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  1. Makes you envious... on A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York · · Score: 1
    Our university RWTH Aachen is currently setting up a few ACs and stuff, but they require you to contact a PPTP server in the WLAN for any outgoing connections (and even then, you can't get into the WLAN from the outside). Authentication will be implemented using the same set of accounts for dialup-networking. So if you have a visiting guest, you have to apply for a new PPTP account some time before.

    You can't even contact a PPTP server outside the WLAN...All in the name of accountability.

    Ah, and of course the plans for hardwiring the NIC's MAC-addresses hasn't been completely canceled yet, IIRC.

    I don't think that many open networks will exist in the long term (except mis-configured ones).

  2. Re:Chess Rules Changes (Human vs. AI) on Brain vs. Computer: Place Your Bets · · Score: 1

    Where is the reference in the link? I cant find anything on analysing invalid positions in there on a first glance.

  3. Re:This ain't new people on Wireless LAN Encryption Standard Broken · · Score: 1
    And if you bother to try and make every single connection that occurs inside your home wireless LAN IPSec 3DES encrypted, how the hell do you ever get anything done?

    You're right, that closely resembles my current problem :-)

  4. Re:This ain't new people on Wireless LAN Encryption Standard Broken · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't have bet all their money on a single horse (WEP). IPSEC, L2TP & PPTP come to mind...

    And you have been using ssh & imaps, have you?

    Now off you go and put "Secrets and Lies" beneath your pillow.

  5. Re:BSD, Windows, whatever... on Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red · · Score: 1
    Why don't they just keep with what works, FreeBSD.

    Because then the usual suspects wouldn't have any obvious reasons to post the *BSD is dying stuff.

  6. Re:Road Runner on Broadband Crackdown · · Score: 1

    Then why don't they just filter all ports in the POPs?

  7. Doesn't matter: TCP/MS on MS getting rid of SAMBA? · · Score: 1

    Hm, yesterday we were told that we wouldn't be able to use Unix to talk toWindows because of "TCP/MS"-extensions, anyways...

    Sheeesh.

  8. Re:How Code Red uses sockets... on Slashback: Exactitude, Fortitude, Picnic · · Score: 1

    They may be nonblocking, but each open connection will tie up system resources until timeout. There's only so much connection a machine can initate/accept.
    I doubt that CR will ever reach the OS-imposed limit, but IANAE.

  9. Re:Freenet plug of the day on Linux 2.4.7 Released · · Score: 1

    stolz@agamemnon [10:53:23]> telnet freenet.sf.net 80
    Trying 216.136.171.201...
    Connected to usw-pr-web.sourceforge.net.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    GET index.html HTTP/1.1
    Host: freenet.sf.net

    HTTP/1.1 302 Found
    ...

  10. Freenet plug of the day on Linux 2.4.7 Released · · Score: 1

    freenet:SSK@sUOkGXJDjktWahCNZmvg0sDkEKgQAgE/foldr. org/linux-2.4.7.tar.bz2
    freenet:SSK@sUOkGXJDjktWahCNZmvg0sDkEKgQAgE/fold r. org/linux-2.4.7.tar.bz2.sign

    What is Freenet?

    I still use FreeBSD, though :)

  11. Re:Opera killed them on Public Outcry Over Popup Ads · · Score: 1

    The Linux version will at least has a switch for prohibiting creation of new windows. If you use this, the pop-ups will appear in the same window, so you might have to hit the "Back"-button to go where you wanted to.

  12. Available in Freenet, too on Linux Kernel 2.4.6 Released · · Score: 2
    For the heck of it, I'm uploading the .tar.bz2 to Freenet right now. It's a copy I grabbed from one of the mirrors, PGP signature verifies, too.

    If you're running a Freenet node, you can grab the kernel source using the following key:

    freenet:SSK@sUOkGXJDjktWahCNZmvg0sDkEKgQAgE/foldr. org/linux-2.4.6.tar.bz2

  13. Or... on The Great Computer Language Shootout · · Score: 1
    For real-world use, would you choose a language that compiled out to run 5% faster if it was also 20% harder to maintain? IT has a misplaced fixation on speed.

    For real-world use, would you choose a language that is much more apt to the job if it wasn't Java,C or C++?

  14. Re:Pseudoknot: a fairer contest on The Great Computer Language Shootout · · Score: 1
    A much fairer contest is the pseudoknot benchmark.

    Why should this be fairer than the approach taken in the shootout? I think it's better to have several categories/programs. Floating-point performance is the last thing I care about.

    Still, it's a better example than a self-confessed beginner trying out toy problems.

    You probaly didn't visit the site yet, didn't you? Solutions have been provided by different individuals, usually people actually working with the languages, too.

    You disagree with a solution? Provide a better one!

  15. Re:A step in the right direction on @Home Cuts Newsgroups Due to DMCA Complaints · · Score: 1
    I wonder why ISPs don't run stuff like Squid, since last I heard, the WWW was a fairly popular part of the Internet.

    *shrug*At least here in Germany I think it's rather common to run and to use web-proxies.

  16. Re:Tdfx on XFree86 4.1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The Voodoo3/AGP works fine in 4.0.3 (e.g. glclock, gltron).

  17. Re:Tdfx on XFree86 4.1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    Then you should stick with 4.0.3. It works in there, but remember you have to build X from source and throw in the two Glide-lines into FreeBSD.cf.

  18. Tdfx on XFree86 4.1.0 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    *sigh* Tdfx is br0ken, I have to stay with 4.0.3 for OpenGL on FreeBSD.

  19. Re:Legitimate uses of Freenet... on Freenet's First Employee · · Score: 1

    Upload some free stuff you'd like to share. Do you have anything interesting on your web pages? Upload it!

  20. Re:Certificate problems on Download 600MB From The EU -- For A Demo? · · Score: 1

    It`s a shame how much money gets wasted on those certs.

    I just bought a S/MIME cert from German Telekom/T-Online just to find out that half of the Netscapes I tried it out on have botched root certs for this CA.

    On the other hand, I don't think anyone will notice this when he receives mail from us :/

  21. Swarmcast on Download 600MB From The EU -- For A Demo? · · Score: 1

    Nice :/ First the good news: Java Webstart & Swarmcast runs under Linux emulation in FreeBSD, too.

    Bad news: First thing Swarmcast wants to do is take over your machine, erm, I mean, its requesting "unrestricted access" from the runtime. And guess what: Webstart complains that the packages signature is invalid. I think Ill comply with Webstarts advise: Dont start Swarmcast.

  22. Re:PGP support on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 1
    Does Mozilla support S/MIME?


    OTOH, why integrate e-mail into a browser ;)

  23. Re:LDAP is a very good thing on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 1
    I'm not very familiar with PAM, but isn't PAM only for authentication (can you get user name, shell, unix uid, home dir, etc. with PAM ?) .

    Exactly, but this was what you were (partially) proposing to use it for, unless I misunderstood you.

  24. Re:LDAP is a very good thing on Mozilla 0.9.1 Out · · Score: 1
    If LDAP was implemented in all daemons and client software, it would ease a lot network administration. You can then configure all servers from a single workstation, in a coherent, unified database.
    ...
    The src/log_ldap.c is a simple getpwnam() wrapper and it can be reused by any program that use this library call to read /etc/passwd.

    Isn't that what you should pam_ldap for?

    Granted, of course it makes sense to use it more extensively (sendmail, ...).

  25. Re:Plutonium's not dangerous. on Building a Plutonium Memorial · · Score: 1

    Hm, so you could actually ship some embedded plutonium on PCI cards...

    But you should probably stay away from LAN-parties. When too many of those cards get together....