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  1. Re:Apache Problems on Apple Releases Security Update 2003-03-24 · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm . . . I think you are in error when you use the word recompile; you are assuming that I compiled Apache in the first place. No, I'm just using the stock Apache server that comes with OS-X.

  2. Apache Problems on Apple Releases Security Update 2003-03-24 · · Score: 1

    The security fix causes the Apache webserver to crash when a secure connection is requested. The Apache SSL library was updated, but there is a memory addressing error manifesting itself in the "ssl_var_lookup_ssl_cert" function. This causes a segmentation fault and crashes that instance of the Apache server.

    I'd be interested in hearing from anyone else having similar difficulties.

  3. Re:So far, so good. on Apple Updates to Java 1.4.1 · · Score: 1

    Just remember, sleep is no substitute for caffeine. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to lead you astray from the path of true UberGeek.

  4. Re:So far, so good. on Apple Updates to Java 1.4.1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    4 fold increase in loading time

    I believe you mean to say a "4 fold decrease in loading time." If your original statement is correct, then this is one update I will steer clear from. My 400Mhz G4 without Quartz Extreme is slow enough as it is.

  5. Re:At first glance... on Apple to Launch Music Service? · · Score: 1

    Hmmm . . .
    Will Apple require a .Mac account in order to use the service? Apple is not notoriously evil, but I could see them doing something like this.

    Another cool feature would be to have a virtual jukebox, or iDJ in Apple-speak, where you store your purchased music on your .Mac acount, and you can listen to it (via a QuickTime stream) from work or the local internet coffee shop. Here's hoping Apple business folk read /.

  6. Re:woops on Server In A Fly · · Score: 4, Funny

    403
    Buzz Off!
    FlyServe 1.01

  7. Re:Evolution of human? on Squirrels Evolving to Suit Global Warming? · · Score: 1

    Et tu, Brute

  8. Along the same lines . . . on Mac OS X 10.2.4 Is Out · · Score: 1

    . . . the update also modifies your syslogd.conf file without creating a backup for you . This is for the 0.002% of you out there, like myself, who might be doing some extra logging or just diverting firewall information to its own log file.

    Cheers!

  9. Re:Evolution of human? on Squirrels Evolving to Suit Global Warming? · · Score: 1

    In other words, now it comes down to who has more children, not who has children and who gets killed before they get the chance to (except those lucky Darwin Award laureates).

    Guess we should all start reading up about John Smith and Mormonism since societal evolution has deemed it will be the future of America.

  10. Re:One Question... on Beauty In The Eye Of The Android · · Score: 1

    The research took place in Scotland.
    They have a fetish for haggis.
    The men wear the skirts (kilts).
    qed

  11. Just one step . . . on Scientists Grow Pig's Heart On Sheep's Neck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    . . . towards grafting a brain into Mr. Bush's head!

  12. Re:obSimpsons... on Scientists Grow Pig's Heart On Sheep's Neck · · Score: 1

    Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal. Homer: Oooooh, some magical animal!

  13. Re:here... on AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks · · Score: 1

    The copy protection mechanism would be the required registration. And yes, I am being flippant. However, they [New York Times] really could sue under the DMCA -- what a shame.

  14. Re:here... on AT&T Identifies Widespread Security Hole - In Locks · · Score: 1

    By posting the entire contents of a New York Times story on Slashdot you have just circumvented a copyright protection mechanism and are criminally liable under the DMCA. The lawyers have been dispatched.

  15. Re:Wow on The Evolution Of The Cost-Effective TrainCam · · Score: 1

    For an encore, maybe he'll tell us about the time he made a diorama using pre-packaged Star Wars characters, still in their display box.

    "I bent my wookie."

  16. Re:C|/CON/CON on Silly Kernel Panic in Mac OS X 10.2.2 · · Score: 2

    He He He He

    The color of the shell script depends on your terminal settings or your syntax highlighting editor. Big blue shell script would imply VIM with the blue color theme. I prefer my shell scripts to be black and white . . . funny results come from all the grey areas.

