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  1. Software programs? on US Electricity Grid Reportedly Penetrated By Spies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought mission critical computers should not be reachable from the Internet. So the spies walked to those computers and planted the software there???

  2. Re:Just use the latest Firefox, and you'll be fine on XP Reprieve, Downgrade May Continue After Win7 · · Score: 1

    while Linux and OS X effectively change the effective user the program is run under

    So they don't really change the real user?

    I kid, I kid... ;)

  3. Re:Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics on Microsoft Boasts 96% Netbook Penetration · · Score: 1

    Because April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land? XD

  4. MIPs? on ARM — Heretic In the Church of Intel, Moore's Law · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The marketing term (not the architecture) MIPS == Million Instructions Per Second. It's not the plural form of some other TLA. ;)

  5. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    And the irony... as soon as I hit "Submit", I discovered that "mplayer -filelist foo.pls" works out of the box.

    darn...

  6. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    The power of the command line lies in the combination of tools.

    Inspired by this post, I just now came up with a .pls format playlist reader for MPlayer:

    TMPFILE=`mktemp`; egrep '(^File[[:digit:]]+=)(.*)' foo.pls | cut -d= -f2- | sed -e "s|^[^/]|`pwd`/&|" > $TMPFILE; mplayer -playlist $TMPFILE; wait; rm $TMPFILE

    Well, of course it's far from being bullet-proof.. just a one-liner without any form of error checking. The regex in the sed script can't handle Windows paths, either.

    More obvious techniques such as xargs didn't work. If you throw to the shell a line like egrep '(^File[[:digit:]]+=)(.*)' foo.pls | cut -d "=" -f 2- | xargs -d "\n" mplayer, MPlayer can play the files but won't accept keystrokes, probably because it's not reading from a tty.

    And yes, I need to go out and get a life ;)

  7. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 1

    No matter what shell you're using, someone has to write the tab completion scripts. Maybe it's easier done in ZSH, I don't know... but ZSH alone doesn't do magic.

  8. Re:VLC is OK. on VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better · · Score: 2, Informative

    Be sure to grab some BASH completion scripts for MPlayer's startup command line parameters. Most distros have them maintained as packages.

    The CLI is fine, but I don't like reading its manpage *every* darn time...

  9. Oblig. quote.. on Quantum Setback For Warp Drives · · Score: 1

    "... The people of your world once believed the world was flat. Columbus proved it was round. They said the sound barrier could never be broken!... It was broken. They said warp-speed could not be accomplished."

    Oh wait...

  10. Forget Google... on Angry Villagers Run Google Out of Town · · Score: 1

    The point is that the thieves are now using *computers* to help performing theft! Destroy all computers in this village and ban further possession or use of them! Now! Think of the affluents!

  11. Is there an Achievement... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    for slaying all Slashdot editors? ;)

  12. I'm still patiently waiting... on Slashdot Launches User Achievements · · Score: 1

    for my +5 Troll Achievement.

  13. Re:To help you all out: on Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China · · Score: 1

    The Google service is only a front-end search engine. The music files are hosted on a bunch of hosts in the domain "top100.cn" e.g. "file4.top100.cn" (Top100.cn being a Google partner). The interesting part is, if you try to resolve the hostnames using a nameserver outside China, you'll receive very funny results. Look at the output of dig:

    This is using a DNS server in China: http://pastebin.com/m67e3f7c4

    This is using a DNS server in the USA: http://pastebin.com/f5233fc2e

    Note the difference?

    So, in order to download songs from top100.cn's file server farm, you have to have a Chinese DNS resolving the hostnames for you.

  14. Re:Trying to Compete on Google Launches Free, Legal Music Downloads in China · · Score: 1

    If memory serves, Google is holding a large chunk of Baidu's shares (some 40%?).

  15. Don't know about Twitter... on The Copyrightability of Twitter Posts · · Score: 1

    ... but from my experience with identi.ca, yes, 140 character messages are indeed copyrightable, at least according to it's ToS: "All Identi.ca content and data are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license."
    No, I'm not a lawyer.

  16. Re:You call this cmdline on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    I've been using that addon already. Haven't dug into the API but well, sounds interesting.

  17. You call this cmdline on Command Lines and the Future of Firefox · · Score: 1

    Looks like glorified Awesome Bar for me. Wake me up when they come up with a real CLI. Something like for i in seq(0, tabcount() - 1); do print(tabs[i], "~/mozilla/webpage%d.pdf" % i, Printer0); done

  18. Re:Wow! on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    Assuming you are using BASH, enabling the shopt "dotglob" may be helpful if you want the * glob to expand to dot-files.

  19. Re:Not Really on The Pirate Bay Comes To Facebook · · Score: 1

    I wonder what's the legal viewpoint of Pierre Menard, Author of Quixote . (Orig. story: here)

  20. Re:This is a very interesting project on Project Aims For 5x Increase In Python Performance · · Score: 1

    It's not that easy like "import psyco". You have to choose which part of your program to be run under it. For example, compiling regular expressions under psyco is actually slower.

  21. I hereby... on Lower Air Pollution Means Longer Life · · Score: 1

    ... condemn the author's human-centric, insensitive[1] viewpoint as betrayed in this /. summary.

    Yours,

    The Borg

    P.S. Resistance is futile.

    1. Star Trek: The First Contact

    Data: The atmosphere contains high concentrations of methane, carbon monoxide, and fluorine.

    Jean-Luc Picard: Life signs?

    Data: Population approximately nine billion... all Borg.

  22. Re:Cashless Society on Breach Exposes 19,000 Active US, UK Credit Cards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Here in China, not only is cash on delivery very common, but also the option of debit card on delivery. Last time I ordered a wireless NIC, it was carried to my door by a postman with a frickin' mobile debit card reader. I swept the card through the reader, checked the sums, entered my password and it was done.

    Debit cards are much safer -- you'll always need to enter the password to draw money from your account.

  23. Re:EFS? on Windows Home Directory Encryption? · · Score: 1

    I think on Windows one can have a home directory but I don't know whether you can make it a mount point for a separate partition encrypted transparently (which would ease maintenance). Anyway, I'm not sure... haven't used Windows for quite some time.

  24. Re:the workaround is bad design on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with journalling. Ext3/4 journals have been stable enough so you don't have FS structural corruption (believe me, it would be nasty to have a directory failing to reference its parent). Data safety is another matter, which is equally important, but it's on a different level -- both the FS and the applications should be held responsible for data safety ("data" by itself doesn't make sense outside certain applications). Maybe I could improvise with the quote on War and put it in this way: "data safety is too important to be left up to FS developers alone."

    As for the finger-pointing, there's no adverse side effects if you just ignore it ;)

  25. Re:Just installed chromium on Intrepid... on 2.0 Beta Chrome On Windows, Chromium On Linux · · Score: 1

    Is that the game or the browser? What does a browser has to do with SDL and OpenGL?