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  1. third party code on Microsoft Code at Fault for Half of all Windows Crashes · · Score: 0, Troll

    causes the crashes because they don't use the proper way to do things.

    why?

    because M$ won't tell the third parties how to do stuff so M$ looks 'better', faster and shinier!

    Of course there are some bits that M$ don't know either which is where companies like OSR (ww.osr.com) make their money on both counts.

  2. Security guard tags on Electronic Service Signature Solutions? · · Score: 1

    What about those little devices that security use to prove they've visited various parts of the site? Would be fairly cheap...

  3. luser on Wearing a Tie May Cause Blindness! · · Score: 1

    well don't wear it too tight then .... d'oh

    jeez, next you'll be telling me the coffee cup holder on your PC is bust... :-)

  4. XV on Graphics Tricks from the Command Line · · Score: 1

    and this differs from XV how - apart from maybe an API..

  5. Re:homogeneous networks on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 1

    for 'home' users may the auto update thing is good, but given the poor quality of MS-updates for servers (Service packs, patches etc) I'd rather it not do it for critical stuff like core servers without running through a test system.

  6. homogeneous networks on Major Flaw Found In Cisco IOS Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now let us step back a little.

    IF this had happened to our friends at Redmond (what do you mean 'if' :-) then we'd all be crying about how homogeneous networks/OS's etc are bad for security.

    Now it's happened to a vendor with probably more pieces of kit attached to the public internet than anyone else (by a long chalk IMHO).

    Do we cry, bad Cisco bad, no we just look at all the poor network admins who will get no sleep for the next 2 days....

    Perhaps NOW people wil start looking at alternatives to Cisco.

    Don't get me wrong I love Cisco kit, but I think the risk of Cisco everywhere is just about to hit home...

  7. or 100MBS for $4,000 on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan. · · Score: 1

    yummy, now that's serious bandwidth for very little..

  8. Florida on In Pursuit Of A Spammer · · Score: 1

    Why is Florida such haven for spammers? Are all the retired US citizens doing this to boost their pension?? :-)

  9. Re:DDoS on Writing Viruses for Fun and Profit · · Score: 1

    I always say Lookout rather than Outlook myself..:-)

  10. Re:what about platform independence? on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 1

    yeah Debian should read Debian/GNU-Linux I guess to be totally pedantic(sp?) about it.

  11. Re:what about platform independence? on Debian And The Rise of Linux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    umm NetBSD....a few more than Debian..

    http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/

  12. Re:only 48khz on Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    wel yes, but a lot of this depends on what you like..

    Anyway my point was that the 'standard' for pro-audio is 96khz moving to 192khz. Some other /.er has found a reference to the fact it will go to 192khz so I guess it's limited by the sound card you use and whether there's a Linux driver for it..

  13. only 48khz on Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Now in Beta · · Score: 1

    protools (and others) run at 96 khz with big iron (Solid State Logic etc) running at 192khz.

    Sigh - nice effort though. I guess the custom DSP's make a lot of difference. But i guess if you can mate this thing to a decent sound card then 96khz should be do-able..

  14. Amanda on Using Linux for Windows HD Snapshots? · · Score: 1

    www.amanda.org

    running via the cygwin port. A bit klunky but works for our servers.

    All user data is *NOT* kept on the desktop so I don't about backing up the workstations.

  15. air version on CPU Cooling with 15 Liters of Water · · Score: 1

    I note that the huge big air duct almost completely covers the 'outbound. air fan.

    Perhaps if he'd have moved the ducting to the outbound fan and left a small inbound air fan he'd have had more luck with air. My Dell has something like this already when they built it!

    of course it wouldn't have been as quiet, but if he wants quiet he'd should look for better air flowed cased IMHO..

  16. SUN's grid engine on Open Source Distributed Shell Tools? · · Score: 3, Informative

    is free for both solaris (Sparc & x86) and Linux..

    http://wwws.sun.com/software/gridware/sge_get.ht ml

    grid engines 'tend' to be more useful as they can balance the load better to non-dedicated hosts. Just my view, but saves building a dedicated cluster with all these 2ghz pentiums on the desktop..(assuming you have linux on the desktop of course)

    --

  17. AIX2 clean room on IBM Responds To SCO: Business As Usual · · Score: 1

    The whole point of AIX2 was a complete rebuild in 'clean room' conditions by people who had never seem a line of Unix (tm) before.

    That's why its a complete sod to get your head around AIX admin when you're used to other unix varients.

    How SCO can claim any code reuse by IBM is beyond me. Have they seen AIX source code???

  18. Re:Macros on UK Councils May Dump Windows For Linux · · Score: 1

    Well yes.

    Have you tried using all these macros on a Mac based Excel. They won't work either.

    also probl with differrent versions of Excel on windows too.

    It's not just an OO problem, but an Excel macro issue.

  19. heat on Intel 800 MHz FSB Processor Family Review · · Score: 1


    wow look at the heat sink and fan...

    http://techwarelabs.com/reviews/processors/intel _8 00mhz_fsb/pictures/setup1.jpg

    I bet ya need brick in the case to stop the thing taking off.. :-)

  20. Analogue TV and 3G phones on Putting the TV Broadcast Spectrum to Better Use? · · Score: 1

    OK someone's already prob said this, but I can't be bother the search the 700 odd messages..

    The reason why the US govmt is pushing hard to get DTV everywhere is because right now there's a frequency conflict between analogue TV broadcasts and the new 3G phones.

    They need to get analogue TV moved over quickly (hence the 2006? deadline for cutover from analogue to digital TV) in order to be able to role out the frequencies for 3G.

    Of course the local TV stations aren't very happy about being ordered into this as they have to spend lots on new equipment. Also Joe Blow will have to by new TVs/set top boxes as well.

    The interview could be part of the FCC's effort to put FUD into the TV stations argument..

  21. iSCSI on Low-powerered Ethernet Hard Drive? · · Score: 1

    have a look at the latest iSCSI stuff. It may be what you need. Sure you'll have to write a driver but at least you'll have stock parts available.

    Also why can't you put the HD in a faraday cage? Or doesn't that block magnetic fields?

  22. Re:Why Do They Always Rip Off Unix? on NTBUGTRAQ Bashes Windows Update · · Score: 2, Informative

    no not a rip off but a list with less scope (just MS stuff.

    Spawned a few years ago by people want to get the NT stuff only and not general stuff. Works well.

    AS for WU - remember most of its audience is the home user. It tries to do a worthwhile job, but from experience unless you've got a fat pipe it takes ages (10MB isn't unusual) and it craps over your settings, it DOES scan and return info on what's on your machine .......

    Nice try M$ but a grade F.

  23. do I care about this? on Hubbard Asks FreeBSD Hackers To Rename EDOOFUS · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No I don't but I do care about the next story with SCO spreading FUD about use of linux...

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/14/ 20 53236&mode=thread

  24. Re:Learning Spam Filters on Are People Using TMDA to Kill Spam? · · Score: 1

    200 spams - thats about 30 minutes of inbound email for my company...and we're not that big so God only knows the problem for the likes of Ford/IBM etc.

    But anyway back on topic, yes it would be nice to have some of easy update feature, but I sure as heck wouldn't give it to the users...

  25. Re:Cat5 on Best Options for a Home Entertainment Network? · · Score: 1

    like you said - "balanced" is the important bit.

    It's interesting that alot of our customers at work still use coax for the 'backdone' audio transmission. But then I work for Solid State Logic (yea I know what it says on my homepage) and we are high end....