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  1. Trap for harvesters. on Stopping Spam And Trojan Horses With BSD · · Score: 4
    Very nice article, but it misses one very funny method for "trapping" e-mail harvesters by feeding them pages with random addresses.

    Look here.

  2. Re:486? on Streaming MP3 For Linux Server Guide · · Score: 1
    > I couldn't get the 486 to decode the MP3s fast enough

    I believe the streaming server doesn't have to encode anything.

  3. Internet inventor reads /. on Non-Traditional Keyboard Reviews · · Score: 1
    Hey Folks,

    I'm the inventor of the Internet. Feel free to post any questions...

    Al

  4. Re:Matrox on Best Supported Video Card For Linux/XFree86? · · Score: 3
    But G450 has no fan. This has determined my choice. This has been the only reason. I have paid extra bucks to have less noice on my desktop. And I don't regret.

    By the way, the latest kernel prepatch supports framebuffer on G450. I haven't tried it yet.

  5. Re:Efficiency on Perl and .NET · · Score: 1

    Processor power is cheap as long as you have it enough. If 2 GHz is not enough for you it is not cheap at all.
    SMP boards, non-Intel processors, coolers, cases - all this comes to the next price level.
    And yet you have to worry how to use it effectively. A cluster is as slow as a single computer if you don't care how to distribute the tasks properly.

  6. Re:Efficiency on Perl and .NET · · Score: 1

    Have you even been behind Raptor Firewall?
    HTTP is the ony way to communicate with the outside world if the Raptor is in between :-(
    Whenever you are using UDP, TCP to ports other than 80 and 443 or even TCP to port 80 which is not HTTP there will always be unhappy users.

  7. Re:what a waste of energy on SETI@Home Breaks 500,000 years · · Score: 1

    You can also disconnect your phone if you are not interested to know what happens outside your house. Don't use internet. Don't watch TV. It's all waste of time and energy, because you don't not care about the outside world.

  8. Keep your car locked. on The Honeypot Project · · Score: 1

    If you don't have the key it's your problem.
    Your car can be used to commit a crime, even a murder.
    Locking your car is a good thing for the society even if it's a bad thing for you.

  9. Re:What actually caused the accident at chernobyl? on Chernobyl (Finally) Shuts Down · · Score: 1
    > The power increase feature of the RBMK caused a rupture in the cooling system and a large steam explosion occurred.

    It's not a feature. It's a bug.
    Segmentation fault. Core dumped.

  10. Finally! But ... on Chernobyl (Finally) Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    How many presidents does it take to shut down a power plant?

  11. I wish the headline would be ... on Corel To Sell Linux Arm · · Score: 1

    I wish the headline would be:
    Corel To Sell ARM Linux
    But I probably want too much from this life.

  12. Re:But an open relay is the right thing to do on Spammer Pleads Guilty · · Score: 1
    > Fraud and abuse should be completely unknown.

    Sigh.
    Would you leave your door unlocked if you have a gun in the house?
    Or you think that violence should also be unknown?
    What if your neighbor's 5 y.o. son comes to play with your gun?

  13. Fluctuations! on Intel Creates 30-Nanometer Transistors · · Score: 5

    Customer: Your program crashes randomly. It must be a bug.
    Support: It's not a bug. It's a quantum fluctuation.

  14. Re:Not about PDAs! on Konqueror Ported To QT/Embedded · · Score: 1
    > system designers don't have
    to be bound to WinCE and pocket explorer.


    Gosh! "Pocket explorer" sounds just great.
    It must be a great tool for thieves!

  15. Re:No big deal on Users Hack Aqua to Make It More Usable · · Score: 4
    > How about the trash on the desktop?

    Big deal! Some people have trash on the desktop without even having a computer!

  16. Re:One question... on Alpha-Blending On KDE · · Score: 2
    That's probably because many people here feel about free software as about something that belongs to all of us.

    Why if your neighbor buys an SUV it's "a waste of power", but if you buy it "it's pretty sweet"?

  17. OS/2 Warp 3.0 vs. FreeBSD on IBM Won't Support FreeBSD On ThinkPads · · Score: 1

    I remember that OS/2 Warp 3.0 didn't boot on a machine with FreeBSD installed. This was fixed in OS/2 4.0.

    Now consider the fact that OS/2 is produced by IBM. Doesn't it look similar? Let's see whether IBM will fix their bug in BIOS as they fixed their bug in OS/2.

    It's IBM's fault since it's their BIOS that gets crazy instead of rejecting a partition that it doesn't understand. Just checking for one more magic number (one CPU instruction!) would fix the problem.

  18. Re:And why should anyone be surprised? on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1

    486 is not enough if you want to do word processing in your usual environment, be it M$ Office or StarOffice or whatever. Ditto e-mail.

  19. Re:Perhaps the most frightening statement is: on Possible Crusoe and Recall? · · Score: 1

    You mean Slashdot effect?

  20. What a pity! on Mutant Tetrachromat Females Found · · Score: 1

    Too bad she is 57. If she were 27 I would marry her :-(((

  21. Route 95 on The Author of Ping is Reported Dead · · Score: 1

    I drove on route 95 just few minutes ago. I could have been on his place.
    How sad to see one of the real creators of Internet die in an accident. How long will it take before cars will be obsoleted by ping, telnet, X11, VNC, whatever...

  22. Re:What prevents the next release. on Are You Using the GNU/Hurd Kernel? · · Score: 1

    I bet it's not GNU/Hurd

  23. Re:Debian ISO images on Are You Using the GNU/Hurd Kernel? · · Score: 1

    Wow! .hu is an excellent TLD for Hurd users :-)
    Somebody already registered gnu.hu but their site seems to be in Klingon.

  24. Re:What prevents the next release. on Are You Using the GNU/Hurd Kernel? · · Score: 1
    I believe there are very good guys here on /. Miguel de Icaza is here. Tom Christiansen is here. The problem is that they are mostly too practical - they want a working product in the next month, not in the next decade.

    The biggest problem of GNU/Hurd is that it cannot deliver anything in the next month, but it can be the best OS in 2010. If we do something.

    # ls /dev
    Computer bought the farm.
    :-(

  25. What prevents the next release. on Are You Using the GNU/Hurd Kernel? · · Score: 5
    There are few issues that prevent us from making the next release. Most of them are filesystem specific.

    1. fdisk cannot get the geometry of the drive due to lack of the interface
    2. ext2fs partitions cannot exceed 1Gb because they are mmap()ed
    3. symlinks are not supported on CD-ROMs

    We cannot release GNU/Hurd-0.3 without all the above.

    But the worst problem by far is lack of developers. Let's hope that this article will attract new people into the GNU/Hurd community.

    Previous articles failed to do it though :-(