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  1. Re:Just for the balance on Vim 6.3 Released · · Score: 1
    I'm actually getting used to Emacs. At first I thought it was inefficient to have to press C-x C-s to save a file, then I realized that it was less keypresses than ESC :wq!.

    Use :x then.. :)

  2. Re:oh well on iTunes Europe Goes Live · · Score: 1
    I'm seeing serious issues with akamai here in the UK (AS15729).

    DNS lookups on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all failing intermittently.

  3. Re:Privacy? Yeah right. on Text Messages in the Courts · · Score: 1
    The phone I use is digital. If a bit in a packet is messed up, the whole packet is messed up and that part of the voice isn't sent. It works fine, much better than my old analogue phone. I know quite a bit about these systems because I worked on some of the first ones in 1994 at Bell Northern Research.

    GSM was deployed throughout Europe in 1992 - how were you working on the 'first' ones two years later?

  4. Re:Bianry[sic] Edit on Netgear's Amusing "fix" for WG602v1 Backdoor · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The firmware is gzip compressed, so you'd need to do a bit more than just use bvi. But I suspect if you extracted the gzip'd portion, edited the firmware, re-gzipped it, put it back in the firmware and updated any crc/md5 checks in there it might work.

  5. Re:I use it all the time on Is Caps Lock Dead? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Syntax highlighting is all very well when you're writing the code in the first place, but if you're trying to debug what's going wrong with an app (for example by tailing a log of SQL commands executed) then capitalisation makes things much, much easier to quickly read and understand.

  6. Re:Why is ICANN even involved on Iraq Wants .iq TLD · · Score: 1
    To avoid political controversy, ICANN *specifically* chose to use ISO country codes. This should be specifically a problem for ISO, and if the ISO standard is updated, ICANN can use the new country codes.

    They haven't done that great a job of sticking to this in the past though - note it is .uk rather the .gb as it should be.

  7. Re:Easy on The Mathematics of Futurama · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Quite frankly I wish more shows did this.

    IMO there's nothing worse than a show which is long past its prime being flogged like a dead horse. All the great comedy series are great because they stopped before they got bad - Fawlty Towers, Seinfeld, The Office.

  8. Re:Games on Sega To Launch New High-End Arcade System? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Yeah, Sega games these days are all crap. Well, except for like Super Monkey Ball. And F-Zero AX. And Ferrari F355 Challenge. And Rez. And Cosmic Smash. And Phantasy Star Online. And Sega Rally. And Outrun 2. And plenty of others.

    But yeah, Sega has no rights to any desirable games.

  9. Bit bloody pricey eh? on Napster Launches UK Music Service · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1.09 for a single? When iTunes in the US is 99c (~ 0.56)?

    You're having a giraffe ain'tcha?

  10. Re:Bigger != better on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1
    This wouldn't help warez guys in any way, you can't store stuff on an email server and let people download it from an email account, yer on crack man!

    Nope, you just lack imagination. How about having a mail account with 1TB of warez, which you then forward to other peoples Gmail accounts on request (presumably in an scripted manner)?

  11. Re:This seems... on Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP · · Score: 1
    (Not to mention, you could also use those 70 lines to advertise - provide your company's contact info, or if you're a hosting company, give your pingers a free list of your latest packages. But how long til someone abuses it? Sure, the goatse guy is OK as net humour, but how long til we're fighting off idiots who want to incorporate spam messages in these ping responses?)

    Eh? One minute you're suggesting using it for advertising, the next you're saying you hope it isn't used for spam.

    This can't be used for spam - spam is unsolicited bulk email, this isn't unsolicited (you have to ping *them*), it isn't bulk and it isn't email.

  12. Re:You're forgetting the essential on Nano Body Building · · Score: 1
    Also, in biblical times people lived hundreds of years, and they seeemed to get by alright.

    Remember, everything you read in the bible is true!

  13. Re:Sudo and CVS on How Would You Distribute Root Access? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Except that with sudo access anyone with sudo access could easily get hold of /etc/shadow and then crack the root password. Create a shell script with an innocuous sounding name which grabs /etc/shadow, run it via sudo - all you're going to see is the user with sudo access has run a script.

    I'd therefore recommend you change the actual root password when anyone who had sudo access leaves.

  14. My favourite excerpt on Forget MTV, I Want My Internet! · · Score: 1, Funny
    Some even launched an online assault to the cafe's server, cut the broadband line, input junk programs into computers and poured mineral water into displays.

    Clearly these aren't just any old thugs, these are upwardly mobile thugs armed with evian water!

  15. Re:Gran Turismo killer? on E3 - Microsoft, EA Go Live, Halo 2 Dated, Xbox Videophoned · · Score: 1
    Also - does anyone know anybody who completed all the licensing tests?

    Yeah, me, all gold. Took me quite some time, but to be honest I rather enjoyed it.

    I've been trying the same with GT4: Prologue but I've still got six or seven to go.

  16. Re:DVD+R? on First DVD+R9 Burners Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Only people that didn't read the article, which specifically includes a DVD+R test.

  17. Re:Init scripts... on Reboot Linux Faster Using kexec · · Score: 4, Insightful
    You're quite right, the starting and stopping of services takes much longer than the bootloader.

    What takes even longer though, and is avoided by use of kexec, is all the BIOS stuff. This can take an age, particularly with SCSI controllers in my experience.

  18. Re:Perl script jobs being outsourced! on India's Secret Army Of Online Ad 'Clickers' · · Score: 1
    Seriously, it was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen. I can write cleaner and more efficient code while fighting rabid dogs on crack.

    Is that whilst you're on crack, or the dogs?

    You want to be careful giving dogs crack, you'll get the PETA people on to you. Believe me, I should know.

  19. Re:I'm more interested.. on How Many Google Machines, Really? · · Score: 1
    Now there's an idea - Google-brand skunk.

    Have they got a data centre in Amsterdam?

  20. Re:Let me guess... on Swedish Pirate Demo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Yes, because no-one is going to make things if other people can just take a copy without paying.

  21. Progeny on Red Hat Linux 9 Reaches End-of-Life · · Score: 1

    On our network we still have quite a few old Redhat 7.3 machines. We've been using the Progeny updates for a while now with much success. All of the machines are gradually being moved to Debian, however it'll be a while before the transition is complete and until then Progeny can fill the gap nicely.

  22. Re:Apparent Contraditions on Thermoacoustic Cooler Means Green-Friendly Icecream · · Score: 2, Informative
    Were the fridge ever to crack open, the vast sounds generated within would not escape because the intense noise can only be generated in the pressurised gas locked inside the cooling system.

    RTFA

  23. Re:Blocking IP addresses? Only a matter of time... on Sprint Cracks Down on TTY Relay Abuses · · Score: 1
    Why can't the operator announce the IP address and the reverse lookup results at the beginning of the call, and let the recipient decide whether or not to handle that call?

    What's that you say? I have a call from 213.122.57.107, host213-122-57-107.in-addr.btopenworld.com? Hmm, let me think.. no, I don't think that's an open relay, I'll accept!

  24. Re:Blocking IP addresses? Only a matter of time... on Sprint Cracks Down on TTY Relay Abuses · · Score: 1

    The SpamHaus xbl contains known open proxies (and open relays too, it's designed for spam blocking). You might want to look at blocking access to IPs on this list. It's updated very frequently, twice per hour I believe, and whilst it's obviously not going to catch everything it's certainly very useful.

  25. Re:Hot Spot? on Chernobyl Becomes Tourist Hot Spot · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps they're not as stupid as you think - it's got to be cheaper than a vasectomy.