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  1. Re:Why is it so difficult to stop spam? on Selling Your Attention to Spammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No practical, I know of lots of ISP's with 100,000's of email addresses. Any global register would have to handle thousands of updates per minute. Even more than DNS...your idea is SPF on steriods, and that doesn't work.

    Not to mention privacy issues...would I want an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend with a grudge being able to query this info on mass etc etc

    Also most spam-ware has it's own SMTP engine and sends direct to the MX address (or secondary is quite popular too).

  2. The answer tp the spam problem is... on Selling Your Attention to Spammers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Education.

    If we educate the users/unwashed masses(what every you want to call them) that BUYING from the SPAMMERS is A BAD IDEA(TM) and only makes the problem worse, the users might not buy cheap tobacco/blue pills/radio controlled cars/fake rolexes from the adverts.

    Would the small minority please stop supporting this crud, then maybe I wouldn't stop one week fighting trojans nd the next fight the spam they've started spawning (Sober.o/p and sober.q).

  3. options but still expensive on Testing Pre-Production Servers Accurately? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Talk to the Mercury test people and others about load generation. They will sell you some nice programs to unit and load test systems...

  4. Dilbert story on The Planet's Most Moronic Hacker · · Score: 2, Informative

    Wasn't this a Dilbert strip from a while back featuring Alice as the sysadmin.....??

  5. Re:Lacking in key areas, but LSB is a good step on Why Aren't More Distros Becoming LSB Certified? · · Score: 1

    Not so much non exist as opposed to too many, esp on the gnome/kde integration of printing etc as you say.

    maybe he Mono stuff will help here, giving standard hooks the desktop environments can plug into, or maybe the LSB needs to include MONO??

  6. works on Mozilla-suite 1.7 on Firefox and Opera Fail the Acid2 Test · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't see why Firefox should the mess it up...

    I tried on both Linux and Windows, works fine.

  7. News? on How the Spam Industry is Sustained · · Score: 1

    I've been saying this for years. If people didn't buy from the spammers, they'd have no income and go away and annoy us in some other way.

    Or would that merely increase identity theft as they move onto the next target ???

  8. Re:big fat cables on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    Quite - I work for a audio company making mixing desks and they don't use big guage gold stuff. Chrome and quite small cable really.

  9. big fat cables on Are 'Monster' Cables Worth It? · · Score: 1

    the bigger the physical copper the less resistance the better the signal flow.

    Don't mess with all these zero oxygen, gold etc rubbish. Chrome is fine, just make sure the cable itself is nice and big (not shoestring) and you'll get nice signal flow.

    I know of a professional audio engineer (first name Colin, now unfortunately dead) who wired his speakers to the amp using 15 amp mains cabling. No kidding and a lovely sound he got too.

  10. cordless and base station power on Texas Attorney General Sues Vonage over 911 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This also effects the cordless phones to a lesser extent too. Should the power go out most cordless phones don't have battery backup on the base station so the phone still works.

    Many people get rid of their normal phone when they buy a multi-handset cordless, even though there's (in the UK at least) a big sticker on the phone that tells you about requiring mains power for the thing to work and the risk.

  11. Re:It's called Linux on Windows Terminal Server Replacement? · · Score: 1

    No Windows NT/2K etc is a multi-tasking O/S, NOT a multi-user O/S. The Citrix stuff is a kludge to make a multi-user O/S.

    There's a difference. In a non-WTS/Citrix environment more than one person can NOT use the O/S. More than one process owned by more than user can run, but one physical user has control over the keyboard etc. Yes with w2k theres a telnet daemon but you can't run proper windows programs via this method (only CLI stuff).

    The Citrix stuff (either full or cut down with WTS) gives Windows that facility.

  12. It's called Linux on Windows Terminal Server Replacement? · · Score: 1

    The whole reason why Windows Terminal Server (and Citrix) came about is because windows isn't a multi-user operating system, unlike *nix.

    All you need is an account on the *nix server, you can then login to it and run whatever programs you want, remotely. X11 has inbuilt networking support so you can display the program locally while running the 'compute' bit on the server.

    You don't really explain why you need a WTS type system, other than to replace one. Perhaps you should look at what you are trying to achieve then see how *nix will do this in a proper multi-user operating system way.

  13. which apparently didn't quite make it to air on British TV Station Offers Downloads · · Score: 1

    Oh yes it did. I watched it last night (GMT) and alot of this stuff is to 'complement' the current series.

    Anyway looks a little /.-ed 12.5kbps download ;-(

  14. scalability on EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable · · Score: 1

    that's Google's system stuffed then ;-)

    Would be nice to have details of these scalabilty issues the customers have had.

    Mind you this whole thing is to help EDS so given their track record on large projects I don't need to say much.

  15. Re:amanda on Automated CD/DVD Archival? · · Score: 1

    all possible with the tape changer program..

  16. amanda on Automated CD/DVD Archival? · · Score: 1

    will backup to CD's no problem. www.amanda.org

  17. Re:Decent OSS LDAP browser? on Deploying OpenLDAP · · Score: 1

    JXplorer is nice....

    http://pegacat.com/jxplorer/

  18. NTP and ambiant temp on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 1

    Surely both of the above would mess with the clock skews esp as xntp will do it's best to keep the time sane..

  19. no security better than thinking you've got some on No Encryption For RFID passports · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Of course should they have encrypted/passwd prototected the security, and then some person cracks that method they'd be in trouble too.

    Knowingly having zero security *can* be better than having poor security and thinking it's strong security. eg the early 802.11 standards where security was thought to be good and turned out to be abismal, the css on DVD's etc.

  20. Re:Next story about this will be... on UK Government Launches Virus Alert Service · · Score: 1

    shouldn't take for V1.1 - no confirmation of subscription as yet so I can subscribe all of /. to it.. :-)

  21. 80mph.... on Wi-Fi VoIP At 80 mph · · Score: 1

    In the UK that's about average speed for the motorway(highway).

    We'd need the thing to work up to at least 150mph so the fast cars can still get comms at 'chase speed'. (too many Subaru Imprezza turbos on both side of law).

  22. more servers.. on Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down · · Score: 1

    need servers in difference co-lo's.

    Google suffered the same problem and that was the last time they had all their eggs in one basket (err servers in on co-lo.

  23. Re:Claro tv link on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 1

    hmm scrub that comment - one page of not very much info.

    I'll get my coat... ;-)

  24. Claro tv link on Harrods Sells Holographic TV · · Score: 3, Informative

    this one is a better link to the currently /.-ed site..

  25. Poor sales.. on HP CEO Carly Fiorina to Step Down · · Score: 1

    Poor sales for PC's, medical, lack of direction/deliverables of HP/UX-Tru64 / OpenVMS....kinda when really