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  1. Re:lol Beos hahahahaa - NeXTStep in 1993 you mean on gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba · · Score: 1
  2. lol Beos hahahahaa - NeXTStep in 1993 you mean on gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba · · Score: 5, Insightful

    As Ron Minnich said

    "You want to make your way in the CS field? Simple. Calculate rough time of
    amnesia (hell, 10 years is plenty, probably 10 months is plenty), go to
    the dusty archives, dig out something fun, and go for it.

    It's worked for many people, and it can work for you."

  3. Re:Cant compile on gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba · · Score: 1

    mkdir /usr/local/share/doc/gdesklets *
    mkdir /usr/local/share/doc/gdesklets/html
    ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/gdesklets /doc **
    make install

    rm /doc

    * or something appropriate to your locale. That's a FreeBSDism

    ** although you'll probably need to be root to write to /

  4. Re:Why to duplicate everything? on gDesklets - Gnome2's Karamba · · Score: 4, Insightful

    yeah who'd have thought it

    if that annoys you don't look here :

    NeXTStep
    http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextst ep/intro.htm ld/

    or here
    Afterstep
    http://www.afterstep.org/Applicat ions.php

    or here
    Enligtenment
    http://freshmeat.net/browse/87 7/?topic_id=877

  5. Here's the text in case it gets /.'ed on FreeBSD security Advisories: FreeBSD-SA-03:09.sign · · Score: 4, Informative

    nah, who am I kidding

    the signal thing is more than a D.O.S. though

    However, in FreeBSD 5.x, the assertion code is not present if the
    `INVARIANTS' kernel option is not used. In FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE and
    5.1-RELEASE, `INVARIANTS' is not enabled by default. In this
    configuration, a malicious local user could use this vulnerability
    to modify kernel memory, potentially leading to complete system
    compromise. (FreeBSD 4.x is not vulnerable in this way.)

  6. Re:re : ducks deserve life tbh on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    yeah, I'd expect your disrespect for life to be total.

    We had three sabs killed in the 90's and have witnessed numerous violent incendents.

    I attended the coroner's inquest into the death of Tom Worby.
    And yes, the good-ol-boy did exactly as you predicted.

    The police anti-terrorist units attended it too, taking our photographs for their "neutral" police files.

  7. hmm, if you really are so clever on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    If you are going to delete everything that comes to via the Usenet address why do you include a valid email in as your return address?

    you could reduce the flow to 0 by putting

    From: not_real@naimod.moc

    and to be honest if I was an email harvester I might have noticed "user at domain dot com" and be harvesting those too

  8. shouldn't that be anti-virii on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: 1

    it is viruses you clot

  9. re : ducks deserve life tbh on Comparison of Bayesian POP3 Spam Filters · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    For some of us shooting birds & other animals for sport or otherwise is barbaric.

    And yes, I have put myself physically between barrel and bird.

    Those rich wankers get pretty wound up when they've paid a 1000 to shoot grouse and all they can see on the moors are Sabs .

  10. Re:ftp server? on Acxiom Hacking Details Made Public · · Score: 4, Interesting

    then you'd like plan9's ftp

    it doesn't even use passwords

    it uses a kind of public key encryption called NetKey

    ftp DrSkwid@plan9ftp
    Welcome DrSkwid to the plan9 ftp server
    challenge : 345345
    response :

    And you have to run netkey locally and encrypt the challenge using your password.
    The server checks to see if its encrypted version matches and if so you're in.

    You can't replay it and good luck cracking it.

    If you don't want to be broken into don't use insecure things, oh and "root" is considered harmful. If you there is nothing to escalate privileges to then what point that rootkit?

    Makes me laugh people talking security with such a single point of failure waiting for exploitation.

  11. Re:BSD is Dying on FreeBSD Ports Tricks · · Score: 4, Informative

    why yes, it does

    which would you like ?

    Red Hat
    /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-6/pkg-descr
    /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8/pkg-descr

    or

    Debian
    /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-debian/pkg-descr
  12. Re:I'm English on China Proposes Rival Video Format · · Score: 1

    hehe re snarky, no worries this is /. , I enjoy the harder edge

    The UK may have more than two parties but the government is officially two sided by design.
    After an election the Monarch asks one person to form a government and one person to form the "official opposition". These are usually the leaders of the two parties with the most seats in parliament. I think this is just a courtesy and the monarch can actually ask anyone whom they are inclined toward. This was a compromise arranged as a consequence of the English Revolution when parliament raised the worlds first standing army (the New Model Army) and eventually overpowered Charles I armies. Charles was executed but when his son returned he managed to restore the monarchy and the arrangement we have now was reached.

    Unlike other democratic parliaments where everyone sits in a kind of lecture hall in a big semi-circle the Houses of Parliament has two sides. The Government sits on one side and the "Official Opposition" on the other. Each Govt. minister has an opposition Shadow. The Prime Minister appoints govt. posts, the Shadow Prime Minister assigns his Shadow Cabinet.

