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  1. Re:OS X on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    yes we should get rid of capital letters, spacesandvwls

  2. Re:One reason ACLs are superior on What's Wrong with Unix? · · Score: 1

    You can use dump and give the user read on the device file. I know dump is depreceated, but it works there.

  3. Re:Not quite creative... on Creative Data Loss · · Score: 2, Informative
    Doesn't work all the time, but worth a try. Anyone have any idea why it works at all?

    The bearing gets worn on one side, flipping it over puts the wear on the other side. This was also worked for me several times.

  4. Re:Microsoft wins this one fair and square on Hands Down, Palm is Now Number Two · · Score: 1
    I'm not sure if B&W Palms are still being sold though.

    The cheap zires are (m150/zire 21). I just bought an m150, wish I bought an m100 or something instead (no backlight, abysmal software support, though good battery life).

  5. Re:Word Count in Word on Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther · · Score: 1
    To count how many files under your home directory are named foo, you can do find ~ -type f -name "foo" | wc -l

    That's easy, my home directory can only have one file named foo, not counting sub directories ;)

  6. Motorcycle Jacket on Clothing For Gadget Guys · · Score: 1

    The classic leather motorcycle jacket has always worked for me, cell in either side pocket, pager in lower front outside pocket, and a PDA in the inside pocket.

    Plus it looks indimidating, though I would like something a little more low key sometimes.

  7. Re:New Marketing Slogan... on Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release · · Score: 1

    I always said it was a 'pain in the asterisk.'

  8. Re:Slashdotted on Beat Spam By Not Using Email · · Score: 1
    I'm also working on a postfix filter which will check to see if a message is either on a whitelist or encrypted to my GPG key.

    Spam Assassin already does both (though AFAIK it just checks to see if a message is PGP signed).

  9. Re:...and... on Beat Spam By Not Using Email · · Score: 1

    Well if your Apple runs OSX you have nothing to wory about ;)

  10. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? on Memory Card Torture Tests · · Score: 1

    Interesting side effect of wildcard DNS records and name based virtual hosting I guess, cool.

  11. Re:Where is Progressive Rock? on IT's Musical Habits · · Score: 1

    As an engineer/programmer I agree, technical music is where it's at.

    NP: The Flower Kings

  12. Re:On-Demand Update? on Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound practical, what are you going to do, keep a list on all the root servers of all the servers that pulled your record and get them to honor an update?

    Use $TTLs so it expires faster around the time you are making changes.

    And if you want to point fingers at DNS for being hard to keep in sync, take a look at LNP :/

  13. Re:Yet another Y2038 problem on Verisign Speeds Up DNS Updates · · Score: 1

    That's what I was thinking, and it makes it hard to tell at a glance when the last update was. Though I guess with a domain like com., you knew it was today anyway, so epoch time is a bit better than some number between 1 and 99.

    For anyone that's interested, you can see the last update like this:

    $ dig @A.GTLD-SERVERS.NET com soa
    ~ ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    com. 172800 IN SOA a.gtld-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 1089520605 1800 900 604800 900

    so the last update was at 1089520605

  14. Re:Nonexistent domains on Where Do Dummy Email Addresses Go? · · Score: 2, Informative
    I feel it's my duty to the internet to point these clowns to h4wh4w@127.0.0.1

    h4wh4w@[127.0.0.1] is the proper way to use an IP instead of a domain name. I use that (or @localhost) myself.

  15. Re:Depends on the car... on U.S. Government Sometimes Jams Keyless Car Locks? · · Score: 1

    If it is stock, your key might double as a switch, and turn off the alarm.

    The connection might be intermittent, I had that happen once. I had the door panel off for something else and noticed the connection was real loose.

  16. Re:Agreed on U.S. Government Sometimes Jams Keyless Car Locks? · · Score: 1

    The new C6 Corvette is keyless only.

  17. Re:When I was in college and Linux was young... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    4) Don't honor root over NFS.

  18. Re:My poor 486 on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I came real close to a similar open window incident.

    Desk space is at a premium, so I keep this old Mac LC keyboard on top of the monitor, I rarely use it anyway. Well the monitor is near the window, and one day while trying to coax the screen back into position, the keyboard slipped and almost went right out the window, where it would have smashed my Corvette's hatch glass.

    I don't keep keyboards there anymore, and I'll move the car next time I mess with the screen.

  19. Re:Old CLI Geezer on Tiger Slideshow: Pretty Mac OS X Pictures · · Score: 1

    Then we switched to oysters and sand and got a scripting language./quote)

    pearl?

  20. Re:Now now young man on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use it often when working on hardware, to pause the boot process so I can read where my IRQs are going, what controller my drive is on, etc.

  21. Re:Or in other words... on Automakers Try To Keep Repair Codes Secret · · Score: 1

    Or just google, I learned GM theftlock is the build date of the car (like 699 for june 99, or similar).

    The original poster makes it sound like he needs a physical key to remove the radio.

  22. Re:When on Kernel 2.4.26 Out · · Score: 1, Informative

    If you set up a static mapping on your firewall on the right port, it works much better.

  23. Re:1.1.1 is available *if* you build it yourself on OpenOffice.org For Mac OS X Hits 1.1.1 (Finally) · · Score: 1

    just like debian ;)

  24. Re:This is useful for non-blind as well on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1
    In OS X you just use the say command and make it output to a file. Presto.

    say is also available as source, and compiles fine on Linux.

  25. Re:IPv7? on Remotely Crash OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    You mean like the telco industry, that tacks on a new area code, ick.

    IPv6 has enough space to address every particle in the universe, it's a more complete solution.