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  1. Maping? on Book Review: Cyber Warfare · · Score: 1

    "Maping the Cyber Underworld"? Is that akin to raping the Cyber Underworld?

  2. Re:We don't need no stinking backups... on Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you never know when one of those silly ligament businesses might be subject to a "tendon take down" and go offline.

  3. Publisher? on MS Thinks OOo is 10 Years Behind · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work as a sysadmin in a educational environment, and all sorts of folks use Publisher for calendars, flyers, handouts, etc. I have yet to see anything that'll digest Publisher files and output "standard" products (rtf, pdf, etc.)

    Any suggestions?

  4. Re:How Ironic on HP Terminates Itanium Workstations · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and offered up PA-RISC on the chopping block as well.

  5. Re:Problems with the Process on Wastewater Into Energy · · Score: 1

    There may be technical issues, but it IS doable. The cities of Arcata, Chico, Eureka, and Merced in California all run methane co-generation plants at their waste water facilities.

    http://www.energy.ca.gov/development/biomass/anaer obic.html

    http://www.biogasworks.com/

  6. Think about more than RAID on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Is hardware failure really all you would like to address? I think it more likely that inadvertently deleting or modifying something occurs much more frequently. RAID doesn't help with this, the deletion is written to the array.

    I address this by giving my drive 2 mirrors. One of the mirrors is there for drive failure protection, the other mirror I use as a backup device, which is split off at a regular interval with a script. The stale mirror serves as a point in time backup. I can mount it and get something off of it if I need to.

    To make the next backup, the scripts adds the second mirror back in, lets it sync up (freshens up the backup) and then splits it off again. I do this daily, but you could set any reasonable interval.

    HTH

    Greg

  7. Re:Nearly-Headless-Nick or Peeves ? on Digital 'Ghosts' To Guide Students On Campus · · Score: 1

    So, do they truly learn through interactions? Reminds me of that old Steve Martin joke about speaking 'wrong' when you're around 2 year olds. "So it's their first day at school, and they raise their hand and ask "May I mamoo dogface to the banana patch?"

  8. Amen, brother. on Good, Affordable PC Diagnostic Software? · · Score: 1

    Check the power supply first. Don't put your "known good" parts in a machine until you verify that the power supply is working correctly. Power supplies fail often, sometimes subtly. Applying 12VDC where 5VDC goes can kill your "known good" cards. Ask me how I know.

  9. More recent news on US Army Pursues Hydrogen Fuel Concepts · · Score: 1

    In more recent news Auburn University scientists 'realized there is a substantial amount of carbon in carbohydrates' and that 'hydrochloric acid truly tends to be acidic.'

    What will they discover next? Sliced bread? Geez. Your tax dollars in action, no doubt.

  10. Re:Freeze! RIAA! on RIAA Takes the Fight to the Streets · · Score: 1

    What's next, black helicopters? RIAA abductees?

    Geez, this is crazy.

  11. Dead trees are forever on Is the Internet Your Source of Knowledge? · · Score: 1

    My problem is that I'm paranoid. Well, maybe that's a topic for another time. Another problem for me is that something in solely electronic format can be purged more readily. The thought police, NSA, leet hackers, whoever, can go and kill/erase/crash the server(s) with the troublesome information much more easily than so with hardcopy. Once something is printed and distributed, it is very difficult to track down and destroy every copy.

    Books still have their place.

  12. Re:The Sanger proposal AGAIN? on DARPA Looking into Hypersonic Bombers · · Score: 1

    Yup. The German's were building not only a nuclear weapon, but a delivery vehicle for it. Not only was Sanger working on one, but so was Von Braun.

    See http://www.ufx.org/german/antiplofer.htm for some about Sanger's work.

  13. This isn't funny at all on Penguins Stuck In Infinite Loop · · Score: 1

    This happens in bored caged animals (and people). One term for it is "cage stereotypies". The link that follows talks about it some. It is definitely not funny.

    http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/02_09 _1 1_fsrut.html

  14. Re:Yay for Microsoft! on Microsoft Files 15 Lawsuits Against Spammers · · Score: 1

    It's hard to say, but I agree. The only people with enough money and sufficient economic incentive to stop spam are big business who get tired of their email servers blowing up left and right from overload.

  15. They're not the only ones. on Tom's Hardware Looks At WinFS · · Score: 1

    Oracle has a database hosted file system as well, the Oracle Internet File System.

    http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/feature s/ index.html?ifs.html

    I suppose if I had to have my filesystem in a database, I'd rather have it in an Oracle database. Lord knows how much fun M$ SQL Server has been.

  16. Carly trips up again. on HP Lays Off Unix/IA-64 gurus · · Score: 1

    This is further evidence that Carly has NT-itis. Wake up HP! Compaq is a freakin' boat anchor. Don't give up your enterprise operating system to sell PC's. Geez!

  17. I don't get it.... on University to Review Carnivore · · Score: 1

    Say that the object of the FBI investigation (aka joe_blow) has an account with his ISP. He gets his email sent to the mail server at the ISP. If the FBI decides to investigate joe_blow, can't they just subpoena the backup tapes from the mail server for the last month? Couldn't they recreate email to joe_blow for the period in question? If joe_blow uses some semi-anonymous email service on the web, couldn't the FBI get a warrant and sniff the ISP for the period? Couldn't someone with the proper motivation read whatever they wanted out of the sniffer output? Carnivore, shmarnivore. If they want you, they got you.