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  1. Re:practicality on Review: PogoProducts' Radio Your Way · · Score: 1

    Phil Hendrie is a radio god. Given that you like Hannity I'm also betting that you don't like Tom Leykis either but both of them are great. And of course in Portland Rick Emerson is a radio gangsta.

  2. Re:Doesn't make sense to me on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    My one friend talks about attaching it to a deer that lives on his property. Pretty good idea since where he lives they would have a hard time getting a good fix anyway. You just have to put enough miles on it so they do not have an excuse to come after you. :)

  3. Re:How about a DVD? on Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation · · Score: 1

    You do of course know that there is a dvd coming out.

    http://www.indianajones.com/

  4. Re:Long Decline Anyway on Justin Frankel Resigns From Nullsoft · · Score: 1

    Windows media player

  5. Re:Truly Dumb Idea - Techno-Overkill. on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    It is clear that you are not from Oregon. I'm not either but I do live here and we are not allowed to pump our own gas. :) So this would not work but given the terrian where I live there are all kinds of other hacks that could work.

  6. Re:Doesn't make sense to me on More on Oregon and GPS-tracked Gas Taxes · · Score: 1

    Of course there is the fact that you are putting hardware in the hands of users. I can think of many ways to hack this off the top of my head. This is a bad idea laughed at by just about everyone I know here in Oregon.

  7. Re:In the future on Gecko Feet Inspire Sticky Tape · · Score: 1

    Gecko tape the Handyman's secret weapon.

    And for the mods who don't get the joke.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=U TF -8&q=red+green+show&btnG=Google+Search

  8. Re:Whose computers still crash? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    That has not been my experince. Yes there are more alerts for Debian but they are, in general, fixed faster and expolited less.

    In my experince except for a very few specific situations Linux is *much* faster than Windows.

    In my experince Windows crashes more and has more problema than anything else I've used.

    So no I don't assume that everything is bad it is just that based on what I use every day Windows sucks. Now does Linux and all the *nixes have things that need to be improved of course they do but from my point of view as a network guy *nix just works and does what I want it to they way I want it to and gives me all the tools I need to do things the right way. Windows simply does not. So while I understand almost nothing about kernel design I do understand that if I need a computer to do a job with odds are I can do it quickly and easily with Linux no so much with Windows.

    Granted I'm a geeked out networking guy and what I want and need are not what the other 99% of the population wants and needs but I can convert almost anyone to Linux just by showing them how it can solve their problems. So when things "just work" with Windows and they are not getting expolited more then I might buy into kernel design arguments. But for now it does not matter because they can not meet my needs easily or well.

  9. Re:Huh? Stuffing FUD in there or what? on Mainframe Techies Are A Dying Breed · · Score: 1

    Well in the case of MPE it is dying and being replaced by HP-UX and if you know Linux you can get up to speed on HP-UX in short order. So at least in one market it does in fact refresh the labor pool. I'm thinking IBM is moving the same way away from whatever OS/Language they use and towards Linux. So yea this does in fact make sense

  10. Re:Whose computers still crash? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    So why is this better?
    Assuming that your answer is speed/stability/security then why in the real world does NT do so poorly in all of those areas?

  11. Re:Whose computers still crash? on Why Do Computers Still Crash? · · Score: 1

    I can spell so back up your claims. :)

  12. Re:For those of you who don't know who this is... on 'Quicksilver' Website and Release Date · · Score: 1

    No he won't, be forgotten that is. In any case you are right he needs to work on endings but he is still young and will become just plain great.

  13. Re:Resolved: NOTGNOME on GnomeDex 3.0 · · Score: 1

    I also was in the NFL!!!
    http://debate.uvm.edu/nfl.html I was team BTW.

