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  1. Re:An interview with SCO CEO here on Novell Claims Ownership of UNIX System V · · Score: 1
    If there is a problem, it would be in the code for either JFS or EVMS.

    JFS is doubtful... Maybe there are some old AT&T headers/includes?

    EVMS may also be trivially derivative from AT&T sources. Every UNIX wound up building their own LVM - 'cause no such animal existed in vanilla SysV. The spec for this was originally HP's.

  2. Re:Ouch, now I have to remember IP addresses too on Sprint Moves Phone Network to IP · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "This boy shouts, and this boy screams!"

  3. Re:Teach yourself iptables on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 1
    Hmmmmmn...

    HenWen. Named after the Oracular pig from Lloyd Alexander's children's fantasy books!

    It does seem like a really cool packaging job. If only I ran MacOSX.

  4. Re:iptables?? on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 1
    Right on, about pf/ipf.

    wheres the hacker willing to parse pf sytax as a tool for managing the Linux netfilter? c'mon!

    Rules that do as much work, but actually LOOK LIKE ENGLISH!

    Frankly, anyone can make mistakes in writing rules. *BSD syntax makes this less likely.

  5. Re:Teach yourself iptables on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And Snort is better for this. You capture and analyze traffic as it actually exists on the wire - Layer 2 and up.

  6. Re:Teach yourself iptables on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Agreed, If you can't grok what IPTables does, and how it does it... You don't know much about IP security.

    I still contend that you can not find a job worth jack, armed with knowledge of IPTables. Nor will you know enough to generalize about network security issues.

    It may be a good tool in your kit. It better not be your main one, heaven help you - your only one!

    If you were to suggest - for NETWORK security, only one single open-source or free software tool, why wouldn't is be Snort? Or even Nessus?

  7. Re:ineffective... on U.S. Government To Get Cybersecurity Chief · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Wecome to the USA^H^H^HDDR!

  8. Re:Teach yourself iptables on Getting Started in Network Security? · · Score: 4, Informative
    One word: WRONG!

    Security is not an Engineering discipline. Knowing one security tool, or even many tools does little or nothing towards cultivating the approach, process, culture and awareness-in-context that are basic to a professional in the Information Security field.

    One could do worse than browse the documents collection in the Reading Room at SANS.org,and the archive of Bruce Schneier's Crypto-gram newsletter.

    If Information Security still appeals to you, and you can specialize in an area suited to your temperment -go ahead.

  9. Re:so, they screamed loud enough? on Microsoft To License SCO's Unix Code · · Score: 1
    Beleive it or not, MS was too small in the late '80's to attract anti-trust interest. That was still IBM's game - and why Big Blue gave MS a seat at the table at all...

    Before there was a DOS, MS bought Xenix as an AT&T licensee, and added enhancements for the micro computers of the day. After the DOS play with IBM, they didn't know much what to do with it, and licensed out its manufacture and support to SCO.

    "Microsoft announces Microsoft Xenix OS, a portable operating system for 16-bit multitasking system that will run on Intel 8086, Zilog Z8000, Motorola M68000, and DEC PDP-11 series. All of Microsoft's existing system software (Cobol, Pascal, Basic, and DBMS) will be adapted to run under the Xenix system, and all existing software written for Unix OS will be compatible as well. "
    --from a Microsoft press release, August 25, 1980
  10. Re:discovery in civil trial on What if SCO is Right? · · Score: 1

    Thanks! IA still NL!

  11. Re:Yes it would hurt their case on What if SCO is Right? · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but it seems to me that you are citing Criminal law procedure, for what is a Civil case.

  12. Re:Hah on Death of Internet Predicted: Film at 11 · · Score: 1
    Hah!


    You want "Hah"? Slashdot editor's confused "Dour" with "Dire".

    I'll take a 'dour prediction' over a 'dire prediction' any old day!

  13. Re:Gods below! on The Ultimate Computer Chair? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it come with Lidlocks, my droogies?

  14. Re:did Microsoft buy SCO??? on SCO Drops Linux, Says Current Vendors May Be Liable · · Score: 1
    Heh...

    NT 3.5 and 3.51 were developed on Xenix as a platform! Xenix maintained the build environment and source repositories for MS untill late in the "Dogfood" stage for NT 4. That's 1996-7.

  15. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 1
    Yes, it was. In this case, it's not Tycho Magnetic Anomaly, but rather Transport Mir Anthropometric. The TMA's are the "large astronaut" retrofit (The US allows taller astronauts than the russians do; surprisingly few of ours fit the older soyuz, which means they could never be station crew) of the TM model, which, itself, was the unit customized to be the ferry craft for Mir from the T class transport which was supporting Soyuz...
    If I could mod in a thread to which I posted, I'd give you "+1 Informative"

    Thank you.

  16. Re:It is a Duo on Sony's Memory Stick TV Tuner at CeBit · · Score: 1

    Put it in my Clie ©, and it's Fox ® News [tm] EVERYWHERE!

  17. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Software Bug Causes Soyuz To Land Way Off · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "Soviet Russia" references may be the obvios start for a thread here... But this is a site for Nerds.

    Did any one other than myself notice that the Soyuz module is named TMA-1?
    If I'm not mistaken, that was the name of the spooky monument site in Clarke's "2001, a Space Odyssey".
    Tycho Magnetic Anomaly One...

  18. Re:no timeline on What's Your Timeline for IPv6 Migration? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Yeah,

    I think we'll do this right after we're done with Dvorak conversion...

  19. Re:The new name on Firebird Name Debate Enters a New Stage · · Score: 1

    They should just call it:
    "Go to Hell!"

  20. Re:This doesn't automatically mean higher performa on Translucent Windows for X using OpenGL · · Score: 1
    Translucent means that the object behind the material is distorted in some way.. such as darked or discolored.
    Transparent means that the object in the foreground is invisible, causing no distortion.
    "Trans" is a Latin particle. It means "through" or "past."
    "Lucent" means literaly of, or pertaining to, "light". In English, this is derived from French, from the Latin "Lux."
    "Parent" is again, no surprise, of Latin origin, via French. Latin "apparens" is related to everyday English words like "appear" and "apparent"

    So, Translucency is a necessary condition for Transparency. In sufficient degree Translucency is Transparency.

  21. The Blackboard Presentation on Slashback: Discipline, License, Name-calling · · Score: 5, Informative
    The whole Blackboard presentation - including a .PPT attachment with photos of GT's physical security problems - is available at Cryptome.

    Don't worry. It opens in Open Office Impress just fine!

  22. Re:Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium on Cryptographers Find Fault With Palladium · · Score: 0
    The fault is...

    It exists at all.

    Hoard your pre-DRM machines! I have a pile of SPARC and MIPS for the coming times! ;-)

  23. Re:Quoting the Simpsons..... on Looking at Video Games and Violence · · Score: 1
    Biggest cause of violence?

    BOWLING!

  24. Re:Those aren't toys! on Tiny RC Tanks That Fight · · Score: -1, Troll
    Gee.

    What a tasteful toy!

    Can you get a schoolbus of Iraqi children for targeting?

  25. Re:It also offers Apple a way to step on MS' face on Apple Plans to Purchase Universal Music · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah... He`ll licence to èm, or sell a player. Macintosh is Blaupunkt -- Winders is Realistic. Linux is the custom kit with Denon studio turntables, and a separate component for everything.