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  1. TV on The Fight for Original Games · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Same for TV - getting and original idea out there if quite difficult. Star trek x 3, CSI x 3, Big brother, clean/decorate my house.

    500 channels all showing similar stuff...

  2. Wine - could do better on Running Windows Viruses Under Linux · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously work is still needed on Wine to make it more Windows compatible :-)

  3. Re:AMD 939 on Building a Video Editing Box? · · Score: 1

    kind of off topic but...

    install Windoze first then any alternative O/S as the windows installer will insist on overwriting you MBR containing the LILO/GRUB/whatever) boot loader.

  4. seems fair on Verizon vs. Europe · · Score: 2, Interesting

    alot of people block email from verizon (or containing verizon URL's in the body) as they seem to host alot of spammers :-)

  5. 550 user not know on Bounced Email - Dealing w/ the Latest Type of Spam? · · Score: 1

    is very useful for my domain. I get Exim to check valid users and 550 reject them if not valid.

    That way I drop about 66% of inbound email before it enters my email gateway.

  6. The Day After Tomorrow.. on Major Climate Change 5,200 Years Ago Could Repeat · · Score: 1

    Is is just me or does this sound like a movie I saw recently..

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/

  7. Policy, policy, policy on Dealing with Network Politics and Insecure Users? · · Score: 1

    oh and did I mention policy.

    If they aren't adherring to a written policy then there should be 'measures' available in the policy you can take.

    If you haven't got a policy - write one.

  8. Real Ale on A Geologic View Of Beer · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Those people who have been 'into' real ale already know this.

    There's a brewing term 'Burtonising' where brewers articifically change the water minerals to be close to that at Burton-on-Trent which is then used to reference the beer's quality from...

  9. not much in TV on Broadband Usage Up, TV Usage Down · · Score: 1

    Of course this is nothing to do with the fact that alot of TV isn't worth watching these days, it being made up a reality TV or house make-over programs...

  10. Re:Stupidest idea ever. on Lycos Anti-Spam Site Compromised [Updated] · · Score: 1

    and who told them of the risks???

    very people actually....

    finally MS is putting some sort of firewall in their O/S and having it ON by default...which helps

    BUT lack of education about the risks is the problem....

  11. Risks.. on FireFox as a Security Risk Compared to IE? · · Score: 1

    Good. Coming at you from a risk point of view.

    Risk of IE - lots of vulnerabilities that are mainly high risk according to vendor. Threat is you get lots of spyware etc just by visiting sites. Probability of this happeningis high.

    Risk of Firefox. few known vulnerabilities, mainly low risk occording to vendor.

  12. Re:Survivability on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 1

    and internal organs/brain can cope with 17-18g???

  13. Re:Survivability on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the car survived, comments from the people indicated they thought the occupants wouldn't have...

    70-0 mph in less than 0.2 of a second is not easy to support by the human body...

  14. web based on Client/Server Calendar Program? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    lots of web based ones - egroupware, opengroupware, gnu/hurd have one.....

  15. a manager of what... on Tips For A Budding Project Manager? · · Score: 1

    most 'managers' are people managers, not resource managers (esp not human resources!).

    Project managers do that - they act as the interface between the 'project' and the people doing the project. They are different to people managers, but still require people manager skills..

  16. anything by Bruce Schneier on Amazon's Best Computer Books of 2004 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ....
    nice to see a Ralf Kimball in there.

  17. Re:How To Help: Be an MD. Admit him to a hospital. on Patrick Volkerding Battles Mystery Illness · · Score: 2, Informative

    cell phone and email in last paragraph...

  18. Re:end of passwords - not on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem they are trying to solve with chip n pin was the ability of the crims to make their own cards easily.

    It's alot harder to forge a chip n pin card than the mag stripe kind. Hence wny alot of the cards (and pins) are now disappearing in the post, rather than getting copied at the gas station! Again they've just moved the goal posts rather then solved the problem.

    Will be interesting to see how the fraud numbers match uop with the roll out costs os chip n pin. BTW its the retailers who are having to pay for the new card readers, not the banks!

  19. Re:end of passwords - not on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    Go on then...

    have you any idea how lon it's taken for Europe to standardise on a single chip & pin standard (well over 15 years). If you want to have a go at introducing the inbuilt keyboard you are most welcome.. :-)

  20. Re:end of passwords - not on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    correct - same with all smart cards - the key input isn't on the card. The only non-standard over the normal CC is the chip.

  21. Re:end of passwords - not on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 1

    something similar being rolled out in Europe and esp UK right now...

    card read/PIN entry on a separate box and the public key on the host system not the private key. Apart from that pretty much what you describe.

    All the thing is doing is moving the problem to internet/phone shopping where the card isn't present at the shop.....

  22. end of passwords - not on Bill Gates Proclaims End of Passwords · · Score: 5, Informative

    So how do you 'unlock' the smart card to prove its you (and still you) at the keyboard...???

    an PIN number...
    a fingerprint...

    Authentication is based around something you have (userid/smartcard/finger...) and something you know (password/PIN/....)

    No change since the Secuure Single Sign On days of the mid 1990's. All they are doing is bringing it upto date using .NET to quickly build applications.

  23. 3 2 channel controllers, 2 drives per channel on Hardware RAID 5 Performance Configurations? · · Score: 1

    Would give you the best write performance.

    *BUT* YMMV depending on how your application actually uses the I/O

    I know of a widely used RDBMS that really sucks on RAID5 due to its underlying data storage.

    You'll need to test with all the combinations and also for RAID 10 (stripped mirror) and RAID 01 (mirrored stripe) to see which gives best performance for your application

  24. 3 disk RAID 5 sucks on Hardware RAID 5 Performance Configurations? · · Score: 1

    you need at leaat 5 disks for reasonable performance on a RAID5 set, even with hardware support. (do some research). The more disks in the set the better the performance.

    also in RAID 5 the parity info is spread all the disks, otherwise it's a RAID 3 set, so loss os single disk doesn't mean major performance problems.

  25. MIT competition on Battle Roomba Tractor · · Score: 1

    Until they can do the MIT robotic vehicle 'test' I'd be nervous....

    Or maybe the roomba will be to pass that test first and 'clean up' the prize :-) (ouch)