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  1. The music can be done, not sure about what else on Developing for the Samsung Uproar M100 Cell/MP3 Phone? · · Score: 1

    A guy wrote a cmd-line program for OSX to upload, and download songs to his uproar. i think he named it uproar, and you can find it on freshmeat. It uses macosx usb libraries to make the calls. He, if memory serves also got some protocol docs out of samsung.

    Honestly, I would like to STOP dual booting to upload songs into my uproar.... but then, vmware 3 should help my rebooting problem.

  2. Re:Is Katz an unregistered telepath? on Civil Liberties And The New Reality · · Score: 1

    Maybe he is vestor's brother.....

  3. I can't come up with a good subject on Do Modern PCs Need Swap Space? · · Score: 1

    It's your decision to weather you need swap.... on rare occassions, I have used more than 10% of my swap space on some of my boxes. I once compiled perl, it wanted a huge amount of swap space online to do the compile. You don't NEED it, but its not a bad idea. I have noticed minor performance diffrences between a system with the sawp off, and a system with the swap on, I don't remember the diffrences, except that the memory usage was more erratic on the one w/o swap space.

  4. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Statisticly, In every country where firearms have been banned, the crime rate has gone up 200-300%.

    In Brittan, It's gone up over 300%, and down under, It has gone up about 200%.

  5. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    or freedom = 1/security

  6. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I'm not saying guns solve problems.... a gun will not solve security = 1/freedom..

  7. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Could you be more... rude? insulting?

  8. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    I do not disagree, you are right on both counts. A study was done a few years ago with mice, in a contained enviroment, that could feed up to I think 6000 mice a day.... I think as the group approached that, mice started killing each other.... I don't remember exactly....

  9. Re:Domino for AS/400 works on Exchange vs. Linux/390 Comparison · · Score: 1

    Its what the customer wanted, and the customer is allways right, but they did consider an external mail relay, I think they are still thinking about that. The customer is allways right. I know they own their AS/400...... If they decide to replace it in a year or two, I should see if I could get them to donate it to me, or give it to me real cheap .

    Speaking of owning as/400s, another one of my customers rents theirs.... they said it is in excess of 5000 usd a month, guess its cheaper than buying the hardware.

  10. Re:Specious argument on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 1

    Well, alcohol is a stimulant or a relaxant, it works in both ways. This I have observed with many people that I have seen drunk.

    As for people in a bar, you would alteast hope that some people would have not yet drunken away their common sence and not fight, or put the fight to a speedy end.

    As for towns in Texas, I heard that ages ago, but seriously, just think about it, would a criminal be more likely, or less likely to go rob a store if he knows that everybody in there possibly has a gun, and perhaps knows how to use it.

    I don't need to prove anything to you, for that is something that you should go find, for you are the one who has asked the question. And how legalizing guns, and issuing concealed carry permits to everybody under the sun would help make a city safer, to a degree, it would not make it safer, its something you must think about. But remember, that we are not in a safe world, the Terrorist acts are evidence of that.

  11. No Crypto, Fine.... enforce your damn laws! on Congress Considers Mandatory Crypto Backdoors · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I, an American Citizen enjoy the security I have with crypto. I like knowing that the scriptkiddies that can see my traffic are unable to gain any information from my traffic that could be used against me, against my employer, or my friends.

    Why bother to make more laws? I'm sure there is a large stack of computer related laws, but nearly none are enforced, except when they want to slam somebody who is doing something thats perfictly fine in our books, but that they just don't like.

    I say we need to rally on this one, Crypto is good. It protects the common man from imtimindation, It protects companies private information, it aids in the protection of networks, that would otherwise be at risk of being hacked, by open logins, passwords, and secrets that cross the internet all the time.

    If you want to detur use of encryption, just outlaw it, and only the unlawful will use it, the lawful are the ONLY people hurt by such ideas and possible laws.

    Be reasonable, and Just. This is no time to be bickering anyway, nor is it time to take actions anywhere close to what the FAA has done.

    If everybody had a knife on those planes, do you think the hijackers would have even tried to take over the flight, if they knew everybody on board could cut them, or stab them. It's just like towns in Texas that everybody carries guns in, there is nearly no crime in those towns. Again, what the FAA has done, only hurts the lawful people.

