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  1. Global Consciouness Project has an analysis on More On Tragedy · · Score: 1

    The Global Consciousness Project has an analysis of the data streams at the time of the terrorist attacks.

  2. Re:Does it matter? on Extreme Telecommuting · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm sitting in my office @ home and I could be dealing with a client on Pluto, doesn't change much for me...

    Except, perhaps, for your ping times...

  3. Re:Help track this: submit your logs to dshield! on Code Red II: Shells for the Taking · · Score: 1
    Too bad they don't take snort logs.

    Please let me quote from DShield's Linux Clients page:

    "If you are using Snort, download dshield_snort.pl. or the snort portscan format client: snort_portscan.pl"
  4. Re: A few more details on Code Red Back For More · · Score: 2, Informative
    The new one may still go unnoticed. For some reason "NNNN" generated a malformed URL error in the logs. The new one simply generates a file not found error.

    The new one, the "XXXX" type, also generates a malformed URL -- just like the "NNNN" type does -- the malformedness being the double space between the "=a" and the "HTTP/1.0" parts.

  5. Re:Exists all over europe on Deutsche Telekom To Launch "MicroMoney" · · Score: 1
    This system, also known as an "electronic wallet" is known all over Europe. Well, okay, sorry....I know it for two other countries, but I guess it exists in many other ones.

    You're right, it's been around in Denmark since 1991 under the name of Danmønt. I've tried it once and will never use it again. The lady at the till succeeded in convincing me that it was ever so handy and convenient, since with this card I never had to carry small change any more, and so I bought a card worth DKK 100.

    It turned out that the place that sold me the card didn't accept the card as valid payment (!), nor did any other shop I use regularly, and when I decided to cash in the amount on the card -- since I obviously couldn't use it anywhere I wanted to -- I had to buy a stamp and an envelope in order to send the card via snailmail to PBS (who owns Danmønt) for them to transfer the remaining amount onto my bank account.

    Danmønt sucks, if you ask me!

    // Klaus
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  6. Re:the original mail from mike pilone on KDE Gesture Control · · Score: 1
    Is there a DCOP browser out there, or a widget that builds a tree from DCOP information?

    Yes, kdcop.

    // Klaus


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  7. Re:.biz on .Info, .Biz, .Behind The Scenes At ICANN · · Score: 1
    Visit the OpenNIC to find out how.

    Other fine HOWTOs are found at ORSC's.


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  8. Re:I respond to every piece of SPAM I get... on The One-Week All-Spam Diet · · Score: 3
    Make sure you forward your complaint to the correct abuse handler. Abuse.net maintains a contact database that you can query. If you do not fancy web forms, you could easily make a tiny shell script that queries their whois or finger server:

    #/bin/sh
    for fqdn in $@
    do
    finger "${fqdn}@abuse.net"
    done
    # eof

    Call the script with the domain(s) you want to contact and it will respond with the proper mail address, if known, of the abuse handler for that domain.

    // Klaus
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  9. All your data (and biz plans) are belong to M$! on Microsoft Turning Screws on Customers · · Score: 3
    The Vulture Central has an interesting article about the current Passport Terms of Use. Who would want to have his communication run through any MSN server now?

    // Klaus
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  10. Re:tcsh owns you all, really on To Z Or Not To Z · · Score: 1

    mutende:~$ echo $0
    /bin/bash
    mutende:~$ echo X{a,b,c,d}{1,2,3,4,5}
    Xa1 Xa2 Xa3 Xa4 Xa5 Xb1 Xb2 Xb3 Xb4 Xb5 Xc1 Xc2 Xc3 Xc4 Xc5 Xd1 Xd2 Xd3 Xd4 Xd5
    mutende:~$

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  11. Re:cool project on Saltwater Agriculture · · Score: 2
    I already eat quite a bit of seaweed

    The Salicornia mentioned in the article is not a seaweed but a salt-tolerant ``normal'' plant...

