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  1. Ho I do ... on Submitting Bug Reports To Open Source Projects? · · Score: 5, Informative

    How do open source projects make it easier for users to submit bug reports and consolidate the bugs in a single database?"

    I go to "Help" -> "Report Bug". That's it. Wow, the amazing advantages of an standardizing desktop system :-)

    In this case it's KDE and it helps me to find bugs.kde.org very conveniently.

  2. Re:KDE on KDE League .... Inc. No Longer? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    There already is an KDE e.V..

  3. Best way to learn about security on Security Gatherings for the Little Guys · · Score: 2, Interesting
    1. setup a box with default installation of an older distro
    2. turn on extensive logging
    3. connect to the internet
    4. wait...
    5. when cracked, do forensic analysis
    nothing can beat real life practice. it just needs time.
  4. Re:Woo hoo! on Alternative Energy: Power Via Coastal Wave Motion. · · Score: 1

    And, according to the World Health Org, only 31 people were killed in Chernobyl.

    That is the number of people killed directly when the incident happened. But that leaves out the _millions_ of people who suffer from the long term consequences like a polluted environment and increased cancer probability. This is especially bad for children who inherit genetic defects from their parents. I strongly suggest reading the this.

    I agree that coal is not good either but that doesn't make nuclear power better. There is no solution for the problem what to do with nuclear waste.

    I for myself concluded that nuclear power may be efficient but I don't want to take the risks involved.
    Countries like Sweden and Germany decided to cease generating nuclear power for the same reason.

  5. Re:But what's their motive? on Encryption For All Sponsored by German Govt. · · Score: 1

    They have. Especially corporations whose trade secrets are stolen. The tool is
    Echelon.

  6. Re:This is the most ridiculous article... on Is Evolution Over In Humans? · · Score: 1

    Right, it doesn't make sense in the long term. But they can't afford to think in the long term. They want to survive (and if that's ensured then live better) now.
    People have more children because they together possibly earn enough money so that they can care for their parents when they're old. Having many children raises the chances that maybe one of them even gets a well paid job. Many children means many workers who support the family. The more children the better a familiy can deal with a single member which can't earn enough money, because of it's age or illness.

  7. Re:This is the most ridiculous article... on Is Evolution Over In Humans? · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if this was meant ironic on your side (english is not my native language) but I tried to be.

    I was a little upset about the comment of the previous poster, how s/he could find it _disturbing_ that there are 3 times as many children in "poor" families as in "successful" families. The seperation into poor and successful alone is an arrogance I do not like.

    Many people in the developing countries die because of stravation and medical undersupply. I find _that_ disturbing. Having many children is their only possibility of some kind of old-age pension.

    I had the feeling that the previous poster (and if it wasn't irony, you too) really is _afraid_ that these poor people could propagate so much that his/her successful life is in danger. Gosh!

    Besides, poverty is not something which is naturally inherited from your parents. So it's not a matter of evolution but whether more wealthy people give them the chance to develop (education etc.).


    Stephan

  8. Re:This is the most ridiculous article... on Is Evolution Over In Humans? · · Score: 1

    One disturbing trend is an inverse relationship between wealth(social success) and number of children. Sucessful families with 1.2 children (below the replacement level, their genes are effectively selected against). Poverty level people having 3.6 children (geneticaly sucessfull).

    Considering that about 16% of the children in the least developed countries die at an age under 5 years (and in industrialized countries it is 0.006%) this looks a little less "disturbing" I guess.

    Stephan

  9. Re:Well, the reply-to argument is at rest... on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 1

    No, the SMTP MAIL FROM address, which isn't necessarily the one in the message itself.

    Ah, yes. I forgot that.

    But the problem there is still that some errors don't happen during the SMTP transaction, they happen later on, inside the receiver's network or something strange like that.

    That was exactly the problem. The error was caused by the pager gateway software.

    Then all the deliverer has to go on is what's in the From/Sender/Reply-To headers.

    And the order in which these three should be used to determine the address for the error mail was the subject of the discussion I had with the other admin. IMHO it is Sender, Reply-To, From. He said Reply-To, From and ignored Sender.

  10. Re:Well, the reply-to argument is at rest... on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 1

    In the case of a mailing list nobody cares that alice did not get the email.

    Well, I (as as the listadmin) do care.
    And removing people automatically as you propose causes even more problems. Even your mail quota can be exceeded ;-)

  11. Re:Well, the reply-to argument is at rest... on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 1

    Hmm. But sending it to the "From" address isn't appropiate either. On a mailinglist this is the author who sent the mail to the list. But the error mail should go to the mailinglistadmin/postmaster to take measures to solve the problem.

    I didn't meant that the new RFC 2822 is ambigous. I meant the old 822. In particular 4.4.4 the first two paragraphs (Is "recipients reply" the error reply of the MTA or the user who hits "Reply" in his mail client and shouldn't automatically have filled out the "To" field with the "Sender"?).

