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  1. Re:Pictures for those who haven't on Looking at a Martian Aurora Borealis · · Score: 1

    I have very bad color vision. I have never really seen these lights I believe.

    (color vision problems are tremendously exagerated by low light levels).

    The films always show the light patterns changing very rapidly, The complete pattern seems to change in less than a minute

    Do they change that quick, or is it time laspe photgraphy?

    Thanks

  2. New mac addresses on How Do You Handle Portscanning Attacks? · · Score: 1

    Be very carefull changing your mac addresses.

    Some cable companies use MAC address filtering as a way of stopping pirateing.

    Write down your old mac address first. We got a new cable modem and they had to wait until there cisco guy got in before cox could get us back online once.

    BTW: Don't things get routed by IP address once the cache (arp?) tables upstream get updated?

  3. Re:Oh really? on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 1

    It all depends on what motherboard you are working with.

    I tried to install on a X64 board in a shuttle. It had SATA raid controller. I did not worry about thre drivers because I was installing onto a single IDE drive. The install would run for several minutes get to the install of the drivers and then die because it could not find files..

    I tried XP home, PRO, OEM. MCE. no luck!

    Finally added a floppy drive and loaded the drivers with F6. installed like a charm.

    (Note: I had to leave the floppy drive on the table during the install as it has no room in the case for one)

  4. Frys sells some open source stuff in boxes on Using Computer Stores to Spread Open Source? · · Score: 1

    Frys electronics sells some OSS software in the stores

    Various versions of OpenOffice (mostly packaged to compete with microsoft office and word perfect...
    firewall and router packages and even tux racer

  5. Re:I'd settle... on The Future of Linux on Laptops · · Score: 1

    My hp pavilion zv6000cl had what seemed to be a standard windows XP home install CD (with HP labling on it.) menus and such looked just like standard windows XP install. I even was able to carve out a separate partition at install time for later use by linux.

    very nice to have that much control.

    Warning: despite this, it took several trys with several distros to get linux installed (hangs because of the hardware being different and newer than the distro could deal with. Finally suse 9.1 worked)

  6. old "piracy" on MPAA Blames BitTorrent for Star Wars Distribution · · Score: 1

    I bought a box of old 78 records a couple of years ago at a flea market.

    in the box were some records which were marked to only be played on the radio (promotional copies is what they are now called) there were some of the make your own records Thin alluminum disks with plastic on both sides which had recordings which were made live one at a time by a machine. one of the sides has a pirate copy of Perry Como singing something.

    All of the records were from the early 30's

  7. forged proof of ID is better for crime use on Library to Require Fingerprint to Use PCs · · Score: 1

    1a) Apply Scotch tape to top of mouse button or a similar place.

    or

    1b) or pick some one you hate (like your openent running for dog catcher)
    2) remove tape and take home
    3) use finger print to build resulting fake finger
    4) use fake finger to login and commit major crime
    5) stand back and laugh

    Despite TV shows, when police find someone they "like" for the crime they are much more likely to "find" other evidence. They also generally stop looking for anyone else.

    Why do they NEED to know who used the computer? Real criminals would just use an open wireless in the library parking lot anyway.

  8. HP-UX 11I ??? on HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks · · Score: 1

    The article says HP-UX 11i as well

    This would be really cool, however I do not belive it.

    Yes there was/is a laptop available that runs hp-ux 11i but it does not have an intel processor and thus can not run Windows

    this is porbably a typo, but if you hear different please let me know

  9. Be careful of live CDs on HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks · · Score: 1

    I have a new hp pavillion zv6000cl laptop

    WXVGA display. Radeon Express 200m
    athlon 64 processor

    live cds seem to work well (knoppix and mandrake move)

    install CD hang shortly after you hit enter to install. I was able to eventually get suse 9.0 to install by adding frame-buffer and a couple of other switches at the install prompt. fedora. Ubuntu, mandrake, suse 9. and a bunch of others just hang after the prompt

    SUSE 9.1 works ok except no networking.

  10. It is a nice distro. on HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks · · Score: 1

    However I could not get the install to survive on my new HP laptop (64 bit athlon with the Radion express 200m video)
    getting fairly certain it was the video that hangs on most distros.
    even if you try to install in text mode it hangs almost everything dies during the install (suse 9.0, fedora core 2,3 32/64 bits)

    I did get SUSE 9.1 to install except no networking yet

    Ubunto works slick on my older thinkpad though

  11. Businesses cant change email addresses on Spam Blacklist Targets Hijacked Telewest Customers · · Score: 1

    I worked for a while for a very small company which had about 7 full time employees. Because we did business in part via email we could not change addresses without a signifigant impact. The employees did not worry about giving their addresses out to anyone. We were getting 20 to 30 thousand emails a day. That is over a million per employee.

    I spent at least 1/3 of my time updating spamassassin filters.

  12. Re:I've always wondered... on AOL Treats Florida Emergency Alerts Mail As Spam · · Score: 1

    At a place I used to work I was in charge of the spam filters. I got a complant that sprint picture mail (photos taken with a camera phone) would not get through.

    Well to make a long story short, there was so much advertizing in the stuff that sprint wrapped arround the picture that spamassassin blocked it.

    I do not know what is up with these messages, however I suspect it may be the same.

    I pay sprint when I send a picture mail, why do they have to put 800 numbers and such in them...

  13. Re:What's interesting about this... on First Image of Extrasolar Planet Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I have hot heard this term co-moving before but it may be close to what I understand the relationship is between the earth and the moon.

    If we were not living on the earth or the moon we would be more objective and not call the moon our satellite. We would instead call it a double planet.

