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  1. Stonecutters? on Hydrogen Powered Cars · · Score: 1

    Who keeps down the electric car?
    Who makes Steve Guttenburg a star?

  2. The eternal material... on Tombstones That Last? · · Score: 1

    styrofoam.

  3. Re:Start your own port project today! on The DeCSS Haiku · · Score: 1

    How's about a postscript port so I can use my printers' idle time to decrypt DVDs!

  4. srm on How To Really And Fully Wipe A Hard Drive? · · Score: 1
  5. umm... on Forget SuperDisks -- Try 32MB On A Floppy · · Score: 1
    As if floppies weren't unreliable enough, let's cram more stuff on them.

    Now companies can charge more than 5 dollars a piece for "enhanced floppies."

  6. Three in a row on Cherry, Cherry, Blue Screen Of Death · · Score: 1
    Now, what's the payoff on three blue-screens in a row again?

    An MSCE certificate?

  7. Re:Question: on The Unblinking Eye · · Score: 1

    and it's exactly like the wreck of the hesperus.

  8. Wait a minute! on What If Yahoo Was Acquired? · · Score: 2

    You mean Yahoo! is more than amagazine?

  9. Re:That's kind of weird. on Cray Linux Beowulf Clusters · · Score: 1

    No, this is actually from Tera/Cray. Check out their website.

  10. Re:win32 ssh on Taking Time Off When You Are The Only Admin? · · Score: 1

    You can also try Mindterm, a java implementation of an ssh client. It works well launched from a browser. The older version of the client is GPL'ed but it doesn't do ssh2. The newer version does ssh2 but it's still in beta and they haven't decided on the license yet.

  11. Re:What IT Is And Isn't on What is 'IT'? · · Score: 1

    Hoverbikes, perhaps?

  12. Re:Duron is a Great Chip on Duron 850 CPU Benchmarks · · Score: 1
    The chip [Duron 850] is inexpensive (the 850 will be around $150)

    Why would one buy a Duron 850 when an Thunderbird 900 is $130?

  13. Re:Louisiana Pests on AOL Sues Porn Spammers · · Score: 1
    Nutria?

    Check out their creepy orange teeth.

    Cooking nutria.

  14. Re:Fill In The Blanks on Cryptome Posts Just-Released Tempest Documents · · Score: 1
    noctural?

    sorry for the 8th-grade humor.

  15. Re:So when *should* it change? on Attacks Against SSH 1 And SSL · · Score: 2

    If you want better protection than that, the best solution is to hack OpenSSH or what not to only accept a key with a given key fingerprint for a given IP. In other words, if the host key is changed, the hacked client will not connect to the host in question. In OpenSSH the directive StrictHostKeyChecking does exactly this, provided the IP in question is in your known_hosts file.

  16. Mindterm on Wireless SSH2 Devices? · · Score: 3

    I don't know anything about wireless but you might want to check out a java implementation of an ssh client, Mindterm. It can be run from within a browser (I set up a web page to launch Mindterm and use it all the time when confronted with a Windows machine). The recently released version (14.Nov) supports ssh2. The old versions (not ssh2) were free for "non-commercial, personal, system adminstration or evaluation" use but the new version claims it will expire in 30 days. However I think the code is available (but I don't see it on the website) so one could just disable that if the previous license applies.

  17. Re:silly OS on MS 'Whistler' Looks Solid To ZDNET · · Score: 1

    ... like Krusty the Klown after viewing the Soviet version of Itchy & Scratchy, "Worker and Parasite" ...

    To pick nits, it was East German, not Soviet.

  18. Re:Socialism on Presidential Answers, Round One · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of a little thing called the "international Socialist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids"?

  19. Re:Pardon My Ignorance... on VIC20 As Wap Client · · Score: 1

    I believe the C-64 was 1.44 MHz and the C-128 was 2.88 MHz (I'm not sure about the Z80 chip, though). Those were the days...

  20. Re:Various Options on Presentation Program w/ Equation Editor? · · Score: 2

    I find LaTeX with Acrobat to produce very nice results (using either ps2pdf or pdftex to produce the pdf files). The FoilTeX package (check here ;, for example) I think does a dramatically better job than the seminar class.

  21. Re:CueCat's other product - the "convergence cable on Slashback: Guido, Games, Felines · · Score: 1

    Emmm, that's :Convergence :Cable

  22. Re:Mandrake bloat on Mandrake 7.2 Beta (Ulysses) Released · · Score: 1
    Have you tried Mandrake lately? I'll agree that it is huge (too huge?) but 7.1 is very stable for me (on a P200/64MB/S3). For security, I hadn't tried previous releases but 7.1 has offers different levels of security on install (which changes things like directory permissions, among others) and a daily script to notify root of open ports, suid/sgid files, world writable files/directories, etc. and changes to those.

    I think you may have a point about stability to some degree since the philosophy of Mandrake is to include the latest of everything but I think it's pretty good security-wise.

  23. Re:Torpedoes; Help the Family on Slashback: Delays, Torpedos, Revitalization · · Score: 1

    Kursk was *not* a "boomer" or "fast attack" in the sense of the American fleet. It was an anti-ship sub. It was designed specifically to shoot anti-ship missles at American aircraft carriers because the Soviets didn't have any (non-VSTOL) carriers of their own and knew what an advantage this was to the Americans. It could be armed with tactical nuclear missles but not strategic ones. The fact that it wasn't carrying any at the time is not strange in this time of relative peace for the Russian.

  24. Re:Hmm... on Is UNIX An OS? · · Score: 1

    There has been some talk here about GNU tools *not* bneing installed in the standard install of MacOS X. Due to the fact that it hasn't been released no one really knows, but maybe it will come with those tools out of the box. But you still got my point didn't you?

  25. Re:All this is crap on The Computer of 2010 · · Score: 1

    But I predict that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.