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  1. Re:If only it made sense.. on Patch To Allow Linux To Use Defective DIMMs · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but your engine is most likely running unbalanced. The firing order is there for a reason. Most likely in the Caddy V8s you're talking about, the onboard computer would stop firing the opposing cylinder under the other head as well.

  2. Re:different models: like mixing apples and organe on AOL Trying To Unify AIM And ICQ Services · · Score: 1

    wrong :) ICQ is peer-to-peer TCP and client-server UDP. That's not the point. If they keep the same interface to the system, and merge the two databases, then no matter what back end was used, it'd still be 'AIM' and 'ICQ'.

  3. Re:NOOOOooooo...... on Metallica Vs. Harvard · · Score: 1

    interesting .sig -- is that a Leonard Cohen song?

  4. Re:What?!?! a correction on ARIN: No More IP's For IP-Based Virtual Hosts · · Score: 1

    Not wanting to be a pedantic fuck, but IPv6 actually uses 16 byte addresses, from memory.

  5. Re:Little reason for .US on U.S. To Re-Administer .US Domain Space · · Score: 1

    cool troll dude

  6. Re:Too easy to get around?... on Gnutella Vs. SPAM · · Score: 1


    A good way around this spam problem would involve
    a public/private key system.

    Let me explain. Alice has a good collection of
    glam rock mp3s, horse porn, or whatever tickles
    Bob's fancy. Bob sees the search reply which
    apparently contains 'horse porn.mpg' or whatever,
    which is signed with alice's public key,
    then sends the user (who might or might not be alice) a challenge, encrypted with this key.

    If the challenge is returned in plaintext,
    Bob knows that the file IS originating from
    alice, and unless alice has a good reason to
    spam Bob, then he knows he'll be getting what
    he sees.

    Obviously this sytem relies on knowing in advance
    a list of public keys for trusted users. I guess
    the idea here is that you can have searches that
    either return results from everyone, or only from
    people you trust. If somebody returns a file
    which is later verified as 'good', you could
    add their public key to your list of 'known good'
    trusted content providers. If somebody spams
    you, you could blacklist this key. Of course,
    spammers are likely to change public keys every
    few minutes, but there is an incentive for people
    who supply reliable content to hang onto a 'trusted' keypair.

    I'm not sure how hard this would be to implement, obviously the cryptographic exchange would take
    place via a direct tcp or udp connection, and not
    via the gnutella network itself.

  7. Re:not a surprise on Gateway Says Bug Affects 1GHz Thunderbird Systems · · Score: 1

    What a shame. It would seem that with our regular compliment of trolls and spammers out and about, doing their rounds, that there's little room for insightful comment left on this forum. That's one of the reasons I decided it was incumbent upon me to do something about it (see comment #95.)

    Maybe i'll have to do something about this syringe idiot now. Beer and syringes... now who would have thought that they would mix? Perhaps he can give himself a hypodermic in some amusing part of his anatomy and save me the trouble of putting him into a very little box (which i would then feed to a very large canine)

    Oh yeah. Happy Birthday, Ms Hot Young Actress (albeit a belated one.)

  8. Re:Writer vs. Musician on Douglas Adams Answers (Finally) · · Score: 1

    You have to remember that the interview with lars was a transcript of a phone call. The interviewer put him on the spot, so to speak.

    Douglas Adams, i assume, had a considerable amount of time to reply to these questions.

    That said, i was somehwat disappointed with some of his answers, he seemed to answer the good questions rather shortly and spend an inordinate amount of paragraphs plugging his wares, so to speak.

  9. Re:Could someone point me to a networking tutorial on The Slashdot DDoS: What Happened? · · Score: 1

    Actually, there are two standard ways of doing it. Taking pin 1 to be the leftmost when you have an rj45 plug upside down, the most common way of wiring a cable is 1 light orange 2 orange 3 light green 4 brown 5 light brown 6 green 7 light blue 8 blue pins 1 and 2 make up one twisted pair, and 3 and 6 make up another (as you already noted.) the other two twisted pairs, pins 4/5 and 7/8, are used in 100Base-T4 and Gigabit-over-copper. (I think 100VG also uses the other 2 pairs in some applications) so if you're going to wire a crossover cable for this sort of environment, dont forget to swap these two as well (catch: pin 7 to pin 5, pin 8 to pin 4) So, for a 4 pair crossover, your 2 cable ends would look like end one end two 1. light orange light green 2. orange green 3. light green light orange 4. brown blue 5. light brown light blue 6. green orange 7. light blue light brown 8. blue brown. - S

  10. Re:Sad, but only to be expected. on Australian TelCo Required To Grant Loop Access · · Score: 1

    isn't the tax rate around 30%?
    well, thats what I pay AFTER claiming the tax free threshold. Or maybe i'm just dumb.....

    Seriously though, I didn't have much of a take on the whole thing until i travelled from melbourne to ipswich a couple of times and walked from our motel to the local bottle shop at 10:30 and was accosted by a few aboriginal chicks with chrome paint in coke bottles between their tits, wanting cigarettes.

    Not wanting said chicks to blow up spontaneously, I claimed i didn't have any.

    The experience has repeated itself a few times since then. I dunno, tho, i'm more inclined to take a slightly more humanitarian view on the whole thing. But i guess you can't help a population where the majority is used to feeling hard done by and has lost sight of themselves.

    Ah well, them's the breaks. In melbourne, you trade chroming aboriginals for smack-addicted minority groups. Don't know what's sadder.

    - CyberChrist

  11. Re:Funny? on FreeBSD 4.0 Released · · Score: 1

    its funny cos... AHHAHAHAHA... um, because HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, erm...

    like i was saying... its amusing because they... AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

    ah man, i'm cracking up here. can't you see the (HEHEHE) humour in a dead composer commenting on unix?

    BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHA