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  1. Re:Just run an all-Microsoft environment on Shuttleworth On Redefining File Systems · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's going to work for someone who's trying to make money selling Linux.

  2. Re:wow. on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I'm American and use "uni", mainly from being on parts of the Internet where people from the Commonwealth are.

  3. Re:Here you go on Browsing Frugally Without Wasting Bandwidth? · · Score: 1

    ELinks is even better than Links.

  4. Calling it a jet fighter is more sensational on Google Founders Buy Fighter Jet · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Collings Foundation owns an actual jet fighter, an F-4D Phantom II from the Vietnam War. They had to get all kinds of waivers from the Feds to be able to own and operate it. This is for display at airshows.

  5. Fail on Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole · · Score: 1

    You mean port 137, 138, 139, and now 445, right? 135, according to /etc/services, is for "epmap", which is "DCE endpoint resolution".

  6. "Read The Fucking Article Article?" on Microsoft to Issue Emergency Patch For File-Sharing Hole · · Score: 1

    Sure, right after I withdraw some cash from the automatic ATM machine.

  7. Re:Carefully protected? on Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009 · · Score: 1

    You can just periodically burn the most critical data to a DVD set and store it in a safe-deposit box at your bank with your valuable papers. That's off-site enough if your area's not prone to earthquakes or nuclear warfare.

  8. Re:no comment on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    I'm 29 and have been mistaken for an early-20s student by students at the university I work for. I wouldn't blame it on good health, necessarily, since I didn't take very good care of myself in my teenage years.

    I'd place the blame with being a lonely nerd who sat indoors on the computer & reading books for those years. Ultraviolet does age the skin.

  9. Re:Actually a very long time - 11.3 days on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    The nacelles aren't going to be pressurized, so you can ignore them and likely the pylons as well. You only have to worry about the saucer and engineering hulls.

  10. Re:Actually a very long time - 11.3 days on First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie · · Score: 1

    On top of that, the Constitution class's designers can't be dumber than wet-navy ship designers. She's going to be compartmentalized so that damage to one area doesn't compromise the entire ship. They'll seal off the area with a hull breach until it can be fixed, and the rest of the ship will be in no danger.

  11. Re:What's your point? on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    That was FreeDOS in a VirtualBox VM. Had to d/l FreeDOS to try out your command. :-)

  12. Re:What's your point? on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    FATAL: INT18: BOOT FAILURE

  13. Re:What an original idea - NOT! on Microsoft Considers "Instant On" Windows · · Score: 1

    I see your Miggie and raise you an Apple //c. Those things could boot straight to the ROM BASIC, no floppies needed. Not as capable as yours, but this was 1984-5.

  14. Re:Windows 7 on Do Software Versions Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's 4.1. You're forgetting NT 3.x (the first releases), NT4 (2.0), W2K (3.0), and Vista is 4.0.

  15. Re:TCP and ICMP on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    Indeed. ICMP is in the RFC for a reason.

    'Course, I block a bit of ICMP as well, but just the incoming stuff that tells details about the network, i.e. incoming timestamp, incoming netmask, incoming router. Pings I allow through, and all the outbound stuff.

  16. Re:Give back class As on Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle · · Score: 1

    No reason to use static IPs with DHCP on a MAC whitelist. Dynamic IPs work just fine with that system.

    To prevent a random computer from being plugged into a network jack, you could implement 802.1x authentication. No worries about MAC spoofing.

  17. Re:check the count. on Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    I'll just point out again that Windows NT 3.1 was really Windows NT 1.0, which makes NT4 NT 2.0, W2K NT 3.0, XP NT 3.1, and Vista NT 4.0, and therefore this Windows 7 will be NT 4.1.

  18. Re:Finally have tools to monitor... on The Quietest Sun · · Score: 1

    "know allot" is terrible grammar. You were trying to say "know a lot".

  19. Re:As if parents needed another "war" to worry abo on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just think of how powerful the prison guards' union will be...

    "How long are you in for, comrade?"
    "Eight years."
    "What are you in for?"
    "Nothing, nothing at all."
    "Lies. The penalty for nothing is ten years!"

  20. Re:USA + Bush = FAIL on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 1

    Gods damn it, I wish that was funny. :-(

  21. Re:Czar on President Signs Law Creating Copyright Czar · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It means we've got another unaccountable political appointee running things.

  22. Re:RC4 is the final version? on Open Office Plans To Party Like It's Version 3.0 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Perhaps they're using the classical definition of "release candidate" (this is a candidate for being tagged as the release) instead of the newer usage equating to "late beta".

    Sounds like the PDF import plugin is still beta regardless.

  23. Re:AR5008 on Linux 2.6.27 Out · · Score: 1

    My work Macbook from June '07 uses an Atheros wireless chip. This is a pre-Santa Rosa one with a 945 chipset.

  24. Holy shit, it's an editor who uses Ask Slashdot! on Tips For Taking Your Laptop Into and Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    I thought the lot of you didn't bother posting to Ask and would instead post Ask questions to random sections instead, sections which might have nothing to do with the topic.

  25. Re:All these lists are insane on Maryland Police Put Activists' Names On Terror List · · Score: 1

    Libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written.