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  1. Re:Are you sure? on PEBKAC Still Plagues PC Security · · Score: 1

    Must users are very plesant to deal with, and most companies have a policy that you shouldn't save data anywhere else but in you home dir. I've gotten free lunch while helping user recover data they saved in /var/tmp, on one of our terminal servers. Hard for them to find easy for me, that's a problem with load balancing.

  2. Re:Adobe Lightroom on GIMP 2 for Photographers · · Score: 1

    I've worked with photographers and they love Aperture, it's perfect for what they need, fixing colors and I don't know what else.. But I've met other people who needs PS to improve their photos, but that's just different styles of shoting/working.

  3. Re:Having your cake and eating it too on German Court Rules That Websites Can't Retain Logged IPs · · Score: 1

    Lets say you log all connections done in bittorent and then match them against the people logging in on your government site looking for jobs.

  4. Re:Damned if you do... on The Uncertain Future of OpenOffice.org · · Score: 1

    "In my opinion" is important here, it's almost certain you will step on someones toes...

    IMHO KDE sucks UI wise, I would like to use it but I just can't bare the default desktop. In the beginning KDE felt like a Win 3.11 wannabe, now it wants to be XP. Sometime I'm sure you will/can beable to configure the Windows(tm) out of KDE then it might be great, but I really think they are the low point of modern UI design. GNOME on the other had has done a lot better job on their UI by stripping down features.

  5. White list of all ip address on the net on Firefox 3 Antiphishing Sends Your URLs To Google · · Score: 1

    Number of addresses on the net:
    2^32 = 4 294 967 296

    Info needed to white list an ip
    1 bit

    Size of a full white list:
    2^32 bit = 512 megabytes

    Number of Reserved IP addresses RFC3300:
    (8 * (2^24)) + (4 * (2^16)) + (2^20) + (4 * (2^8)) + (2^15) + (2 * (2^28)) = 672 433 152

    Number of bytes needed for a 1-to-1 white list
    (2^32-672 433 152) / 8 = 430 megabytes

    Bytes needed for a 64-to-1 white list
    452 816 768 / 16 = 27 megabytes

    if it passes the white list then don't send to google..

  6. "instrument of Death" my arse on Which Lost/Stolen Laptop Trackers Do You Like? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Remember guns don't kill people, they are harmless things.

  7. Re:Pay stub != compensation on City Fights Blogger On Display of Public Information · · Score: 1

    There has been an law/policy in Sweden since the seventies that prohibits publishing you socialsecurity number on communications with the costumer. I'm sure you have something similar in the US, and looking at those payrecords they seem to contain employenumbers not socialsecurity numbers.

  8. Lotus Notes on IBM Joins OpenOffice.org Community · · Score: 1

    We all now Open office is slow so lets hope We get the fast and Wonderfull Lotus notes interface on Open Office.

  9. Re:Why not make it peer-to-peer on NTP Pool Reaches 1000 Servers, Needs More · · Score: 1

    A Sys Admin friend once got the great idea to use his unsynchronized servers to sync time with each other. He didn't really need the correct time, just consistent among all the servers. Well it was a lot worse, the servers couldn't keep the time at all, jumping 200ms back and forth.

  10. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    Well I saw the time from Francos death (1975) to Spains admittance to the EU as to short to really matter. But I really know to little about Spains history to say something usefull, but of course you are right Spain came a long way economically in the end of the last millenia.

  11. SUN is horrible on the desktop on Sun Says OpenSolaris Will Challenge Linux · · Score: 1

    It works sure, but it is no where close to a Windows desktop, and far behind Linux Desktops. You would think they would have solved printing in some nice way but not even that is available.

    Though their Sun Ray clients are easy on the administrator and the best on the market, you just got to love a thin client with two monitors at 1920x1200 (Sun Ray 2FS). They are also pretty ceap $200 - $600.

  12. Resolution of a projector on Effective Use of Technology In the Classroom? · · Score: 1

    You can't ever beat a blackboard, all you can do with a projector is doodling and painting since yourt pixels are 0.5cm across.

  13. Re:this is the result of socialism on Wikileaks Breaks $3 Billion Corruption Story · · Score: 1

    Yes Franco was a great socialist leader.

