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  1. It's kind of exciting.... on Message from Kabul · · Score: 1

    ... till you think about it for a bit, and then realize it's completely dumb. Who's his ISP? Afghanistan On Line ?How did he know katz current email address? How did he know about /. ? What a comlete crock of absurdity...

  2. Boycott 'em all on BMG Backs Down Over Copy-Protected CD · · Score: 1

    I will not be participating in the DVD "revolution", and I stopped buying music, cold turkey, last year after Napster was shut down, and two reports came out : 1) record profits for the music industry *despite* napster, 2) admitting they'd been grossly overcharging for CD's for 18 YEARS!!!!!!! Forget 'em, I won't fund their greed any more. Use the money you'd be donating to these obnoxious pigs and spend it on a high speed net connection, large hard disk, CDRW setup. It's payback time.

  3. Didn't see a damn thing on First-hand Account Of The Leonid Shower · · Score: 2

    I had my alarm set for 3:30am PST, but then yanked it back to 2:30am PST, after a news report saying that would be when it started to peak. I woke excited, I got up and went outside for 30 minutes. Not a fuckin' thing. It was lightly cloudy, but you could see stars in the sky.

  4. Being smart enough to recognize malicious URLs.. on Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah? What about a redirect?

  5. My WINNT experience on Slashdot Ghost Stories? · · Score: 1

    has to be the scariest time I ever had. The server would randomly lock up, with no warning, finally it gave me "there is insufficient memory to perform this operation" errors when attempting to log in at the console.
    I rolled out SP5 on a bunch of identical (literally identical) machines. First I tested 5 of them manually. All went fine. Then I tested 5 with an automatic rollout. All went fine. Then I rolled it out automatically to the rest. It destroyed every single one - blue screen on boot - with a unique error message for each.

  6. get on with life on Anti-Terrorism Law Passed · · Score: 0

    The bill does what it's put forward to do. If you have a major fear of "government" just carry on using pgp/gnupg and you'll be fine. Move along, nothing to see here....

  7. Re:The move to Linux - CAD? Games? on Windows XP Has Arrived · · Score: 1

    There are few CAD systems for Linux, and the ones that are available are garbage. I tried a "trial version" of one (forget the name) that came with some RedHat power tools CD. It was asking to save my drawings in C:\ and looked like it was written for an EGA adapter.

  8. How to thwart BSD and stay Linux or Win32 on Selling BSD · · Score: 1

    Just subscribe your boss to an openBSD mailing list, any one will do, then ask a question about the filing system, or SMP, boot loaders, or journalling, or security, or, in fact, anything NIH. Rest assured that the juvenile response will destroy any possibility of switching.

  9. Re:Education on Groups Push FTC to Act on MS XP, Passport · · Score: 1

    Education doesn't matter. Because the consumer has no choice in the matter. For years now Microsoft has been using licensing schemes for resellers that force them to yank every copy of a previous product off the shelves the day of the release of the new one. If a consumer decides, for example, to stick with ME, or 2000 or whatever, they have no choice anyway. It really doesn't matter if you know what's wrong with XP, you can no longer buy any alternative version of windows.

  10. I live in California... on Is Your Elected Official Really Listening? · · Score: 1

    ... under Emporer Davis, so of COURSE my representatives aren't listening. They bulldoze their agenda through with scant regard for voting results. The only way I can reduce my tax burden is by buying just about anything I can from out of state, over the internet. I'm sure writing letters gets results in other states, but in CA, it's a lost cause.

  11. I'll second that on Cable Modem Primetime Slowdown - Myth or Reality? · · Score: 1

    I get great service, blazing quick from RR in Orange County, SOCAL. I measured it as being 30 times faster than our office T1 at one point, which, even with the 50 or so users, was an eye opener. However, their DNS servers are down regularly. They switched from NT DNS to W2K DNS and just can't seem to keep 'em running. The only other issue I've had is whenever I get a TV outlet installed, the cable guy jacks up my connection. Remember folks - it's 1 Y only from the pole - 1 connection goes to your cable modem, (or router if you have a business package like me), the other to EVERY OTHER TV IN YOUR HOUSE. The cable guy always gets here, sees the single Y and turns it into a triple, and down we go....

  12. You quote Dr Who in your analysis? on War: What Can Technology Do For Us? · · Score: 1

    I hate to break it to you - but Dr. Who was NOT REAL. Chortle. The Daleks, however, were.

