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  1. Re:Better drivers and more of them on Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive · · Score: 1

    I expect one of the calls will be syscall(id, ....); and they'll be back where they started.

  2. Re:First read on New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox · · Score: 1

    Present day is an amusing adjective to apply to X11.

  3. Re:They've had this idea before... on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    Ron Minnich disagrees

    and so do I

  4. Re:They've had this idea before... on Firefox Lite And Old PCs Could Crush IE · · Score: 1

    One should really be running one's web browser in a memory restricted jailed & chrooted sandbox anyway.

  5. Re:Does this mean... on New Linux Desktop Environment Built on Firefox · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Apache is horrifically bloated for using as a personal web server.

  6. Re:Better drivers and more of them on Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive · · Score: 1

    > A stable kernel api for drivers is what linux needs as proprietary driver writers make poor quality and buggy implementations.

    Now they can write poor quality and buggy implementations against another API.

  7. Those that don't know Plan 9 on Linux Kernel To Have Stable Userspace Drive · · Score: 1

    Are doomed.

  8. VACCINE on HIV Vaccine Ready For Clinical Trials · · Score: 1

    Surely you have to be HIV negative before trying to prevent infection with a vaccine.

  9. Re:OT: Sig on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 1

    You'll be appaled to learn that you are the latest in a long line of know-it-alls at the end of their know-all streak.

    I'll give you the chance to show how clever you are by leaving the reveal as an exercise for the non-reader.

  10. Re:Spam filter? on Hotmail Delivers Far Fewer Emails with Attachments · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not all hotmail is free :

    http://get.live.com/1586062162?workarea=1
    The Windows Live Hotmail Plus yearly subscription of £14.99 (inc VAT) includes 4 Gigabytes of total Windows Live Hotmail account space, the ability to send larger attachments up to 20 MB, no graphical ads, and exemption from the account expiration policy. Refund only available if cancelled within one month from purchase and automatically renews yearly unless cancelled. You will receive a renewal letter 30 days prior to the renewal date.

    However the regular free service doesn't even mention restricted attachments

    http://get.live.com/mail/features

  11. Re:No ulterior motive or competing interest then.. on openMosix Is Shutting Down · · Score: 1
  12. Re:orly? on openMosix Is Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    Plan 9 From Bell Labs doesn't natively offer specific clustering tools. Eric's been doing some work for IBM's Blue Gene project : http://graverobbers.blogspot.com/

    But Plan 9 doesn't offer a network wide hypervisor system as yet.

  13. Re:Let's not forget some historical controversies on Gaming's 10 Biggest Scandals · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about a Jewish backlash against Pokemen.
    but they do report an Islamic one :
    http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/010427/pokemon. shtml

  14. Re:VMS ... on openMosix Is Shutting Down · · Score: 1

    sounds like Plan 9 From Bell Labs

    We can boot over tcp/ip from the net.

  15. Re:suid is evil! on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    > For a good example of a closed source driver check out the nvidia driver.

    Remote root exploit - check
    Can't port it to other systems such as OpenBSD, Plan 9 from Bell Labs - check

    Yes, that's a faultless example, well done.

    > but not this model is not suitable for every piece of code produced

    Why you think it is not suitable for Kernel Level Drivers I have no idea. Binary blobs are retarded, just like you.

  16. Re:Windows coders on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    MSI's write to /Program Files/

    Non-privileged users can't write to /Program Files/

    Installers won't let you install programs in $HOME

    ergo you HAVE to log in as root and run the installer

    yet hardly any Linux programs need their files in specific places and are quite happy using $HOME
    and if they are not you can always run them in a chroot.

  17. Re:How come an app can do that? on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    > The same problem exists on every OS: the administrator and the programs he runs can do retarded things.

    There's your problem then : root is a design fault

  18. Re:How come an app can do that? on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    I don't remember the Caxton having a marking system that tracked it back to each press.

  19. Re:Flawed Design... on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Root is a design fault.

    That's why the inventors of Unix took it back out again when they did their next OS

    btw. it's dependent

  20. Re:Lazy Design... on Major Security Hole In Samsung Linux Drivers · · Score: 1

    That's bollocks though.

    Higher wages for promoted people is to make the lower paid workers work hard so that they might get promoted.

    It's not a reward, it's a stick.

  21. Re:Where is far? on The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    My laptop has a PCMCIA phone in it, 3/GRPS pretty much everywhere in my country (except, obviously, the only place I ever needed to use it).

  22. Re:GPS on The Next Big Thing — Why Web 2.0 Isn't Enough · · Score: 1

    usb/serial one on a wire

  23. Re:Does anyone else find this sentence ironic? on Japan To Adopt Open Software Standards · · Score: 1

    Why do you think I am interested?

  24. Can't trust 'em on Adobe Flash Exploit Could Log Keystrokes · · Score: -1, Troll

    Flash is broken, make it die.

  25. Re:Pretty In-depth on Building a Fully Encrypted NAS On OpenBSD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Webmin : because EVERYONE has a web browser available. Idiot.