User: DrSkwid

I've been getting that too

On: Is Apache 2.x Ready for General Use?

Apache/2.0.44 (Unix) - FreeBSD 4.7

I had a set of URL's to test my logging daemon, I set wget off locally and got the same behaviour the parent describes.

wget would fly through the requests for a while then I noticed it saying "connection refused". While scratching my head it sprung back into life. This pattern was repeated.

Until I can verify that this is something that doesn't happen any more I won't be putting it on public view.

I run it at home as a filtering proxy. You can pipe all pages received through any program that takes stdin and writes stdout.

#!/usr/local/bin/rc

echo $DOCUMENT_URI | grep -s -q slashdot.org
if(~ $status(2) 0) {
gunzip | awk ' BEGIN { inad=0 }
outad == 1 { inad = 0; outad =0}
/-- advertisement code/ { inad=1 }
/-- end ad code/ {outad=1}
inad == 1 {next}
{ print }
' | sed -e 's/ad.doubleclick.net/juice/g' -e 's/document.write/document.wrong/g' | gzip
}

flame on

On: Using a PC as a Remote Control?

flame on, but I don't want to make any major changes in my last year of school)

hey, it's your freedom.

You wanna suck Bill's dick, that's your business

IRDA != IR, simple as that

buy a universal remote

Turn $25 into $500,000 in 6 months

On: Online Marketers to Stamp out Spam?

Hello,
You may have seen this business before and
ignored it. I know I did - many times! However,
please take a few moments to read this letter.
I was amazed when the profit potential of this
business finally sunk in... and it works!

With easy-to-use e-mail tools and opt-in e-mail,
success in this business is now fast, easy and
well within the capabilities of ordinary people
who know little about internet marketing. And the
earnings potential is truly staggering!

Send me $25 and I'll send you the tools.

hardly

On: New PF on FreeBSD snapshot available

every post in this thread (except this one) explains what it is

who needs google when we've got /. whiners ;)

30fps *is* slow

On: RTCW: Enemy Territory Test Released

let us know when you're getting over 120

not so common dog food here any more

On: Where Does Spam Come From? No, Really?

You might well wonder where the white dog shit went.

.NET thing is just an API bridge

On: Interview With The PostgreSQL Team

and a "native" Windows/.NET port."

er, not quite

Robert: Plus we already have a .net data provider project for connecting to PostgreSQL via .Net.

Give the guy a break

On: Desktop Laser Cutting/Engraving

By the way, your blatent, repetative, self-advertisement is disgusting.

aw come on, the guy finally get's a story that's about his subject area and he want's to participate and contribute his knowledge.

If you bothered to contribute positively to the world you'd be promoting it too.

For my distributed computing

On: Real-time PC access on your PDA

I use Inferno

it uses a protocol (Styx) for remote file access.

& File access is all you need as all services are controlled by reading, writing & executing files

how does that work I hear you wonder

something like this :

% cat clone /net/tcp
1
% echo 'connect tcp!127.0.0.0!80' > /net/tcp/1/ctl
% echo 'GET http://127.0.0.1/ HTTP/1.0' > /net/tcp/1/data
% echo > /net/tcp/1/data
% cat /net/tcp/1/data
Content-Type:text/plain

here's a document
%

using bind one can transparently import remote file systems to the local namespace

I think he means in the other direction

On: Tridgell Taking Samba Beyond POSIX

I think he means that instead of Samba presenting itself as a legacy CIFS file server it should serve files to a client expecting other file systems. So you could run Samba on AIX and tell your Linux box it's an ext3 connection.

Or maybe it's because the user level file systems on plan9 have made too much of a mark on me.

open, close, read, write & walk baby, s'all you need

It's not really about translucent windows par se

On: Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL

If you read the page then you'll notice that the excitement isn;t really about a quick hack to get the abysmal transparent windows working, it's about an OpenGL X-Server.

This would mean some of the drawing done by the GPU instead of the CPU.

What's the point?

The basic need is that, well, it needs trying out!
It's easy to say "oh, it will never work" but that's nto really true until someone can show you a well crafted OpenGL desktop and it doesn't work.

I hope it works because for the most part my expensive graphics card pumps out a 2d desktop.

/me knew a world where no video games existed

On: Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics

and before anyone had a VCR

and before anyone had heard of Star Wars

and before anyone had played Dungeons and Dragons

so don't come it with the age thing

"Garagistes" in Motor Sport

On: Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics

Garagistes

A bunch of guys that buy a chassis, an engine, a gearbox & some tyres & just build the stuff that goes round them.

Ferrari disliked them because he built the whole she-bang, chassis, gearbox the lot.

"We've already demonstrated" - er NO!

On: Carmack On Doom III And The Evolution Of Graphics

We've already demonstrated that an FPS can work well on the X-Box(Halo)

I'd take a minute to re-assess that "self evident truth".

FPS are mouse games, pure and simple.

Two analogue joysticks does not a mouse make

In Soviet Russia

On: "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis

In Soviet Russia

the state hides YOU!

pay per play could revolutionize music 4 thebetter

On: EFF Lawyer Argues For Compulsory Music Licenses

now that would be an interesting top 40,000

will do

On: FreeBSD Boots on x86-64

soon as i get the new one booted

Re:Videophone Prank Calls

On: AOL Tests Video Instant Messaging

Herman Costa---- ---mixup ---- ---Sasa Markovic---- --- Rolf Behme

There's already a Unix like JVM out there

On: Running .NET on FreeBSD?

Lucent made a product called Inferno

http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno

it virtualizes the whole of the OS, not just a few APIs

it had a graphics context as well

it hijacks the hosted environment, running in a window or runs natively on hardware either way they are the same.

Socket programming, pah who needs it, all we need are file descriptors and auto-selecting files

it's all there

the source code is only available for a fee

it's really what Java & .NET should be but they aren't and it is

oops

On: Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist

mod up parent

It's Licencees only not FREE for all

On: Microsoft Shared Source -- With a Twist

http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/30186.html

Pocket PC manufacturers will now be able to tailor their system software to better differentiate their products, after Microsoft today said it would allow Windows CE licensees access to the OS' source code.

8x 3Ghz box that runs Quake on a GeForce4 - drool

On: FreeBSD Boots on x86-64

I think I know what computer I'm saving up for next.

hey, don't anthropomorphize computers

On: Sun May Use Opteron Chips

they don't like it

Are you now or have you ever been a member of the

On: Request for Submissions: The Open Source Refererence

open source / free software movement?

thats why it's best not to use products

On: Windows Key Leak Threatens Mass Piracy

By releasing a "new version" every 18 months or whatever it is the scope for more bugs is increased.

Big re-writes for the sake of bumping up the version numbers to drive sales is not the way to build robust systems.

Using vanilla Windows is suicide. I mean, just look at all those entries in Services. Learning what they all are and how they could make you vulnerable is quite a task. And with each new version you have to go through it all again.

compare that mess to

root 0 (swapper)
root 1 /sbin/init --
root 2 (pagedaemon)
root 3 (vmdaemon)
root 4 (bufdaemon)
root 5 (syncer)
root 6 (vnlru)
root 23 adjkerntz -i
root 72 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
root 79 /usr/sbin/inetd -wW
root 81 /usr/sbin/cron
root 83 /usr/sbin/sshd
root 178 qmail-lspawn ./Maildir/
root 193 /usr/libexec/getty Pc ttyv1
root 21597 /usr/local/sbin/httpd
root 55316 /usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql