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  1. Re:Agree, totally on Roblimo Abroad: Pushing Linux' Prospects In Jordan · · Score: 2

    'Linux will probably not solve such issues as clean drinking water'

    Umm... what about embeded Linux, there's a lot of process control in providing clean drinking water.

  2. Re:Sigh. on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 1

    The ancient greeks must be proud... that computers keep trying emulate their mode of calculation.

  3. If you have nothing to hide on XPde: Cloning the XP Interface · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Then why should they bother looking?

    You should be worried, maybe oneday 'they' will decide that something you are doing is wrong.

  4. Already there on Disney to Create Walking Animatronic Dinosaur · · Score: 2

    They spent all that time and effort when all they had to do was google on MPAA

  5. Re:Mitch Kapor on More On Kapor's Attempt To Best Outlook · · Score: 1

    Its also fully programable, so you can change the interface
    With a lot of hard work and at least 4 languages in there for differnet tasks.

  6. Re:One person's experience with PHP ... on PHP5 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    they also talk out of there ass.

  7. Re:They aughta put virgin on the list on Disruptive Technologies For Next 5 Years · · Score: 2

    That's been out in the UK for more than 2 years (maybe 3), I have a home phone because I have ADSL, and you can't unbundle the phone.

    I only use it for outbound and an answer phone, it doesn't even ring.

    Contract (or with plan) schemes are popular for heavier phone users.
    I currently hace a non-contract phone, and spend about $80 every couple of months. Calls are between 8 cents and 25 cents a minute depending which operator I'm calling.

    It's not disrupted the contact mobile phones but it does mean most of my friends don't have a land-line

  8. Re:One person's experience with PHP ... on PHP5 Coming Soon · · Score: 1

    Ummm... I've always used javascript too,
    Javascript and VBScript are just parsed into M$'s interperter, neither are 'native'.

    Javascript also has better error handeling and object support.

  9. Re:They can on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    That's like saying cars naturally traval on roads, even though the roads themselfs arn't natural.
    The level of decay required requires an enriched form of plutonium, so the resulting decay is 'artificial'

  10. Re:Sheesh! on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Ok, I think you missed something..

    'Examples of good procedures could be.',
    note examples, you look at the examples, mix them up with your ideas and see what pops out.

    Double checking's not that hard, so long as there are a few people who know there stuff. If you have measures built into the system that automate some of the checks then it's even easier.
    my home box runs a few cron scripts overnight and emails me details of the changes since yesterday/last week. I doesn't take much to glance through them and pick out anything that might cause a problem.

    we use sourcecontrol at work, it's not too hard to look at a diff and pick out any obvious mistakes.

    Some people have reasonable procedures, others regrets.

  11. Re:They can on Whisper Heard From Pioneer 10 · · Score: 1

    Plutonium 238 isn't natural, well i should imagine that it isn't.
    So there must have been a reactor to create enriched plutonium in the first place, ok maybe a little close to home than Pioneer 10.

  12. Re:Quis custiodet ipsos custiodes on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Well you use the traditional double key system that's worked for years, you-know the kind of thing they show in films just before the nukes are launched.

    The presedent has his key, somone else has another key. The presedent doesn't have access to the second key, and the second key holder can't access the presedents key.
    You need both keys to launch the nukes.

    Let's say that the system has two levels, one that audits the configuration and one that holds the configuration.
    You don't let the people who configure the auditing part have access to the configuration part(during the same cycle).

    You can check that the audits still work, by making sure they recorded your configuration changes.

  13. Re:Sheesh! on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    A bit off topic, ish?
    Funny enough, at a xmas party an old coligue is working for a company that
    Removes you from the building if you work over hours.
    Sends email asking how they can make you life better.
    etc.....

  14. Re:What nonsense. on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    Who do you think sets up these wonderful precautions you mention?

    More than one person? comeon there procedures were poor (just like most companies!), if one idiot can cause that much mess then there's another idiot that didn't put proper procedures inplace.

  15. Re:Sheesh! on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 1

    You can also setup cisco routers that meet the system change policy requirements, and possibly even Windows, but that would require a lot of Time and Money or some pritty fancy software(again time and money).

  16. Copyright on Still More RIAA News · · Score: 2, Funny

    'gone to the trouble to deconstruct their income figures', Bad idea, there clearly not facts and so the RIAA can claim copyright violations.

  17. Re:Sheesh! on When Sysadmins Go Bad · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sheesh exactly, so, what happened here.
    1: The sys-admin had enough access to the systems that he could change the configuration and clean up and prevent the changes from being detected.
    2:
    The company didn't have proper procedures inplace to stop 1 happening.

    Examples of good procedures could be.
    *Systems provide automated roll back.

    *Changes can only be applied through a script that is run by xyz and required GOD access (say knowlage of a password that changes daily)

    *System should be configured to audit any changes that take place

    *A review process, where by any changes are reviewed by another member of staff

    etc.......

    the sysadmin was bad the company was useless, I'm not supprised he quit and tried to take the company down.

  18. DECSS on ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty · · Score: 1

    I hope decss goes the same way.

  19. it is a "huge legal win" on ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty · · Score: 1

    If it stops multi-nationals from fileing DMCA violations without thinking ... Wall-Mart etc.....

  20. Re:It's not about religion on Creative Commons Launches Today · · Score: 1

    But they fealt so good about saving the child even for a little while. See selfish....

    How about someone that's so depressed that the kill themselves to save the rest of the world from what they see as there evilness.

    what about someone who won't accept a gift because there afraid that it might make someone impoverished.

  21. Re:Not quite so. on Software Architecture · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter, some people read rest, some people read 'core' and others just read the whole thing and worked it out for themselfs.

  22. Re:It's not about religion on Creative Commons Launches Today · · Score: 1

    Umm... so what do I do then?

  23. feeding my kids on Creative Commons Launches Today · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    feeding your kids to what?
    the big nasty do down the road.

    I don't believe some of you non religious, unethical, loveless non caring, thoughtless , horrible, evil, blinded, hopeless, stupid, unknowlageable , selfish people.

  24. Friends of the Earth license. on Creative Commons Launches Today · · Score: 5, Funny

    hmmm... I wanted the
    'you can do anything you like with this so long as you don't vote for or support George W Bush.'

    Looks like I'll have to keep the formula for philosophers stone to my self for a while.

  25. Re:A side note on Web Zeitgeist · · Score: 1

    Last years stats showed that most people searching for 'linux' were using windows boxes.