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  1. Re:B is the new F? on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 2

    Here's the copy'n'paste:

    1 64.94.172.146
    Ready

    mail.clintonemail.com
            Tue Mar 10 09:23:03 PDT 2015
    Duration: 55.370 sec
    B

    The date appears to be the difference.

  2. Shades of Sierra on Steam For Linux Bug Wipes Out All of a User's Files · · Score: 2

    Remember back in the day when the Sierra uninstall utility could accidentally delete all your files? I think that was a result if you put it in a non-standard location, too.

  3. Re:Catching up with Fedora on Microsoft Announces Windows 10 · · Score: 1

    It's true that it's less dangerous. When you do fuck up, it won't touch the stuff in somewhat-nested directories because the path is too long. So you'll have SOMETHING left.

  4. Re: Classic Slashdot on Fire Destroys Iron Mountain Data Warehouse, Argentina's Bank Records Lost · · Score: 1

    Sure does smell of old people here. I wonder if beta comes with air freshener?

  5. Doesn't name names on The Software Inferno · · Score: 2

    Part of the fun of the Divine Comedy at the time was that specific individuals were shown being tormented, and this doesn't do that.

    It totally should.

  6. Re:not worth it on X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status · · Score: 1

    It does in fact do a lot of good. For example, you can attract more donations if you're a c3, because you can deduct those donations from your income. Also, a lot of vendors and service providers will give a large discount for c3s when they buy their stuff.

    You still have to file your paperwork.

  7. Re:Better than Arch? on Happy Birthday, Debian! · · Score: 2

    . IMHO the best feature Debian has is the ability to upgrade-in-place -- so you never have to do a reinstall to keep it up-to-date unless you want to.

    Indeed, I have installations of Debian that are 13 years old. They've been through multiple hardware revisions, and are now virtualized, but apt-get dist-upgrade has done the trick all this time.

    However, technical achievements aside, it's Debian's policy that's the real star.

  8. Re:Hemos Says: "So Long, and Thanks For All The Fi on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Really, it's no big thang.

  9. Re:ironically DMA mode on 3Com's never worked on Apple, Others Hit With Lawsuit On Ethernet Patents · · Score: 1

    I also have less than happy memories of 3com nics being more trouble than they were worth. Although my biggest gripe was the confusable 509/905 numbering. Who thought that was a good idea?

  10. Re:Don't get your hopes up. on 11-Year-Old Becomes Network Admin for Alabama School · · Score: 1

    It's a private school. None of that applies in this case.

  11. Re:Team Fortress 2 FTW! on Orange Box In Stores Wednesday · · Score: 1

    It's a very different game. Much faster paced, no vehicles, small maps, and you don't spend time fiddling to find the perfect loadout. It is fantastic fun, though.

  12. Re:Oh, sure. on Judge Says, Record DNA of Everyone In the UK · · Score: 1

    No fingerprints taken of my kids.

  13. Not the crowded marketplace? on Why Beyond Good and Evil Tanked · · Score: 1

    I thought it was a great game, dragged down by a very awkward title. And yeah, it did get buried by other titles at release, but that might not have made a difference. Look at Psychonauts, another fantastically good game (better than BG&E in my mind), which got the full marketing treatment and didn't release into such a crowded marketplace but completely died at retail. It may just be that most people really don't care about this kind of thing, and that the gameplay geeks are a far smaller minority than they (we!) realize.

    If you haven't played either, go get 'em. You can find them for $10 each. The fun/$ from those two is high indeed.

  14. Re:NSS for Linux on File System Design part 1, XFS · · Score: 1

    It requires loading binary kernel modules, and you'll have to run it on OES, so that puts it beyond the pale for quite a few people. I've been a bit underwhelmed by it performance wise, and there were some nasty bugs in the initial release. SP2 may make a difference. I hope so.

  15. Re:Crack my CPC-464! on Is Obsolescence Good Computer Security? · · Score: 1

    I do remember Spindizzy, it was an absolutely awesome game. I played it again in emulation not that long ago, and it holds up. Much fun.

  16. Re:Definition of Cryovolcano on Possible Cryovolcano Discovered on Titan · · Score: 1

    This term was coined by NASA in late 2004, when the Cassini space probe observed cryvolcanoes and cryogenic lakes for the first time."

    They may have coined the term, but there's a Dr. Who story where the Doctor uses the "lava" from something very similar to freeze a huge Dalek force. Planet of the Daleks, I think it was, back in about '73. Definitely a Pertwee one, even if I've got the name wrong.

  17. Re:Obligitory Slashdot Discussion on World's Biggest Hacker Held · · Score: 1

    Oh go on. Make me an offer.

  18. Re:Cheap shot on Dvorak on the LinuxWorld Fracas · · Score: 1

    Dvorak is a fairly common Czech name. You might also have heard of the Czech composer of that name; you've almost certainly heard some of his music.

  19. Re:Many own, few read on Knuth's Art of Computer Programming Vol. 4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nobody studies Knuth without a MIX or MMIX emulator at hand.

    I thought you were supposed to write your own emulator. After all, he does give instructions on page 100 or thereabouts.

  20. Re:Any other choice? on Mozilla Thunderbird Reaches 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Open Source other than Mozilla, all I can think of would be Pine.
    Uh, Mutt?

  21. Re:Interesting... on Last Words On Service Pack 2 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I noticed that when I read the article too. Stupid, stupid thing to say. Based on a few articles now, I don't think Greene is all that and a bag of chips when it comes to this stuff.

  22. Re:If you think this is scary... on Periodic Table of the Operators · · Score: 1

    I liked:

    Poor old Brown is dead and gone,
    His face we'll see no more,
    For what he thought was H20
    was H2SO4.

  23. Re:Just slightly OT on Keystroke Logger Faces Federal Wiretap Charges · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I take it you're not a parent. Find one who wouldn't be concerned that we offered filter free, non-monitored use of the internet.

    I'm a parent, and I wouldn't send my kids to a school with a policy like yours. That policy is not, by the way, the same as offering "filter-free, non-monitored use of the internet". There are ways of achieving a safe and humane environment without logging every keystroke, and it's disingenuous to imply that there aren't.

  24. Re:Simple solution for Debian on Mozilla Cracks Down On Merchandise Sellers · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Iceweasel" was suggested...

  25. Re:pushd and popd (and other tricks) on Wicked Cool Shell Scripts · · Score: 1

    The version for people *not* worried about job security is probably:
    cut -d":" -f 6 /etc/passwd
    Which in my unscientific tests is more than twice as quick as firing up awk just to get the contents of a field.