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  1. Re:Next generation for ME on Extensible Programming for the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Have you ever looked at XML-RPC? There are at least 9 PHP implementations around.

  2. Re:And the reverse? on Concrete Casts New Light in Dull Rooms · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and all astronoms will hate you for this idea...

  3. Re:How about a Feature Summary/Overview... on Meet Linux Kernel 2.6.2, 'Feisty Dunnart' · · Score: 2, Informative
  4. Re:Server side scripting on Is E-Mail Obscuration Worth It? · · Score: 1

    I use a tiny PHP script that sends a Redirect back to the browser. The link is something like /php/redir.php?u=uid and the redirect returns a mailto: link with the correct address appended which opens a compose window like a direct link.

  5. Re:In heavy traffic and Distinct sites ..Re:10 Lin on Is E-Mail Obscuration Worth It? · · Score: 1
    Interestingly, the only mails I get on my /. address are Gibe viruses, about 10 so far...

    I have no idea how this came to be, though.

  6. Warren G - Regulate on What Was the Very First MP3 You Downloaded? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    ...at least according to the time stamp. Great double bass drum!

    But I don't download that much, most of what I listen to I ripped from my own CDs.

  7. Re:Same thing here on Stopping Spammers Who Exploit Secondary MX? · · Score: 1

    No, the mail from the POP account (just one for the whole mail domain) is parsed and redispatched to the appropriate mailbox(es) on our internal server. It's just a leftover from the days when we had to get *all* mail from this one POP account (we're a small shop, 13 ppl). The Python script that does this is available if you have similar problems.

  8. Same thing here on Stopping Spammers Who Exploit Secondary MX? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I observe the same thing here. 90%+ of the mails that reach us through the backup MX are spam. Our problem is that we have to get this mail with a POP account, thus bypassing the normal spam check.

    One solution would be to let the backup forward the mails normally to the primary MX, but our ISP can't do this; once the mail is in the POP account, it's gone from the mail queue...

  9. Re:Rather than have ISP block ports.. on Should ISPs Be The Little Man's Firewall? · · Score: 1
    Does this: allows SMB ports only to 10/8, 192.168/16, and 172.16/12

    Don't forget 169.254/16, which is used fur autoconfig if no DHCP server is found...

  10. Possible solution: ISPs? on Netgear Routers DoS UWisc Time Server · · Score: 1
    I can imagine the following solution: What if the big ISPs implemented egress routing that would redirect these Netgear queries to their own NTP servers? I think that's a nice decentralized approach: don't try to solve it at the center, but at the edges.

    All together now: "With a little help from my friends"

  11. Re:Yes and Another Thing... on Virus Scanner Auto-Replies - A Good Thing or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    Easy: configure your mail server to use the ISPs mail server as smarthost. It will then route all mail to the ISP, regardless of recipient address.

  12. Re:Windows is your limiting factor on Filesystems For Removable Disks? · · Score: 3, Informative
    But I guess its considered fratenizing with the enemy.

    The problem is not so much the fraternizing, but the fact that the installable file system interface documentation is not available to your average open source hacker. The IFS Kit costs $899 + S&H. You just can't integrate other file systems cleanly without these docs.

    In fact, there are utilities to read ext2 and ISO9660 FSs, but they are stand-alone and require you to extract the files to your native partition before they can be used.

  13. How about AMD Alchemy? on Where Can You Buy Cheap, Tiny Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    AMD makes the MIPS32-compatible Au1500 chip and development boards. Another company which I can't find right now uses these chips to build a credit-card sized board that just takes 5V input IIRC.

  14. Re:Keywords on Exegesis 6 (Perl 6 Subroutines) Released · · Score: 1
    C has its own merits in sufficient quantity to make it the single most widely use language in history.

    Are you really sure about this? I mean, how many lines of Fortran and Cobol do you think have been written in the 20 years before C even existed (and are still being written today!)?

    Not that I wanted to speak in favour of these languages, but I can't let your statement stay as is...

  15. Also used in TIFFs on GIF Patent Prepares to Expire · · Score: 1
    As a little aside, the LZW compression is also used as a variant if TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) compression.

    Yes, I got burned by this at our company, when I found out that the TIFF viewer OCX we bought (Pegasus ImagXpress 6) just returns an error on certain scanned documents unless you provide the number of your license with UNISYS (the scanning software probably tries each compression and finally uses the one that results in the smallest file). I wonder how long it's going to take them to release a version without this restriction.

  16. Re:You don't need the DMCA on Using the DMCA Against License Violations? · · Score: 1
    ...allows you to sue for damages

    What damages? The books are free, you know...

  17. RotK on 8/5/04? on The Two Towers DVD Release Dates · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but here in Switzerland, we are already promised the Return Of The King on August 5, 2004 (in German). I can't say if the cover art is a fake, though.

  18. Re:War on Hubble Chronicles Mysterious Outburst · · Score: 1
    considering the sun is one giant atomic bomb anyway...

    Wrong. The sun is a fusion rector, not a fission reactor.

  19. Re:This is NOT Data Mining! on Data Mining Used Hard Drives · · Score: 1

    I'd call it data diving! Goes nicely with dumpster diving...

  20. Re:Nature on Lotus Nanotech · · Score: 1

    In my book, everything was implemented in six days, there's no mention of the design phase... ;-)

  21. Re:Uh, what percentage of /.'s readers on Build a Cisco PIX for 800 Australian Dollars · · Score: 1

    Actually, the official, ISO-sanctioned acronym for our currency is CHF.

  22. something for the geek... on Caring for Your Plants in Unnatural Environments? · · Score: 1

    You could try to build a pressurized aquarium and put in a few deep-water fish; they're blind anyway, so they don't care about the missing light ;-)

  23. Re:What a waste of time on Is Win2k + SP3 HIPAA Compliant? · · Score: 1

    What's more, Microsoft XP's UPnP implementation has an API that lets an application register port forwarding at the router (article here). I don't know if this is targeted more at the home market, but don't you ever depoly an UPnP-enabled firewall...

  24. Re:... (I'm heading OT) [farther] on How Could TV Survive Without Commercials? · · Score: 1

    It's called Alzheimer's ;-)

  25. Re:I live in Lincolnshire and have this to say... on Wireless Dilemma at Newton's House? · · Score: 1
    To put it bluntly.. BT are a bunch of cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life,snake- licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless,hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sacks of monkey shit who couldn't organize a piss-up in a brewery.

    Reminds me of Treebeard, somehow...