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  1. Re:Okay now... on Michael Robertson Says Root is Safe · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Any element in a path needs to have execute permission or traversing stops there. "ls -l /home/bob/public_stuffs" will not work if /home has no execute bit set.

  2. Re:What? on BitKeeper Love Triangle: McVoy, Linus and Tridge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Bitmover hosts the project for you and instructs you to use their client to work with the server.

    Wait a second, that is how BitKeeper works? _They_ host the server and you use a non-free client to access it? And Linux uses _that_ as its main repository? Someone wake me please.

  3. In all respect on PearPC Trying to Sue CherryOS · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm totally with the developer here, but look at this:

    Notice, if you're paying attention, even if they comply with the GPL now, they're still in violation of my copyright.

    He tries to revoke the license just for them retroactively. I don't think that is possible, is it?

  4. Re:Physical Tilt Games... on Having Fun With PowerBook Motion Sensors · · Score: 1

    Don't you mostly play silly little games while waiting for a task to finish in the background?

  5. Re:Tried already with BSD on Debian to be Marketed to Japan and China · · Score: 2, Informative

    About two years ago a coallition of developers tried to start a BSD movement in Japan and China.

    I'm confused. From my point of view a large part of, for example NetBSD's developers are from Japan. I don't think you need to start a movement there. They are starting it already. I remember that, when googling for some IPv6 topic, I always see dozens of sites in Asian character sets.

  6. Re:Of course on Is Your OS Tough Enough? · · Score: 1

    Better question: does ANYONE put a box on the internet these days without a router between them and the connection?

    Of course. That box doesn't run Windows obviously. And it _is_ my router.

  7. Re:I have a hard time trusting people on Was the Lokitorrent Suit a Hoax? · · Score: 1

    at 30 fps, 720x480, 24 bits/pixel, a 2 hour movie works out to 209 GB of data

    Raw DVD data is 12 bits per pixel.

  8. Re:Hatred on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't tell Bush. He might start a war against those insecure people. Who knows what they plan!

  9. Re:Seen this before... on Hatemongering Becoming A Problem On Orkut · · Score: 2, Funny

    omg stfu who cares rofl noob

    . o O ( that'll show him. now i just need to click this "post anonymously" button, teehee. )

  10. Re:Another IDN bug on Firefox on Shmoo Group Finds Exploit For non-IE Browsers · · Score: 1

    Is it possible to generally block IDN in a forced proxy by disallowing (.*\.)?xn--.* as a domain, i.e. everthing starting with xn-- with an optional part followed by a dot preceding it?

    I watched my squid logs and the domain is obviously handled in the xn-- notation.

    Blocking it should prevent anyone accessing IDN domains through the proxy, right?

  11. Re:Not at all on No More Players for World of Warcraft - For Now · · Score: 1

    So they learned absolutely nothing from D2? First they let the servers crawl just to implement huge queues? Been there done that..

  12. Re:That's a shame on OSDL Denies Rewriting Kernel · · Score: 1

    Why does it NEED to run on anything other than x86? Sure, it's cool to run it on a Mac, but for practicality why not run OSX? It's tweaked for the platform

    Your thinking is a bit flawed. Running on only one platform optimally is not a sign of good "tweaking". Running on as many platforms as possible _using the same codebase_ shows that your developers can code cleanly and architecture-independant. And of course this doesn't mean that the result is far from optimized.

  13. Re:I wonder on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    No shit, Sherlock?

  14. I wonder on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 1

    are servers with LOM (lights out management) superior in this case?

  15. Re:laptop -FDD on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    after many failed and funny kernel patches , i swear i would of gone totaly insane without the ability to boot knoppix,chroot and apt-get a replacment kernel

    Uh, what the hell? You install new kernels in-place? Rename the old one, install the new one and use a boot loader that understands the filesystem and is free from arcane kludges like storing the sector number where the kernel starts. I'm talking about GRUB instead of LILO.

    The BSD's boot loaders can all boot kernels by name btw.

  16. Re:Virtual to Virtual migration on True Stories of Knoppix Rescues · · Score: 1

    Everyone knows the line

    tar cf - . | ( cd /mnt/hdb && tar pxf - )

    Much more readable than the if..then..fi construct. Don't forget the -p flag.

  17. Re:Is it that simple to make UPC codes? on $1.5 Million Bar-code Scheme Bilks Wal-Mart Stores · · Score: 1

    UPC

  18. Re:Once again, Microsoft blames the users. on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 1

    Sorry, didn't notice you (rackhamh) replied. The post may sound a bit weird, but still the point remains.

  19. Re:Once again, Microsoft blames the users. on Microsoft May Charge for Security Tools · · Score: 2, Informative

    What are you talking about? Just because rackhamh referred to a trojan in an e-mail attachement doesn't mean that there are no completely automatic ways to catch a worm with an _unpatched_ Windows system without a firewall.

    There was at least some RPC issue that worms used to spread completely automatically. The topic never was about a legitimate site spreading trojans.

  20. Re:Free e-mail services that support POP? on Do Unsubscribe Links Stop Spam? · · Score: 1

    Make yourself independant from other's skills and services:

    1) Get a line with a static IP address
    2) Use a domain reseller that offers to setup a hidden primary DNS setup, e.g. 2 of his name servers are officially registered for your domain but your DNS master on your static address feeds them the zone.
    3) Setup your own mail server with unlimited local parts, unlimited subdomains etc.

  21. Re:Hooray!! on NetBSD 2.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    With NetBSD's design I doubt they have a lot of headaches even with many archs. If there's a bug in a chipset driver probably all archs using it are affected and there's only one place to fix it.

    The main advantage of having 48 archs is not to actually run NetBSD on each and every one of them productively. It's to abstract your code to such levels that a Realtek NIC is using the very same source on i386 as it does on alpha or sparc. A Realtek on an ISA bus is probably using the same source as one on PCI. And an equal PCI chipset on i386 and alpha is using the same source again. Everything is held together by well-designed glue APIs. Independent of 32bit, 64bit, big endian, little endian, etc. Try to compile your Linux app of the day on something else than 32bit i386..

    Really, it's beatiful, you can compile the whole system natively or for a completely different arch by just specifying -m to the build.sh script. It boostraps a self-contained (cross-)compiler environment on any decent POSIXish system. And in the parts that are native to NetBSD you don't get a single compiler warning. The imported GNU utils on the other hand...

    'nuff said, try NetBSD!

  22. Re:damn on MD5 To Be Considered Harmful Someday · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A P4 at 2.6GHz does >300MB/s md5 according to openssl speed md5. As noted, you probably wait for the data to be fetched from disk rather than the checksum to be computed.

  23. Re:Hrmm on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    I don't think teaching children basic concepts of opposites should allow to change word type at will. After all, he didn't write "intolerant" as the opposite of "tolerance".

    Anyway, the point was "pro" vs. "noob" so let's have a hearty laugh and forget it.

  24. Re:Hrmm on Too Many Computers Hurt Learning · · Score: 1

    I find it particularly sad that the opposite of "death" was ticked as correct.

  25. Re:Nice Review on Malware: Fighting Malicious Code · · Score: 1

    No.

    $ echo breath | sed 's/breath/&e/'
    breathe