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  1. What of windows? on Using MAC Address to Uniquely Identify Computers · · Score: 5, Informative

    Many ethernet drivers with this capability have an option for just this. For example, if you have a 3c918, click "configure" under network properties in win2k for that adapter. Select the "advanced" tab. On the left, you'll have an option called "network address" that's normally set to "Not Present". Change it to a specified value, and type in "DEADBEEFBABE" or whatever MAC address you want.

    Bingo.

  2. disable kudzu and linuxconf on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 2

    Then everything seems to fall into place. I have a lot of systems that were redhat or mandrake that I "declawed". How often do I need to change network cards or add new tape drives? I find it easier to edit that kinda stuff by hand. Redhat also is nice enough to have a semi-sane arrangement for various configuration files in /etc (/etc/sysconfig comes to mind).

  3. Re:MGS2 [Mod up parent] on RMS Weighs In On BitKeeper · · Score: 2

    Interesting... I smell a new O'Reilly book, CVS for Game Developers!

  4. Already has it on ATi's All In Wonder Radeon 9700 Pro · · Score: 2

    It's had that for awhile. The crappy crash-a-minute Cinema package that comes with the ATI WinTV had it too.

    Another cool thing is "magazine mode" which records the closed captions and still pictures taken when the frame changes significantly to make a TV guide-like telecast.

  5. Re:Acts of God on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 2

    If you read the article, what it's "trying to tell us" is that we are fucking up our climate and/or we are due for that mini ice-age which is coming Real Soon Now.

  6. YHBT on 22lb Ice Blocks From the Sky · · Score: 1

    YHL HAND

    (see his post history)

  7. Vorbis on Xiph.org Releases Theora Alpha One · · Score: 2

    The audio codec is called vorbis.

    VORBIS

    That's all you need to say. OGG is a format container for audio, among other things. No one goes around talking about their RIFFs or ASFs do they? You don't call a DivX movie an AVI, do you?

    FUCKING VORBIS!

  8. To Microsoft's Credit on Apple and IBM Working Together on 64-bit CPUs · · Score: 1

    Windows 2000 is fully Unicode based, the only nationalization is the different languages in which the documentation files are included. And newer notebooks don't have a port problem.

  9. GDP = Gross Domestic Product on Is UnitedLinux Violating The GPL? · · Score: 2

    That's what I think of when someone says the "GDP". Now, next to the word "invoked", it may take on a different connotation.

    No UnitedLinux, don't release under the NDA, or you will incur the wrath equaling the total market value of all goods and services originating in the United States this year!!!!

  10. Re:Stupid Question on Is UnitedLinux Violating The GPL? · · Score: 2

    Nothing prevents you from adding an auxiliary clause to the license that stipulates what you just said. A "don't rebrand without my approval" clause would be in order. Perhaps you might call the license the "Andromeda" license. :-)

  11. Re:PAtent guide... on Patents for the Little People? · · Score: 2

    Because it's been tried in court and doesn't work. OTH, if you find a notary public and bug them, then you're set. Often, this fee is less than the cost of certified mail, if any.

  12. Re:Some Perspective...? on New Jersey Officially Limits G-Forces on Coasters · · Score: 2

    I used to think that way, then I came to realize.

    8A! I'm at 8A goddamn it, ::sobbing::

  13. Re:Easy Fix! on Privacy Leak in Mozilla and Mozilla-Based Browsers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NO.

    The implementors of the demo were lazy (having no server-side scripting) and used a cookie to record the information leaked by onUnload. You are in no way protected by disabling cookies.

    That just breaks the demo, the vulnerability is still there.

  14. This is a good idea on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 2

    It would be interesting to have a redefined CD format that contains a OGG stream. It should be VBR so the masterer can play with the amount of allowable distortion for various passages. The compression could vary to fit the amount of music to be put on the CD.

    Why not?

  15. Re:Time To Switch on Ogg beats MP3 & The Rest In Listening Test · · Score: 2

    You can't (and don't want to) switch your mp3s to ogg because you won't get any quality back. You might have smaller files but you will also suffer from further quality loss in the decode/reencoding process.

