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  1. Re:I wonder how much you need to change... on Napster, Audio Fingerprinting, and the Future of P2P · · Score: 2, Informative

    Err, the current mass of shitty 128kbps mp3 files made by your average aol loser is bad enough. If your method allows flying under the fingerprint radar, fine. But I wouldn't want to download that crap then.

    Those people who care about quality you could catch with a simple md5 check, because they release lossless ripped by EAC with offset-corrected settings et al.

  2. Re:I understood enough to understand ... on Technical Analysis of XBox Save Game Hack · · Score: 1

    I'm not into this and not too interested anyway. Just one question: Once you have done it, do you still need to do the save game trick every time you want to boot Linux? Or is it a one-time thing and from then on you can boot Linux straight from power-on?

  3. Just imagine on More on High-Altitude Balloonists · · Score: 2, Funny

    how long you could speak in a high-pitched voice from that one! And they waste it to fly around, pfff..

  4. Less ambiguous headlines please on Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data · · Score: 1

    "How can mailing be faster than uploading? My mail server is uploading.. oh, now I get it."

  5. Re:just ask the RIAA on Few Companies Change Linux Plans Despite SCO Suit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Opponents? Potential customers..

  6. Re:Interesting record on Thailand Imposes Gamers Curfew · · Score: 1

    I seriously have to say: wtf?

    [...] isn't afraid [...] ball-less in this respect.

    So you'd even more appreciate a government that kills for even lesser crimes? Because they have balls and even less "fear" and accidents never happen, right?

    I think you're a shame for a modern civilised country.

  7. Erm on Swiping Out Cancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it just me or does anyone else find using the words killer biotech app a bit.. unlucky? Keep that thing away from me!

  8. Re:Anecdotal Evidence - not so good on Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, that's not the only practical way. In fact, with the eDonkey network you can link from web sites "into" the p2p net using ed2k://|name|size|MD4 hash| links. If you click on it your already running eMule/mldonkey/whatever will pick up the info and start downloading if you've setup the whole thing properly.

    The artists could easily set up a web page and link to their work this way.

    Have you ever seen this site or this? I have never searched the eDonkey network using an eDonkey client, those "meta" pages are the way now.

  9. Re:No, it's not. on Screensaver Bug in Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Yes, except with this exploit you're taking over a running session with potentially open terminals to other systems. I know, you shouldn't be leaving root session or just plain user sessions to other systems alive when leaving your desk.

    "But hey, I'm going to leave for only 10 minutes and this screensaver has a password protection and my password is $lower_than_crashing_threshold chars long so noone will be able to brute force it in 10 mins, right?" (Of course in this example you wouldn't know that it is crashable in 30secs)

    Anyway, this needs to be fixed, no matter that it's easier to just reboot if you have physical access. Taking over a live session give you potentially more than examining a cold box.

  10. Woohoo solar sailing on Solar Sailing and Physics · · Score: 3, Funny

    *picks up fire-proof boat*

    Sun, here I come!

  11. Re:Poetic justice... on July 6th - Website Defacement Day? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The domain was registered on June, 21st. As of now, the official DNS servers don't know that domain and I think they never have in the past one and a half weeks. Maybe it's about to come up (a bit close then). It's certainly not /.ed, slashdotting doesn't remove domains from name servers (yet :)).

  12. Re:An annoyance with no purpose. on July 6th - Website Defacement Day? · · Score: 1
    $ whois defacers-challenge.com
    [...]
    Domain Name: DEFACERS-CHALLENGE.COM
    [...]
    Updated Date: 21-jun-2003
    Creation Date: 21-jun-2003
    Expiration Date: 21-jun-2004

    $ dig defacers-challenge.com ns
    ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> defacers-challenge.com ns
    ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
    ;; got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 3
    ;; QUERY SECTION:
    ;; defacers-challenge.com, type = NS, class = IN

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    defacers-challenge.com. 1d23h59m8s IN NS ns3.hostsave.com.
    defacers-challenge.com. 1d23h59m8s IN NS ns1.hostsave.com.
    defacers-challenge.com. 1d23h59m8s IN NS ns2.hostsave.com.

    ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
    ns3.hostsave.com. 1d23h56m42s IN A 207.150.198.114
    ns1.hostsave.com. 1d23h56m42s IN A 207.150.196.199
    ns2.hostsave.com. 1d23h56m42s IN A 207.150.197.103
    [...]

    $ dig @207.150.196.199 defacers-challenge.com
    ; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> @207.150.196.199 defacers-challenge.com
    ; (1 server found)
    ;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
    ;; got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
    ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
    ;; QUERY SECTION:
    ;; defacers-challenge.com, type = A, class = IN
    [...]
    There you go. The official DNS servers don't know anything about that domain (yes, I checked the other two). Maybe there's another contest running: disconnect sites that run defacement contests. :)
  13. Re:Fragility on A Critical Look at Trusted Computing · · Score: 1

    What? My computers are not frag"$%!NO CARRIER

  14. particulating? on 2003 Amateur Radio Field Day · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't get it, you mean participating?