  12. Re:Well, the reply-to argument is at rest... on New Mail RFCs Released · · Score: 1

    Right, thats really sad :-(
    Another issue I hoped would be resolved is where automatic error emails should be sent to. I had some serious discussions with an email2pager network admin who refused to send the error mails to the "Sender", citing RFC822 which he interpreted that he has to send them to the "Reply-To" address. And in fact you can interpret the RFC822 in both ways.
    Pretty annoying for the 600 people to get the stupid pager error messages on the mailinglist (Reply-To).
    But unfortunately this seems to be "out of scope" for the new RFC (see bottom of 3.6.3: "Note: ...").

  13. Re:"Education friendly"? on Microsoft Is Indoctrinating Children, Shouldn't We? · · Score: 1

    (this may change when the KDE IDE is finished)
    If you mean KDevelop, the 1.0 final was released in december last year.

    For Example:

    Open KDevelop
    Create a C Terminal App
    (Enter: nothing)

    Then hit run.

    Hey presto! It works. Wow. That looks real different to Unix programming, doesn't it?
    Hey presto! It works. Wow. As you see its even more easy to get started.

  14. Re:They'll never make it. on 6 New Mars Missions · · Score: 1

    just wanted to thank you, man.
    *smears-tear-from-eye*

  15. QoS is the solution on Are We Ready For Broadband Internet Access? · · Score: 1

    The keyword (or better buzzword :-) is QoS - Quality of Service.
    Most people think of assured _high_ bandwith when hearing about QoS (for example for video conferencing). But you can also negotiate an artificial low bandwith to avoid a total saturation of your line. So when the client and the server both use QoS, the server can tell the client only to use 5% of his total maximum bandwidth he has available. This allows 20 clients to connect despite one client alone would be able to saturate connection (when using best effort).

  16. Re:Oh, DEBIAN GOOD! on Qt Going GPL · · Score: 1

    KDE was always licensed under the GPL.
    Now KDE 2.0 will be linked to the GPLed Qt 2.2
    So there is no non-GPL code in any KDE 2.0 program.

  17. PayPal won't win because... on Micropayment Wars Are Over... PayPal Wins? · · Score: 3

    (from PayPal's website):

    The recipient gets an email that says "You've Got Cash!"

    Do they really expect people not to dump such an Email directly to /dev/null ?

  18. Re:When did Kenny appear in Episode 1? on Kenny Baker Will Be In Ep2 · · Score: 2

    You definitely watched Episode I too seldom ;-)
    Secenes featuring R2D2 can be found here.
    Behind the scenes photos showing Kenny Baker at the Episode I set are here and there.

  19. Re:SSL? on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 1

    As far as I understand SSL, you must use virtual interfaces to host SSL web servers. How does the policy change affect these servers?

    Yes, but every virtual interface has a different IP address. And ARIN sells IP's not NIC's ;-)
    The reason is explained in many articles above, but the vhost part in the mod_ssl FAQ is also very good.

    Also, TLS is supposed to fix that. Which browsers implement TLS correctly?

    It's not whether TLS or not, it's whether the browser can make use of the upgrade mechanism in TLS.
    And equally important is the question which webservers implement this? Last time I checked mod_ssl did not.

  20. Re:Yes and no. on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 1

    So hoping that you're not a troll, would you care to share your knowledge with us?

  21. Re:Yes and no. on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 1

    Design your web pages so most of the heavy content is pulled from the http server.

    Not a good idea. First because the browser will pop up a box saying that there is insecure data within the secure webpage which always will "scare" some customers and looks unprofessional. Second because for example Netscape under Linux crashes just after showing that box. IE won't load that page at all with certain settings.

  22. Re:Screenshots on What Was The First Computer Operating System? · · Score: 5

    whoring for karma... ;-)
    here are some screenshots of win 1.0

  23. Released? on SuSE 7.0 · · Score: 2

    It's just an announcement that they will make two versions, a "Personal" and a "Professional" version.
    I don't consider it as _released_.
    According to the press release: Both versions will be available at the end of August.

    Don't panic ;-)

  24. ORBS not in RBL / personal experiences with ORBS on MAPS vs. ORBS · · Score: 1

    Just to end the discussion whether or not the ORBS is listed in the MAPS RBL, I let my mailserver to be checked by ORBS to find out the IP adress originating the relay tests. This is my exim log entry:
    refused relay (host_accept_relay) to <orbs-relaytest@manawatu.co.nz> from <sender@orbs.org> H=relaytest.orbs.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.55]
    and this IP is not in in the RBL ( http://mail-abuse.org/cgi-bin/l ookup?194.178.232.55)


    Personally I don't use ORBS anymore because it rejected too many legitimate (non-spam) emails. I'm maintaining the mailinglist server for KDevelop (and other projects) and at the time I used ORBS I got several complains from people who were not able to post the list.
    Of course it would be better if the relays would get closed. But how do you explain that to your "customers"? "Sorry, you can't post to this mailing list because your ISP's mailserver is an open relay." -- "Uhhm, what?" I don't think this is a solution. It only annoys people and you can't expect the people to bother with such things. Heck, they just want to ask a question on my mailinglist!

    Personally I really like the MAPS RSS list. It only lists relays that actually had been confirmed to relay spam. IMHO this list should get a bit more support (i.e. look to the headers of your daily spam and submit the spam message and the relay IP to RSS if you have the time)

    Stephan