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  1. Re:OSNews? Thom Holwerda? Seriously? on OpenBSD 4.8 Released · · Score: 1

    Can you find me an example of a hole in SELinux? Even one? I don't mean a flaw in policy affecting some distros, but an actual flaw in the subsystem?

    http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/20/0217204/Linux-Kernel-Exploit-Busily-Rooting-64-Bit-Machines?from=rss

  2. Re:Mohamed Atta or GW Bush on Steve Jobs Crowned "Person of the Decade" · · Score: 1

    Yeah but just wait... The decade isn't quite over yet. One more year to go.

  3. That's retarded on Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We have a picture of it right? Seriously what if every time somebody did something new that spot was forbidden to be stepped on again? asinine. What if nobody as allowed to visit the beach of Columbus's first landing sites? BFD, send a plaque or something and stop wasting your time worrying about whether a footprint is going to disappear someday. It will.

  4. Easiest solution on How To Keep a Web Site Local? · · Score: 1

    Go back to you BBS, and Gopher protocols. We've no more use for you here.

  5. Re:Again a frost post to a red story on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    So the pipes are clean then?

    http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070101

    btw can't they 'rollback' the changes to the DB?

  6. Re:Berne convention? on Psystar Claims Apple Forgot To Copyright Mac OS · · Score: 1

    meh it's easy to circumvent though isn't it? Couldn't Apple just say that os x is nextstep rebranded and next owned the copyright on openstep. Since pple owns all next trademarks os x has therfore been trademarked since 1989 (or whateer). Sorry if this is ignorant IANAL.

  7. bookmark this: unixiz.net on Freelance Web Developer Best Practices? · · Score: 1

    I know this is likely to get lost in all the comments, but bookmark this: http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/be-consultant.html

  8. deep freeze on Good Freeware System Snapshot Tool For Windows? · · Score: 1
  9. Re:a pseudo-random sampling on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    The tell me if something worked command would be a lot shorter like so ./command && echo $?

  10. Re:best one ever on (Useful) Stupid Vim Tricks? · · Score: 1

    who links /bin to /usr/bin? That's dumb. Especially if the system makes /usr it's own partition. Boot into single user mode to see why.

  11. Re:There is this part ... on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 2, Funny

    meh, good OS but lacks a decent editor.

  12. Re:Slashdot Record? on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    IIRC 9/11 had a lot more.

  13. Re:fun stuff on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    # zeroing out a drive
    while test 1; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2; done

    --
    this would take a long time and doesn't 'zero' but fills the drive with random junk. It would be a lot faster to use /dev/zero as it doesn't require the CPU to calculate a random number every millisecond before writing it to disk.

  14. Re:less and vi tricks you may not have known on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    most newer linuxes I've used have more aliased to less.

  15. Re:Dupe your TTY output to someone else using scri on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    now THAT's what I'm talking about here!!!!

  16. Re:Get off my lawn! on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    and we liked it that way!!! ;-)

  17. Re:A simple search on (Useful) Stupid Unix Tricks? · · Score: 1

    I use the 'douche' command for that. It's also more compatible with other oses: du -sh

  18. Re:I'm hoping... on The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict · · Score: 1

    ...that maybe control of ReiserFS will now be in the hands of someone who is not a total cock...

    Bingo.

    From TFA "ReiserFS4 has been on hold pending his legal trouble". Now that his legal woes are 'over' ;) someone else will take it over.

    Seems like nobody remembers Eazel anymore (gnome users I'm looking at you).

    *hint: think 'nautlius'

  19. Re:See any serious problems with this story? on British Astronomers Turn To Interstellar Spam · · Score: 2

    I'm thinking they're just going to block us anyway.

  20. Obligatory repsonse on SquirrelMail Repository Poisoned · · Score: 0

    My squirrelmail seems to be working just f$#$^$%^$*@((((((#@34..........NO CARRIER

  21. Re:What happens when... on Stopping Cars With Microwave Radiation · · Score: 5, Insightful

    or worse, the police disable a bystanders pacemaker.

  22. Re:A brain the size of a planet on Robot Becomes One of the Kids · · Score: 1

    Hey! You made it in the "10 hot comments" box on the front page with this one. :-)

  23. Re:First step for symbian. on Symbian Blasts Google's Phone Initiative · · Score: 1

    Wonderful I come in here to make a joke, but 100+ others had the same joke... ;)

  24. Re:Seems Silly to me on Seagate Offers Refunds on 6.2 Million Hard Drives · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because computers are base2.

    It might not sound like a big deal, but as HD's get bigger so does seagates 'edge' over the competition. They get to trim 73MB (or so) off every gig. This means that a 250GB drive from seagate is missing 18,435,456,000 bytes. A 500GB drive: 36,870,912,000. In the olden days, this wouldn't have mattered (much) because you weren't talking about a lot of space. People complained back then too. Now it's getting a little silly. If you need to build a 5TB array, there will be 368GB that's just missing (and that's not even counting the FS overhead).

    Seagate isn't doing it to be a champion of change for a switch to base10 counting (if they were then it would make more sense), they are doing it to rip people off on a technicality.

  25. Re:Not now my friends, not ever on The History of Slashdot Part 4 - Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember those days too. I was thinking a few days ago that I remember going to more websites per day. I tried to remember their names, but got stuck at geek.net. Now I pretty much just hang around slashdot, and userfriendly, with occasional stop-offs at multiply or linkedin.