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  1. Re:Obviously on Following the Spam Trail · · Score: 1

    Or you reply wondering what the guy is on and now all further communication has a "prior buisness relationship" .. I couldn't help but notice the address for more info was one of those financial sites on the email I got.

  2. Re:the problem is... on Maryland Plans Code Review for Voting Software · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People just aren't ready for it.. not when I read lines like this: "The hacker did not reveal how he subsequently breached the security of the Diebold staff site, which used SSL encryption."

    But we can't be hacked we have encryption?

  3. Re:Good job! on Australian Linux User Group Fights Back Against SCO · · Score: 1

    You are correct it is illegal to send that in the mail.. it's not been that long since some girl got charged for sending her used underwear in the mail (and that was to willing recipients).

  4. Re:Not so much a crisis... on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    Uhh no.. that's a singular option for assigning IPs to ethernet cards in a /48 space where the MAC is embedded as to the last part of the ip6 address. Thankfully it's not the only option.

    Personally I don't like IPs to change when I swap network cards.

  5. Re:What's wrong with IPv6 on The Impending IP Crisis · · Score: 1

    Windows XP comes with support out of the box but 2000 needs patching. Everyoneone else on windows will need to upgrade their OS.

  6. Re:fastmail.fm on Police Target Free Email · · Score: 1

    Anon email accounts usually aren't anyways.

    You may think so but hotmail for instance adds an "X-Originating-IP: [xxx.xxx.xxx.xx]" to the mail headders and that's just a court order away from whatever name you used to register the account at the ISP.

  7. Re:Christ, those machine figures! on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually last set of numbers Linux beat windows in the 1,2 and 4 CPU categories while windows barely managed to edge it out on 8. The lead widened more after that. The 2.6.x series kernels will probably do better but who can say?

    Linus has a policy of not allowing multi CPU improvements to lower performance on single CPU. It doesn't get the cool press releases but those of us without million dollar IT budgets thank him for it.

  8. Re:Christ, those machine figures! on Can .NET Really Scale? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I hear you.. one of my previous employers had a php/apache system on a dual CPU pIII 500 system with 256 mb ram that easilly handled 500 customers at any given moment.

    Not even a hiccup. then the bright guy tried to do that on windows 2000 for another customer.. choked at about 100.

    I'll take good performance with low spec hardware over the ability to scale on 10+ CPU systems anyday.

  9. Re:Ink is too expensive on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 1

    That was experiance talking. Sure, it doesn't requrire years of experiance but I've found a signifigant number of users find amazing new ways to screw it up if they are left to do it. The 5 minutes it will take the tech will guaruntee that the old toner is actually empty and it's not some other problem entirely and the new cartrige is installed correctly.

    Otherwise if it's not one of the clued in users they mess it up and the tech gets called for a more time consuming problem.

    It's all about pain prevention.

  10. Re:federal vs. state. on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 1

    "What about California's (and others) medical pot legislations? Do the federal drug agents care when they storm into these people's "gardens" and prosecute them to the full extent of FEDERAL law?"

    We already know what happened with that.. the feds did raid them and prosecuted them to the full extent of the law.

    They raided one in California and went for the maximum sentence they could get while having the jury barred from hearing that California had allowed the growing for medical use.

    That was already 3 years ago so I'm supprised you hadn't heard about it.

  11. Re:Ink is too expensive on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 1

    No tech should *ever* just hand over a replacement cartrige and trust the user to install it correctly.

    If this is standard procedure where your working then they are likely to be out far more than the cost of a few toner cartriges.

    No one but the techs should be replacing toner.

  12. Re:How close can they get? on Protecting Cities from Hijacked Planes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The system relies on airport beacons and the GPS system, both are external.

  13. Re:I want to believe. on Windows Tech Writer Looks at Linux · · Score: 1

    "How many Slashdot users do you think use DOS. Since most think Windows is an inferior OS, I would think that they would consider DOS beneath them as well."

    How else am I supposed to play my commander keen collection ?

  14. Re:If real life was like Monopoly... on My Visit to SCO · · Score: 1

    That would be the only way they could end up with the IP without also ending up being stuck with the SCO support contracts.

  15. Re:NDA on My Visit to SCO · · Score: 2

    "After all, WHO has a successful Unix that doesn't sell it as part of an integral system?"\

    BSDI of course.

  16. Re:SCO is criticizing Linus for What??!! on SCO Berates Linus' Approach To Kernel Contributions · · Score: 1

    Not quite correct.. the author can relicense any of his/her own code as needed. That won't change the status of any previously released code but it does mean that there can be non GPL derivatives but only by the author..

    However for Linus to change the license for the whole kernel he would have to rewrite large portions of it or get others to relicense as well. A task that would be next to impossible given the sheer volume of code and the number of contributing coders.

  17. Re:The sad truth... on Pentagon Wants IPv6 by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Window 2000 has experimental ipv6 support if you install the right patches.

    XP comes with ipv6 support right out of the box.

  18. Re:It has happened before . . . on Did SCO 'Borrow' Linux Code? · · Score: 1

    The issue was headder files. The BSD guy had gone through all of the troule to reverse engineer the data structures only to find that the Linux headder structures were almost exactly the same. What he forgot in all his outrage is that there is only one way the hardware takes the structures and that Andre had signed an NDA to get them from the people who designed it.

    I don't know why this gets reposted so often.

  19. Re:lay-offs on Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Penguin Computers · · Score: 3, Informative

    divisions? The 2 companies combined only amount to 35 people.

  20. Re:Sex tips on ESR Recasts Jargon File in Own Image · · Score: 1

    He's into polyamory or some kind of crap like that"

    Polygamy and he isn't. Hes into "open mairrages" where your married but either side gets to wander around and screw anyone they want to.

    Hes also got some really bad advice under his avoiding STDs section.

  21. Re:Has anybody considered on SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The really strange thing is that any sysV code would have far predated IBM's involvement with kernel development.

    As we know from previous inverviews IBM hsa a _very_ strict disclosure policy where every bit of code relsed has to be checked first. It's also been noted that the Linux labs are *not* allowed to view source code from AIX.

    I imagine the reason they don't want to publically give out this information because that would allow the OSS community to find out where the code actually came from. I'm guessing it's third party and neither SCO or Linux has IP rights over the code in question.

  22. Re:I wouldn't worry on A Solution For Making WiFi Cost Effective · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The piracy is *not* worth the risk. The last thing you need is some wardriver grabbing every available ip and starting a spam run. Just picture it.. thousands of complaints and no way at all to deal with them. I'd imagine that would get blacklisted pretty quickly. Or they could use your network to break into things without getting busted.. not fun either when the buck stops with you.

    Overall though I think 802.11 is the wrong tool for this job.. why use it when something like Moterola Canopy has a larger range *and* is more secure?

    Dump 802.11 and the pppoe link and problem solved.

    At least I hope so. I'm submitting a proposal for a rural network on monday.

  23. Re:the biggest concerns on Walmart to Push RFID · · Score: 1

    My main worry would be getting charged for clothing I've already payed for and gone back into the store with.

  24. Re:right off the top of my list... on C&W Bails Out · · Score: 1

    with Cogent goes at least one major co-location provider.

    Looks like were going to see co-location prices brought up to market value soon.

  25. Re:Not a whole lot left... on C&W Bails Out · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Group Telecom. Theve been in bankrupcy proceedings for most of the year.

    The real laugh is they once said "why would you want to go to a little player like peer1?" Were a big billion dollar international telco and aren't going anywhere and they are just a little player that can dissappear at any time."

    Now peer1 is left standing and GT is almost gone.