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  1. Re:Without the French there wouldn't be a USA! on French Military Police Switches to Firefox · · Score: 2, Insightful



    And without the USA there wouldn't be a France.... twice.

  2. Re:New 'save link as ' sucks. on Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available · · Score: 1

    Read the mozillazine thread. It states that the firefox coders that made the change are employed by Red Hat.

  3. New 'save link as ' sucks. on Firefox 1.5 RC2 Available · · Score: 2, Interesting

    In Linux the GTK only filepicker (right click -> save page/link as) is awful
    (IMO). Forcing this change on every Linux user because some folks at red
    hat think it is a good idea to more fully comply with Gnome is awful.

    http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=3188 60&highlight=filepicker

    How about giving those of us that have been using Mozilla for five years a
    pref to use the XUL filepicker that we are used to?

    I save upwards of 20 files a day and am very used to the defaults the way
    they are.

    I'm staying with Firefox 1.0.x at this point.

  4. Re:2.6.x faster in other ways, too on The New Linux Speed Trick · · Score: 1

    The usb issue is fixed in 2.6.5.
    Details here

  5. Re:Does obscurity work? on Microsoft Sits on Security Flaw for Six Months · · Score: 1

    Really?

    Laptops that got nimda/code red while at home, caused many networks to melt when said laptops were brought to work and connected to the network.

    At that point your inside machines are attacking your own network.

  6. Re:Great... on Exploit Available for Cisco IOS Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    Actually all IOS trains were rebuilt, there is a fixed image for even old and crufty 11x code.

    No memory needed, download and reboot.

    Read the advisory, if you can understand "show ver", you can find the right image to upgrade to.

    http://cco.cisco.com/warp/public/707/cisco-sa-2003 0717-blocked.shtml



  7. Funny in the FAQ :-) on Phish Moves To FLAC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Looking over the PHISH FAQ under....

    What are the recommended specs for enjoying Live Phish Downloads?

    Under Unix it says...

    Unix
    You probably don't need our advice.


  8. 3 Year old linux only bug being ignored. on Mozilla 1.4RC2 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting



    Mozilla on linux has had on again off again support for telnet:// links
    launching an xterm to telnet to hosts or networking equipment.

    Bug 33282 at bugzilla.mozilla.org has been open for over three years to track this issue.

    Mozilla 1.1 supports it only with protozilla added. Protozilla is no longer under development.

    Lots of activity in the bug, but it appears that the coders are too afraid
    of getting the security aspects wrong to want to enable this functionality
    in linux :-)

    Although I've had some coders offer to fix this for me for money, I don't
    have the resources to pay for this fix.

    Since this feature works on all other platforms and works on linux in the
    Netscape 4.x train I'd think this would be a _requirement_ for 1.0.

    This feature should be enabled but default to off for those of us that
    absolutely have to have telnet:// links working and understand and are
    willing to take the security risk.

    And, no Mozilla Firebird, doesn't fix this.

  9. Re:What IPv4 Scaleability issues? on What's Your Timeline for IPv6 Migration? · · Score: 1

    Do you have any references for the following statements?

    " The reason we are running out of IPv4 addresses isn't technical, its a poor implementation of routing by Cisco that is mostly to blame combined with a political mess."

    and

    "A core router shouldn't be using routing tables they way they are done now. For most routes in a core routers, its just a switch. Stuff to 1.2.3/24 goes to interface 2 and that's it."

    I'd like to disagre with the source of your confusion. :-)

  10. Re:What is the oldest piece of code in the kernel? on Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code? · · Score: 1

    Actually I kind of like the idea that useful code may still be in use 200 years from now. I mean we still use law, mathematics and science from 200 year ago don't we?

  11. Re:SQL Server on Slammer Worm Slams Microsofts Own · · Score: 1

    Someone carried a laptop to the lab for some testing maybe ?

  12. Re:Woohoo!!! on Network Associates Loses Battle to Silence Reviewers · · Score: 1



    I can't believe you placed anti-suv and logic in the same post :-)

  13. Re:Predictions... on Supreme Court to Take Up DeCSS Case · · Score: 1

    Let me guess,

    You are a highly educated college student and or graduate?

  14. Re:now the engineers come out... on University of Twente NOC Destroyed · · Score: 1

    A high concentraion of CO2 causes an almost irrestible urge to exhale and then inhale. And CO2 displaces oxygen much more "agressively" than halon.

    At least thats what they told me in Navy fire fighting school when explaining why the Navy shifted from CO2 to halon for the fixed fire suppression systems in some spaces

  15. Re:Imagine on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    "Who the fuck ever said a witch hunt can't catch a few witches along with a whole shitload of innocents?"

    War is hell, they started it they deal with the consequences. Like the people in the Trade Center were not innocent?

    "How the fuck is bombing Iraq going to placate terrorists? Or is it just that they're all hanging out in Iraq waiting to be killed? Or maybe they'll be so fucking broken up by the death of their leaders that they'll just forget about revenge. Yeah, that's it, definitely."

    Who the fuck want's to PLACATE terrorist. Why did you choose that word?
    Average Iraqi's will be in the streets celebrating the second Saddams
    regime is ousted.

    "Standing next to a brutal dictator is something pretty far off from thinking "Hmm, these people hate us now, I bet we'll make them a whole fucking hell of alot happier by bombing the fuck out of their country. Yes, that will definitely end terrorism all over the world forever."

    The people don't hate us, and don't let your biased leftist news sources
    confuse you. Criminal leadership and extreme Muslim clerics paint
    the west as the enemy to retain their power. We are not gonna bomb
    it and leave, this time we'll stay. Like we stayed in Germany and Japan
    after we eliminated their misguided and evil forms of government.

