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  1. Re:Frank Herbert's Dune (and Best of Trek) on New Years Marathons · · Score: 1

    Duh, what day is it?
    :)
    today = star trek, tomorrow = Dune

    Best of Trek starts at 11AM PT Today

  2. Re:Frank Herbert's Dune on New Years Marathons · · Score: 1

    thank you!

    I'd gotten the times messed up, and would have missed the first hour but for your comment

    going to watch/annoy my GF now...

    :)

  3. My Browser Identification String on Linux On the Desktop: 0.24 Percent? · · Score: 1

    Like many of us, I'm sure, I run everything thru junkbuster, both on my home network and at work. So there's 12 linux boxes, 3 solaris boxes, 3 macs, and an assortment of win98, 2K, and XP boxes that identify with:

    HTTP_USER_AGENT="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.01; Windows NT Sucks)"

    I remember reading a study a few years ago about 'net usage being really high in beverly hills, cuz so many people entered '90210' as their postal code in surveys. Um, I'm from canada, that's the only postal code I know. :)

    User-configurable info is kinda useless for generating real stats

  4. Re:Overwhelmingly YES on Making Linux Look Harder Than It Is · · Score: 1

    try #linuxhelp

    there are a few wizards there, who helped me tons when I was a newbie.

  5. Re:*What* a surprise! on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 1

    Holy Parallel posts Batman

  6. Re:*What* a surprise! on Wu-ftpd Remote Root Hole · · Score: 1

    OpenSSH has an sftp client/server for *nix
    there's an sftp client in the (devel) Putty toolset.

    http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putt y/ download.html

    There ya go, no more ftp

    :)

  7. Re:"Sorcerer's Stone" vs. "Philosopher's Stone" on Review: Harry Potter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just a clarification, for those poor 'mericans deeply offended by the name change: they left it intact in the canadian release.
    Guess our kids are a bit more sophisticated...

    ;)

  8. Re:"One of the most important projects..." on Evolution 0.99, Release Candidate Out · · Score: 1

    If they've got IMAP right, it'll work

    I use mutt with the exchange server at work, and it's just fine. Having calendaring compatability would be a major selling point for the higher-ups, tho...

  9. Already? on OS Emulation Extravaganza, OS X On Down · · Score: 1

    Slow connection + big graphics = really fast slashdotting

    :(

  10. Hey, Hey, I know this one! on Microsoft: The Gatekeeper of the Internet · · Score: 1

    >> Are they really this stupid?

    Yes!

  11. 802.11 APs on Slashback: StarOffice, Antennae, Handiness · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just a tip for anyone planning to use 802.11
    DO NOT use Intel's APs
    they are crap

    to keep two operational we've had to buy 4, with one off for warranty pretty much always.
    Buy Cisco!

  12. Let's put the slashdot effect to use! on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 0, Redundant

    nearly 88,000 signatures now,
    let's see how fast we can double that.

    Someone please mod the parent up, to make
    sure everyone sees the link

    link for the lazy:
    http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/22462249 5

  13. for those without TV/radio on World Trade Towers and Pentagon Attacked · · Score: 1

    both towers have collapsed, one plane has hit the pentagon, and another possibly hijacked plane is being tracked near washington.

    It's going to be a scary time for quite a while after this...

  14. Re:What about the antennas ? on Cheap Wireless 802.11b Bridging · · Score: 1

    You can get commercially available adapters to do the conversion. You end up with a slightly messy daisy-chain, but it works.
    I set a similar system up to cross a road a few months ago. I user Intel APs and the cisco antennas.
    One piece of advice: don't use Intel APs. They fail @%$#@%$ constantly. I've had to get twice as many as I need to cover while they go for warranty (but at least the warranty's solid :)

  15. I Want to believe on Global Warming: Do You Believe? · · Score: 1

    :)

  16. Re:Define 'tools' on Aussie Bill Would Ban Hacking Tools, Virus Code · · Score: 1

    MacOS X comes with a portscanner as well.

    Hmmm, this bill hampers 2/3 major OSs
    Who might stand to gain from this?

    :)

  17. Re:Force Yourself on Code Reviews- Do They Really Exist, In Practice? · · Score: 1

    Holy Paper-Wastage, Batman

    :)

    At my last shop we emailed diffs of our changes before checkin, which worked quite well in an environment where lots of people worked remotely.
    Where I am now there isn't really a review process, and I think it really hurts both the code quality and the developers' level of understanding of those areas of the code where they don't work often.

  18. Re:Benchmarks on High Performance Network Applications · · Score: 1

    it's in -current now

    :)

  19. Re:watch out on Elegant Email Encryption for Everyone? · · Score: 1

    And, if you send encrypted email to someone at a company with a tyrant IT admin, expect to get them into trouble.

    I think you mean incompetent admin, not tyrant.
    Speaking as a paranoid sysadmin, I'd be happy if my users were savvy enought to be encrypting.
    I have trouble convincing them that real passwords are a good idea...

  20. Re:my.yahoo.com (and obligatory junkbuster plug) on An Experiment in Micro-Advertising · · Score: 1

    Another benefit to using small text-only ads is that, since they're less bandwidth-wasteful and irritating, it's less likely that I'd bother changing my Junkbuster config to block them.
    Thus they actually get viewed, while the 'punch the monkey' ad gets filtered out.

  21. Re:Question on AOL And The GPL · · Score: 3

    As I understand it, if they just used the code then they just need to say 'we used this stuff' and point prople to where they can get the source. But if they modified it, they have to show the source for their modifications as well.

    This could be an over-simplification...

  22. power on Solar Power Satellites by 2020? · · Score: 1

    now we just need them to send power to california.

  23. Re:RMS's "The Right To Read" on The Read-Once, Write-Never Web · · Score: 1

    nifty???

  24. Re:Looking into the crystal ball on Digital TV Approaches · · Score: 1

    Remember the old 'Max Headroom' series?

    TV was the means of controlling the masses, and havign an 'OFF' switch was punishable by law (sorry, can't remember excatly how)

    Life follows art, truly...

  25. Re:One small flaw... on The Open Source Evangelists Respond · · Score: 1

    OK, maybe Word's not the best example, but Access has never had much backward-compatability, just broken conversion tools...