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  1. Re:A reasonable stance on DHS Wants Mozilla To Disable Mafiaafire Plugin, Mozilla Resists · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you follow the money, I think you will find it is also in the direction of stopping people transporting large amounts of cash and valuables in and out of the country. Nothing to do with terrorism at all.

  2. Re:Statistically significant? on FDA Approves Vaccine For Prostate Cancer · · Score: 1

    They have to make the choice between arthritis and prostate cancer. It makes them cranky wankers.

  3. Re:I can tell you how I solve it in a business on Easy, Reliable Distributed Storage and Backup? · · Score: 1

    You would be better off switching to rdiff-backup after the initial sync. Then you get versions, a web interface for restores, a nagios plugin to check its working for you (instead of reading logs!). Fully managed versioned backups. Works on pretty much all platforms too. http://www.rdiff-backup.org

  4. Schrödinger's cat! on Nuclear Scanning Catches a Radioactive Cat On I-5 · · Score: 4, Funny

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger's_cat

    OMG, they measured and saw it! the paradox is solved!

  5. alfresco on Document Management and Version Control? · · Score: 1

    alfresco is the solution you are looking for.
    Document management system that is Enterprise class and provide all the versioning, check-in check out, web and cifs interfaces, massive metadata capabilities. I can't even cover all the features it has - it will solve the problem you describe, by implementing process around document creation and automating alot if it. its at http://www.alfresco.com./

    thanks

    dave

  6. Simpsons did it! on Europe Warms to Nuclear Power · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Simpsons are responsible for global warming on this planet. More than any other group the Simpsons franchise alone has turned the average person againt nuclear power. Once the Simpsons gets so boring the endless repeats finally die, then nuclear power stations will become acceptable again. Its simple really.

  7. Re:Oh boy on Is the Cyberterror Threat Credible? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The goal of the Christian fanatics is to subject everyone to their perception of their religion and its laws. Anyone who is not of their persuasion is a terrorist, who must be either made to obey or be eliminated. There may not be a single person or organiziation that drives this goal, but there is this common religious Christian philosophy. The Muslims and their protectors are seen as the number one enemy. This sentiment was seen in the news reports of the speeches of the leaders of the USA.

  8. Re:BSDs? on How The NSA Secures Computers · · Score: 1

    I use portknocking - FGI.
    it works damn great

    dave

  9. and here is a useful article on the subject on Supernova 1987A Decoded · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Windows Pane on Windows Vista Faces Lawsuits · · Score: 1

    Now they will have to change its name to Windows Pane.
    Perfect!

  11. Re:My company made it on the panel on Australian NSW Government Making Way for Linux · · Score: 1

    perhaps. might be a while till we get any work out of it. keep in touch :)

  12. My company made it on the panel on Australian NSW Government Making Way for Linux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My company Solutions First (http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au) made it on the panel right next to the multinationals. We are a relativly small IT firm that specialises in Linux solutions, even if most of our clients don't know it. We have been providing linux solutions for 5 years in our current form.
    Nevertheless, this is a great thing for NSW. It means that all those government departments that previously had to submit a tender for linux services can now just call us up and we can help them.

    There is a more detailed article here:

    http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733 ,39187094,00.htm
    we are listed as Sol1 in that list.

    Its going to a great chance for our little company.

    dave

  13. Why wait til they die? on Animal Cloning Comes to Hollywood · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why wait till your favourite animal asset dies before reinvesting? Just make another one, train em up and get two going at once!! Two Flippers filming at once! too easy. at 50 grand its only a matter of time (probably about 3 months)

  14. ahhh our Clio on Mathematics and Sex · · Score: 1

    Clio Cresswell was the only reason I dragged my arse out of bed to get to her math's tutes at uni

  15. A$ instaed of Letter! on A Review of Ubuntu Warty Release · · Score: 1

    from the review:
    "Everything was smooth as silk with one exception. The paper size defaulted to A4 instead of US Letter."

    Finally, an operating system that realises what the rest of the world has known all along! A4 rocks, letter sucks! LC LOAD LETTER? WTF?

  16. rdiff-backup on Remote Backup of Windows Boxes w/o Samba? · · Score: 1

    rdiff-backup does what you want.
    I have windows installers available:

    http://sol1.net/~dave/backup

    http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu

    it solves your problem exactly

    I use it - get blat to email you the logs and you are sweet

  17. They aren't the first on First Linux-only Retail Store? · · Score: 1

    Everything Linux here in Sydney had a linux only store for ages. Not sure they have a retail presence still. You can check it out: http://www.elx.com.au

    dave

  18. using cifs on Implementing CIFS · · Score: 1

    people might be interested in my poorly written howto on getting cifs and debian to talk: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2003/11/msg 00386.html

  19. foresight on Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shame they can't see the writing on the wall

  20. Advice from a radio engineer on A Wireless Network for a 4-Story Apt. Building? · · Score: 1

    We considered doing something similar in a block of units around here. One of our clients builds radio towers for a living - he suggested that the best way to get coverage and not have it stray out of bounds was to install a leaky coax feed all down the elevator shaft. That way the signal can be picked up from the inside sections of any unit and not outside the walls. Not sure how you make a leaky coax cable, but I am sure google could help you out.

  21. Debian (Unstable) Users had this 2 weeks ago. on QT 2.3, With Anti-Aliased Fonts · · Score: 1

    It was a matter of apt-get update, apt-get upgrade and tweaking the XftConfig file to include your Truetype font dirs.
    Note that you do need to get some decent fonts from somwhere that support antialiasing. Not all Truetype fonts do. Alot of nice Windows fonts support AA tho.
    A good source of free fonts is here: http://www.fontfreak.com
    If debian users need more help the debian-kde mailing list is active and helpful.
    At this point I would also like to thank Ivan the maintainer for KDE in debian. He is doing an awesome job!

    Dave

  22. AVP for Linux just out on Scanning For Windows Viruses Using Unix? · · Score: 1

    I got avp for linux from www.avp.com.au and tried it.. it seems to work great. It has a daemon mode and the clients can update themselves from the server etc ala the Symantec enterprise edition - which i have tried on NT. AVP for linux also has a sendmail plugin that scans the mail.
    hope that helps,
    Dave

  23. This may help on Electronic Medical Records Software for Unix? · · Score: 2

    You may want to try check out amokkajava.com.au They develop Linux based Medical records software. For raidiology groups i believe. Runs on an Oracle backend and with a web browser/java frontend. get in touch with someone about it from there, nice people - yes i have done some work for em, but only as a contractor - they need some Linux help :-)

    Check it out,
    Dave

  24. Re:Galeon is great - damn well doesn't work but on Mozilla Theme Builder Released · · Score: 1

    It would be great if it worked. Actually I can't get anything based on the mozilla engine to render my site. That is if you go to the /
    Try http://www.solutionsfirst.net to see for yaself.

    What could be wrong here?

    Dave

  25. Re:Use IE if you run Windows on Netscape Communicator 4.72 Released · · Score: 1

    Also keep in mind that IE renders kewl stuff like CSS much better than Netscape. CSS is a standard, there is version 1 and 2, neither of the browsers support it fully, but IE IMO does a better job. I think you will find the css site backs me up on that. As a web developer, using css came make some really funky things happen, which for some reason netscape hasnt supported in ages. You would think that it wasn't that hard to add support for things like the hover css tag and a few other kewl things. Yeah so get some decent support for CSS up ya netscape and don't be so big and buggy and I might switch back when in windows. exe