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  1. Re:Recent spam on Volunteering for OSS == Sign Up for Spam? · · Score: 2, Interesting
    That's the same Spamarrest which sends spam right?

    I'd stay well clear..

  2. Re:Rock solid stability on Social Contract Amendment May Bump Sarge To 2005 · · Score: 1

    You can also purchase updates for RH 7.2-9.0 from Progeny. We've been using them on our old RH 7.3 servers since the beginning of the year and have had no problems.

  3. Re:Wait, do we respect Gibson now? on Zone Alarm 5 Beta Review · · Score: 5, Informative
    Wouldn't say this was a troll at all, just a fair comment about a man with a massively over-inflated opinion of his capabilities:

    Remember the time he 'invented' TCP SYNcookies six years after they were actually created?. To be fair to him, his SYNcookies proposal wasn't the same as what had already been suggested - his had some pretty major omissions that made it unworkable.

    Or the time he predicted the end of the Internet with the introduction of raw sockets into Windows XP, or earlier because of Code Red?

    If one is supposed to be doing a firewall test then a *proper* port scanning utility such as the excellent nmap should be used, rather than a tool on the website of a known netkook.

  4. Re:Compulsory how? on Biometric ID Cards Ready For Trial In UK · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, I think they've thought about it, realised the public won't stand for being made to carry ID all the time, and so are working us up to it more gently.

  5. Re:Compulsory how? on Biometric ID Cards Ready For Trial In UK · · Score: 1
    Does this mean that if a cop stops you on the street you must either be able to produce a valid ID card or take a trip to the police station so that your identity can be confirmed?

    According to Mr. Blunkett on Breakfast with Frost this morning, the proposal is they they will be as with driving licenses - you don't have to carry them all the time, but you can be given a 'producer' and have to report with valid ID to a police station within 7 days.

    Of course, just because that's the initial proposal it doesn't mean that they won't change the rules to enforce carrying the cards at all times once we're used to them..

  6. Re:HOW TO FIX THIS PROBLEM on HDD Assault Cannon · · Score: 1

    The BitTorrent protocol is only really suitable for files larger than a few megs in size. It's not a good fit for web pages that are a few hundred k at most.

  7. Re:AMAZON.COM review copy? on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 1
    Take a look at 'ALecs' email - jmalone@spamcop.net.

    Now see that the Amazon review is written by one 'Josh Malone'.

  8. Re:Galleon on Gard On Tomb Raider, Galleon, Delays · · Score: 1
    I really hope you're wrong about this, but I have to say these are pretty much my feelings about Galleon too.

    Prince of Persia Sands of Time is pretty much the Galleon was going to be, which leaves Galleon itself rather out in the cold..

  9. Re:Wow on First Person Shooter - Under 100KBs of Code · · Score: 1

    IIRC Doom 2 was 5 floppies, Doom was 'just' 3.

  10. Re:No way on Iomega Ships 35GB 'Son of Jaz' · · Score: 1
    I really wouldn't pay too much attention to anything Steve!!! Gibson!!! has to say. He's what's commonly known as a kook.

    Some amusing Register clippings about him:

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/25/steve_gibs on_invents_broken_syncookies/
    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/26/steve_gibs on_accidentally_creates_dos/

    You might also want to take a look at GRCSucks.com.

  11. Re:Please clarify on James Gosling On The Sun/Microsoft Settlement · · Score: 1

    Oh? RedHat doesn't. Debian doesn't. Mandrake might, being French and all might give legal cover. But if SUSE does now they won't anymore after being sucked into Novell.

    apt-get install msttcorefonts It's in the 'non-free' section of Debian but it's there nonetheless.

  12. Re:Actually, this is very sad. on Mirror.ac.uk To Close · · Score: 1
    lftp ftp.mirror.ac.uk:/sites/ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/k ernel/v2.6> get linux-2.6.4.tar.bz2 34386912 bytes transferred in 16 seconds (2.05M/s

    2 meg in one second is even nicer.. I'm *really* going to miss mirror.ac.uk. When I was at uni and directly connected to SuperJaNET the speeds were seriously amazing (8M/sec or so).

  13. Re:The Chaos Engine! on Classic GBA Game Ports We'll Never See? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    I'm definitely in agreement with you on this one.

