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  1. Re:Sacrfice useability? Nice idea , won't work. on Heap Protection Mechanism · · Score: 1

    We OpenBSD users *already* sacrifice heaps of usability.

    I --force it on my team and they live with it.

    CPU is cheap, downtime is expensive and usually really annoying.

  2. try again on AMD Geode Internet Appliance · · Score: 2, Informative

    WinCE.Duts.A
    Category 1
    Discovered on: July 17, 2004

    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/wince.duts.a.html

  3. I've got the RPG on Call of Cthulhu Available on DVD · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I loved that game =)

  4. Re:ssh scan on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you're on about but you're still wrong.

    There is more to life than Linux & Windows you know.

    I have machines without root and they run neither and they were written by people that know more about Unix than most, you know, what with haven written it and eveything.

    Never mind, nice try.

  5. Re:ssh scan on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 0, Troll

    root is a design flaw on its own

  6. Re:Details of the hack? on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    passwords are weak by design

  7. Re:ouch on Novell OpenSUSE Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    Hmm let me see, run latest version, get owned or run older but audited version and keep control.

    New features or safety

    Safety or new features

    gaw, what a choice!

  8. Re:and e-mail pictures. on Wifi Camera Uploads without Computer · · Score: 1

    s/quiet/quite/

  9. Re:and e-mail pictures. on Wifi Camera Uploads without Computer · · Score: 1

    The protocol *doesn't* support it.

    Quiet the opposite, in fact.

  10. Re:Deleting files with untypable characters on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 1

    nice one, i needed that

    here's one back a ya
      Files with a leading "-" often give me fits, for example...

    ls -- -*

    -- generally 'means no more args'

  11. scp is your friend on What's Your Command Line Judo? · · Score: 2, Informative


    scp -C -r * user@system:target

    and

    scp -C -r 'user@system:/target/*' .

  12. Re:Complaint rings a little hollow on Google-NASA Partnership Backlash · · Score: 1

    > It's not like they (the Google people) are going to live on the public property.

    The company would escape paying local property taxes by building its research center and up to 2,000 homes in NASA's research park,

  13. Re:blah! on 20 Million Year Old Spider Found · · Score: 1

    What is this "spagetti" of which you speak ?
    I need more proof

  14. Re:WTF? on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 1

    er, extradition cuts both ways

    I have sympathy for a guy thats trying to save lives, his whistleblowing was the right thing to do.

    However, when starting down the road with such obvious dilemas, perhaps it is wise for one to investigate the possible consequences of one's actions before running headlong into the abyss.

  15. As the /. fortune file says : on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 1

    I can't stand squealers; hit that guy. -- Albert Anastasia

  16. Re:WTF? on Airbus A380 Under Fire · · Score: 3, Informative

    He lived & committed the crime in Vienna, how would your US law provide any protection ?

    Try reading stuff, it usually helps.

  17. Re:Who cares? on Sorry, Wrong Wiretap · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Show me a man that has never broken the law and I'll show you a man that has never driven a car.

  18. Re:$10 per hour is not $10 per hour on Vista Licensing Speeds Linux Move · · Score: 1

    geeks should totally be able to spell finite

  19. Re:Google time.... on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: 1

    If one can trace lineage then sounds like your final app would need the download restoring

    I think it gets muddy though, when one would just copy a subroutine, how much code is required to be a derivative work?

    The whole thing sounds like "a great idea" and then the devil sitting comfortably in the details.

    Better clarity would by garnered by the "provide a service using gpl3 code, provide the source code" model but that just isn't going to fly!

    What if the download the source code mechanism is provided on an independent port, are we to be forced to keep it open !

  20. Re:Google time.... on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: 1

    no

  21. /. Headline FUD on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: 1



    Stallman said developers may be encouraged to add a command to their GPL-licensed Web application that lets users download the source code. The inclusion of this command in modified versions of the program will then be enforced by an additional clause in GPL 3.

    THAT'S IT not "use ANY GPL3 code on your site, you must give up the source."

  22. Re:Google time.... on GPL 3 May Require Websites to Relinquish Code · · Score: 2, Informative

    no it doesn't

    try reading it

    it says you can't remove a source code downloading function if you make a derivative work, thats it

    and, besides, there isn't a gpl3 yet, only some ideas

  23. Re:Windows vs Linux on Unreliable Linux Dumped from Crest Electronics · · Score: 1

    fair comment, I was only copying and pasting, I should have left that bit off =)

  24. Short term costs = long term gain on Open Source In Public Sector Meeting Opposition · · Score: 0

    404 - Film at 11 not found

  25. Re:They want to buy them for students in MA on MIT Unveils Prototype for $100 Linux Laptop · · Score: 1

    jeesh, you want everything for nothing