    None of this really makes centrist politics inevitable.

    The party system grew out of the economies of scale of forming groups.

    You see, we are supposed to vote for the person we want to govern our ward not the person that represents our favourite political party. Being partisan is, in fact, anti-democratic.

    So we end up with no real choice.
    The parties choose the issues to fight over and so the diversity of opinion that local government might introduce is negated.

    It is ironic that none of the structures are actually designed to be democratic. They grew out of land owners arguing with the King. Voting used to be weighted by how much land you owned. No land no vote.

  13. Re:hey brother on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 1

    yes, I was talking to gf today about it. Just reading that stuff has opened a new door for me.

    Naturally I had already formulated some of the same coping stratagies without outside help ;)

    But reading through some of those traits was like a diary of domestic conflict.

    Who'd've thought /. would end up *helping* somebody.

  14. Re:RTFM on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    8)

    my point really was the justification that commands have their subject last and from the point of view of the kernel it is the target directory that is being acted upon, not the files. Even a file rename is acting up the directory not the files as the filesnames are not part of the file itself.

    as for tar, well it is a crazy command anyway. Tape ARchiver. That it is still being used to copy file trees around is a testament to the unix way and also to the "90% good" rule.

    Until the Windows file manager came along you had to use xcopy and deltree to do it in the DOS shell.

  15. Re:RTFM on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    hehe I knew someone would say that

    but my point being that what happens in the user's eyes and what happens in the kernel's can be quite different

  16. sorry, not good enough on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 1

    Much as I am loath to directly contradict your own experience I think you should go and research what introversion actually is in this context.

    It is not simply a dichotomy between
    "hey everyone look at me" and "ooh, I don't feel safe, I'm going to my room for a bit"

    It can be someone like me who enjoys being the centre of attention but only in short bursts because social contact is really tiring. I'm the guy that disappears for 20 minutes and then comes back full of beans.

  17. hey brother on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 1

    intj too

    I'd never even heard of these classifications until this thread and the stuff I found from your link was really eye opening about myself.

    here's some resonating snippets

    "I've made up my mind, don't confuse me with the facts"
    me in /. mode

    "Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them."
    I get wound up if someone tells me an anecdote twice. Especially if they don't stop when I say "yeah, I know, you told me before"

    "Expect debate. INTJs like to tear ideas apart and prove their worthiness. They will even argue a point they don't actually support for the sake of argument."
    8) how many times.

    "Do not be surprised at sarcasm."
    I am the master

    "Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. Telling them the obvious accomplishes nothing."

    amen

  18. the plan9 way on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    mouse 1 then drag selects the text
    keeping mouse 1 down and pressing mouse 2 cuts
    pressing 1 then 3 pastes

    mouse 2 alone on select text runs it as a command

    mouse 3 alone on selected text sends it to the plumber.

    plumbing is like file types but instead uses regexes

    If there is no plumbing action defined for that pattern and you are using the text editor (Acme) then the text editor tries to open that filename. If this fails the current document is searched for the text.

    This system is much better than file associations because you have more control over what happens.

    Maybe when you use a particular URL you want to always view the source rather than view the rendered html, no problem. The plumbing rules are per-process so you can have different rules in different windows.

    It's great

  19. Re:RTFM on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    1. neither is intutitive, they are both learned

    "mv" doesn't move anything, it wstats the directory adding the new file inodes and removes their entries from their source directories (as a side effect).

  20. could you point me to the research please on The Introvert Advantage · · Score: 2, Insightful

    because I'd be interested to see the support for your hypothesis

  21. FORMER EMPLOYEE on Consumer Database Company Hacked · · Score: 1

    Barrett says the alleged hacker is a former employee of an Acxiom client.

  22. Shelbyville Bank Robbed on Consumer Database Company Hacked · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    There was a bank robbery in Shelbyville today when 48 year old Steve Lekowski found $10 on the floor in the rest room and instead of handing it in, he put it in his pocket.

  23. root considered harmful on Consumer Database Company Hacked · · Score: 1

    if that was the case, serve them right for using a crappy multi-user OS

  24. Re:rewind to Windows3.1 on EU Says Microsoft's Abuses Are Ongoing · · Score: 1

    yes, you are right about the timsescale

    I just plucked Corel from thin air

  25. How to make Accessible Java on Programming Accessible Software on Java Phones? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I misread the headline as how to make Java Accessible to Progammers

    Jython

    Welcome to the Jython homepage. Jython is an implementation of the high-level, dynamic, object-oriented language Python written in 100% Pure Java, and seamlessly integrated with the Java platform. It thus allows you to run Python on any Java platform.

    [I even previewed it, saw that the url was wrong but pressed submit without changing it!]