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  1. Re:How news worthy is this? on Ellen Feiss Interview · · Score: 1

    Ellen is awesome, this story made my day, I love it!

    Better than another story on wireless networking ::snore::

  2. Not many LCD screens!? on How Looks Your Geekroom? · · Score: 1

    These are some low budget pictures. All these people are going to die of CRT radiation. Why do some people have one monitor for each machine have they never heard of a switch???

    The best one was the guy with the rack and the "Windoze free zone" banner. Nicest setup of them all.

  3. Re:File Corruption with Jaguar and SMB Sharing on "Seamless" Integration of Mac OS X w/ Active Directory · · Score: 1

    No solution, but I've also seen this, especially on larger files. I suspect it might be related to IP issues, especially MTU.

    I'm starting to wondering if Apple IP Implementation is kind of screwed up in OS X.

  4. Re:Eh? on Direct Marketers Association Asks To Be Regulated · · Score: 1

    "Me too"

    what the hell is with the "But"?

  5. Re:Can't argue with the numbers, but... on August Netcraft Results - Apache up 6%, MS IIS down 6% · · Score: 2

    I can tell you right now that my multi-billion dollard ecommerce site uses strictly Apache.

  6. Re:Support is the answer on Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have to agree with this. For example, iTools is a service provided by Apple which includes mail at the @mac.com domain. They provide POP and SMTP however it was little known that IMAP was there all along too. A perfect example of a hidden feature.

    If it had been widely advertised support would have been a nightmare but they could have probably sold more disk space. But the bottom line was that people understand POP and they don't understand IMAP.

  7. Right on Apple Plugs Software Update Hole · · Score: 1

    Speaking from experience, yes, often times a whole bunch of features are developed and then they sit on it. It makes more marketing sense to release things in increments.

    Hard to tell whether this is right or wrong...but at least they released this quickly after the flaw was announced.

  8. Required a reboot for me - Was it applescript? on OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH · · Score: 1

    Interestingly enough, for me it did require a reboot. Perhaps because I chose to install the Applescript upgrade at the same time.

  9. RtCW failing is related to RtCW upgrade 1.33 on OS X Security Update: Apache, SSL and SSH · · Score: 4, Informative

    10.1.5 has nothing to do with RtCW failing. Recently the 1.33 version of return to castle wolfenstein was released for linux and PC. When this happened many multi-player server started to require 1.33 (pure servers) in order to play.

    There's some disucssion on whether Aspyr will patch this however there is a workaround. Download the "lite" version of the 1.33 upgrade for PC, unstuffit and then replace mp_bin.pk3 in your MAIN folder.

    These instructions are highligted at the bottom of this URL on Aspyr's site

  10. SlashDot goes WiFi on Warchalking Visual Cues To Urban WLANs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seems like the abundance of stories on slasdot these days focus on WiFi. Maybe we need WiFiSlash.org or something. But this is just getting old.

  11. Re:It's called "Full Disclosure" on Apache Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    Sorry, you don't know what you're talking about. Security professionals spend a lot of time discussion disclosure lead times and policies. Professionals do to expose leaks before contacting the vendor whether it's Microsoft or Apache.

    So don't try to play this off like all Microsoft vulnerabilities get posted before M$ is notified.

  12. The only useful message on this topic on Apache Vulnerability Announced · · Score: 1

    The post above is the only intelligent post for discussion on this issue so far.

  13. Shielding on WiFi, Light Bulbs, And The FCC · · Score: 1

    The solution is simple, Apple already proved that using a bit of titanium shielding can effectively diminish the strenght of the 2.5 ghz single. So there you go!! And thanks to Apple for the early tibooks!

  14. Re:No dicussion of SSH's vulnerabilities on SSH, The Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    That's why I asked! Thanks

  15. No dicussion of SSH's vulnerabilities on SSH, The Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised, does the book make no meantion of SSH's problems? It's not 100% and people shouldn't assume it.

    Also, the differences between SSH1 and SSH2 and the compromises that are out there for SSH1 should make that a key topic in the book (if not a whole chapter!)