    "Get this through your head, the enemy is not going to sit around in
    Baghdad and wait to be bombed. Spying on your own citizens will do nothing
    but create civil unrest and maybe through out a few more McVeigh's or
    Unabomber's."

    The enemy are those extremist within Islam that believe anybody that is
    not Muslim deserves death. Iraq is but the first act of a worldwide
    war that will only cease when the Muslim faith rejects extremism and
    admits that other peoples of other faiths deserve the right to live and
    worship as they wish.

    McVeigh and the Unabomber were criminals reacting
    to the wrongs they perceived within their government, so what! Speaking
    of "creating civil unrest" how come you didn't mention John Allen Muhammad
    and John Lee Malvo?

    How is reading publicly available data spying? You have a right to
    privacy in your own home. Everywhere else you are subject to being
    watched, get over it, it's called being in PUBLIC.

    Please temper your Anti American views with a little logic and history.

    ~

  16. Re:Imagine on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 1

    "an excuse to gut the little bits of the bill of rights left"

    On other issues, (drug war, intellectual property) I agree with you, but the
    primary duty of any government is to "provide for the common defense" in
    this case, wading through any and all publicly available data is a good
    thing. Look at each issue on it's own merits and don't let your feelings for
    Ashcroft politics cloud your judgment on this issue.

    "Iraq agreed to disarm in 1991 as part of their surrender, they are in
    violation of that agreement as the US Army can roll right into Baghdad for
    that reason alone.

    "the fact that we let dictators and multinationals run roughshod over the
    rights of the poor of other countries without doing anything to help achieve
    real justice, and in many cases with active complicity in the
    crimes),

    No individual or government is perfect, how loud would the left be screaming
    if we _replaced_ all the dictators that did not meet our moral or ethical
    standards? I love this circular leftist bullshit argument. The US is evil
    because we do business with dictators. The US is evil because we overthrow
    dictators we don't agree with. The US is evil because we didn't overthrow a
    dictator when we had the chance. The US is evil because UN sanctions kill
    innocent Iraqi children and on and on and on and the only consistent thread
    is the US is evil.

    "Does it mean that I think there are real reasons that they use to justify
    their unjustifiable actions, reasons which we could actually do something
    about? Hell yes."

    Like what? Bin Ladens only demands are all Westerners leave all Arab
    countries. You feel like doing that?

  17. Re:Imagine on The Pentagon Wants Your Secrets · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "witch hunts for terrorists"

    Where the fuck were you on 2001.09.11 ?

    "plans to 'Preemtivly Strike' nations that pose no real threat to us"

    Better we should wait till they nuke New York? And then what would you say??

    "Well were not really sure exactly who placed the nuke and were not really sure which country helped them so who can we punish?"

    You stand next to a brutal dictator that gases his own people? Instead of standing next to your country?

    Get this through your head, the enemy wants to kill you or convert you, your friends, your family. What is your answer to this threat?

    And comparing the United States to Nazi fucking Germany?

  18. Re:Info, not Man on Top 10 Things Wrong With Linux, Today · · Score: 1


    Amen Brother...

    Thanks for the laughs :-)

  19. Re:Holy shit. on Industry-Standard VOIP Phone Using All Free Software · · Score: 1

    read at -1

  20. Re:We make a secure Operating System on Most Outrageous Vendor Lie Ever Told? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Listen here newbie.

    When I fix something I expect it to _stay_ fixed. But since you had to reinstall NT from scratch every now and then, all my hard work at patching the OS goes down the toilet. So I have to decide between loading the service packs in the right order (if your running IIS) and then loading the hotfixes or getting some sleep.

    It's a really shitty product that blames all its problems on its customers.

    Don't get me started on this particular piece of FUD from M$. Next you'll be telling me all 3rd party drivers are buggy and security by obscurity is correct, and my network will just work right when we finally go all M$ and wait of course.. the fix for you're current problem is in the next version, and yes we really did need to break the doc, xls, vsd file standards in order for you to pay us more fscking money next year....

    Get a fucking clue, you're being lied to by M$ and you believe it.

  21. Re:"Hold My Hand, Please" on What's A Good Starter Linux distro? · · Score: 1



    Three years from now you'll now _exactly _ what you want your Linux box to do. Then you have a choice, type in the exact command such as

    grep default.ida access.log | awk -F- '{ print $1}' | sort | uniq

    or you can point and click you way to trying to find this info in a gui.

    How many times have you clicked on the wrong box while speeding through a gui ?

  22. Re:Not the mess they made... on Code Red: the Aftermath · · Score: 1

    More M$ Fud..

    I'ts not the OS, it's the incompetent Admin.

  23. Re:Technically... on Travesty: Dmitry Sklyarov's Arrest · · Score: 1



    The larger question is how can the software be illegal?

    The idea that it might be used to commit a crime at a later date is ridiculous and dangerous.

    I can commit a crime with a pencil, shall we make pencils illegal?

    Cars are used in many many crimes, shall we make cars illegal?

  24. Re:telnet:// links need to work on linux on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1


    ssh:// is a great idea.

    telnet:// support is still needed to access existing internal webpages that make extensive use of telnet:// to access labs or networking equipment.

    NS, IE and Mozilla on Windows have this support.

  25. telnet:// links need to work on linux on Mozilla 0.9.2 Storms Out The Gates · · Score: 1


    Mozilla on linux does not open telnet sessions when a telnet://x.x.x.x link is selected.

    Mozilla bug 33282 has been open for over a year on this issue.

    Will 1.0 ship with telnet:// broken?