User: Niac

Re:A better Unix than Unix?

On: The Continuing Rise of Linux and UNIX

OSS Solution du jour:

--- cut here ---

#!/bin/tcsh
foreach file (*.url)
strings $file | grep http > /tmp/$file.output
wget -r `cat /tmp/$file.output`
end

--- cut here ---

Note, I have not tested this, and don't intend to. :-) If it works, great. If not, it gives you an idea of how to do this. :-)

Enjoy! :-)

Nifty stuff.

On: 8 way SMP chipset for K7

Very cool, and a good reason to switch to AMD hardware. (not that intel isn't good, but AMD does tend to be cheaper...) And 8-way SMP...wow.

That I like.

Although, I do wonder about the syncronization issues...

Enough of my ramblings...christ, it's 5am... *sighs*

Re:EVERY fact?

On: The Factoid

Ahh, but it doesn't work that way. It stores truths, not !(truths).

1 == 1 is a truth.
1 != 2 is not the same thing.

Perhaps this will make some sense, perhaps not...I don't know - I'm tired....been doing routing and such all day......*sigh*

good deals.

On: SlackWare 4.0 is available

I for one am very pleased to see this distribution (that I run) continue to thrive. Way to go Patrick. :-)

Guns

On: Why Kids Kill

Ever heard the phrase "if guns are outlawed, then only the outlaws will have guns" ?

The point being this: w/o guns people are more suceptable to muggings/rape/murder/what-have-you, but with them their chances of escaping personal harm increase. Granted, it is also possible that the criminal will be able to take the weapon away from the person, but as far as I'm concerned, I'd prefer to have to ability to protect myself or at least the *option* to protect myself. With laws preventing the ownership of guns by upstanding citizens, people do not even have the option of protecting themselves.

And there are laws for the purpose of keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, not that those make much difference to the criminals...

--
Gabriel Cain.

Slashdot servers are compromised?

On: Corrupted Databases Are Fun

And besides, what kind of cracker has the patience to wait months to exploit?

A good one.