  13. This is a feature of W2K on File Extensions And Monopolies · · Score: 1

    Maybe the author didn't realize it, but this very concept has been touted as one of the "improvements" in Windows 2000 - you can choose "open with" and change your default right there and then. You can even register multiple applications with filetypes.

  14. The 3 BSD's explained on Wind River lays off FreeBSD developers; Q&A · · Score: 1
    • If you like to shop at amazon, FreeBSD is for you
    • If you have a fast internet connection, and don't like paying for stuff, use netbsd
    • If you find it hard to have a conversation with people because everyone is stupid compared to you, openbsd is the way to go
  15. where's the surprise here? on Apple Still Says No To Aqua-Like Themes · · Score: 1

    I went to Apple [Microsoft] to test [vb something] cocoa for [Windows] Mac OS X 10.1, and found a drag and drop problem with [some control] NSPopUpButtonCell. They didn't even pay me for my effort, yet they try to shut down my project. Isn't that ironic?

    No, what's ironic is that "smart" people actually fall for this appler user as rebel crock, and are then shocked when it turns out they've been lied to by a big corporation run by a control freak.

  16. windows update doesn't encompass IIS on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 1

    Many of the critical patches for IIS are an entirely separate, often CLI versioned, process. Windows update does a great job of most patching, but it doesn't extend to IIS.

  17. You can take away my crypto.... on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 1

    .... if you let me carry a gun wherever I go, without a license.....

  18. no reports of crypto use yet on Blaming Encryption · · Score: 1

    Last I heard, all the emails that had been recovered were plaintext....

  19. We're already seeing it - on the net on A New Kind of War · · Score: 1

    The sophistication of the "codered2" virus - attempting 16 different cracks on IIS, then attacking clients via the browser, cannot be a co-incidence.
    People who claim this is done because IIS is an "easy" target, are probably missing the point. The web server usage stats have repeatedly shown that the only place IIS has a majority market share, and in fact, an increasing market share, has been "e-commerce" sites.
    If you wanted to smash down on an already struggling market, what better way than to target the most prevalent software platform of small businesses who do online transactions?
    Targetting IIS provides a nice, consistent, attack strategy - there's a lot of sites, the destruction method will be the same for each one, and the disruption will be a lot worse than some defaced home page.
    If I were paranoid, and I'm getting there, I'd say that codered 1 was simply a tester for what was planned to happen a week after the WTC destruction.

  20. re: unelected president on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Same Gore crap - different day. Yesterday some butthole claims that Gore lost, due to Nader votes. Today, some butthole claims Gore won, but had it "stolen". Which is it, people? And as to the claim that Face Recognition software can't work better than airport "security" - someone needs to go visit the dumbfucks at the X-Ray machine and see what a $5/hour brain really functions like.

  21. The more RMS I read.... on Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties · · Score: 1

    ... the more I'm beginning to think the BSD license is the better way to go ....

  22. Re:Because Nader took votes from Gore... on Why The U.S. Surrendered To Microsoft · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And then we'd get to see the great Gore, at war. Niiice. Besides, Nader took less than 2% (if I remember right) of the votes, anyway. But I thought you democrats stated that Gore actually won anyway. So which is it - did he win, or lose? You can't have it both ways. Now, why don't you go hang out with the CA-D who thinks we SHOULDN'T go to war, (maybe we'll hurt bin ladens feelings?) and STFU.

  23. will it ever function correctly? on Mozilla 0.9.4 Released · · Score: 1

    I was so thrilled at 0.9.3 - it was sooo much better than any build I'd seen before. I got all psyched up to start figuring out what I could now do with this application in my company. Today, I installed 0.9.4. What a fuckin' crock of crap it is. Page rendering takes nearly a minute. This is Windows 98, I haven't checked if it's bad on other Windows, and Linux. However, my temporary excitement has gone. Maybe some day this project will turn out something worth working with. In the meantime, though I refuse to install it on my kids game machine, my dad installed ie6. I think the bar has been raised far beyond the capabilities of the mozilla development team.

  24. Arabs in US are not the problem on More WTC News · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Remember, almost all Arabs in the US are here because they want to be. Attacking locals is not going to help. I'm concerned about getting on a plane, train or bus, with an arab, not about them attending the local mosque.

  25. Bin Laden needs to Bin Dover on More News And Links On Yesterday's Terrorist Attack · · Score: 1

    Cos he's about to go on a "cruise" before the weekend.