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  1. Re:Give them instructions on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 3
    That's why you include in the list the specifics of what can be gotten.
    After logging into the SQL Server using the above methods, credit card information from clients can be extracted, which is in direct contravention of the following laws, which carry the following penalties....
  2. Give them instructions on Approaching Lost Clients About Security? · · Score: 4

    Don't break their boxen, but give them step by step instructions of what a sample vulnerability is, how it can be exploited, what it exposes, and what it can be used to get from, or do something nasty to, the box/lan/company.

  3. Re:My experiences with Slashcode on Slash 2.0 Released · · Score: 2
    not everyone who would like to run a weblog can dedicate a server to it. Oftentimes Apache has to coexist with other services, and Slashcode just takes over the whole box (RAM-wise).
    At that point, you start needing Quality of Service functionality.
  4. Re:My experiences with Slashcode on Slash 2.0 Released · · Score: 2
    Slash reduced it to about 4MB free (and I'm guessing it would have kept going if there was more RAM for it to play with). This is unacceptable,
    I can't speak as to slashcode's memory usage, but this statement is lamentable. A server process can and should take up as much RAM as it possibly can, so long as it's also capable of releasing parts of that RAM that are going for 'gravy' functionality when other apps need said RAM for core functionality.
  5. Re:Everybody's not above average! on IT Unions? · · Score: 2
    Odds are not a factor in this.
    Obviously, even above-average people need help with math.
  6. Re:Nothing much has changed on IT Unions? · · Score: 2
    what would you say a reasonable compensation package should total for a CEO who keeps a company humming along nicely?
    How about something directly tied into how much the company grows that year?
  7. Re:.NET means different things to developers &. us on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 2

    Hows about, for example, the IFS, which exposes itself, amoung other things, as a web interface? 5.5's OWA was a series of ASP pages. 2000's is a direct interface to the information store. Of course, that really bites when you want to deploy OWA on a different box... ;-)

  8. Re:AOHell on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 2
    You don't know what integrated means, do you? Ships with != integrated.
    Ok, explain to me the difference. Use as examples: MacOS, Solaris CDE, and Linux KDE. Use web browsing and email as your apps to explain to me the differences.
  9. Re:.NET means different things to developers &. us on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 2
    This includes products which have absolutely nothing to do with "Web Services" and the like such as Exchange 2000
    HoLY SHIT. You've obviously never touched Exchange 2000.
  10. Re:Virtual Environments on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 2
    I know of senior developers that boot up their computer, start emacs and don't know that there's anything else on their computer.
    Hell, I know some developers which boot up emacs.
  11. Re:AOHell on AOL vs. Microsoft in Desktop War? · · Score: 2
    Repeat after me: One size does not fit all. Why should an OS integrate an email client? What if I don't like that email client (or I'm worried about security issues)?
    Yeah, lord knows no other OS integrates an email app. Like BeOS...oh wait. It does. Well MacOS...no, it does too. Well, no Linux distribution would dare...wait, they all do. Well, the commercial UNIXes wouldn't....hold on, they all do too. Well, what do you know. Every major OS that ships these days comes with some form of email client.
  12. Re:Advantages of NTFS on NTFS vs. FAT32 · · Score: 2

    Just to further clarify, you can put the page file on several seperate partitions, and as long as the pagefile on your root partition is big enough, you'll get coredump functionality. Being able to spread your pagefile across multiple spindles is nice.

  13. Re:okay okay.... I'm not informed... on XFS 1.0 is Released · · Score: 2

    Any decent RAID card'll have memory with a battery backup. The PERC 2 cards in my Dell servers have 128 megs of RAM, and a three day battery.

  14. Re:I Disagree Strongly on Tech Support: Sucking Even More · · Score: 2

    The problem with modern PCs is that the functionality has become easier, but underlying theory stays the same. And nobody wants to deal with the theory. An example. It's arguably much easier to right-click on your floppy drive icon and select 'format' than it is to drop to a command prompt and start issuing commands. But it's still no help if you don't understand the concept of 'formatting' a floppy disk to accept data, quick formats vs full formats, etc etc.

  15. Re:You really think it's that easy? on Brewing Storm: Stealth, ISPs And Copyright · · Score: 2

    Who cares what they're armed with? Any first world nation that decided they didn't like them could lob one bomb, and bye bye Sealand. Wouldn't even have to go nuclear.

  16. Re:Cross-platform compatible management tools on Computer Auditing Tools? · · Score: 2

    SMS is sweet. If you're using 'managed desktops;' i.e. Compaq, Dell, etc etc, you'll find plugins. Check out the relatively new Web Reporting Interface from the SMS website.

  17. Re:easy fix on MS Wants To Know Whose PC Is Windows-Free · · Score: 2

    'Scuse me, but wouldn't such boiler plate be non binding for exactly the same reasons that people think EULAs are non binding?

  18. Re:Corporate Strategy - Incentive to OpenSource on SAP Releases Full sapdb Source · · Score: 5

    And yet every time I read a story about a company discontinuting a piece of software, everybody says 'oh, then they should open source it, so we can continue to get benefit from it.'

  19. Re:THE RIAA IS RIGHT on Napster Judge Groks Filename Variation · · Score: 1

    In Japan, the embarassment the driver would suffer at having his disorderly conduct pointed out to his passengers will compel him to avoid that fate. By the same token, many public places have 'no cell phone' signs that light up and have sirens go off when a cell phone call is placed. In America, where rudeness^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^ personal freedom is the norm, the driver would break the speaker, and shoot the no cell phone sign until it stopped screaming.

  20. Re:um what about the GPL? on Linux for the PlayStation2:It's Official · · Score: 3

    Almost; I can charge what I'd like for the software, but the source needs to be made available, and all I can charge for the source is media and handling and the like. The binaries I can charge as much as I'd like.

  21. Re:um what about the GPL? on Linux for the PlayStation2:It's Official · · Score: 2
    GPL talks about media costs and that's pretty much what you can charge for GPLed software.
    NO. That's what you can charge for the SOURCE CODE. The software itself can be charged whatever you'd like.
  22. Re:um what about the GPL? on Linux for the PlayStation2:It's Official · · Score: 5

    Gods damn you , would you please get it through your heads that the GPL does NOT mean 'free software' in any way? It means 'software comes with source; source can be done with as you please.' Say it with me, folks; GPL SOFTWARE CAN BE CHARGED FOR.

  23. Re:Now what? on Linux for the PlayStation2:It's Official · · Score: 2
    Maybe their dev tools will also become available
    These ARE the dev tools; everything else is written for individual game (engines). Hope you're up on your assm programming.
  24. Re:Forgetting something? on IBM To Purchase Informix Database · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the example. Cygwin? Gotta admit, when MS decides to use other work, they pick the good stuff. :-)

  25. Re:Forgetting something? on IBM To Purchase Informix Database · · Score: 2

    I believe MS ripped a goodly amount of their TCP/IP stack out of one of the main BSD trees.