    IPSec & SSL Rocks!

  12. Re:One thing I noticed... on Exchange vs. Linux/390 Comparison · · Score: 1

    I have a customer moving their email off their AS/400 just for "groupware".... :(

  13. Duh... on NSA, The Technology Future, and Where It Is · · Score: 1

    If you guys have not been paying attention for the last year (Its ok.....), they do this EVERY year.... Last year's slashdot post on the NSA needing more money refrenced a previous year's post. Come on....

  14. i guess this guy has never programed before.... on Are GUI Dev Tools More Advanced than CLI Counterparts? · · Score: 1

    The compiler in visual studio can be run from the command line... Infact, you have more control over the compiler that way. I have had to use it on more than one occassion, and found it much easyer to compile code.. than try and find the proper check boxes in the properties.

  15. Re:Unfair Practices? on Microsoft Defends Passport To Privacy Group · · Score: 1

    Yeah... I think there was something about how our soul was property of microsoft..... plus all the documents we create, modify, and possibly view....

    Anyway... I think sold my soul to them... well I did not, I still love linux/unix, but the company I used to work for paid for my MCSE cert.... *screams of horror*

    Anyway..... Aslong as we don't read the EULA.... we have a slight legal foot to stand on.... (BTW, just so you know Microsoft, NOBODY reads your EULAs!)

  16. The Gist on Trident Micro Update · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The gist is that, the driver will only be able to be distribued in a binary form if they are required to sign the NDA. So, all the VP did was beat around the bush, and say that we will continue to support open source, but without saying it, he reaffirmed the position that you can get the docs, but you can't share the info, thus only a binary driver can be distributed.

  17. Re:Exchage Client on Evolution Bug-Hunt! · · Score: 1

    I forget what exactly you can access on an exchange server thru imap, but i think its everything but a small handful of things....

  18. Re:Exchage Client on Evolution Bug-Hunt! · · Score: 1

    err typical.... oh well...

  19. Re:Exchage Client on Evolution Bug-Hunt! · · Score: 1

    tipical crack smoking ac....

  20. Re:Exchage Client on Evolution Bug-Hunt! · · Score: 1

    I have found that that Mozilla's client is damn good on an exchange server when using IMAP.

  21. My view. on Handing Over Root Passwords to Clients and Contractors? · · Score: 1

    My view is sure, give them the root password, but if they want the root password, then they can read root's email.

    I find that when we *DO* turn over root/administrator password to customers, that the person its turned over to, has previous experence with unix type boxen. Mostly AS/400 programers oddly........

  22. Re:Bad News..... on Covad Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    I know that feeling well.... When we found out that Covad was shutting down Bluestar, We went with a T1 with an ILEC with a extreamly sweet deal. Pure data, and they actully call us back when we have any problems... The only problem we have had was BellSouth somehow shutdown our circuit for two days.... We are now looking for a backup SDSL line just in case if the T1 line went down. But, being that Covad owns most DSLAMs, It would be best to just order up an "Alarm" Circuit to someplace that has a few ips and some extra bandwidth.

  23. Bad News..... on Covad Files For Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Well... I have some bad news... AT&T is partnered with Covad to provide service to AT&T DSL Customers.... I'm betting the same is true for other bells......

  24. Kinda reminds me of bluestar... but... on Metricom's Ricochet Network Will Go Dark · · Score: 1

    But bluestar gave more notice.... well... IF you even got A letter from them. Many of the customers of the company I work for never got any notice of them going dark, we were lucky to find out the day after they posted notice to their website... and let them all know... several are on isdn for a few weeks till a T1 can be pulled in, one I have to go put on a modem tommarrow.....

  25. Re:its nuts.... on The Joys of School And "Website Protection" · · Score: 1

    I almost got suspended once for checking my email with pine in the school library during lunch one day. Next day, telnet was no longer installed.... damn them... that was annoying.

    What was really annoying, was that they took telnet off the computer lab computers soon afterwards..... I ended up keeping a laptop in my book bag after that..... was better off.... could use ssh :)

    BTW, their excuse was that somebody "hacked" their cisco, and caused it to stop working compleatly..... well... thats what they told the teachers (yes, some were pissed about telnet disappearing) (they really had the router sitting on top of a water heater, and it fried it....)