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  1. Donald Becker on Top Ten Software Innovators? · · Score: 2

    For creating all the NIC drivers we use on our Linux boxen!

  2. Yawn on RIAA Settlement: Possible Consumer Payback · · Score: 2

    Another piece of Old News.

    Lookee here:
    2003-01-08 01:37:29 Buy a CD, get $20 back (articles,music) (rejected)

  3. Re:Old news on Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player · · Score: 2

    Actually, the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines news as:
    "A report of recent events."

    So who's wrong now, Mr. high-user-ID?

  4. Time for RAID-10, and real OSes on Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte · · Score: 3, Insightful

    At $1/Gig, you can have 240 GB of speedy (45 MB/sec), death-resistant (mirrored) storage for $500. That should make any pr0n user, scientist, or geek happy.

  5. Re:However, on Hard Drives Down To A Dollar A Gigabyte · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's called RAID-1, but I guess "u" never heard of that on IRC.

  6. Old news on Microsoft Shows Off Watch, Portable Media Player · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Is it me, or is nothing on Slashdot timely anymore? This was on Yahoo news a few days ago. Note to editors: just because YOU haven't heard of something doesn't make it "news".

  7. Re:EU wants it both ways... on Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit · · Score: 2

    I self-moderate, and some idiot moderator moderated it down anyway! I love it!

  8. Re:EU wants it both ways... on Lexmark Invokes DMCA in Toner Suit · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Europeans have long wanted to both have and eat their cake. Witness: socialized medicine, socialized health care, socialized industry, socialized life. Now that the birth rate is dropping dramatically in Western Europe, all the 50 somethings are in a panic because their womb-to-tomb statist safety net isn't there - nobody's working to pay the bills that the last generation racked up.
    Natural consequences of societies which embrace skepticism, mysticism and irrationalism as philosophies. Causality? Who needs it! Paraphrasing Kant: They have set aside reason in order to make room for faith.
    Yeah, I know, -1 Troll, -1 Flamebait. That doesn't change the truth of this post though, and I have karma to burn.

  9. Two Words on Where are the 70% Efficient Solar Cells? · · Score: 2

    Cold Fusion.

  10. Why do you need all this? on Windows XP Media Center Edition Review · · Score: 2

    Try checking out that big room outside the server room, you know, the one where the ceiling is sometimes blue, and sometimes black with little white lights, and the A/C sucks.

  11. Re:Big Brother's Jeep on New and Improved - SmarTruck II · · Score: 3, Funny

    Because you CAN'T just wirelessly "snoop" on emails. This is a press release, written for technical PHBs, and apparently, Slashdotters named ChaosMt. For Chrissake, the guy used the words "if it is not amused". Its obviously just marketing spin.

  12. Nobel Prize = Political Soapbox on 2003 Japan Prize Winners Announced · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Japan Prize is right up there after the Nobel Prize and the Fields Medal.

    The Nobel people admitted this year that they gave the prize for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter this year because of his anti-war-on-Iraq stance, which they agreed with, in an effort to deflate President Bush's war machine. Jimmy Carter has done OTHER peace-prize-worthy stuff before, but was always passed over.

  13. Re:Talking about Linux security... on Linux Security: Reflections on 2002, Eye on 2003 · · Score: 2

    I dont care about karma, but the "advisory" refers mainly to some Cisco gear with the vulnerability. All the other SSHs (Open, etc.) are fine.

    This outta be "-1, Stupid"

  14. Re:What about appliances and rack-mount? on Computer Room Hot? · · Score: 2

    If your rack is > 35C, you need more fans, or lower ambient. This is from experience. I've seen server rooms hit 100 degrees, and yes, systems do die. Sun Ultra series workstations are VERY prone to heat death.

  15. Re:What about appliances and rack-mount? on Computer Room Hot? · · Score: 2

    Probably about 35C, since you ARE supplying adequate intake and exhaust fans right? 35 degrees + 35 degrees != 70 degrees, you insensitive clod!

  16. Old News on Apple To Introduce Video iPod? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    This was on Yahoo 3 days ago.
    Is Slashdot relevant?

  17. Re:You missed the first question on "Turn-Key" Linux-Based Fileservers? · · Score: 2

    Except that it isn't without any other effects - cost of the boxen, training, resistance to change by old employees, etc.

  18. You missed the first question on "Turn-Key" Linux-Based Fileservers? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why?

    Seriously, if its a small satellite office which has survived until 2003 without a LAN, LET IT BE. It sounds like you're trying to push a square peg into a round hole. Something is obviously working.

  19. Heh, site must not use SATA drives.... on Serial ATA, Here and Now · · Score: 1, Redundant
    3 minutes after story hit front page of /.


    We are having major server problems at the moment. Something is up - we will fix this ;)
  20. Is hotswap relevant? on Serial ATA, Here and Now · · Score: 1

    How much of a killer-feature is this? Other than thinner cables, why move to SATA?

    Oh yeah, and in Soviet Russia, your hard drive hotswaps YOU!

  21. Re:Superlative grammar on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, your memory error-corrects you!

  22. Superlative grammar on More Drooling Over The Opteron · · Score: 2

    All data are ECC protected.

    "Data" is a plural word, finally someone noticed.

  23. You want a black hole on Fighting Back Against Messenger Popup SPAM · · Score: 2

    You DONT simply shut off your services, you DO put a firewall in place. The last thing you want your box doing is sending OS-specific RSET packets to an attacker/sniffer.

  24. regedit on Removing Burstabit Spyware? · · Score: 2

    It's easy on a Win box. Run regedit (or equivalent) and look for the key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cu rr entVersion\Run

    and see what gets kicked off when the system starts. Delete the entries you don't want. Done.

    Moderation Totals: +3, Obvious

  25. NAT is hard to detect on 802.11 RF Amp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Unless you start snooping into the data packets, looking for User-Agent strings, etc (if you're NATting 2 different OSes behind it). You can make educated guesses (why do all TCP connects come from port 61000+?) but you really can't KNOW if someone is NATting.