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  1. rfc1178 on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html

    read it, understand it. thinks like "mailserver" or even "x101" or "debian-mail" are bad ideas ...

  2. Its a test on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    smart persons will refuse, so they pick only the refusing ones as future employees.

  3. why? When processes get bigger and harddrives get faster, the swapfiles can grow as well.

  4. where is the problem with ssh-keys? mine has a looooooong password.

  5. Re:How is this *really* a problem? on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 2

    what about terminal-history in your swap-partition?

  6. Re:You always could google pwn2own... on Chrome Hacked In 5 Minutes At Pwn2Own · · Score: 2

    Soviet Russia forgot him!

  7. Re:Does it depend on DNS? on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    it doesn't matter. the dns is doing a good job there, when dns will be censored, they can use an alternative infrastructure for this.

  8. Re:Chrome on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    there was a mozilla browser even before google started funding them.

  9. Re:Tabs on bottom? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    i think you may like opera.

  10. Re:I am also a 3.6 user who refuses to upgrade on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    i think you could always right-click, the new feature is only the removal of the obvious "click here for dropdown"-button

  11. Re:Get the extended release version on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    its some "old" version with security patches, so it has less bugs and no new features(with new bugs). so its more stable.

  12. the most basic problem is unsolved on In Theory And Practice, Why Internet-Based Voting Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    you can discuss how to get anonymity, how to prevent double votes, how to identify who sits there voting.
    but you cannot detect, if someone stands behind the voter, who payed him to vote for a specific party, checking if he's really voting like this.

  13. Re:Depends what you're trying to teach on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons? · · Score: 1

    arch wiki is not that bad, but the best wiki on linux is still the gentoo-wiki. even when using ubuntu you can find a lot of solutions there.

  14. Re:Ubuntu on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Distro For Linux Lessons? · · Score: 1

    why do you think, the traffic from a random website is a good indicator?

  15. Re:All bugs? on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    the new menu button in dolphin is such a bad idea. The menubar was just okay, now there is a lot of unused space, with this button in the middle.

  16. Re:Should be 'Opt-In' on Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' · · Score: 1

    1) i'm seeing some finnish message instead of a video, yeah
    2) fully okay, i see a message that i successfully blocked the ad. its quite polite, maybe i even consider unblocking. but i do not, because i have policy to decide what i buy on facts, not on ads.
    3) hrhr, no problem thanks to noscript.
    noscript even allows scripts from the page itself, only thirdparty scripts are blocked. when i temp-allow all, the page-content vanishes. but with the default i can read the page, no problem at all.
    Maybe its even a bug of the page and no blocking, because if its because of ghostery/adblock, they should put a message in there, so i know what to do to get unblocked again.

  17. Re:LOL on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With University Firewalls? · · Score: 1

    > port 25/tcp
    first thing i would filter as a network admin building a restrictive firewall. just think about all the spambots on student's pcs

  18. Re:Should be 'Opt-In' on Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' · · Score: 1

    i encountered several pages with "please unblock" notices. After i verified, that they indeed were using "bad" advertisers, i blocked these notices, too.

  19. Re:the basics on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Install Ubuntu On 30 Laptops and Keep Them In Sync? · · Score: 1

    debians kickstart support is just a script converting the kickstart.cfg to preseed commands.

  20. for example installation via PXE with preseed, administration via debian packages built around config-package-dev.
    Works good for us for ~200 machines composed of workstations and computing cluster nodes.

  21. Re:Should be 'Opt-In' on Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' · · Score: 1

    personally, i have no exceptions in my adblock because sites try to block me, and i am not blocked anywhere, where it would matter for me.

    Maybe you're using other sites, but on all major sites i have no problems at all.

  22. Re:Hard disk encryption - good job!!! on DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    not ported, yet?

    Sorry, my last information was, there is no ext3/4 support. For ext3 it would be possible to remove the journal, converting ext4 to ext3 seems to be harder. Anyway, for dualboot i do want to have at least ext3 on my linux, so the bsd would need to provide at least ext3, too.

  23. fai is a really bad pile of shellscripts. try to use preseed, its much more useful.

  24. Re:Hard disk encryption - good job!!! on DragonFly BSD 3.0 Released · · Score: 1

    what about the filesystems? afaik there is no ext(2,3,4) support in the BSDs, is it? so my LUKS-Ext4 FS will still be useless on BSD.

  25. Re:Should be 'Opt-In' on Internet Giants To Honor the 'No' In 'No Tracking' · · Score: 1

    But they will always lose. There are a few persons programming the blocking, and many who want to bypass it. Just think of antivirus. No antivirus-program has a "complete" list of viruses, the newest one is always unknown. So the antivirus-programs are always trying to catch up to the newest virus, while the newest virus is getting old and newer ones are already spreading.

    And just like that, the updated blocker-signatures will be more up2date than the updated blockers.

    It might even be possible to block in a way, which cannot be detected. something like one instance rendering with ads, behaving just like the site expects it, and one instance which blocks out the ads and just displays the content.

    If you really want to block this, you need trusted computing to enforce your DRM, i.e. to make sure the user uses a allowed browser without addons and cannot just fake he's using one.