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  1. Re:highly anticipated? on Longhorn Beta Begins · · Score: 1

    You "Pro Linux/UNIX" gossiping women need a little lesson :

    9.) Disable Java-javascript
    19.) ADDITIONALLY: RUNNING IE in a "runas limited user class" sandbox effect!

    That list is something akin to an admission of failure

    Admit it, your OS of choice is crap

    Do you know what I had to do to harden my OS of choice : NOTHING AT ALL

    No NAT, no CISCO stateful firewall, no notepad, absolutely fucking zip.

    CAT5 straight onto the Internet baby !!

  2. bah why not EU wide micropayments on EU Proposes Online Music System · · Score: 2, Interesting

    They should have true vision and start building a micropayments infrastructure for the whole of the EU and beyond.

    Then not just the holy musicians can indulge in the utopia where talk is free but the beer is charged by the litre!

  3. Re:Stop the Paranoia!!!!!!!! on Examining ICMP Flaws · · Score: 2, Insightful

    becuase you don't need to physically go to a computer to break into it

  4. Re:Just not the same. on Large Scale Production of Artificial Meat · · Score: 1

    I'm voluntary vegan.

    I don't think I would eat this cultured fish cell.

    > This could save you having to slaughter animals for food.
    Er, but I *don't* slaughter animals for food already.

    > With a single cell, you could theoretically produce the world's annual meat supply.

    You could even do that if the world meat demand went to zero.

    > .. placed them in a vat of nutrient-rich liquid. Within a week, the fish nuggets had become 16 percent bigger.

    > ... the current concoction .. : fetal bovine serum, which is extracted from the blood of unborn calves.

    So in order to grow meat all we need is a huge supply of unborn calf fetal bovine serum !

    Delightful

  5. Re:The future's here baby !!! on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1

    There are a set of device nodes #d #s #A, they are the physical devices on the host machine.

    The login process mounts these in the namespace (starting at /) for each user that logs in.

    One depends on the authors of these drivers to have revealed the full capabilities of the device. Sometimes this happens, sometimes not (and for good reason)

    For instance, the ISA PnP device :

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/pnp

    bind -a '#$' /dev ... the driver serves two files for each function. These are a control file (/dev/pci/bus.dev.fnctl) which may be read for a textual summary of the device function, and a `raw' file (/dev/pci/bus.dev.fnraw) which may be used to read or write the raw contents of PCI configuration space.

    BUGS
    Access to the I/O and memory regions of a PCI device is not provided.

    But if you look at something more likely to get used a lot, such as the VGA subsystem, then you will find a much richer set of possibilities :

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/vga

    bind #v /dev /dev/vgactl /dev/vgaovlctl /dev/vgaovl

    e.g. :

    echo blank > /dev/vgactl # blanks the screen until the mouse is moved

  6. Re:The future's here baby !!! on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 1

    remote everything
    if I export my <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/3/ proc">proc</a> dir you could freeze a process, write to it's memory image and restart the process, or to put it another way: attach a debugger, remotely, using any achitecture/OS (there's even a python module that talks 9p)

    or just look at what files each pid has open

    term% cat /proc/446/fd
    /usr/maht
    0 r M 24 (0000000000000001 0 00) 8192 125 /dev/cons
    1 w M 24 (0000000000000001 0 00) 8192 1634 /dev/cons
    2 w M 24 (0000000000000001 0 00) 8192 1634 /dev/cons
    3 r M 24 (000000000000000c 0 00) 8192 0 /dev/snarf
    4 rw i 0 (0000000000000035 0 00) 65536 720 /dev/draw/new
    5 rw i 0 (0000000000000036 0 00) 65536 160533 /dev/draw/10/data
    6 r i 0 (0000000000000037 0 00) 65536 0 /dev/draw/10/refresh
    7 rw M 24 (0000000000000009 0 00) 8192 69109 /dev/mouse
    8 rw M 24 (0000000000000003 0 00) 8192 72 /dev/cursor
    9 w M 24 (0000000000000002 0 00) 8192 5 /dev/consctl
    10 rw M 24 (0000000000000001 0 00) 8192 9 /dev/cons
    11 r M 19 (0000000000000009 0 00) 8192 0 /mnt/plumb/edit
    12 w M 19 (0000000000000002 0 00) 8192 0 /mnt/plumb/send
    13 rw | 0 (0000000000001641 0 00) 65536 0 #|/data
    14 rw | 0 (0000000000001642 0 00) 65536 0 #|/data1
    15 r c 0 (0000000000000014 0 00) 0 0 /dev/time
    16 rw M 8 (0000000000004ce0 0 00) 8192 0 /tmp/A446.mahtacme
    19 rw | 0 (0000000000001682 0 00) 65536 0 #|/data1

    ~

  7. The future's here baby !!! on A Glimpse at the Linux Desktop of the Future · · Score: 4, Funny

    My plan9 desktop, (at 50% zoom) the open window is a vnc to my X desktop with 9wm running.

  8. Re:i was hacked yesterday on PHP Blogging Apps Open to XML-RPC Exploits · · Score: 1

    lol, so wrong

  9. Re:Don't want to bash PHP.... on PHP Blogging Apps Open to XML-RPC Exploits · · Score: 1

    I've waded through the php code on a few of the major php projects out there.

    I can only say that I was shocked in the first one, I was battle hardened by the time I untarred number two.

    sql injection & register_globals were my favourite finds.

    "you need to have your files set to chmod 777 for this to work" is another pearler.

  10. Re:i was hacked yesterday on PHP Blogging Apps Open to XML-RPC Exploits · · Score: 3, Insightful

    sounds like you are a bit paranoid thewrre larry me old beauty

    not quite got a handle on locking your box down so your web server can only write to specific directories huh, well, you might learn now.

