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  1. Dangerous function calls? on Searchable C/C++ DB surpasses 275 million lines · · Score: 1

    like strcpy, vprintf, strcat, scanf would be interesting. It would be a basic buffer overflow fuzzer.

  2. 486 dx 100mhz 32mb ram 512mb hd on Breathing Life Into Older Computers · · Score: 1

    Still running as a wireless network bridge with freebsd. I am sure it could run debian or something pretty well.

  3. TV Programming. on Women Control the DVR · · Score: 1

    Generally there is _nothing_ on tv for me to watch, except for the history channel, and mythbusters. Oh malcom in the middle is funny too. Everything else is for women. My wife sometimes will watch some crap on lifetime or WE, and will get mad at me when I laugh about some stupid trajedy that just occured on her show. Why do women need to cry? or watch something so depressing about a mother with a brain tumor and four sickly kids. Whose pilot husband is having an affair with three different women. I should just cancel the cable and let my wife watch them euthanize unwanted puppies at the ASPCA.

  4. Webserver? on Pure JavaScript Unix-Like Web Based OS · · Score: 2, Funny

    So can I write a webserver for it and use my browser to serve webpages and look at them!

    I am tempted to check it out.

  5. Re:Give him a break? on iPod Dangerous When Wet · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I did this all the time too. He should have been more careful of what he was doing with the power still attached. The smart thing to do would be to open the case and let the thing dry out. Maybe dry it with a hair dryer on low heat. Thats all you can do for it.

  6. Re:Underground bunker and all that on Testing Out Cell-Phone Viruses on a Prius · · Score: 1

    Thats how I felt, since they could have left the entire part about the car battery being low out of the article. They put it in there to generate interest, since they only proved that you can't infect a car with a cell phone virus. Which isn't that interesting. I am curious as to why it took so long to test as the battery had gotten low.

  7. Re:two hours + commuting each day, eh? on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute? · · Score: 1

    for 97k a year I'll drive an 2 hours a day.

  8. Way to kill linux. on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Is if Microsoft released their source code. Companies and people who use linux use it for more than cost, but customization. We use a highly customized linux where I work, we have a kernel development team that modifies and tweaks our distro
    to our specific needs. We can run Linux on a 500 mhz pentium with 512mb of ram, junk video card and an 18gig disk with no problems. No need for a video management solution to manage all 400 of our servers, no need for mice. Just SSH.

  9. Linux user since 1994, MS better not die. on Microsoft: The Faint Smell of Rot · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft went under imagine what would happen to the US economy. I bet most tech companies would plummet off the nasdaq. I haven't used windows in years, but I wish Microsoft well. They are invested in the company I work for and have a lot of pull in the IT industry. I like my 90k a year job playing with linux and solaris all day.

  10. Stock options from a profitable .com. on Employee Stock Options Must be Treated as Expenses · · Score: 1

    I work for a company that rode out the stock market boom and collapse. Our stock went from 200 a share to .50c and now has settled at 13.00. We would get stock options every year or so for 2500, or 2000 shares. I sold 12000 shares at 15.00 in may, almost all of them. Simply because I didn't want to ride the Market anymore. After taxes I had 100,000.00 in my account. More then I figured I would ever see in my life in once place. At 29 years old I already own a home and now built an inground pool to share with my wife and family. I am upset that this type of senenario will probably not occur for many other people with this new law.

  11. Movie Review. on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    My wife and I saw this movie, We have to admit it is the first movie in a while we want the DVD too. My wife not being a computer person by any means was very impressed with the lighting and shadows. Not only that but the writing and characters were wonderful! The movie was mostly non-stop action or comedy, we were hoping for more when it ended. This was not your typical predictable hollywood movie. I felt it raises the bar dramatically for the next release of animated movies.

  12. Re:Final Page on Google's Math Puzzle · · Score: 1

    So they couldn't think of anything more cryptic then http://google.com/labjobs/index.html? One could pretty much guess that link...

  13. make your own? on Turn Your House Plants Into Speakers · · Score: 1

    I would think adding a coil and a magenet to anything would allow you to convert it to a speaker as long as it is somewhat rigid. Try connecting a small DC motor to your boombox, I used to when I was a kid.

  14. Old News. on Searching For Trouble With Google · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This appeared on bugtraq, which was ripped from a website article about a presentation given at defcon or blackhat.. Sheesh.

  15. Re:Power Problems on Enterprise-class Car Audio · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this must be a fake. The e450 draws about 10 amps. There is no way that little inverter can power that monster. It probably draws more than 10 amps at boot up while the disks spin up. Thats like
    1200+ watts. Now I dont know if this e450 is european and takes 240v? but There is now way you can power one with 300w.

  16. Re:what about 2.4? on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Same happened to me, applied patch for 2.4 kernel rebooted and system still halted.

  17. Re:What a bunch of shit on Is Windows Worth $45? · · Score: 1

    This is true, I have one windows machine at home and it runs 98, the version that came with it. I wont upgrade.

  18. bad marketing method. on SCOoby Snacks · · Score: 1

    See by SCO getting the Linux community to HATE it, no *NIX shop will ever buy SCO. We use BSD/Linux/Solaris where I am. If I am asked to pilot a new OS for some project, I sure as hell won't suggest SCO. They are pretty much making the people who heavily influence buying decisions hate them.

  19. SPARC IPC. on Sun Sparc 5 Nostalgia · · Score: 1

    I still use a sparc IPC. Runs a webserver I wrote in C and servers a personal portal for me at work.

  20. Stupid article. on Mail Server Flaw Opens MS Exchange to Spam · · Score: 1

    So what they are saying is if you open a guest account for anonymous use, you can send email anonymously...brilliant...what a genius....It's the administrators fault not microsoft. I am sad to say.. but microsoft should flesh out some ACL's for that feature anyway. say only guest users from whatever interface can relay mail.

  21. How about afs? on Home Directory In CVS · · Score: 1

    I am working with setting up AFS here at work and so far it seems pretty cool. It is fully distributable, the only issue I see is lack of returning error codes and documentation. But so far it seems pretty stable. Even works over Cisco VPN in linux. Although I am still looking on how to tweak the cache timeouts for afsd.

  22. Security on What the Candidates are Running · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your uptime is 445 days... you need to patch your kernel.

  23. Dragging their feet. on Microsoft Antitrust Compliance Questioned · · Score: 1

    I suspect Microsoft will just drag their feet until they can intergrate the browser even more in later revisions of windows. No matter I just use what works now. Linux, Windows, OSX.

  24. Re:Mudge and other l0pht people left @stake on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired · · Score: 1

    Actually that is a typo. The website is

    Here

  25. Mudge and other l0pht people left @stake on Author of Paper Critical of Microsoft is Fired · · Score: 1

    A while a go and formed a startup called Intrusec.

    here is the website

    They have a product called expose, that is like an IDS it seems.