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  1. He's been there & done that on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 1

    > In summer of 1997, he was interviewed by Microsoft for a job in the Internet Explorer Unix team (to work on a SPARC port), but lacked the university degree required to obtain a work H-1B visa. He declared in an interview that he tried to convince his interviewers to free the IE code even before Netscape did with their own browser.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza

    > Miguel de Icaza has received the Free Software Foundation 1999 Award for the Advancement of Free Software, the MIT Technology Review Innovator of the Year Award 1999, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 innovators for the new century in September 2000.

    Awards for Innovation, blimey,

    GNOME - puke
    Gnumeric - puke again
    Midnight Commander - I'm wretching now, don't mention Ximian & Mono, I'll bust my ring

  2. Re:First things first. on de lcaza calls OOXML a "Superb Standard" · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? It's hardly out of character. I'd want more proof of attribution if he was scathing.

  3. Re:Working around key loggers on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    I txt my home box with a 1 time password that lets me vnc into my server at home and do my work from there.

    The clipboard doesn't get exported and you're welcome to the password, it's no use now.

    You can add some port knocking style access restrictions i.e. you must request certain pages from the webserver within the last 5 mins or some such, add your IP to hosts.deny on the way out and you're done.

  4. Re:lets go after the innocent on Mandatory Keyloggers in Mumbai's Cyber Cafes · · Score: 1

    Yes, go on, stick your thumb drive in, my auto-mounter copies the contents and mails it to me. You should see some of the things folk carry around with them !

  5. Re:When your users are illiterate ... on Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor · · Score: 3, Funny

    are you su're ?

  6. When your users are illiterate ... on Storm Worm Evolves To Use Tor · · Score: 2, Funny

    it is easier to infiltrate there[sic] communications.

  7. Re:Oh! on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 1

    hehe

    but, for the record, my OS (Plan 9 From Bell Labs) has neither less nor more. We use p.

  8. Re:Oh! on Name Your Favorite Bloat-Free Software · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What's the joke ?

    I use ed at least once a week, if not more.

  9. Re:MSN messenger... on Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords · · Score: 1

    If you live in the US or AU get a phone book and look for all the Wankers

    I saw about 6 when I was in NYC

  10. Re:Is the driver open-source? on AMD Launches New ATI Linux Driver · · Score: 1

    I call BS, someone who writes video drivers professionally should really be able to spell nVidia.

  11. Re:When in Rome...DMCA takedown time on Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper · · Score: 1

    > DMCA take down notice to the ISP, for the site.

    I know there's the "special relationship" but the US and the UK are different countries with different laws. We don't have a DMCA here.

  12. Re:Sony on Another Sony Rootkit? · · Score: 1

    The + format is much better and will win out in the end. If DVD survives long enough :>

  13. Re:Does anyone remember when TV was simple? on Cable Industry Responds Regarding HD TiVo Problems · · Score: 1

    I remember the days *before* MTV existed !

  14. Re:As a cable guy who installs this shit on Cable Industry Responds Regarding HD TiVo Problems · · Score: 1

    Why would you eat your thumb before hooking up a TiVo ?

  15. Re:Finally! on Wine 0.9.44 Released · · Score: 1

    pfft bash perl shit

    man bc

  16. Re:Does it run on (Net||Open)BSD or Solaris yet? on Wine 0.9.44 Released · · Score: 1

    No wine on my openbsd, there you go 50/50 split.

  17. Re:Yeah obvious FUD article on Forensics On a Cracked Linux Server · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had a co-lo rental from Pipex. Linux 2.2. They noticed it was broken in to, cut us off, charged us to re-image the box on which they had left a tar of the drive. OK sounds fair enough, but they re-imaged it with EXACTLY the same Linux 2.2 install and it was infiltrated again by the time I got the email telling me it was back on. I fixed it by hand and never told them lest they charge the company again. Happily I quite soon after.

  18. Re:A better solution on Pirate Banned From Using Linux · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or the feds could just release the source code. I presume they bought it as part of the contract, or else they are reckless fools.

  19. Re:Try reading the article. on Nanotechnology Boosts Solar Cell Performance · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid Content is not King.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Flash Player 9 Gets H.264 Support · · Score: 1

    Then get a better web browser, I choose what flash items I want turned on individually.

  21. What files ? on DMCA Means You Can't Delete Files On Your PC? · · Score: 1

    qemu -snapshot -hda win2k.qcow -boot c

  22. Re:Web 2.0 developers have betrayed us all on New URI Browser Flaws Worse Than First Thought · · Score: 1

    where the vector I forgot to escape is :

  23. Re:Web 2.0 developers have betrayed us all on New URI Browser Flaws Worse Than First Thought · · Score: 4, Interesting

    > AJAX is only useful because people are trying to use HTTP and HTML in ways that HTTP and HTML weren't meant to be used.

    Using non idempotent GET / HEAD methods is poor programming but the purpose of HTTP is to share data using these methods http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.h tml
    HTTPXmlRequests should use those methods as described. It's not the fault of the technology,

    HTML/CSS is a display technology, I'm not sure how using it to display things is abuse of its intent.

    These flaws don't need XmlHttprequest, is also likely to be a vector

  24. Re:The encyclopedia ANYONE can edit. on See Who Is Whitewashing Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    > So far the only device or system we know of that can ask a question is a human mind.

    Tell that to my dog when he wants to go out for a piss.

    Your anthropomorphic bias appalls me.

    Back to Pablo and this ridiculous argument, imagine if he'd said "mops are useless, they can only clean floors" would this thread's rhetoric and grand posturing be so passionate?

    Beans rule, down with peas!!!

  25. Re:Help me understand... on VMware May Violate Linux Copyrights · · Score: 1

    > It's only when you start fiddling "deeply" into the kernel or system libs that licensing becomes an issue. Of course, there can be gray areas of what "deeply" means.

    What on earth are you rambling on about. That's pure nonsense. What the fuck is "fiddling" anyway?

    There are no grey areas. This was all worked out long ago.