    Not running your webserver chrooted ? well, you might learn now.

    Wiping your hard drive is very Windows.

  11. Enemy Territory is my friend's addiction on What Games Do Women Play? · · Score: 1

    free fps from http://www.castlewolfenstein.com/

    I would post the full URI but activision assumes one has Flash and I don't.

    she's a top engineer and can easily play 6 hours straight

  12. Re:Yo Hemos! on Share FIles? Get Fired. · · Score: 2, Informative

    Y, because we lIke you

    Jeesh, now "editors" can't even type!

    http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/04/115 252
    In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down.
    Businesses | Posted by Hemos on 04/07/05 12:45

  13. SIlicon eh on In SIlicon Valley: Profits up. Employment Down. · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ga, No Ca P, O K, Mo F O ?

  14. Re:I would have one of these on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    I still can't see that as a justification for having road cars that are performance based.

    As racers you will know there is something seductive about speed but when it all goes wrong, and it will, the results on a public highway will suddenly have you re-evaluating your risk.

  15. Re:I would have one of these on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    hmm, yeah actually I knew that part but kind of forgot it when I was working stuff out.

    It has got me curious as to the actual cost in man hours & damage repair.

  16. Re:I would have one of these on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1

    The device doesn't track your movements it just regulates the vehicle to the maximum permitted speed according to it's position.

    What is the problem with that ?

    Do you really like having people drive at 80mph through your 30mph, 10m wide street on a Sunday lunchtime ?

    Have you watched in horror as a small child bounced up the bonnet of the car you were a passenger you in and it was clear to you that speed was a contributory factor ?

    I've been in both of those situations and more besides.

    A road traffic accident with a fatality costs society an estimated £1 million. So that's £4000 million we spend annually here in the UK on clearing up the dead.

    Thats 10x the amount of aid we give to Africa each year spent on 4000 people.

    What steps would you suggest to continue to reduce road deaths ?

    The only evidence I see here to reduce road deaths / injury are speed cameras to catch speeders at known trouble spots. Is this a curtail on freedom? My Govt. is currently watching me all the time when I drive, gathing masses and masses of movement information on us all. And when a *passive* device is mooted it is somehow an assault on my liberty.

  17. I would have one of these on Britain to Pilot GPS Speed Governors · · Score: 1, Troll

    Although I regularly exceed the speed limit I would have one of these (if it worked as advertised).

    I still don't udnerstand why cars capable of over 100 miles an hour are available for sale.

    I can't write a P2P application because someone might swap music but I can sell a 200mph car that will probably kill someone. (an avg. 10 years of car life per road death)

    twisted

  18. Re:Bad optical design? on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 1

    Best. Interface. Ever.

    but the system tray is retarded

    Personally I prefer to type :

    9660srv -f image.iso image && mount /srv/image /n/image

    best interface ever

    damn, my machine played a fucking tune when I switch it on. Damn, and off.

  19. Re:Windows users don't need this crap on Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    hey Dr. Kool

    You can say fuck if you like, no-one minds.

    Cunt, balls, arse, wanker, shit, piss and bastard are also availble to you.

  20. Re:small case species on Cloning In The Animal Kingdom · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's it's not its. See you in hell.

  21. Re:Hellstrom's Hive... on Cloning In The Animal Kingdom · · Score: 1

    Ask Fry about his Lucy Lu collection.

  22. Re:Not my fault the Slashdot HTML is broken. -1? on Royal Society Finds Lost Newton Papers · · Score: 1

    You got modded for Ballmer being a troll

    Linux "a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches.", Steve Ballmer

  23. Re:Wont happend on David Clark: Rebuild the Internet · · Score: 1

    They did try before back in 1994, remember the "The Microsoft Network" ?
    You might know MSN in today's guise but back in 1994 it wasn't delivered via HTTP. MS didn't even have a web browser until late 1995.

    The Top Ten digital media events of 1994

    http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interes ting-people/199412/msg00070.html

    THE MICROSOFT NETWORK IS NO MARVEL

    The crux of Microsoft's aspirations is its online network, once
    code-named Marvel, now known as the Microsoft Network (for legal
    reasons). Gates and Co., including new partner Tele-Communications
    Inc., which forked out $125 million for 20 percent of the network,
    think they have the key to online software and retail sales. But,
    with the delay of Windows 95 -- which provides some critical hooks
    for the Microsoft Network services -- competitors have a year to
    prepare for this formidable competition. We believe the Microsoft
    Network will appeal most to newbies, as old-time online folk have
    already settled into their virtual neighborhoods.

  24. gender != sex on Uneasy Relationship Between Gender and Gaming · · Score: 1

    Gender is a grammatical term, not biological.

    see : http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/15 32238

    for further details

  25. Re:I hate the title on How to Do Everything with PHP and MySQL · · Score: 1

    of course, there's nothing to stop you writing out your static HTML for Apache to the document tree, using mod_rewrite to check the "cache" for you :

    <VirtualHost *>
    ServerName = cached
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
    RewriteRule ^(.*\.html$|.*/$) /index.php [T=application/x-httpd-php,L]
    </VirtualHost>

    The RewriteCond triggers the RewriteRule only if the document is (!found || filesize == 0) (!-s).
    The RewriteRule internally redirects Apache to index.php if the requested page ends in html or / (ignoring any querystring)

    index.php then builds the page (based on $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), serves it, and writes it to the document tree if appropriate.

    you could also do this for your images / css etc. with different rules or just redirect *every* 404 to index.php and serve "something!"

    I just catch html & / because thats all I want to do thus avoiding all the requests for /.*/winnt/system32/cmd.exe & co.

    In the backend one can truncate the files to zero length when it is time to invalidate them which might be a bit quicker than deleting.