    Sorry. You'll have to re-rip your music from the source CD to ogg, or keep any mp3s you downloaded.

  16. Holy shit on Many Hackers Too Fat For The FBI · · Score: 2

    Oooh Mr. Big-Shot knows all his numbers and he's gonna tell us how un-healthy we all are.

    You are an abberation, I'm sorry.

    Consider yourself lucky that you didn't get the hypo-metabolic end of the gene stick.

    You gotta deal with us... you're the freak.

  17. Re:Yeah, but... on How to Build a Time Machine · · Score: 2

    What? Light from 3 co-planar axis? If the planes and light beams aren't moving with respect to the mechanism itself, there will be NO phase distrotion, no matter how fast or which direction the detector is moving. That is THE principle of special relativity. We could measure acceleration with this device however.

  18. Re:Perhaps . . . but: on How to Build a Time Machine · · Score: 1

    Or is acceleration a by-product of the increase of apparent rest mass when measured in a varying graviational field, converted into kinetic energy from the mass delta?

    ( A crazy physics professor told me this once )

  19. Thank you (mod up please) on AGP Texture Download Problem Revealed · · Score: 1

    This is one of the more interesting and compelling reasons for the 128-bit requirement.

  20. mod up, we need this on Paul Graham on Fighting Spam · · Score: 2

    I was going to post a message suggesting exactly this but you beat me to the punch.

    Why doesn't my email app have this already??? :-D

  21. turning off graphics in web browser == illegal? on No Pop-up Blocking in Netscape 7.0 · · Score: 2

    Terence Ross of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, the news publishers' attorney, ... thinks Internet users who configure their browsers to disable graphics (a common tactic to boost the speed of Web surfing) are committing copyright infringement because they are interfering with Web publishers' exclusive right to control how their pages are displayed.

    That's funny, I don't remember signing anything giving web publishers that right. I think everyone has forgotten that "web pages" were originally WYSIWYW, not WYSIWYG (what you want, vs. what you get), and everything else is just hinting.

    If this is their attitude, why not just do everything (plus ads) in Flash? They'll make sure we see everything they want us to see, just like Cable TV. That'll teach us "leechers"

  22. Re:Linux is really chugging along now! on Linux Kernel Module For Nintendo Powerglove · · Score: 2

    Just wait, soon we'll have support for the SUPER SCOPE!!!
    I can't wait. Die dead matlab processes, die!

  23. Re:Encryption make your own on Schneier et al Report PGP Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    Garage encryption... not difficult to acheive but dicey. That is, you can conceive of a great many encryption schemes that are trivial to the uninformed to break, thus obtaining an initial payoff. However, there is something often overlooked which can be abused. The reason why we have such old standards today is because they have been picked over and they appear to have no exploitable flaws (other than to brute force and social engineering attacks, as in this case).

    Generally, two encryptions are not more secure as one. There is a theory (forget the name) that states that if some message K is encrypted by algorithm A, then encrypted by B, the result is no more secure than the stronger of A and B.

  24. Re:DVR-A04 Advice on Which DVD Recordable Format Will Win? · · Score: 2

    Another small caveat, if I try to pipe mkisofs output into dvdrecord, the burn will fail. If I make the iso file first, and then call dvdrecord, the burn is successful. Once again, I don't know if this is something specific to my setup, so it's just an fyi.

    This means the DVD recorder is requesting data for the burn faster than mkisofs cares to give it. Or if the speeds are close, there are a number of time-sensitive issues involved, mostly because dvdrecord can't depend on mkisofs having the data ready to be read. Since mkisofs blocks on output, it may not wake up in time to give the data to dvdrecord.

    Use any built-in buffer dvdrecord may have and quadruple it. If it lacks one, use some other buffering app in the pipe, like bag for example. Finally, if it turns out mkisofs just can't pump data out fast enough, then you will have to rely on burning from disk.

  25. SHINJI-KUN! on Build Your Own Tesla Coil · · Score: 1

    Misato: Where is he?
    Ritsuko: I think he fell into Dirac space created by the angel's shadow!

    (Or something like that... hahahaha... )