    The moon is so large compared to the earth that if you drew the paths of the two bodies relative to the sun you notice that the moons orbit around the sun is never concave.

    The moons orbit gets straighter when closer to the sun than the earth is, but never concave.

  14. Re:Same old, same old from wealthy business owners on Gates Calls for Increase in Tech Labor Supply · · Score: 1

    You forgot under 30 years old

  15. Re:How well does it scale up? on Room-Temperature, Small-Scale Fusion at UCLA · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There might be some very economical uses of this. A small lightweight source of neutrons that does not contain or produce any radiation before being activated might have some very nice (money producing) applications.

    Also they stated that the energy production in the Initial experiment was less than it took to generate the fusion. This does not rule out variations or even a scaled up version (I would guess that simple scaleing would not work)

  16. why unfair on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1

    Please also realize that that we do not really know what the terms MAN and WOMAN mean.

    Most people think a baby is born and the doctor looks at him/her and says its a boy/girl and that is written on the birth certificate. And we are done.

    Some people get sex change operations and then though some legal process, get (I guess) a new birth certificate.

    Well that is usually the case however there are some execeptions.

    In one case in 10,000 the doctor goes "Ummmm" or "WTF!" It is not clear what the sex of the child is.

    What generally happened (especially before 1980) was the doctor would do a little surgury and ASSIGN a sex of female(because it was easiest) and the child was started on female hormones (if needed) at a future date. In many cases the child was not told about this and only discovered the truth after the child was married and went to the doctor to find out if/why they could not have children.

    We can now do a DNA test and determine the sex of these folks in most cases. (I believe that slightly more than 1/2 of them are eventually discovered to be male)

    How should the law treat these people????

    They can not marry ever? They adopt children and CPS must take them away when they are found out? Military service? This gets to a a very nasty road...

    Now to make things really nasty there are people from a genetic standpoint who are not female and also not male. XXY and such, also there Chimeras:
    brie.medlabscience.med.ualberta.ca/de/genetics/70g en-term.html

    Thanks for keeping an open mind. One question back to you. If we limit marriage to two people of any sex, What damage to my traditional marrige of over 20+ years can even be concidered to occur? I have never seen a real attempt to answer this question.

  17. OT: windows printing to jet direct on One Year Later - CUPS Admin Still Lacking? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is easy in XP. In 2000 it can be done as well but in the wizard for config of a printer you need to take the wrong step (go into the directly connected printer part instead of the network printer, IIRC)

    IIRC for windows 9x you need to download somthing from HP.

    If a google on -> Windows 2000 jetdirect - does not give the answer, please let me know. I did it about a year ago on a clients machine.

  18. Re:Good! on Asteroid 2004 MN4 May Hit Earth After All · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, you are quite wrong.

    The last 10,000 and particularly the last 300 years we have marked this planet in so many ways that it would take weeks just to catagorize the number of permanant marks we have left here. If you have any questions just look at the variety of objects you will find next to any road.

  19. Re:Its their job on Network Penetration Scans and Executive Reaction? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When I worked for a mid sized company that used to do this I had a little game I used to play to defuse these issues.

    I set up monitoring on the network so that if anyone started to do anything funky on the network my terminals would beep.

    I would then printout a piece of clip art with hand cuffs on it.

    Trace down the ip address. Then walk to the correct office an say "Hi, are you doing something strange on the network?"

    When they said the were, I would hand them the paper with cuffs and ask them to let me know when they were done.

    After a couple of years, they started calling me in advance so I was not bothered.

  20. 2-3 gap on Hubble Verdict: De-Orbit · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Are we sure that we can live with a three year gap?

    There will probably not be a major asteroid stike on earth during my lifetime, However, I belive they will identify a rock that will impact at some future date before then.

    The risk to life and limb to the shuttle crew could be justified just by the use of Hubble if an impacter is identified.

    Also remember that the sky is not static. We have events like comet strikes into Jupiter, supernova....

    Also do you expect the replacement scope to arrive on time?

  21. Re:Gattaca? on UK Report Suggests Designer Offspring · · Score: 1

    You must take into account recent reasearch that indicates that some genetic "defects" are mixed blessings.

    Cystic Fibrosis gives carriers a resistance to typhus
    Sickle cell anemia to malaria
    Color Blindness to seeing camo

    If you clear all these things up, no big deal, however some others may radically limit our diversity and that could be very bad as we do not know what they may protect us from.

  22. OT: Why read a play on Precedent for Warrantless Net Monitoring Set · · Score: 1

    I think it is very important that students read a play in school.

    Shakespeare is not required, but some sort of play should be. There is a lot to be learned from reading a script.

    You get to see what a playwrite does. Perhaps a more modern screenplay would be better where there are blocking notes, prop information, camera angles.... built into the script.

  23. Re:What's the point? on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi Detector Ring Project · · Score: 1

    I have a Hawking one. Looks very much like a cell phone. I have used it mostly as a toy but it is directional and is very useful when doing a security audit. I can quickly find transmitters without having to play games every time I loose a connection.

    I wish it had LCD which would display SSID/channel info.

  24. Valid point, however.... on European Software Patents Not Dead Yet · · Score: 1

    I think that a very limited term of copyright is useful to thr promotion of progress...

    Strictly limted ( 5/10 years or only as long as supported ) and no patents

    That said, a valid view point would be to make all software free and open. If someone "steals" the code and modifies it so what. If there modified version is not better it would die on the vine.

  25. Re:WTF? on American Airlines Information Gathering · · Score: 1

    No, but close.
    (begin_foil_mode)
    Platinum AAdvantage Card holders have had GPS/RFID chip implants.
    (end_foil_mode) ;-)