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  1. Re:Far East Asia? on UK Critical Structures Targeted by Trojan Attacks · · Score: 1

    Although why woudl they want anything to do with the UK? Isnt it the USA thats their bete noir?

    web of trust

  2. Re:JavaSuck? on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    thanks, that's interesting.

  3. Re:Uses? on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Corkscrew is a tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies.

    those crazy firewall admins and their rules !

  4. Re:My biggest fear... on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    I haven't flamed anyone

    if you cant type "livecd firewall" into a search engine what chance do you stand installing and maintaining many of them, hence my suggestion that if one needs to ask the question then one might not be prepared for the answer.

    Yeah, I'm a fully representative of the Linux community please attribute anything I say that you don't like to the penguinistas! 7|\|>< 4|\||> 8y3

  5. Re:JavaSuck? on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    moving jobs im stuck working on an asp project atm.

    I've been in unix land since pre win2k, last working on .asp in iis4 on nt4

    the biggest drawback is the lack of native associative arrays

    create a few more than 100 scripting dictionaries and you get "out of memory" [though I plucked 100 from mid air, I just ran out one time when using one of my php idioms creating an array of dictionaries inside a loop, didn't bother to work out the *actual* limits]

    VBscript is one of the least expressive languages.

    It is a dynamically typed language that throws up type errors if you don't cast some objects with clng(object.property).

    Seems they weren't very good at writing parsers

  6. Re:JavaSuck? on JavaScript Inventor Speaks Out · · Score: 1

    oh well, you fell into the same trap :

    ASP isn't based on visual basic, ASP just means Active Server Pages.
    It would be like saying that CGI is based on Perl.

    Instead of environment variables, asp provides some COM objects : request, response, session & application.

    The scripting language is up to you, you can use VBScript, Perl, Python, PHP, C and probably even Brainfuck !

    wooof!

  7. Re:Contact Comcast on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    =)

    I must admit I had never figured that port 0 was valid but I can't see any reason in RFC 793 - Transmission Control Protocol that prohibits port 0 being used and IANA's port number document merely says that it is "reserved".

    However :

    # sshd -p 0 -D
    Bad port number.

    it might be a neat hack if firewalls skip port 0 or some such

  8. Re:My biggest fear... on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    yes, all of those things

    If you don't know how to know then my point is even more valid.

  9. Re:Sounds more like a DoS to me on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    or Use Windows XP which has even *more* functionality

  10. Re:My biggest fear... on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    yes there are

    but if you have to ask, your fears are justified

  11. Re:Contact Comcast on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    and in fact block the relevent [sic] ports

    which ones would those be, 0-65535 ?

  12. Re:Patches don't solve the problem on new installs on MS Patch Train Leaves the Station · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    > Does anyone have a better solution?

    spend $30 on a NAT router, D U M B A S S

  13. Errors: 94 on Case Study of Bungie.Net · · Score: 1

    mostly alt tags and & instead of & in uris

    This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional!

  14. Re:If they had any morality... on Microsoft Censoring Blogs on MSN China · · Score: 2, Funny

    > That's the Worst sort of apologist trash.

    nope, it's called "Democracy"

    if you don't like it, go live in China !

  15. Re:Dupedydubdub on Microsoft Censoring Blogs on MSN China · · Score: 1

    perhaps the cops parsed it as an assignment ergo the people WANT Bush == Hitler

  16. Re:If they had any morality... on Microsoft Censoring Blogs on MSN China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok, let us run with tha.

    MS is not a moral being, the laws of the country define acceptable behaviour so :

    If your govt. had any morality then it would cease trading with the Chinese

    but the will of the people isn't in favour of that trade barrier so :

    If you had any morality then you would cease trading with your govt.

    try that one and you'll see how much *your* human rights are respected

  17. Re:It should be "advice", not "advise". on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    lol, f00l

  18. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    yes, you have it right

    I might have been a bit harsh on the KDE people =)

    It's the cruft that is Unix and its derivatives, dead and getting smelly.

    And I bang on about it at every opportunity to anyone who will listen because I know there are better solutions, they are easy to implement but the free unices people play NIH and so great ideas fall by the wayside. I know that Linus has little respect for the plan9 people, we've seen it in his comments on our mailing list. FreeBSD could have done it with geode but they missed a trick. Theo just wants our compilers but the Lucent lawyers won't relent and let him have it with an OBSD compatible license.

    Oh well, one day perhaps you'll get the chance to have real usabability.

  19. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    > how do you think "everything is a file" works, exactly?

    it works by having user level file systems, I use them all day, every day

    blame who ? why, it doesn't necessarily need kernel modification

    you can even try this LiveCD

    or read the pdf

  20. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    hehe go Gimp

    but can it do ssh login ?

    no ?

    oh well

  21. Re:Outlook 2003 on Where is the Killer Calendar? · · Score: 1

    his is how you open a text file from a remote system in the Kate editor by pointing the Open dialog to ftp://ftp.system.com/directory/file.txt [system.com].

    see: bloat

    how am I going to open a remote image with gimp ?

    oh dear, no go

    all that KDE protocol crap is, well, wrong.

    If only they got "everything is a file" not "every protocol needs a new KIOslave"

  22. Re:Ah... history fails to be remembered again... on AMD Quad Cores, Oh My · · Score: 1

    8Kb, luxury !!

  23. Re:Attack the Compiler on The First Annual Underhanded C Contest · · Score: 1

    the whole point is "yes" RTFP

  24. Re:Goliath on HP Introduces Final Processor in PA-RISC Family · · Score: 1

    so why not dump the x86 and go straight to the risc ?

    That would be sanity

  25. Get a shell account on Web Proxies for Anonymous Scientific Peer-Review? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    and run your own