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  1. Random number generator on Building a Plutonium Memorial · · Score: 5

    Why, you could of course use it as the world's largest hardware random number generator.

    Preferably located deep in some desert, though.

  2. Re:ipfw is not ipf on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 2
    Why the fuss about ipf when ipfew is in the (FreeBSD) kernel?

    Because ipf is available for different platforms (*BSD, Solaris, ...). You can administer a whole bunch of machines with different OSs with the same set of firewall rules.

    You can't do that with ipfw.

  3. We missed the Last Chance To See... on So Long, Hitchhiker: Douglas Adams Dead At 49 · · Score: 2

    It's really sad he had to pass on already being only 49. I don't know how many hundreds references to THGTTG were putting some fun in everyones daily lives, up to a point where it'd seemed necessary to post a "No more 42 jokes, please" on the office door.

    Apart from his all-time master piece, a trilogy in five parts, I think it's worth pointing out his other works, about strange Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, the Starship Titanic picking up travellers on Earth and my favourite piece of non-fiction, Last Chance To See . I'd really love to have seen more like this from his quill and meet him live on one of his public readings, even if he'd be talking to me in a foreign language...

    We all will surely miss you, even the most stubborned Terry Prattchet fans. Farewell.

  4. Customers on Will Browser-Neutral Web Soon Become Thing Of Past? · · Score: 2

    So what? Obviously, they neither want you nor me as a customer.

    Same with the "you need JavaScript because we dont know how to program without it"-sites.

  5. Re:M-O-Z-I-L-L-A on Mozilla 0.7 Released · · Score: 1

    > Does slrn support NNTPS and authentication?
    > And no, I won't be running local stunnels..

    Apart from missing the point (I knew I shouldve written "newsreaders") youre probably right ;)

  6. M-O-Z-I-L-L-A on Mozilla 0.7 Released · · Score: 1
    Does anybody remember the comment "Its spelled netscape but pronounced mozilla" in the old days? And today...
    ... numerous performance improvements (especially for NNTP)...

    Please, give me a break! Thats what slrn is for.

  7. Re:SSH + one time passwords? on Attacks Against SSH 1 And SSL · · Score: 1

    Of course you can use S/Key for one-time passwords when using SSH and PAM.

  8. Re:Booting FreeBSD kind of sucks, period on IBM Won't Support FreeBSD On ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    Youre right, its a shame fsbdboot.exe wont work anymore :|

  9. Re:But, there is an ECHELON station in Germany!!! on German EU Delegate Sues 'Unknown' Over Echelon · · Score: 1

    > And on top of it all the NATO docs are in German...
    > http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/echelon.jpg

    Uhm. I cant see your point. What are you trying to say?

  10. Another warmed-up ./? on Using IPv6 Via IPv4 · · Score: 1
    *sigh* It's a follow-up to an article which was announced on Slashdot September, 3rd. Sure, it's interesting, but I count this one as another item for the old-news folder on Slashdot.

    It is even still the first item in the "older stuff" in the BSD section.

  11. Re:What about ssh on Peer-To-Peer Encrypted E-mail · · Score: 1
    Way too inpractical, especially for a large number of recipients. I think we should stick with PGP and S/MIME (if they'd only be more widely supported...) and strong encryption.

    Of course you will still be subject to traffic analysis et al., as others already pointed out.

  12. The old days... on Can Unix Mount .TAR.GZ and .ZIP Files? · · Score: 1

    Back in the old days it used to work on an Amiga. Strange that this shouldn't be possible today (at least not simple...).

  13. Re:FTP Password encryption only??? on Colleges Urged To Ban Telnet And FTP · · Score: 1

    You want "OPIE" ("one-time passwords in everything") and/or "s/key".

    Search the web (or get FreeBSD, SCNR ;)

    Vs

  14. Re:digital-to-analog phone converter? on Four Arrested For Internet 'Theft' At OSU · · Score: 1

    Nope, check out Quazi's article somewhere below. Seems that the university is not providing "normal" phone-lines but indeed something you have to buy an adaptor for.