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  1. Re:Remember other Fox Fridays? on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 2

    What day of the week was Alien Nation on? That was the first good show to get killed by Fox.

  2. Did I just see what I thought I saw? on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 2

    Did he kick that ugly guy into the engine intake? I mean it was cool, but how the hell did they get that through BS&P?

  3. Re:Readme for 10.2.1 Update on Mac OS X 10.2.1 Released · · Score: 2
    I command-option-escaped out of the installer so I could reboot "later". About 15 minutes later, just after I had plugged a new scanner into the USB, I got this wierd thing where the screen grays out, and a window with a power button icon in back comes up saying "you must restart your computer". Huh? I guess this is Apple's new version of the Blue Screen of Death. It took me 10 minutes to reboot because it had to double-fsck.

    If it really was a kernel panic, how and where do I find the traceback info? I've heard they now save to NVRAM to be picked up after reboot.

    This update still didn't fix the problem on my Pismo where plugged into the wall with a full battery it still doesn't display the "plugged battery" icon and is "calculating" the charge time. And then I had one of those "Pismo hangs when going to sleep" problems (which I hadn't seen once with 10.2.0) and had to reboot again.

  4. Re:What's behind the door that Ito-san is next to? on Egyptian Pyramid Rover Finds... Another Door · · Score: 2
    What's behind the next door?

    Suppries!

  5. Crazy Taxi on Product Placement in Online Gaming · · Score: 2

    Let us not forget all the "real" stores in Crazy Taxi, like KFC, etc. They're not even just there for decoration either; you have to deliver people to them.

  6. Re:Why not digital? on Fighting Music Piracy with Glue · · Score: 2
    They could just build their own and put the songs in ROM and just have no input.

    Why even go that far? That means having to produce a bunch of ROMs, which takes a few weeks lead time. Make the cheap disposable players with RAM inside, with trip switch to cut battery power when opened. Another benefit is it's a lot faster to write to RAM than to flash.

  7. Re:X86 on Linux Worm Creating "Attack Network" · · Score: 2
    This worm copies itself as c source code, then compiles itself with the host computer's gcc.

    Gee, that's nice. And how does it get in there to run the C compiler? That's right. Through an exploit. X86 shellcode.

  8. This is not a Hackintosh! on Build a Macintosh From Scratch · · Score: 2
    When I saw this article, I was expecting that it would say something about getting OS X to run on a non-Apple, non-clone motherboard. In other words, a Hackintosh. False adversiting.

    Not only is it only about upgrading old Mac motherboards, but even the linked page says it's about building your own G4 from scratch. The only part of this that's not a simple "upgrade your old Mac to run OS X" is that it mentions using regular ATX cases. I can't see why you would want to do that unless you were doing a cool case mod.

    Pardon me for yawning, but been there done that about to replace a Linux box with one. And the only reason I did it is I already had an old Power Computing Mac that was already sufficiently upgraded. I'm now debating whether it's worth upgrading my $60 thrift store Power Wave.

  9. X86 on Linux Worm Creating "Attack Network" · · Score: 2
    I think it should be important to mention if this is an X86-only exploit. Open source software isn't the answer to this kind of problem. CPU diversity is at least as important. If you were a script kiddie, would you rather write shellcode for one heavily used CPU architecture, or half a dozen CPU architectures?

    Right now, almost all (non-script language) viruses are for X86. Most root exploits are for X86, with a few more for SPARC.

    I had two boxes get rooted last year thanks to bugs in SSH, but I doubt it will happen again after I replace them with Macs running OS X. But I am glad I never got around to installing OpenSSL with Apache.

  10. Re:Maybe you don't want the imported BBA. on Slashback: GameBand, Nexia, Lunarocks · · Score: 2
    Except that the BBA doesn't run off of wall power. It gets 5 volts DC from the Dreamcast unit. 5 volts DC is 5 volts DC no matter what AC voltage it is being derived from.

    They really just don't want to ship overseas. Nothing more. NCS is offering a perfectly sensible way to order one, and they're cheaper too.

  11. Re:Problem is Obvious - Solution Isn't on Are 99.9% of Websites Obsolete? · · Score: 2
    I've had one email in the past year saying 'your site doesn't display properly' and that was IE on NT4.

    NT4 installs IE 2.0 by default. It doesn't even work with Microsoft's own site because it doesn't support HTTP 1.1 virtual hosts, so you can't even download a newer version of IE without a lot of trouble. Anyone complaining that a site won't display properly under IE 2.0 is a complete and total idiot.