  14. Re:Dear Sweden... on Lobbying Could Cause Legal Trouble for Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok you put down at least $60000 then we all can become members, and vote NO.

    We may have money, but not many are zealots enough to put it where it's worth.

  15. Re:Others precede it on Google and Others Sued For Automating Email · · Score: 1

    You know what is described in the patent really is a listserv of sort, even though it's not meant for the same thing it really serves the same purpose.

    Having a bad day?

  16. Re:prev. art: Debian Bugs tracking system on Google and Others Sued For Automating Email · · Score: 1

    a classifier for classifying the electronic message into at least one of (i) being able to be responded to automatically; and (ii) requiring assistance from a human operator.


    This is the most important part, I think but this here is the most comical, so if I use utf-8?:

    15. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic message is received over an electronic data communications channel.

    16. The method of claim 15, wherein the electronic data communications channel is the Internet.

    17. The method of claim 15, wherein the electronic message is an electronic mail (E-mail) message.

    18. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

    (a1) receiving the electronic message from the source in a first data format; and

    (a2) converting the electronic message from the first data format to an electronic message having a second data format.

    19. The method of claim 18, wherein the first data format is one of a printed document format, a voice data format, a dual tone multi-frequency (DTMF) format, and a first digital data format.

    20. The method of claim 19, wherein the second data format is a second digital data format.

    21. The method of claim 20, wherein the first and second digital data formats are ASCII.

    22. The method of claim 1, wherein the predetermined response is altered in accordance the interpretation of the electronic message before delivery to the source.

    23. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic message includes fixed data.

    24. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic message includes variable data.
  17. prev. art: Debian Bugs tracking system on Google and Others Sued For Automating Email · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the Debian bugs system page it says the first version was realeased in 94. I'm not sure how much was implemented, but in it's current form it's really very much alike the patent (what is said in the abstract anyways.

    Listserv might also apply, if they had advanced mailinglist management in the beginning.

  18. Re:Update last week hosed my box on Ubuntu Servers Hacked · · Score: 1

    But that kind of sucks, because there is no explanation why the packages aren't signed. So the risk of someone not caring about that warning is very high..

  19. Fills up too fast anyways on Terabyte Hard Drive Put To the Test · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem is this will be full in 24h with a 100Mbps connection anyways, or ~6 hours if you live in sweden.

  20. With more people there will be more quality stuff on US Spy Agencies See Bloggers as Journalists · · Score: 1

    there are few bloggers worse than the vast majority of Croatian journalists;


    My experience tells me that journalists are seldom better than the newpaper they work for, so I think you will find that it's the management that is lacking. Taking it futher it's probably the public that doesn't care about good news. But this is true all over, the quality of new papers sinks because there are less people that care about reading a couple of thousand words on a subject.

    Though the quality of blogs just goes up, with more people there will be more quality stuff.
  21. Re:Pure speculation - mod parent down. on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    The article and the parent post are complete fluff.


    It's funny because it's true..
  22. Re:Clones aren't clones, just cheap rippoffs on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    Bah... Quality might be better than some of the crap that is sold under big names as Cisco/MS etc, but the iPhone really is a good piece of hardware. But what I really reacted on was the use of Linux.

  23. Re:Clones aren't clones, just cheap rippoffs on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    If it was a clone I would gladly buy it, even if it was named jPod by Agple. What I'm saying is that it takes people to design something like this, sure it's going to take less people if they want to launch it in one year from now.

  24. Re:Clones aren't clones, just cheap rippoffs on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    Well if these people would give us the source code I'm sure we could make it better, just look at rockbox. This is the point they are cheap rip off but if you can manage to get the code they would be wonderfull gadgets, ripe for exploits from good hackers.

    That's something that has to be spread in China, these companies would profit in hardware sales from this.

  25. Re:Clones aren't clones, just cheap rippoffs on Chinese Pirates Copy iPhone, Make Improvements · · Score: 1

    I would gladly buy a phone with a bad interface if I had the source, even if it had half (try quantify that) the horsepower. The thing about iPhone is that it really has had a big team of engineers working on it, and I know some of them and they are extremly good.