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  1. Re:News? on Windows 2003 and XP SP2 Vulnerable To LAND Attack · · Score: 1

    Yeah right.

    Cause I never would maybe want to run SSH/SFTP and be able to get to it from the inside or from a trusted LAN to my DMZ and not allow anyone from the cloud to get to it. Or I might never want to run a webserver and let a client look at it but not anybody else from the net. And of course all cloud facing servers should have internet legal addresses as opposed to giving them a RFC 1918 address hiding them behind your firewall and then if by chance you sys admin makes a mistake and opens a port that she shouldn't by accident you are still safe till she can fix it. Cause yeah defense in depth is stupid.

    So yes ports that you don't want people talking on should be closed but in the real world that is just not possible and/or you want different groups of people to be able to talk to a given box on different ports. And oh yeah in a building of 300+ nodes you tell me how you are going to be sure that every box is locked down.

  2. Re:All I can say... on OSS Unix: Dividing & Conquering Itself · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah. Cause single points of failure and non-human readable configs are such a very good idea.

  3. Re:I've tried all 3 on Privateer Remake Complete · · Score: 1

    What drivers do you have?

  4. Re:We are a silly nation on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 1

    Linkage? Because what you are saying doesn't jive with what I remember. And no the most converative of people would really like to figure out a way for little boys to have children without having to see any of the "evil parts".

  5. BOFH on Views on Violence in Video Games · · Score: 1

    Yeah. That was mostly just me and my etherkillers. You take that out of the scene and the gamer numbers go down to 2%.

  6. Re:15 grand to a telco company... on FCC Fines Company for Blocking Access to VoIP · · Score: 1

    A 12" Lodge by prefrence.

  7. Re:Liability problems? on Stallman Calls For Action on Free BIOS · · Score: 3, Informative

    BIOS updates right now basically say that if they burn your house down it sucks to be you. In fact *all* software says this. How would this be different and why would anyone view it as anything other than another piece of software?

  8. Re:Freedom of Speech on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 1

    Very true. In order to make my free speech argument I was giving the spammers the benefit of the doubt but you are, of course, correct.

  9. Re:Freedom of Speech on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 4, Informative

    The correct comparison is not to Larry Flynt and this is why teh First Amendement argument doesn't really hold water.

    The difference is really simple. Larry and the spammers/spimmers should both have the right to publish whatever they want to. But Larry has no way to, *force* me to view what he publishes. I have to get out of my chair, go to the store and exchange money to get it. OTOH spammers/spimmers both shove it down my throat. Thanks to fine tools like SapmAssassin and a very aggresive .procmailrc I manage to avoid most spam sent my way. I'm guessing it's slightly harder on a phone and of course most people don't know how to use those tools. The correct comparison is a salesdroid knocking on your door and if you don't answer trying to yell his "message" through the closed door. And that is not and should not be protected.

    In short the problem is not that the spimmers are saying the things they are saying. It is that they are forcing you to listen. Which is a bad thing.

  10. Re:Using *nix as a Primary Domain Controller on Where are the 'Modern' Directory Services? · · Score: 1

    If I want to install something how do I get rpm to grab it and all it's depends for me?

    Granted as a package format rpms and debs are pretty much equal and depend as much on the packager as the format for quality. But, from what I've seen, as a package management app rpm can't hold a candle to apt.

  11. Re:Not as great as it looks on European Parliament Rejects Software Patents · · Score: 1

    Do what I do. Use this script with vim and them paste into /.

    http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?sc ri pt_id=465

  12. Re:Something seems to be missing on Corporate Email Clients Reviewed · · Score: 1

    In what Universe is Pine a "Linux only" client?

  13. Re:Mutt on Corporate Email Clients Reviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they did include Pine. Which is why the question makes perfect sense.

  14. Re:Brick and Mortar? on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 1

    Nice. Now I know where to get copies for overseas friends. Will they be on the website?

    Somedays I *hate* living in Albany.

  15. Re:Go Make Go! on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 1

    I got mine on Monday Feb. 14th. But I'm on the West Coast.

  16. Re:Doubtful on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 1

    Then you are not the target audience. Yes most if not all of the stuff is online. But many of us still enjoy sitting down with a dead tree copy. To me it is one of lifes great pleasures.
    And oh yeah. I can read this on the train. Those 2 or 3 hours of being more entertained than I would have been otherwise seem like a good deal to me.

  17. Re:I bet on Panera Bread Is The Largest Provider Of Free WiFi · · Score: 1

    Spider Robinson fans?

    If not they should be.

  18. Re:192 Pages? on 'Make' Premier Issue · · Score: 2, Insightful

    /me looks at his copy.

    I count 8 ads. At least one of which is for a *very* cool company. There are also links for places to buy the stuff you need for the project in the articles themselves. But I consider that info rather than ads. It is worth every penny.

  19. Re:Let the ubiquitous RMS bashing begin... on Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words · · Score: 1

    Now if only he could grow a sense of humour and continue to take his work seriously while taking himself much less seriously he would be a likable genius.

  20. Re:I wish they'd move into house search on Google Formula For Adding New Products · · Score: 1

    http://battellemedia.com/images/googlekeys.jpg

  21. Re:Debian? on X.Org 6.8.2 is Out · · Score: 1

    Yes. Many peeople do.

    http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/ de bian/local/FAQ.xhtml#debianplans

    And now you know also.

  22. Re:Which One? on Ask Microsoft's Martin Taylor About Linux vs. Windows · · Score: 1

    The answer for me would be neither. Openbox is teh win.

  23. Re:Oh, come on on FreeBSD Announces Contest To Replace Daemon Logo · · Score: 1

    I think you misunderstand.

    When a BSD box is booting the shit has well and truly hit the fan. Odds are people will be focused on things other than boot images. Most likely admins screaming "FUCK" at the top of their lungs and putting their fists through things.

  24. Re:Snort on Free Open-Source vs. Commercial Security Tools? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sourcefire. Martin Roesch's company. It gives you, the admin, the goodness of Snort and OSS tools and gives your bosses a contract to feel all warm and fuzzy about. Pretty much a win-win. I love my Sourcefire boxen and they cost less than the other commercial IDSes.

  25. Re:books beat electronic documents? on Firefox In Print · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ORA releases more free content than any other vendor you can name and stuff on Safari has basically no copy protection and no DRM whatsoever. To accuse Tim O'Reilly of being profit hungry scum is just plain wrong. The simple fact of the matter is that while there is a demand for dead tree books he will happily fill it and that he has been making a tidy profit off of a very non-evil ebook system for years now.

    So just what *was* your point?