-Ruining Browser Hijackers · · Score: 1

    I would think the justice department would be able to see if all the images in the cache were dated from that one single event or if they were spread over time. If he's telling the truth, it should be easy to prove.

    The article says there were pictures in "unallocated space". Said article also claims this could not have been put there by a program, and only intentionally placed in that space. Accusee, "Jack", claims computer was purchased as a used item from Ebay. If these images in the "unallocated space" are older than the sale date, this should be considered. Since the purchase on Ebay has left a paper trail, then "Jack's" bank records for the purchase, (if they in fact exist, he could be lying about Ebay), could be introduced as evidence to prove innocence or guilt.

    Q.E.D.

  5. Re:Trailer on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nevermind I used wget to get their index, and followed the code to their java popup.

    Here is the link:
    http://www.doom3.com/video/trailer_large.mo v

  6. Trailer on DOOM III This Summer · · Score: 1

    Could someone please post link to the trailer, it says I need quicktime. I have xine which works fine, but the page is one of those force quicktime downloads. I can't view the page source either, else I would get the hyperlink embedded there.

  7. Re:God forbid on NYT Discovers Internet's Wild Side: IRC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Reporting factual inaccuracies against a group or a person, is not "Freedom of the Press". It is "Abuse of Journalism. Haven't you ever heard of something called "libel" or "slander"?

  8. Priceless... on Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads · · Score: 2, Funny

    Forty Green Tea bags from local Dollar Store, $1.

    Five or six large capacity hard drives, $1,000.

    Recieving a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the project, priceless...

  9. Re:Predicted on On the Trail to Atlantis · · Score: 1

    Lesson 1: let sinking ships lie!

  10. RE: Snort rules on New Location For (Bleeding-Edge) Snort Sigs · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Doesn't snort.org keep a public repository of Snort signatures? I am pretty sure anyone can make a submission to their set of rules. It's open-source software, rather than forking rules elsewhere they should be submitted to the sourceforge group (so they can be corrected, improved, built into the software as preprocessors and so on). Maybe I am misunderstanding something. I don't really understand the point of doing this.
    I maintain 3 snort servers. Most of my snort rules are very uninteresting, and are used in limiting alerts, and getting rid of false positives due to limited computer resources. We cannot afford to have 10,000 or more alerts per day. The most interesting thing I have written for snort is a simple update utility that gets new rules every 24 hours.

    Just my 2 cents.

  11. Re:Evidence of Atheism as a Religion? Re:Gee... on Researchers To Climb Ararat To Seek Noah's Ark · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's hard to believe. You want more evidence: There are other books which also mention the great flood. Gilgamesh is one example, I am sure there are others. I know that Gilgamesh is fiction/mythology, but it is highly probable that ther are half-truths in the Bible.

  12. What about? on IT Workers Not Eligible for Overtime in New Rules · · Score: 1

    How does this coincide with state laws guaranteeing overtime pay? Would state laws preside over this or not?

  13. .doc on Grassroots Response to .doc E-mail Attachments? · · Score: 1

    Was .doc not a standard extension for Rich Text Format at one time? Call me crazy, but I swear I remember this.

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    Extensions, what are extensions? You want to know what a file is use /bin/file

  14. Hope this helps... on Free Software at the Local Library? · · Score: 1

    Solution as I see it. Set up a local mirror in your library. Have it mirror ibiblio.org (formerly known as metalab, formerly known as sunsite) public ftp. You may also want to mirror distro.ibiblio.org for free operating systems (This should cover most useful public software).

    Set up a terminal that only has access to the local mirror, not the whole net. You could use a SaMBa share or NFS. Don't let user's copy cd images onto the hard drive (to prevent software piracy). Have the CD burner, burn images directly off of the network share of your local mirror.

    Sell blanks for a reasonable price. May not be a perfect solution, but it's a start. You could probably do all of this with a $1,000 investment. Inclusive of the Mirror (a middleweight server) and CD-Burning station (lower-end machine equipped with a CD-Burner). I don't know what kind of machinery/connection your library has...ymmv.

  15. Re:gBucks? on Google's Next Steps · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, then you can have corporate sponsorship on Sesame Street.

    The letter 'G' is brought to you by Google, for everything you want to find!

  16. Re:I've noticed it... on The New Linux Speed Trick · · Score: 1

    Yes, for some reason it was default in Mandrake 9.1, I don't know why. Mandrake is not my top choice for any practical use. I personally use Slack on my home machine and production servers. But, I was disgusted by some of the defaults in the Mandrake kernel.

    Most of you are missing the point here...

    I did not have trouble installing a kernel on Mandrake, I had a problem "Customizing" it. Note Parent's post


    I am currently learning to compile the kernel, so I'm going to try to do a low-fat version with all unneccesary file systems, drivers et al removed...


    I was just warning the parent that strange things may happen when tinkering with these NON-Vanilla kernels

  17. Re:I've noticed it... on The New Linux Speed Trick · · Score: 1

    Be careful, Mandrake doesn't like this. You will break RPM dependencies.

    Not trying to troll here. I maintain a computer lab, and after customizing a kernel, I actually broke things that were not even needed for that system. I turned off something and ended up without network support. I turned off the 77 Mb initrd, not needed on a system with 128 Mb of system memory and broke it. I fixed it, eventually...

    I haven't touched the Mandrake kernel since, it was just too much hassle.

  18. Re:Another one? on UbiSoft Takes Myst IV In-House, Uru Secrets Show Myst Library · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are right, why play myst and solve puzzles... When you could play Tomb Raider and solve puzzles, and get to watch a cute girl shake her ass as she walks :)

    I really enjoyed the first Myst game, haven't played the others.

  19. But... on PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is Slashdot not an Open Source Social Network?

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    I didn't read the article so sue me!

  20. Dvorak layout on Pranks for April Fool's Day 2004? · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's so hilarious to watch people who can't type try to peck type on a keyboard with switched keys. I switched my keys on my keyboard to the Dvorak layout, but left the keymap the same as the qwerty layout. People would come to my dorm-room, and ask to use my computer. I would always be glad enough to help out a fellow student, and let them do some work on my computer. Most of the time the person, just looked confused and said, "I think I will find another computer to work on." Eventually people just stopped bothering me about using the computer, after all, there was a 24 hr. library a block away with at least 50 computers available.

  21. What about... on PC In An XP Box · · Score: 0

    Ok, so If the switch is pointing up, it boots XP. If the switch points down it boots Linux.

    What if you put either box on it's side?

  22. Re:It is linux's fault on Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go? · · Score: 1

    s/transitioned/switched to/;

  23. Re:It is linux's fault on Freeware for Windows -- Where Did It Go? · · Score: 1

    1 - I don't believe that Free Software programmer's have all transitioned to Linux.

    2 - I agree that it is harder (than it used to be) to find good free software for Windows.

    However, the free software foundation (gnu.org) has numerous ports of software for the win32 platform. This support 1. My reasoning for 2 is based on personal experience. Example: sox is available for win32 on sox.sf.net...but, I had to know what I was looking for to find it. It's even harder to get something like g++ working on win32 without the aid of cygwin, and it's been my experience that cygwin is mediocre environment at best.

    In this case, looking for a simple sound recorder, sox would do the job.

  24. Re:If this were Fark on Mozilla Cracks Down On Merchandise Sellers · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...ONE FSCKING PRODUCT...

    The shirt has a filesystem, that's awesome...I will buy one!

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    Cursing is for inarticulate motherfuckers.

  25. As seen on the x-files... on Three Headed Frog · · Score: 1

    I saw an episode of the x-files...Where UFO radiation caused anything touching to become one thing when it flew over them. There was a lizard with it's head stuck in a rock, a gas station attendant got stuck to the floor. The funniest though was a couple of horny teenagers that got their heads entangled while making out.

    The picture looks more like 3 frogs got 'stuck' together rather than a frog with 3 heads.