    In a similar vein Alien Breed would make an excellent GBA conversion.

    Also, how about Sensible's classic 'Mega-lo-Mania'? One of the original 'god' games, and to be honest probably my favourite of all time...

  14. Re:Causal relationship? on TV, ADHD and Doing Useful Things · · Score: 1
    Exactly. Not only for the reasons you give, but my initial reaction was to wonder if the type of parents given to plonking their very young offspring in front of a TV were perhaps also treating their children differently in other regards compared with those who were not. Also, would similar results have be obtained if the children were placed in a room of colourful posters for the same amount of time?

    This study is interesting, but it doesn't really tell us anything common sense doesn't already - we need to give children attention.

  15. Re:Did I miss out on Ireland becoming the 51st sta on How To Catch A Scammer/Spammer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Unfortunately it would seem that whilst you have obviously been furnished with a good understanding of the term 'African-American' you obviously have zero understanding of the term 'humour'.

  16. Re:Subscription model or source code model? on Sun Plans Solaris Subscription Model · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Realistically though, this move would seem to be targetted at stopping existing Sun customers from migrating to Linux rather than tempting RedHat customers away. As Sun's customerbase is geared more towards the higher end of the market I suspect they are less likely to be swayed by arguments about openness.

    Having said this, it's not like Sun doesn't use openness when it suits them - Gnome (Sun Java Desktop) being a good example.

  17. Re:Northeners on Major UK Comms Backbone Bunker Burned Out · · Score: 1
    Coming from East London and now living in Manchester (Eccles, shithole that it is) I'd say Moss Side and Tottenham were pretty much as bad as each other.

    Longsight is much, much worse tho - worse than Brixton even.

  18. Re:What??? on George Mason University Speech Accent Archive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wot I wos finkin geeza.. are they having a fucking giraffe or wot?

  19. Re:Must be my dyslexia on Royal Linux PDA Finally Coming To Market · · Score: 1
  20. Re:You know what this means, folks... on Apple to Add Free Screen Reader to Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    Like Speak Up you mean?

  21. Re:why change? on Modernizing the Save Icon? · · Score: 1
    Exactly, and you type on the 'typewriter' and you can see what your typing on the 'TV'.

    I don't know why everyone thinks these computer thingies are so hard!

  22. You're dealing with the problem too high up on Fault Tolerant Shell · · Score: 5, Interesting
    IMO (as someone who works on clustered systems for a living) you're looking at this from the wrong point of view. A clustered shell is useful only if the system it is running on top of is inherently unstable.

    The real benefit is in having a system which is sufficiently distributed that any program running on top of it can continue to do so despite any sort of underlying failure.

  23. Re:Other ISPs start to do this? on Comcast Cuts Infected PCs' Network Connections · · Score: 1
    I used to have a Motorola Surfboard 4100 and I can confirm that this does work - it was quite happy to get my specially crafted file from my PC via ethernet.

    I must say I always wondered why the device wasn't made in the way you describe though..

  24. Old news on New Linux Kernel Vulnerability · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is why 2.6.3 was released, as discussed in this slashdot story from the 18th of Feb. The date on the linked article is March 1 - this is a second document on the same vulnerability that gives more details. It was not released at the time to give people a chance to patch.

  25. Re:Comparison to Gamecube on Nintendo DS to Play Movies? · · Score: 1
    I don't think this is exactly a bright idea. Nintendo has *always* focused on making a gaming device and not a multi-use media centre; I have a hard time believing that the Big N is going to deviate from 25-odd years of success *now*.

    Actually, Nintendo started out as a playing card company. No doubt when they started making gaming devices there were plenty of people saying 'Nintendo has *always* focused on making playing cards; I have a hard time believing that the Big N is going to deviate from 75 years of success *now*'.

    If Nintendo want to survive they have to capture a sufficiently large market rather than staying with a niche. By selling the device as a portable movie player as well as a games device they are opening up potential new markets, as well as providing a stronger reason for people to buy the new DS when they already have a GBA.

    Of course, whether Nintendo actually will offer this functionality remains to be seen, but it would seem to be something that could be done at little or no extra cost, and bring many potential extra returns.