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  1. Re:One word.. on Jupiter Forecasts 50% Increase In Spam · · Score: 1

    I have a procmail script that does the same. I have an accept-list, any email from an address in there gets delivered to me. (There's also a blacklist but I don't bother). If your email does not appear in either list, your email goes to a "pending" folder and sends an email confirmation message back to the sender. When the sender confirms, their original email is delivered to me.

    I'm not going to post the script here (to save space) but if anyone wants a copy, email me for it: jason@whatever.ii.net (no I'm not scared to post my address, spam can rot in my pending folder)

  2. Re:Huh?? on Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Yes. We all think you're really cool now.

  3. Re:Don't send email! on Verisign Sending Deceptive Domain Renewal Mail? · · Score: 1

    Depends if it's a local call or not.

    (Actually, I have no idea how call costs work in the US, but here in Australia, it would be worth the 22 cents to do that to some irritating company)

  4. [OT] Re: STUPID MOZILLA BUGS on 25 More States Oppose MSFT Antitrust Dismissal · · Score: 1

    Not a Netscape bug. In some older versions of Netscape, resizing the window would screw up the rendering of the page, so a lot of HTML editors now put in a javascript thing that reloads the page if it's resized in Netscape. Blame the HTML, not the browser...

  5. Re:Won't work on African animals to roam Australia ? · · Score: 1

    Except for the small fact that Canberra is on the opposite side of the country to the Kimberly (where they're apparantly going to be putting the thing)... :)

  6. Re:Same old... on Four Kids Confess to Goner Worm · · Score: 1

    Do you actually expect people to know what the hell a .scr file is?

    No, but they probably should know that a Word document ends with .doc (seeing as they send them around so much), and know what the other normal extensions are. If you don't recognise it, don't open it.

  7. Re:NO..... on States Filing Alternate Remedy Proposal for MS Anti-Trust Case · · Score: 1

    The paperclip? :)

  8. Re:Internet Explorer ? on New Transgaming WineX Release · · Score: 1

    Works fine on Codeweavers Wine. Bit slow to start up, but works perfectly once it's going.

  9. Re:Windows troll, was: Re:As Pro Linux as I am.... on Why Switch a Big Software Project to autoconf? · · Score: 1

    Great, if you're only targeting one platform. But it doesn't work for building on multiple platforms, because your "setup.exe" binary will only run on the platform it was built for.

    And as far as making it easy for your average user, most software (for linux at least) is released as .rpm or .deb for your distro which is usually just as easy as a setup.exe - double click the .rpm in Konquerer (or whatever file manager your distro uses by default) and away you go.

  10. Re:Who says you can't read/write the drive image? on In-depth X-Box Hardware Review · · Score: 1

    Who cares about the partition format? As long as you can physically read bits from the drive and write them to the other, you should be able to do a perfect (bit-for-bit) copy.

  11. Re:Who says you can't read/write the drive image? on In-depth X-Box Hardware Review · · Score: 1
    (3) How will dd help you if you want to use a different hard drive? dd is great for copying HDA to HDB, where both HDs are the same in every respect. However, sticking in a 40GB 7200RPM drive to get more speed will not work anyway.


    As I said in another reply, if speed is the only thing you need to upgrade, going from a 10GB 5400rpm to a 10GB 7200rpm shouldn't make a difference. dd should work as long as the drive geometry is the same (which I'm assuming the speed doesn't make any difference to)
  12. Re:The two drives better have the same geometry th on In-depth X-Box Hardware Review · · Score: 1

    5400rpm vs 7200rpm. I'm assuming speed isn't going to make a difference to drive geometry (I don't see it making any at all).

    Quite a bit of an "upgrade" if the drive is as slow as they say it is.

  13. Who says you can't read/write the drive image? on In-depth X-Box Hardware Review · · Score: 2, Insightful
    From the article:
    What would help however is a faster hard drive, but there are numerous problems associated with performing a hard drive upgrade:

    1) Getting the Xbox image onto the hard drive. Without modification, no OS will let you access the Xbox hard drive making it very difficult to create a ghosted image of the drive


    ummm... dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdd anyone? (or whatever the device names to be when you plug them in on your system).
    Why does the OS have to understand the data to read/write it raw from one disk to the other?
  14. Re:Hah! on KDE Wins 3 awards · · Score: 1

    Lame? yes. Offtopic: no. Why do I get the impresstion that a certain moderator doesn't have a clue?

  15. Re:What about PayPal etc.? on Passport's Pocket Picked · · Score: 1

    congratulations, you got the joke!

  16. Re:You can't win an arms race on Stopping SpamBots With Apache · · Score: 1

    Use a robots.txt file. Tell spiders not to visit that page. If *any* spider, spambot or otherwise, disregards the robots.txt file it should be banned.

  17. Just one question... on Java On Dreamcast Forges On · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...why?

  18. Re:Slashdotted too on Terabyte File Server for $5,000 · · Score: 1

    Nah. Just slow. Welcome to the world of dial-up :)

    It's still up.

  19. Mirror on Terabyte File Server for $5,000 · · Score: 1

    I've made a copy of the file (minus images) since it got slashdotted within one minute.

    http://whatever.ii.net/mirrors/terafile.html

  20. Re:Jus�t don�t pay them! on KIllustrator Changes Name to Kontour · · Score: 1
    The idea behind this, crazy as it sounds, seems to be that the law firm acts in the interest of the recipient of the letter, by letting him know that violates someone's IP and might face damages if he continues to do so. For this "service", the law firm can indeed charge money.


    To take this to a rediculous extreme:
    Person #1: Excuse me, your shoelace is untied.
    Person #2: Uh, thanks. <ties up shoelace>
    Person #1: That'll be $5000 for my advice.


    Yes, the advice may have been helpful, but did the recipient ever agree to pay to recieve the advice? If not, why do they have a right to ask for money and then sue?
  21. Re:What's new ? on WSJ Reports On MS Using Open Source · · Score: 1
    C:\WIN95B>strings ftp.exe | grep alif
    This may sound like a dumb question...but since when does Windows (95b or otherwise) have a grep command?
  22. Re:slightly ontopic on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 1

    I was under the impression (from the previous comment) that there was a Mozilla option to do it. I don't use Junkbuster (although I might give it a go...)

  23. Re:slightly ontopic on Mozilla 0.9 Out · · Score: 2

    Which option is this? I can't see it anywhere in that file...

  24. Re:anti microsoft rant coming! on The End Of The Paperclip · · Score: 1

    How about turning off the auto-capitalise thing in the AutoCorrect options?

  25. Re:Why even a Techie hates Clippy on The End Of The Paperclip · · Score: 1

    You do know that Netscape does, right?

    And Netscape 6 isn't half bad (even though 4 sucked)