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  1. Re:Perl, etc. on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1

    I tried php-cli a couple years ago on windows and it blew goats. Has it gotten better? I also toyed with php-gtk on it but it kept crashing. I eventually lost interest in it and went back to using linux.

  2. Re:well there's the obvious on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1

    a2p, and of course winzip ;)

    I imagine it all very AWKward (pun intended) on windows though.

  3. Re:well there's the obvious on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1

    so what jobs you have in the puget sound area? I'm in Federal Way.

  4. Re:well there's the obvious on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 1

    I hate replying to myself, but you can also use PERL.

  5. well there's the obvious on What's the Best Way to Handle Scripting Under XP? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    put linux on it.

    Or jsut make "Batch" files.

  6. Re:remind on Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix? · · Score: 1

    I never had a problem with it, but then...I never used it as an interface with exchange.

  7. Re:remind on Reminders (Pop-up & E-mail) with Unix? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Evolution does this.

  8. Re:Where are my sharks with freakin' laser beams? on U.S. Gov't Grows Giant Mutant Trout · · Score: 3, Funny

    good one. I thought of blinky.

  9. Re:Mail.app rule... on Play Random Sounds for E-Mail Notifications? · · Score: 1

    it's a similar process under linux, only you have to create a script and then create a named pipe.

  10. Re:The Muppet Show, Chinese Spin-off on Pig Sperm in Space · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the swedish chef sounds like in voice-over.

  11. Re:Intel is fine with me on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 1

    because when people here of Mac OS X on Intel, people's first thought is "now I can finally build my own". Then they hear of the lock-out chip and it's kind of a let-down.

    You're right that it's not much different than now, it's all about peoples hopes getting raised, and then smashed like a G5 vs Intel benchmark, er wait...

  12. Re:It's all about OSX.. on Will You Stick with Apple, After the Switch? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    bingo. now if he was one of the guys over at ppcnerds, I might understand.

    If you bought your iBook and then formatted and put Debian on it, you will still be able to get your ppc fix. Other than that, you probably bought it for OS X.

    I was a little shocked at first too because I like OpenFirmware. I like forth. I also like cheaper faster Mac's and the results of OS X on intel are promising.

  13. Re:I've got the 1979 version of this book... on How Computers Work -- Circa 1979 · · Score: 1, Informative

    Dupe.

  14. Re:Sophistry at its finest... on SpamSlayer - should we DDOS spammers? · · Score: 1

    Greylisting my friend. I only get roughly 2 a day. I can deal with 2. I get more than that in my regular snail mail box per day.

  15. Re:You mean like... on Time for a Linux Consolidation? · · Score: 1

    Ya it doesn't matter anyway. Soon there will only be Mandrake, er I mean Mandriva, or is that LycorMandriva now?

  16. Re:Hot grits? on IGN Interviews Natalie Portman · · Score: 1

    Ya, the only reason this is "News for Nerds" is that she is the wallpaper for about 60% of the /. community.

  17. Re:Never before has a nick... on Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean · · Score: 1

    The irony is staggering.

  18. pshaw! on The End of a Floppy Era · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your buried pottery broke into millions of peices at the slightest hint of a landslide, in my day we painted our data on the walls of ours caves.

  19. Re:so uhm on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 1

    If it's copyrighted then you shouldn't be able to have it at all, unless you have a license to have it, in which case, where would one find the license for the webiste in question?

    regardless, of my bad analogy, I'm betting that soon websites will start posting usage licenses in their webpages code, like those idiodic .sigs that some companies append about the information being for the intended receipient and all information is confidential.

    Can we stop the Earth now? It's making me sick and I want off.

  20. so uhm on The Internet Archive Sued Over Stored Pages · · Score: 1

    Does that mean if I visited a website in '99, then turned off the computer and haved turned it back on, that I can be sued for having the page in cache? C'mon this is BS. The wayback even states they will remove and never archive again if you ask them too (think simple email). They even go so far as to not store the images. sheesh!

  21. Does it have to be Linux? on Best Linux Security Books? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Linux is ok, but iptables is a mess if you are going to be doing firewalling[1].

    Why not use OpenBSD? I might recomend using Absolute OpenBSD, Secure Architectures with OpenBSD, and Building Firewalls with OpenBSD and PF. Of course the OpenBSD man pages are superb. You also have access to CARP (rather an implementation that works as expected), plus you get the benefit of not having to update very often (I've only had to patch SSH and FTPD in the last 2 or 3 years).


    [1]Shorewall does make this easier though.

  22. Re:Never happen. on The Lawsuit of the Rings · · Score: 2, Funny

    'What if Frodo Baggins, instead of confronting the evil empire in "The Lord of the Rings," just got himself a lawyer and sued?'

    I wonder what would happen if Jackson got himself a magic invisibilty ring, snuck into New Line studios and stabbed everyone with a dagger.

  23. Re:Linkage. on Where Would You Outsource Your Datacenter? · · Score: 1

    You may also consider supporting the peeps on /. and going with http://www.simpli.biz/. Owned and operated by slashchick. I've never used them, but have heard only good things about them.

  24. Re:at the risk of getting flamed into submission.. on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have an OpenBSD router here at work that I built, and I will vouch for it's performance. We have been hit by Drudge and /. a few times, and even though none of the websites or mail servers would work I was able to poke around in the firewall with no noticable lag. We had over 10,000 ACTIVE states in the table, and the performance of the server was pretty stable with no noticalbe lag on the console (couldn't ssh as the T1's were all maxed).

    System specs are pretty normal, 1Ghz Athlon with 512MB RAM.

  25. Re:OpenBSD, of course! on What is the Best Firewall for Servers? · · Score: 1

    Beat me to it.