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  1. UML on Gentoo Games · · Score: 1

    Isn't your whole point about a micro kernel and few services running defeated by running it in user mode linux where the host is a larger kernel with more services?

  2. fvwm2 on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Looks like someone wants to use fvwm and the variety of themes with different looks and actions. Only window manager I've seen that can do windows, mac os (who would want that? *duck*) and CDE.

  3. I know! Run two cron daemons! on Self-Repairing Computers · · Score: 1

    Just write a process that has a sleep function and checks for other copies of itself and the cron daemon. If it doesn't seen the cron daemon, start it. Run arbitrary numbers of this process for added guarantee.

  4. Re:/etc/rc.d ? on Self-Repairing Computers · · Score: 1

    /etc/rc.d/nfs reload comes to mind. It doesn't restart the servers. It just tells them that the config files are updated and it's the server's responsibility to reread configs when it can. Or use privoxy's model which monitors config files (using select) and rereads on change without any problems (every new connection uses the new config).
    Also consider what happens when I restart network over ssh. Network stops, network starts, and my ssh session still works.
    We already have standards for this with the /etc/rc.d system. It's up to the daemons to support this.

  5. Re:This is a total dead end. on Revising the Internet Email Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that spammers can still use SMTP, right?

  6. Re:6to4 is the answer to that. on What's Your Timeline for IPv6 Migration? · · Score: 1

    Yes, there is a shortcut to typing them. It's called /etc/hosts or DNS. Isn't that the whole point of naming computers???

  7. Re:and this replaces a PDA.... how? on Intel's 'Personal Server': The Handheld Killer? · · Score: 1

    Not to mention you can get a large SD memory card, CF wireless, and run a server on it, replacing most of the functionality.

  8. Re:Gentoo on Petreley On Simplifying Software Installation for Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Assuming redhat, freebsd, windows and mac osx installers installed and setup how you like, the interfaces are a lot simpler than gentoo or debian's.
    I have installed windows, redhat, and gentoo. Yes, windows and redhat have much prettier interfaces. However, I have spent countless hours trying to install windows and redhat because the install tried to do something I didn't want it to do and crashed.
    Windows 2000: the box has IDE and SCSI drives. I wanted windows on the SCSI drive as C. I had to take the IDE drive out to get it to let me. I don't even know where to start installing windows 2000 on a box without a CD-ROM drive.
    RedHat: Anybody ever try installing RedHat onto a new box using ReiserFS and network install when the card is listed but the module won't load? I gave up and installed a CD-ROM drive.
    Gentoo's install does take a long time but I never had these problems. When I was selecting where to install, I just used /dev/sda* instead. Machine doesn't have a CD-ROM drive or network isn't supported? I made a nfsroot kernel, mounted root from another one of my gentoo boxes, and did the install from there.
    Slackware has a similar install procedure (all console) but it doesn't compile everything like gentoo.
    So the point is, "Assuming redhat, freebsd, windows and mac osx installers installed and setup how you like" is a very big assumption.

  9. What about changing what people say? on Reading Lips In Software · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anybody else reminded of the Read My Lips videos that fit clips to songs?

  10. Re:it only bothers the unknowing honest. on More on Cisco Building Surveillance into Routers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So is the administration that calls all its opposition evildoers.

  11. Microsoft: Ahead of Its Time on Permanet vs. Nearlynet · · Score: 3, Funny

    Support for disconnection is already included in all versions of windows. Some call this feature the BSOD, others call it Driver Signing and Palladium. But these all have one common feature: windows supports disconnecting and you don't even have to do anything!

  12. Patch for 2.4.20 from LKML on Local Root Hole in Linux Kernels · · Score: 3, Informative

    Further in the thread, there is a patch against 2.4.20.

  13. MPlayer on Appreciation For All Things ASCII · · Score: 4, Informative

    Mplayer supports aalib output and can play many more formats including quicktime.

  14. Parent is Troll! on Sprint DSL's Security Hole Easy As 1,2,3,4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is the slashdot article.

  15. Suing does not imply law on How to change your Radeon 9500 into a 9700 · · Score: 1

    I can file suit for just about anything and just about any law. Does that mean the law states that my claim has any base? Wait for decisions before declaring that it's policy.

  16. The Problem with Autonomic Computing on Maine School & Linux · · Score: 1

    Think about why so many people bash microsoft. Sure, it has support for some feature, but can you use that feature for something the writer never thought of? Quite often, you can't. Self-healing and autonomic systems are dangerous ideas because any use out of the ordinary gets automatically "corrected." The only times I call tech support are when I want to do something out of the ordinary. The more automated the "solution," the less I can do with the product.
    I know that IBM is talking more about hardware failures, but your point seems to be that tech support could be rare because the authors of the software would anticipate every possible use.

  17. The DMCA has nothing to do with this. on How to change your Radeon 9500 into a 9700 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The DMCA is a Copyright Act. It makes circumvention of protected copyrighted works. What copy protection scheme does this mod allow us to circumvent? Of course, blaming the DMCA for everything is always acceptable.

  18. Google has no cash? on Put The Demoscene In Your DVD Player · · Score: 5, Funny

    What did Searchking do to them?

  19. Sure on Inside Symantec's 'Security Center' · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the blackhats will voluntairly label their packets as blackhat attacks so firewalls can drop them.

  20. Thanks for the idea. on Killing Unwanted Text Messages from Yahoo! Alerts? · · Score: 1

    Now I can tell my friends to forge e-mail from yahoo so I don't have to pay for their messages.

  21. Not in 2.4.20 on Linux Used To Make "Star Trek, Nemesis" · · Score: 5, Funny

    Quoting the 2.4.20 changelog, "replace end user confusing 'on fire' joke with real info"

  22. Windows runs in 64 bit on AMD's 64-bit Plot · · Score: 2, Informative

    Check the Windows XP 64 bit edition website. I hate to burst your bubble, but microsoft knows what it's doing.

  23. Warning: Can't connect to MySQL on Only Thieves Block Pop-Ups · · Score: 0, Redundant

    All I get is an error message. It appears that I can't get in with or without ad blocking proxies :-).

  24. GoogleBot wins! on Slashback: Newton, Wal-Mart, Eats · · Score: 2, Funny

    Anybody notice that googlebot won four games in browser wars? Wget won one so far. One has to wonder about the skills of the average IE user versus an automated bot.

  25. Udpcast on Ghost for Unix · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try udpcast. It supports multicast and has boot floppies. I use it to replace ghost on a 40 computer lab. Supports stdin and stdout multicast so it's easy to use in many different cases. I'm working on boot disks that only require one disk for each client.