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  1. Re:it requires a windows installation because on NeverWinter Nights Dedicated Linux Server Released · · Score: 1

    Well, since the installer requires Windows, I think this is a perfectly valid suggestion - as long as you buy the game yourself too.

    I've got no Windows boxes at home, so unless I get the necessary files from somebody else, I've got zip chance of getting the server installed.

    I bet the client requires the same procedure as well... :(

  2. Re:Won't happen in the US. on Low-Tech Cell Phone Blocking · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the others in Japan (gyoseishoshi and shihoshoshi - called 'scriveners' in English I think) mostly do nothing more than prepare documents, although a recent change in the law has allowed some of them to represent people in minor civil cases (cases for less than a few hundred dollars, I believe).

    Whereas if you've passed the bar exam and are practicing law in the US, you can pretty much do anything any other lawyer can do - specialization on your part doesn't actually prevent you from handling other types of case.

  3. Re:All I want... on Low-Tech Cell Phone Blocking · · Score: 2, Informative

    They sell them here in Japan - 5000 to 10000 yen ($US40-$US80) for most of them.
    A magazine did a study of them, and it looks like most of them don't really work that well, unfortunately - maximum of 1-2 meters radius around you.

  4. Re:sweet on Interview With WOLK Creator Marc-Christian Peterse · · Score: 1

    I believe Alan Cox, for one, is opposed to it in its current form. See here and here.

  5. Re:Cheers, Theo on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Hmmm, that's weird... disabling ChallengeResponseAuthentication causes OpenSSH to show the username and hostname when asking for the password, whereas before it only showed the "Password:" prompt.
    (In other words, it now displays "USER@HOST.NAME's password:")

    It's not really a problem, since (obviously) you need to know what user you're trying to log in as, but it would suggest that it goes through different code paths when the option's enabled compared with when it's disabled, even if you're using the same authentication type each time.

  6. Re:Cheers, Theo on OpenSSH Vulnerability Disclosed, Version 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this kind of pisses me off, too.
    I went through my servers and set up suitable hosts.deny settings for each of them so as to prevent access from any machines that I don't run, and all along all I needed to do was uncomment one bloody line.

    Thanks, Theo. I appreciate your work on OpenSSH, but pulling stunts like this is not a good way to promote your software.

  7. Re:What's new in 2.5? on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think "All journalling file systems merged" was intended to mean "All four file systems integrated into the kernel", not "all four fiel systems merged into one".

  8. Re:PC110 on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 1

    Like I said, I've already got three ;)
    It's not like the PC110 is a big secret, anyway - most people these days wouldn't want a PC with a maimum of 20MB RAM and a 33MHz 486SX for a CPU.

  9. PC110 on Kernel Summit Wrapup · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those of you who might be wondering, the small PC that Alan Cox is shown as using in the photo is an IBM PC110.
    It's a full x86 PC, not a PocketPC or PDA - and what's really amazing is it was put on the market in 1995.
    I own three of the things... in 2000, the last stocks were sold for ridiculously low prices (compared to the price when it was originally sold, anyway), and I happened to have some cash in my pocket. At least they're small enough to not annoy my wife ;)
    Anybody wanting to buy one should be able to find one on ebay fairly cheaply.

  10. Re:Lake or Sea? on Evidence Found of Lake, Catastrophic Flood on Mars · · Score: 3, Funny

    A city where you can't get a drink...

  11. Re:maybe this is redundant but.. on Final Fantasy XI PC Requirements Announced · · Score: 1

    Neverwinter Nights ... will require a windows install as a dual boot to even let it work once it does.

    Where did you hear that? Last I heard, you needed the NN Windows CD for the data files it contains, but installing and running the game can be done from a purely Linux environment.

  12. Re:you didn't look very hard on Finding Dishes for 802.11b Service? · · Score: 1

    Yep... I found them about a year ago, and they're great. Plenty of options, they provide Orinoco connectors if you need them, and they're reasonably cheap (unless you go for the amplified versions, which are mostly around $500-$700).

  13. Re:I would have liked to see... on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    Yep - that's because resizing is the job of the window manager under X, not the application.

  14. Re:mentions the good, the bad, but never the ugly on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    Since about 0.9.something, Mozilla crashes rarely enough for me to be happy using it as my standard browser.

    What does this have to do with your post? Well, you see, once I start up Mozilla, I don't restart it any more than once every couple of weeks (really). So, I couldn't care less what the splash screen looks like...

  15. Re:C-Nut review is narrow minded on First Reviews of Mozilla 1.0 Roll In · · Score: 1

    Presumably, if they're using Windows they're already paying ~$10 a month for the 'privilege' (an OS upgrade every two years for $250 or so).

  16. Re:good scripting on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I realized that ;)
    All I wanted to point out was that it could have different effects under different shells.

  17. Re:good scripting on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1

    Be careful there - under csh, $! is the last parameter of the previous command, and $_ is the current shell, I think...

  18. Re:.tar.bz2 on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1

    On mine, tar takes the -y flag to expand .bz2 files...

  19. Re:My favorites on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1

    What's wrong with that is, it won't work with Solaris's b0rked grep :(

  20. Re:command line tricks on Essential UNIX Tricks and Tools? · · Score: 1

    You know how long I've been looking for something that can do that? ;)

    Until now, I'd been doing things like:

    $ for i in *.txt;do mv $i `echo $i|sed 's/txt/htm/'`;done

  21. Re:More money than cents. on Solaris 9: Sticker Shock · · Score: 1

    He's pulled the box's memory, so you'd have to find some yourself. Probably cost you as much as the machine itself...

  22. Re:More money than cents. on Solaris 9: Sticker Shock · · Score: 1

    Some guy's selling an E10000 on Yahoo Japan's auction site, starting at 1,000,000 yen (about $8000). Unfortunately, he doesn't ship internationally ;)

  23. Re:What is sun doing here? on Solaris 9: Sticker Shock · · Score: 1

    Finance.

    All my company's clients (which include the top five stock trading houses in the US) run our software on Sun boxes and Solaris, with Sybase as the database.

  24. Groan... on Solaris 9: Sticker Shock · · Score: 3, Interesting


    This is very relevant new for me - I just bought a Fujitsu Primepower200 off an auction site, and I'm currently downloading the Solaris 8 installation CD.

    The thing is, this machine has 2 CPUs. What I want to know, is it physically impossible for the Solaris 8 Free Binary version to run on multiple CPUs, or will it actually require a license? (I want to make sure the machine works before I fork out $249 for a license...)

  25. Re:Thinking back... on Subversive Gifts for New College Students? · · Score: 1

    Quarters? When I was at university, I found a set of keys to the laundry machines that had been accidentally left lying around... didn't need any quarters after that...