  16. Re:Internet in the Arctic but not downtown? on Handheld Dispatches From (Towards) The North Pole · · Score: 1

    You just answered your own question. That's the whole point!! If they can pay $4.00 a minute for internet access in the arctic, persumably and proportionally, in downdown san francisco (for example) it should cost considerably less given all the infrastructure.

    In short: bring back ricochet! Or . . . hold out for GSM technologies, look for starbucks on every corner or just pray for open 802.11b access points!

  17. Re:FBI on IRC on Tracking Mafiaboy · · Score: 1

    Poor choice of words on my part, what I was trying to say is that for every "REAL" cracker (not hacker) and "REAL" pedophile, there are thousands of other harmless people on the IRC. I don't know how the agents possibly sort through that stuff.

  18. Internet in the Arctic but not downtown? on Handheld Dispatches From (Towards) The North Pole · · Score: 1

    What the hell. These people can trek across the two poles and have internet connectivity, yet I'm tied to my house every time I go on-call. There's just something insane about this.

    If there were only wireless enable starbucks on every street corner.

  19. FBI on IRC on Tracking Mafiaboy · · Score: 1

    I just love the thought of FBI agents on IRC day-and-night monitoring channels. By all accounts there are probably dozens of FBI agents whose job consists of monitoring IRC and setting up channels to bait people. That job must make them go mad, for every legitimate hacker or pedophile there are thousands of horny teenage boys asking a/s/l over and over and over and over. Man...where do our tax dollars go.

  20. The benefits outway the problems on VoIP for the Masses! · · Score: 1

    I've seen call managers with hundreds of users and weeks of uptime. Yes, it's Windows, but when it works it's beautiful.

    I just completed a 9 hour convference call on an IP phone VPN with people from all over the world. It would have cost at least $50 or more, I'm sure. My cost: Free except monthly dsl cost. That's too cool for school!!

  21. Re:International Calls on VoIP for the Masses! · · Score: 1

    You aren't comparing apples-to-apple between Net2Phone and VOIP. With Cisco's VOIP equipment you replace the "last hop". With Net2Phone your "last hop" is your local 'baby bell".

    With VOIP, your international call can go through any carrier or system in the world. The connection from your handset to your ISP is completely IP based. With Net2Phone, some other connection down the line might be over IP.

    Your ISP will have Cisco Call Mangers which can plug into a public voice service. Your ISP could have a trunk to a major long distance carrier right there.

    This means that your ISP cuts out the "last hop" and the "baby bells"(on two protocol levels!) but not the underlying network level (DSL connection).

    In terms of bandwitch, you need AT LEAST 128K/128K in each direction to maintain a good connection. If your download speed drops or your upload speed drops you will get MaX Headroomed effect (not exactly static, but not intelligable language either).

    In short, the equipment is awesome, cutting out the phone company is very cool and it's easy and scalable.

    Think about using VPN with these phones and you could setup a "friend's network". and cut out everyone (on some key protocol levels ;) ).

  22. School marketshare! on Microsoft Would Settle For The Children · · Score: 1

    So the settlement is that Microsoft gets more of a school market share? What a deal :-(

  23. Re:I'll stick to dial up.. on Voicestream Quietly Releases GPRS In The U.S. · · Score: 1

    But 9600 BPS kills me. I'd do anything to get my ricochet back.

    Although, I do agree, my 8290 /IR modem works okay for the absolute emergency.

  24. Re:This is very dangerous on Build Your Own X-Ray Machine · · Score: 1

    Let see you build one, then we can have the government ban it. Wise guy

  25. Are they closing off CVS access? on BIND Security Info For "Members Only"? · · Score: 1

    What do people make of this comment for "ISC members":

    Features and benefits of "bind-members" status will include:
    >
    > 1. Private access to the CVS pool where bind4, bind8 and bind9 live
    >

    PRIVATE access?? Does this imply "EXCLUSIVE" private access?

    what the heck is Paul talking about