  14. I'm proud on O'Reilly Commits to Short Copyright Durations · · Score: 1

    to be wearing my O'Reilly shirt today. :)

  15. Re:How is it not a parody of Shortcake? on Penny Arcade vs. American Greetings Revisited · · Score: 1

    Coke. For example in Texas and other parts of the country people will ask "What kind of coke do you want?" Some linguists did a study on this and concluded that, at least in some parts of the country, coke as become a generic term for "soda". According to my prof at the time Coke finaced another group of Linguists to produce a study that says that it is not a term just to save their copyright. Granted this has nothing to do with this case but it is a kind of fun factoid.

  16. Re:Not sure your reasoning is sound on Securing Your Network? · · Score: 3, Informative

    To answer the question and second you I *have* read the NSA docs along with a bunch of other stuff and you are %100 right. The knowledge and information to secure a network and secure it right is out there and it is just lazy not to know it if you are a person who is supposed to be doing this stuff. Start with "Secerts and Lies" to get you in the right frame of mind and then start reading the rest of the stuff. Then you can do it right.

  17. Maybe we could on Spammers Sue Anti-Spam Groups · · Score: 2, Funny

    make decks of playing cards with pictures of these guys and then do various things that I will not specify here for legal reasons to them after we find them. :)

  18. Re:I feel really old :-( on Nebula Award Winners, Hugo Nominees Announced · · Score: 1

    This is basically a universal opnion. Yes he should end a book but the trip is IMO worth it.

  19. Re:I feel really old :-( on Nebula Award Winners, Hugo Nominees Announced · · Score: 2, Informative

    The "and others" leaves a lot of room but I'll try.

    David Drake - Great Military SF.

    Jerry Pournelle - But I'm sure he is one of the "others".

    John Ringro - I just started on some of his stuff and he is *good*.

    Neal Stephenson - Great just plain great.

    David Brin, Greg Bear,

  20. Re:my $0.02 on When Should a Consultant Question Decisions? · · Score: 1

    Also you are right because clearly if you have the second kind of relationship with the client they know that you are good and thus worth the money and likely to listen to you OTOH in the first type they clearly don't respect you. Therefore if they are a "good client" you can safely point out to them what is going on and why.

    When I do consultant type work basically I outline the ways things could be done and then flat out tell them which is the best way. I then let them make the choice. Also like you say I tell them what they should do but *never* how.

  21. Re:Spare Parts on Beige Box Apple Clone? · · Score: 1

    Monster Garage!!!

  22. Re:Celebrate by converting people on Mozilla Project Turns 5 · · Score: 1

    Various friends and family members and many people at work.

    When I first got here there where several websites that people had been having problems with and had been blaming "the network". Well of course on my first day the first thing I did was install Mozilla. After that we where testing with the problem child websites and for whatever reason Mozilla worked *much* better than IE, no one before me had thought of testing with it. With that wedge in the door I started testing with and promoting Mozilla every chance I get. We have gone from a shop that developed only for IE and for the most part only used IE to a shop where Mozilla is included in the official image from MIS.

    Yes I am proud of that one.

  23. Re:It's an excellent strategy. on Windows 2003 Going Gold · · Score: 2, Informative

    You are either a liar or just wrong. Either way you need to visit this page. http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ProductInfo/Avai lability/Retiring.asp
    and this http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/ProductInfo/Avai lability/faq.asp#16
    According to their own website they are supposed to provide security fixes up to January 2005. So while you would not expect they have said that they would and now are refusing to do so. This makes them LIARS . Now admit you are wrong. :)

  24. Re:What about Microsoft's SLA's? on Microsoft Refuses To Fix NT 4.0 Exploit · · Score: 1

    Three words: Defense in Depth. MS is wrong and this is not a workaround it is telling you that you don't need defense in depth and they are morons.

  25. Re:the REAL reason most webpages are not encrypted on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    Except then you train people to do the wrong thing. In other words ignore the fact that a given cert means nothing and then they start ignoring it everywhere and then man-in-the-middle attacks become trivial. How does the browser know what you care about and don't. Cause I gurantee that the user does not know what they care about and why.