  15. Re:Moving Vehicle on Motion-sensitive Handhelds? · · Score: 1

    I tried a gyro mouse in a car and that lasted nearly 10 seconds... damn thing thought I was constantly moving it forward.

    Wait, wouldn't this only be the case when the car is accelerating/slowing? The car accelerates you and the mouse in your hand relative to the road, simply speaking. Once you travel at a constant speed no force it applied to the mouse except for graviation, right? Let's say I stand in a bus and drop a ball. The ball will not travel to the back of the bus while in the air since its forward speed relative to the bus is 0m/s.

    So how could the mouse "think" it was moving forward all the time?

  16. Re:Actually, it's just as easy.. on Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000 · · Score: 1

    Hmm, maybe it's just me because I'm not into Windows really, but I get the idea that it may be easy to do but is it easy to understand? You know, the kind of understanding that control freaks like. With my less-sophisticated example I know exactly what connection gets made where, what it does etc.

    Link the GPO at (site | domain | OU, take your pick) and go away. It'll get installed.

    Do you actually do this stuff on a daily basis? Do you feel you fully understand the process as such to trust it? Could you actually monitor the network traffic between the boxes and tell which packet flows from there to there for this and that reason? I know I actually tried it with SMB. Maybe I'm too dumb to grasp it but for me there was too much going on to keep a good feeling of real understanding. I always end up trying to "shield" these things using a BSD box. Too much "click here and there and eventually it'll work but if it doesn't.. who knows why it doesn't, try rebooting".

    That said, I don't really have a lot of experience with these processes (AD, SMB etc.) but that's not because I haven't tried. However, I do fully understand what's going on when I type the example command I gave.

    Sorry, now I forgot what I wanted to say. It's probably off-topic anyway.

  17. Where's the link? on Slashback: Transparency, USB, Europatents · · Score: 1

    So, where do I click to order transparent Europatents with USB connection?

  18. Re:Just Curious on Microsoft Releases SP4 for Windows 2000 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wait, it isn't as easy as

    for i in $(ruptime | awk '{ print $1 }')[1]; do ssh $i sp4.exe; done

    you say?

    Oh wait..

    [1] or however you'd compile a list of your hosts. This example works for one subnet only since ruptime/rwhod uses broadcasts blablabla..

  19. Re:RAM? on More Cheap Linux PCs · · Score: 1

    Maybe a bit overkill, but I have a Zalman CNPS6000-Cu on it. This thing is heavy and certainly nothing for an ITX case. It comes with a huge fan but I don't use that. I do have adequate case cooling though. The temperature is at 28ÂC when idle (in a cold room it was as low as 21ÂC, so basically it is equal to the system temperature) as I said. Under load it once climbed up to 39ÂC (that was a hot day). It never exceeded 40ÂC so far.

    As for RAM, the box currently has 1GB but that's only because it was cheap and is going to be used in my desktop once that is upgraded to a DDR capable board. It normally runs with 256MB which is still overkill. And of course, it runs NetBSD :)

  20. Re:RAM? on More Cheap Linux PCs · · Score: 2, Informative

    I wouldn't call a VIA 1GHz processor excessively fast. I have a VIA C3/800 in my server. It runs at 28ÂC when idle, fanless with a big copper heatsink on top. That's the main reason why I have it. The speed? It's enough for an all-purpose home server (DNS/Mail/SMB/HTTP/Routing). File transfers via FTP go at 11.5MB/s with 10-20% load (using Intel 82550 chips though). A PII/400 is faster for floating-point stuff. AFAIK the older C3s had a FP unit running at half the clock speed. The newer Nehemiah type processors are supposed to have FP units running at full speed. However, in no way can VIA CPUs be compared to an Athlon or Pentium at the same clock speed and, given their power consumption, this is not always a drawback as I said above.

    But still a valid point, 128MB seems low these days. I don't know how much a full-blown Linux desktop environment uses but I wouldn't want to run Windows with 128MB (that is if I actually wanted to run anything else besides the OS).

  21. I can see it already on Will Video Surfing Become Reality? · · Score: 5, Funny

    *listens to some ambient*

    *totally chilled*

    yelling voice: OH AND BTW, IF YOU LIKE THIS TRACK, CLICK HERE FOR MORE!

    *gaaah*

  22. Re:Process on A Mighty Wind · · Score: 1

    It's

    3. harvest storm!

    Sheesh

  23. Not good on Smart Bricks to Monitor Buildings of the Future · · Score: 1

    So "You're as dumb as a brick" loses its meaning as an insult?

  24. Re:Good to see the Amiga community still alive on Port Mozilla, Collect $3696 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would Moz even be able to run on an 8 mhz Amiga 500.

    You overclocked yours? 1337!

  25. Re:Cheaters and such on Hints for Planning a Network Gaming Marathon? · · Score: 1

    Cheaters? Check this (sorry, WMV) and pass it around at the party, perhaps on a big screen :)