    // Klaus
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  12. Re:I hope the rendering is improved... on QT 2.3, With Anti-Aliased Fonts · · Score: 1
    For those wanting to play with AA fonts in KDE make sure you grab the truetype font package from here: http://keithp.com/~keithp/fonts/truetype.tar.gz

    Debian users can do an "apt-get install msttcorefonts".

    // Klaus
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  13. Re:Linux? Is that the new George Foreman grill? on IBM's Upcoming Linux Ad Campaign · · Score: 1
    Great ... now half of America will stop and think ... Linux? Is that some kind of new Microsoft software? I am still surprised that some people don't know that you can have a PC with a non-M$ OS on it

    Go and see the summary counts on the Linux counter and you will notice that Linux is not very widespread in the US (no. 24) as compared to, say, the Scandinavian countries (nos. 1-6).

    // Klaus
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  14. Re:Wouldn't a better solution... on Reaching Unsanctioned TLDs With A Plug-In · · Score: 2
    see OpenNIC...this is exactly what they do. Add a new server into resolv.conf, and you can resolve the tld's that they've created.

    Or use superroot.org's root servers. DJBDNS users can simply put

    199.166.24.1
    195.117.6.10
    199.166.24.3
    199.166.31.250
    199.166.31.3
    199.5.157.128
    204.57.55.100
    204.80.125.130
    205.189.73.10
    205.189.73.102
    207.126.103.16
    216.13.76.2
    216.196.48.66

    into their {mumble}/dnscache/root/servers/@ file. BIND users use these instructions instead.

    The hack gives your access to all the usual TLDs AND SuperRoot's plethora of TLDs without sweat.

    // Klaus
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  15. Time warp on Napster to Filter by Filenames · · Score: 2

    Eben Moglen sure doesn't waste his time, or ours - the article will be written in ten days from now...
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  16. Re:XML-RPC and Python on ESR On XML-RPC · · Score: 1

    Also, there's a good XML-RPC HOWTO and Meerkat HOWTO plus several XML-PRC related pages available at zope.org.
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  17. Re:What does IP stand for? on Making Sense Of An Employee IP Agreement · · Score: 1
  18. Re:LOTS ON WIKI on Extreme Programming Installed · · Score: 1

    Also, there's an entire wiki dedicated to Extreme Programming.
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  19. Acronym Finder on What's The Difference Between A CIO And A CTO? · · Score: 2

    Perhaps a link to the Acronym Finder will prove useful to someone...
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  20. Re:No good. Contenential drift would move the mark on Another Cool GPS Project: Degree Confluence · · Score: 1
    Consider that the average unit only has an accuracy of 100 meters
    Huh? I have a Garmin eTrex GPS device, which has the size of a cell phone. The accuracy (or is it the precision?) is usually better than 12 meters, and often at 6 or 8 meters.

    100 meters? That must have been before 1st May 2000 when DoD lifted the scrambling of the GPS signals...

    // Klaus
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  21. Re:back to '92 on Charging Cash For Links · · Score: 1
    yah like lets all start using gopher and veronica again!
    Here's a useful link.
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  22. Re:Google Cache of TOS on Humorously Bad Web Hosting Policies · · Score: 1
    webcoaches.com disagrees with you.
    Ohio State University disagrees with you.
    ABC Computer Classes disagrees with you.
    PCToday disagrees with you.
    Well, none of them are authoritative sources. However, Bureau International des Poids et Mesures is and I recommend that you check their SI-prefixes page before you start bitching me.
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  23. Re:Google Cache of TOS on Humorously Bad Web Hosting Policies · · Score: 1
    P.S.: Someone please tell him "kilobits per second" is abbreviated Kb/s or Kbps but not kbp/s (kilobits per per second?-)
    Bzzt, wrong! The 'k' for ``kilo'' is always lowercase ('K' means ``Kelvin''), so it should have been kb/s or kbps.
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  24. Re:Load Times on A Pair of Google Bits · · Score: 1

    Text or portal, it still gives you crappy results.
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  25. Re:Wasn't DB2 available already? on IBM to Offer Linux Software · · Score: 1
    Yes, I received a CD with DB2 from IBM more than a year ago.

    // Klaus
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