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  1. Re:Privacy implications on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    hardly. First of all, the IP your access provider gives you isn't yours forever, it's the provider's who lets you use it while you connect via them. switch provider and you switch IP.

    It is customary in autoconfiguration to set the lower 64 bits to a function of your NIC's MAC address, but this is entirely optional. You can set it to a random number, or just number sequentially or whatever you want (as long as you manage to avoid collisions with other machines on the same network). And this is entirely up to you.

  2. Re:What I'd Like to See... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    A lot of access providers here in europe already do, and I expect it's much the same in asia. Send a request to your access provider for them to offer IPv6 tunnels, if they get enough requests (and they're not a monopoly that doesn't care about user satisfaction) they should be offering them pretty quickly, it's still a nice marketing ploy to be able to claim you're offering "the internet of the future" even though only a very small promillage of their users is going to be using it.

  3. Re:why not posting the http links instead of the f on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 1

    Purely a misconfiguration or software issue then (and don't discont the placebo effect based on one or a few faster ftp downloads), once the initial protocol chatter is done, ftp and http are exactly equal.

  4. Re:why not posting the http links instead of the f on Linux Kernel 2.4.21 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful
    1. HTTP has no more overhead than FTP, and in most cases less.
    2. So get a better browser (opera comes to mind) or don't use your browser. Just because it's http doesn't mean you have to use your browser.
    3. which they can do anyway
  5. Re:Here's the lines in question, NDA be damned... on SCO NDA Online at LinuxJournal · · Score: 1

    That's really convincing, especially considering the fact that Rusty has recently rewritten the module handling code.

  6. Re:June 24-27 on IPV6 Conference June 24-27 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hmm? It's already been implemented, and I'm already using it for a lot of things. There isn't going to be a switchover day, whatever those spring clean emails might have claimed :-).

  7. Re:RTFA on Salt From Plants · · Score: 2, Informative

    you grow the plant on the soil, extract the salt, put the remains back on the soil. Repeat, preferrably rotating crop. End result: A bag of salt and some fertile ground.

  8. Re:I would love to be able to lit up any LED but on Control 8 Electrical Devices With Your Parallel Port · · Score: 1

    LEDs are diodes, which means they only conduct electricity (and in doing so give of light) in one direction. Usually on LEDs the shorter of the two leads is the cathode, which means the side that's to be connected to the negative side of the battery. The other side (the anode) connects to the positive side of the battery.

  9. Re:Balance of Perf and Ease? on OpenSSH Patch Extends Tunneling Under OpenBSD · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Depends on where the endpoints are. If you're generating the packets and stuffing them into a tcp tunnel on the same host you're fine. If your packets get out of order/dropped/whatever before they enter the tunnel you're still screwed though.

  10. Re:unix lovers/haters commands on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 2, Insightful

    - find . -name test.txt (why not just allow 'find test.txt')

    Because that'd be ambigious. That could mean both find all files in test.txt, or as you wanted find files with name test.txt. Making behaviour like that depend on what's on disk is generally a very bad idea. If you use it a lot, put "alias fi='find . -name'" in your shells rc-file.

  11. Re:OK, so? on Unix-Haters Handbook Available Online · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the entire book is there

  12. Re:correlating IP addresses to physical locations on Around The World In 1 Year (On A Website) · · Score: 1

    It's already done, but it's put in a LOC record, not in the free-form TXT record. (google for it)

  13. Re:Performance hit? on Using OpenBSD's chrooted Apache · · Score: 1

    If the attacker has root you're dead anyway,
    mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd ..

  14. Re:Performance hit? on Using OpenBSD's chrooted Apache · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is where linux bind mounts come in handy, you can bind mount your /lib and /usr/lib into all your chroots (just make sure they don't contain suids or anything :) ), that way all libraries will only go into memory once, even when used from multiple chroots. (of course you can olso have all your fake roots on the same filesystem and hardlink, but this is a lot nicer)

  15. Re:bandwidth on OpenSSH 3.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Should have used rsync witch can run over ssh and does --bwlimit. Still plenty of reason to use it though.

  16. Re:More info at this blog... on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    Actually it's third level, and it doesn't matter. Hostnames nor domain names are allowed to contain underscores.

  17. Re:More info at this blog... on Major Strike on Iraq Underway · · Score: 1

    And rightly so, hostnames/domainnames aren't allowed to have underscores in them.

  18. Re:NonBloated on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 1

    Four even. I seem to have misplaced the 1st one, but the others were called "Build disk", "utility disk" and "application disk".

  19. Re:NonBloated on Screenshot History of Windows · · Score: 2, Informative

    I doubt you have the full thing then, win 1.0 came on 3 360k floppies, and I doubt it'd compress to 22%.

  20. Re:Slashdotting and DOS on Better Bandwidth Utilization · · Score: 1

    SYN's either get responded to with SYN|ACK if the port is open, or RST|ACK if it's closed.

  21. Re:Simple answer. on International Connectivity · · Score: 0
  22. Re:I just rooted it. on Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator · · Score: 2, Informative

    Nonsense. Think of a number that's looks like the binary expansion of Pi (ie just 1's and 0's), but in base 10.This'd be non repeating, irrational, not representable as a finite function (for suitable definitions of 'a finite function), and yet I can assure you you won't find the sequence 123456 in it.

  23. Re:I just rooted it. on Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just because the n-ary representation of pi is infinite does not mean that all sequences will occur in it, and this has in fact not yet been proven.

  24. Re:Linus on Linux Kernel Code Humor · · Score: 1

    And, lest we forget, the linux kernel is brimming with //-style comments.

  25. Re:Linus on Linux Kernel Code Humor · · Score: 2, Insightful
    • C99 Allows // style comments
    • The linux kernel isn't written to be cross-compiler, it's written to work with GCC. And any other compilers it works with are either modifications of GCC or have put a lot of work into acting like GCC.