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  1. Re:MY XP box is still virus free and still not 'ow on Security Patch Creation at Microsoft · · Score: 1

    =)

  2. Re:MY XP box is still virus free and still not 'ow on Security Patch Creation at Microsoft · · Score: 0

    so what ?

    I have a Win95 OSR2 net connected box here that has never been owned either

  3. Re:recommendations? on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1

    http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html

    2 An Agent for Security is the particular section relevant to your question.

  4. Re:Admiration on Microsoft's Slap at Samba · · Score: 1

    A web browser is anything but basic.

  5. Re:A Book Recommendation on Learning Hardware as a Software Geek? · · Score: 1

    I must admit, I've never built much =)

    But that book advanced my understanding of computer science.

    I was on a CS/microelectronics course

  6. Re:a successful argument for platform diversity? on Schneier on Attack Trends: More Complex Worms · · Score: 1

    you sounded quite sensible until you said "virii"

  7. Re:A Book Recommendation on Learning Hardware as a Software Geek? · · Score: 1

    hear hear,

    That book was our univeristy text, great stuff. I sat and read it cover to cover rather than wait for the the course to set the pace.

    I would also rettpcommdn one of these kits. The 300 in one kit and it's ilk are particularly neat: a load of bits and bobs and solderless joints, they have springs that you put the connecting wires into. Good fun to get you going.

  8. Re:"Real Use" != "Real Work" on Linux For Cell Processor Workstation · · Score: 1

    work = force x distance

    1J = 1Nm

    one kilogram-meter squared per second squared

  9. Re:Interesting on Hand-made Web Server, Built From 200 TTL Chips · · Score: 1

    yeash, stupid idiot, doesn't he know you can just go and BUY a computer with a tcp/ip stack !

  10. Re:radar guns on Closed Source -> Charges Dismissed? · · Score: 1

    Here in the UK if you say "I don't know how fast I was going" you are opening yourself up for a charge of "driving without due care and attention".

  11. Re:Build Your Own Linux! on How to Build Your Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    It's not the cult of the difficult, it's the cult of enlightenment, it's only difficult when you don't understand; then it is just complex.

    We, the cultists, want to know how, from step 1 to step n. Black boxes are uncut jewels waiting our favourite hammer.

  12. Re:Huh?! on How to Build Your Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    cue

  13. Re:ssh -L 5902:happy:5901 birthday on OpenSSH Turns Five Years Old · · Score: 1

    tunelling vnc, don't you get it?

  14. Re:Cool idea on Google Launches Google Sitemaps · · Score: 1

    I've had PageRank after 3 weeks on new sites

  15. Re:One word ;-) on Is Rodi BitTorrent's Replacement? · · Score: -1

    amen, you beat me to it

  16. Re:Everyone for themself on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    The best reason of all :

    http://openbsd.org/policy.html

    Most of Linux is subject to GPL style licensing terms and therefore can not be included in OpenBSD.

  17. Re:Everyone for themself on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    >That's a big black mark against the {three-clause} BSD licence.

    Only in your mind : the goal of BSD is good code, not free code.

  18. Re:Election? on Researchers Control the Flip of Electron Spin · · Score: 1

    nope, it just depends if its redundant or not

  19. Re:Awesome on ATi's Multi-GPU CrossFire Graphics Card Unveiled · · Score: 1

    raises the question

    begs the question doesn't mean what you think it does

  20. Re:Election? on Researchers Control the Flip of Electron Spin · · Score: 1

    not true

  21. Re:I still wonder... on Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications · · Score: 1

    It was called Diamond Cable when I signed the contract.

    Our illustrious former leader carved the country up into regions and then auctioned off the areas to act as cable TV stations to give new start up telecoms companies a boost while generating revenue for vote winning tax breaks.

    Anyhoo, these days they are amalgamated into just about two big cable providers Telewest and ntl: who went on a buying spree once the statutory period of buyout protection expired.

    I'm lazy. I got my 512k the day it came out and haven't changed a thing since. And yay, it's 1mb now! I use my own proxy with 4mb upstream elsewhere so 100k a sec is fine for the last hop.

  22. Re:HOW does this help? on Sites Leaking Users' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    some of us are old, school was a very long time ago

  23. Re:If they had been Comp Sci students.... on Stanford Rejects Business School Hackers · · Score: 1

    lol,

    how about if they walked inside the unlocked vault and had a look around but took nothing ?

    or are you going to prosecute them for stealing photons & electrons & wear and tear on the carpet!

  24. Re:Do the numbers... on Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Botnets used to be found mostly on infected redhat and solaris boxes infected by trinoo

  25. Re:And what is being done about this? on Visual DDoS Representation and Its Ramifications · · Score: 1

    I don't think that the person controlling the botnet sends out a "do ddos now" command to all of his owned hosts from home.

    You will trace it from the zombie to the controller then it's off back to court, possibly in another country, to get another warrant to monitor the controller. Then you trace that back to another controller ad nauseum.