  17. Re:EU is screwed on price, as usual. on Apple Gives Laptops Speed Bumps · · Score: 1

    In response to your .sig . . .
    touch her, finger her, mount her, sleep();

    results:
    [tim@joy tim]$ touch her
    [tim@joy tim]$ finger her
    finger: her: no such user
    [tim@joy tim]$ mount her
    mount: her: unknown special file or file system.
    [tim@joy tim]$ sleep();
    bash: syntax error near unexpected token ';'

  18. Flamewar Temperature on Space Elevators: Low Cost Ticket to GEO? · · Score: 2

    The irony of a flamewar about "degrees" vs. "degrees kelvin" is truly humorus.

    It has also been a long day of staring at poorly designed C++ code <sigh>, so maybe it's not that humorus.

  19. Re:How can it have shape? on Protons Aren't round · · Score: 2

    If z is the direction of motion, then we have something which seems to be explainable by relativity. If z is perpendicular to the direction of motion, relativity is screwed...

    Methinks the proton is not moving near the speed of light but the quarks which compose the proton. -- drinks a glass of water and quotes from the article -- "'The new thing we've figured out is that quarks are moving around inside the proton at relativistic (near speed of light) speeds,' says physicist Gerald Miller of the University of Washington-Seattle. Quarks moving at those speeds simply elongate the particle's electromagnetic shape, Miller says. In a paper in the journal Physical Review C, he outlines how quarks moving at high speeds, about 90% of the speed of light, stretch out protons."

    GR remains intact and the posters return to their normal lives. If you want, you could look up the paper referred to in Physical Review C. I need to get back to work and I'm too lazy to do it for you ;)

  20. DMA check for your ibook on Apple OSes and IDE DMA Support? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    DISCLAIMER: I have not tried this, but I found a webiste that has ...

    Daemon News has a little section on the iBook and DMA. You can see the Darwin boot sequence by holding down the "v" key at startup. Find the section titled "Further Exploration: Das Boot" in the article above and it will tell you how to view the boot messages and other useful tidbits.

    IOATAPICDDrive: Using DMA transfers
    IOCDDrive drive: MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-175, rev 5AAE [ATAPI].
    IOATAHDDrive: Using DMA transfers
    IOHDDrive drive: , TOSHIBA MK3211MAT, rev J1.03 G [ATA].
    IOHDDrive media: 6354432 blocks, 512 bytes each, write-enabled.


    It appears that this revision-A iBook does indeed have DMA enabled for both the hard drive and the CD-ROM drive.

    This does not help you enable your own DMA, but do a search on Google for enabling DMA on FreeBSD style systems. You might find something useful.
  21. Re:12 cm or 12 inch? on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: -1, Redundant

    That's what she said!

  22. Resume Eggs on Easter Eggs in Web Sites? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not quite the same, but my resume has an easter egg in it. At the top of the resume, separating my name and job title from the main body of the document, is a small line of ones and zeros (4pt font) with border lines above and below. It looks like a simple, decorative border to separate the title from the rest of the page. It is, but it also contains a "secret message" using "binary encryption".

    Most people don't even notice that it is there.

  23. Re:Krakatau on Earth Recovered Quickly From Extinction Event · · Score: 1, Troll

    Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

  24. Re:Vanishingly small probabilities on Winning the E.T. Lottery · · Score: 4, Informative

    You have a quarter in your pocket and decide to flip it in the air. It lands with the heads side facing up. You repeat this procedure, and without fail the heads side is always facing up after the quarter lands. You do this ... oh ... 10,000,000 times and every time the heads side is facing up. What is the probability that on the next throw the heads side will be facing up?

    Are you ready for the answer? ... 50%

    The existence of intelligent life on this planet does not necessarily imply the existence of intelligent life on other plantes. Just because a quarter lands heads up 10 million times does not imply that the next toss will produce the same result.

    The existence of life on any planet must be taken as an individual probability just as each individual quarter toss must be taken as an individual probability.

    QED

  25. Re:Weird queries? on What's It Like to be Google's Boss Techie? · · Score: 1

    Now that is funny! :) :) :) :) :)

    Five smiley face rating for you.