  12. Flash? on Toronto, The Naked City · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't see any map. All I get is a couple of pictures and two plug-in boxes. Either the site is slashdotted, or it requires you to run "Naked Flash". I refuse to leave Flash enabled because of all the annoying web ads that now (ab)use it.

  13. Re:Microsoft : PCs won't boot into DOS in 2003 on Macs Won't Boot Into Mac OS in 2003 · · Score: 2

    The ROM hasn't been in new machines for at least two or three years now. The so-called "New World" architecture only has OpenBoot in ROM. The ROM image that MacOS 9 uses is in a file in the System Folder.

  14. Re:Sheesh! on Vint Cerf Talks About The "Interplanetary Internet" · · Score: 3, Informative

    Of course it depends on the relative orbital positions, but I thought it was on the order of 12-20 minutes round trip time.

  15. Re:Ok, i'm not a massive farscape fan on Farscape Frelling Cancelled · · Score: 2
    But what is "frelling"?

    Someone throw him a frickin' bone here!

    (All I want is some frickin' sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads!)

  16. Re:kill those f*cking adverts!! on A Beginner's Guide to the Dance Dance Phenomena · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    When I look at it, I see a @#%$! puzzle piece in the ad box, indicating yet again that I was right to disable Flash unless and until there's a specific page I want to view with it.

    Just drag the evil Flash plug-in out of your plug-ins directory until you need it. Then drag it back in. Usually all it takes is a page reload for Mozilla to notice that it's back.

  17. Re:This just in... on Warflying: San Diego · · Score: 3, Funny
    "If you see strange symbols floating in the sky above your corporate office, this might mean your wireless networks have been targeted by hackers or terrorists. Be sure to secure you wireless networks and contact the FBI immediately."

    Especially if the symbol is a bat.

  18. Re:Obsessive on Warflying: San Diego · · Score: 2
    I don't get this obsession with finding WLANs.

    It's the high-tech equivalent of rubbernecking to see the accident on the oncoming lanes of the highway.

  19. Re:To all the porting fans on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2

    I have come to the conclusion that all the "OS X on x86" trolls really mean "OS X on my dirt-cheap white box Taiwan chop shop special".

  20. Re:Beg pardon? on Can We Finally Ditch Exchange? · · Score: 2
    And then, in a brilliantly ironic twist, I can't post those sendmail.cf snippets as text, because of Slashdot's indescribable "lameness" filter.

    And because of the wonderful design misfeature of sendmail.cf where tabs are important.

  21. Re:Apple is so freaking stupid on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2
    The only proprietary pieces of hardware are their motherboards and cases.

    Hmmmm... I wonder who else does... could it be... DELL? Compaq and Packard Hell used to be notorious for this, but one is dead and the other was assimilated... by HP, who AFAIK does the same thing.

  22. Hint on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 1

    When's the last time you saw BeOS warez in a store? Still waiting?

  23. Re:Yet Steve's still pinning his hopes on hardware on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The fact is that it would probably take apple only a few months to port osx to x86.

    The student asked the master, "Why don't we port our operating system to a newer, faster CPU?"

    The master simply replied, "Even the fastest operating system with no software that will run on it makes you wait forever." And the student was enlightened.

  24. Re:Does it support appleshare via appletalk? on Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar" Reviews Pour In · · Score: 2
    Does OS 10.2 finally support file sharing via appletalk?

    I never had problems logging into a W2K Server with Mac file sharing from 10.1, other than the lack of speed (I was transferring to the W2K machine, and downloading via Apache turned out to be about four times as fast.) One problem you may have is if you have more than one Ethernet-like interface (such as Airport) and enable Appletalk for all of them. It seems that Appletalk was never capable of multi-homing, so only one interface would ever get used. Jaguar now enforces this in the Network control panel.

    Other possible problems are: 1) still using NT4 on the file server (that was two major upgrades ago!), and 2) network plumbing that somehow filters out Appletalk.

  25. Re:Sheesh on Jaguar Brings Back AirPort Software Base Station · · Score: 2

    Lucky you. My PowerTower Pro (with G3 400) puked after I installed Jaguar on it (using XPostFacto). Puked as in all over the screen, followed by a kernel panic, when it restarted. Fortunately I made a point of not installing it over the working copy of 10.1.5.