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  1. Re:To understand... on Yahoo Submits DomainKeys Draft To IETF · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Roaming users should relay through their company mail servers. Then SPF just works. Why should I accept mail claiming to be from hotmail that originates from a Starbucks somewhere?

    My mail servers allow our sales guys to log in, receive and send mail through our servers. We have exactly one allowed sender address.

  2. How about sendmail? on Covert Channel: ASCII Art Over ICMP · · Score: 2, Funny

    Should be able to do something creative with 550 errors in sendmail, here. Can reject messages contain newlines?

  3. I want my MTV! on Fedora Core 2 Officially Available · · Score: 2, Funny

    When we get proper multicast support

    Maybe the folks who stole the Cisco IOS code were just sick of waiting for multicast and are planning to hack it in.

    Whatever happened to mbone?

  4. Re:ARM servers on ARM Unveils One-chip SMP Multiprocessor Core · · Score: 1

    Because you have a minimum of one transistor per memory bit. So a GB of system memory requires 8 billion transistors (plus ECC). Not quite there yet on chip sizes. Latest P4 is around 180M.

  5. Re:And now.. on ACLU Sues FBI Over ISP Records · · Score: 1

    And let's not forget Prohibition. That got passed by the people as well.

    "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel." - Samuel Johnson

  6. Public Relations Move? on Microsoft Releases WTL To SourceForge · · Score: 1


    Then again, there's always the possibility that this is just what it seems to be. A way to get open source developers to write for the Windows platform.

    No. Too obvious.

  7. ipSec on Understanding TCP Reset Attacks, Part I · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Long-term TCP connections on the public internet that have a high cost to re-establish can use ipSec to avoid this problem.

    Random source port allocation from a large pool, combined with smaller window sizes should be sufficient for the rest. Why do you need more than a 1K window width? Because packet sizes are too small. TCP is from '91, so 1K packets were considered "big", transmission speeds were slow, and the network was presumed to be fairly unreliable. Now with higher speed and huge memory, a packet size of 64K would reduce overhead as well as the need for large packet windows.

  8. Re:Open Source Apocalypse on Patents and the Penguin · · Score: 1

    The United States government is neither allowed to have intellectual property nor is it bound by intellectual property law.

    Do you have a source for these assertions? Didn't the US Gov. sign an international copyright treaty? Doesn't NASA have an active patent licensing group?

  9. Re:comp.graphics.algorithms FAQ on Refresh your Memory: Advanced Graphics Algorithms · · Score: 2, Informative

    For the basics (Hardcopy only)

    "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics", 541 pages, Newman & Sproull, 1979.

  10. Re:Interpretation? on The War Of The Word · · Score: 1

    Reveal Codes - that was one indication of how bad WP was. You had to have a window full of binary so that you could fix the braindead formatting WP would do to your document. Word 4 was better, and that was before it was WYSIWYG. You could add embedded postscript in Word docs to do line art. I wish it still supported that instead of Virus Basic. Word won because it was better. Well, and because of Flight Simulator.

  11. Bringing in the lawyers on Kernel Modules that Lie About Their Licenses · · Score: 1

    Umm. What law got broken here? If my software lies did I break a law? I'm in big trouble, then.

    The GPL is a copyright, not a criminal law. It says you have no right to distribute a modified version unless its also GPL. Is LinuxAnt distributing a modified version, or just their own software that they wrote? Or are you claiming that the API to the kernel is proprietary to the kernel [ attention SCO lawyers ].

    The only legal issue is that YOU can't distribute the kernel after you have added their software, because the kernel is now tainted. But the tool isn't telling you that, because of the clever hack. [ and yeah, it is kind of clever ]

  12. Re:Not News on Stanford, IBM Team To Explore Spintronics · · Score: 3, Informative

    Bubble memory used magnetic domains and depended on electromagnets to move the domains around. The devices were non-volatile and rugged. The largest one made was about 4Mbit, and was the size of a credit card (TI or Intel, I think). Since the usual architecture was a shift register, its closest competitor was disk rather than RAM. They could be completely erased by a strong magnetic field.

  13. Re:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Linux Desktop Security for New Users? · · Score: 1

    This saying was attributed to Perlis in 1982.

  14. Re:Global Warming? on UK Releases Global Warming Report · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Mass transit is a joke because people have redesigned the world around the increased convenience of cars. The downtown area in my town, within walking distance of most homes in town, is dying. Meanwhile, 5 giant malls have been built, none of which can be reached except by car.

    Maybe $5/gallon gas or $5000/year luxury tax on cars would have some effect on this. The people who use cars the most should be paying more for the privilege instead of paying for roads out of the general tax revenue.

  15. Re:Two daddies? on A Mouse With Two Mothers · · Score: 1


    Who says the egg cell has to be from the same species?

  16. Re:excellent! i have been looking for this on Samba 3 By Example · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know what you're talking about. smb.conf is almost as easy as sendmail.cf. It has helpful comments like:

    ; 7: Look at the "hosts allow" option, unless you want everyone on the internet
    ; to be able to access your files.

    Well, I looked at it and they could still access my files.

  17. Re:There are three reasons on Few Takers For Microsoft's Settlement Cash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also, if you follow the link to webform.microsoftcalsettlement.com, you have to fill out a form to get the claim form. Then wait for the form. Then fill out the claim form and send it in. Then wait for the settlement.

    Note the privacy notice on the webpage. There isn't one. Who are these people? It doesn't say. What are they doing with the information they collect? What are the chances of getting a software audit if you fill out a claim form?

    Tinfoil hats available in aisle 3.

  18. Re:Why am I not surprised :-) on Hubble Photo of Sedna Suprises Astronomers · · Score: 2, Interesting


    or perhaps the moon just has a low albedo. Maybe we can rename the moon "Krylon matte black"

  19. Re:no go in the corporate world on THG Linux Migration, Part Two · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't underestimate the power of MS Office macros, VBA-scripts and specially the users that made them. They can be hard-necked.

    I'm not underestimating them They send email to me all the time. Fortunately, my AV software gets most of it.

  20. Re:What? on A Need for Greater Cybersecurity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When a patch has been on the web for 6 months, its not the software company's fault that the user company has no policy on updating software, insufficient IT staff, and no end-user training.

    Heck, a lot of companies don't even have a comprehensive software inventory.

  21. Hidden food value in spam? on Hidden Messages in Spam · · Score: 5, Funny


    The Bible code was bad enough. Now we have people looking for messages in spam? Look! Played backwards it says "I buried Paul".

  22. Re:Finally! on Microsoft PR: Looking Under The Hood · · Score: 1

    On AIX ksh, at least:

    set -o emacs
    (or if you prefer)
    set -o vi

    To gives you recall/edit/history, etc.

    stty -ixon

    Disables START/STOP output control.

    Put them in ~/.profile

  23. Re:How is this better? on Software Vending Machines · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You can peel potatos yourself, but somehow McDonalds stays in business.

    How long does it take to download 700MB on a DSL connection, burn a CD and print a label? How much do you value your time?

  24. Re:Good Idea but . . . on Software Vending Machines · · Score: 1

    I know what you mean. Like, those jukeboxes in the 50's were complex machines like this that put a platter into a reader and then gave you music. Who put money into those? Obviously only technically literate people. No wonder they died out.

  25. Re:Shall be interesting to see how they depict the on Scifi Channel to Make Ringworld Miniseries · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...and a Kzinti played by a muppet.

    my response: Scream and leap.