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  1. Re:FUD on Preserve Your Rights Online - Act Now · · Score: 1

    Laws claiming to aid this investigation--such as outlawing or severely restricting cryptography--probably wouldn't help this investion much. Or any other. Just because it's outlawed doesn't mean it goes away.

  2. Exchanging one-time pads on Quantum Encryption Via Satellite · · Score: 1

    If you use this system to exchange one-time pads, then no brute-force attack can be successful on the ciphertext.

  3. VNC patch for this on X + VNC + SSH + Keyboard Shortcuts = Dueling Network WMs? · · Score: 2
    The VncMonitor patch allows you to monitor several remote systems. A single window is used to present all the displays."

    The main VNC page, contrib. section, has a few weird additions to the viewer and servers.

  4. Galeon on How Much Smaller Could Web Browers Be? · · Score: 1

    Galeon attempts some features of calling other programs to perform the tasks. Downloading is handled by the Gnome transfer manager (which in turn calls wget). It can use gecko's (ie. mozilla's) built-in ftp browser or call your preferred ftp program.

  5. Re:Saving energy vs. environmentally friendly on Low Power Servers & Desktops? · · Score: 1
    There's always a balance between damage from power consumption and pollution, which is often very hard to determine.

    I'd wager laptop-type components have a shorter lifespan. If this is true, then using such chips would mean more would have to be manufactured than regular ones.

    As to which is environmentally friendlier is anyone's guess.

  6. Re:CDDB claims a protected algorithm on CDDB Shutting Down Media Jukebox · · Score: 1

    Great idea! We could just use Gnutella, and have the CD player program search it for the disc ID. As a transition a free portal that emulates a CDDB host but actually searches Gnutella (also CDDB or the free one so there are more chances you'll get a disc) could be set up.

  7. Copyrighted material issues on The Tragedy of the Digital Commons · · Score: 2
    Perhaps an important factor is a Gnutella user's view of copyright infringement, since quite a bit of the material on Gnutella is copyrighted.

    So some questions might be: Is it a greater "sin" in the eyes of most people to download copyrighted material, or to make your own such material available? Who would the RIAA or MPAA choose to go after? When you click on a file, don't you find out the IP address of the source so you can connect there?

    Just a few things to think about...

  8. Debian & serial-console on Upgrading A Headless Server? · · Score: 1

    Debian has great support for over-the-network upgrades, since it doesn't require (nor have...) many graphical upgrade or installation programs. For the paranoid, who want to see what happens to the machine after a reboot, the standard Serial Console support of the kernel and LILO are great. For a quick reference on setting these up, there's a file in the kernel DOCUMENTATION directory. BIOS changes are not possible without some special hardware, but everything else works. This is also a must if all of your expansion slots are used...