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  1. vlc on Synchronizing Music Players? · · Score: 1

    vlc (http://videolan.org) has a network sync feature, allowing you to synchronise playback on several computers.

  2. Re:Just goes to show... on Mystery of Ancient Calculator Finally Cracked · · Score: 4, Funny

    The whole idea of faking a moonwalk is absurd. This theory is intended to cover a much larger hoax --- that of America.

    There is, as any reasonable man can see, no american continent, the whole Columbus affair was a hoax, organized by the Portuguese government to cover up the fact that they are ruling the world.

    I am sure you can appreciate the ingenuity of inventing a conspiracy theory to cover up a much more important conspiracy.

  3. Re:'bout damn time I get my flying cars on Thrust from Microwaves - The Relativity Drive · · Score: 1

    Sure, by using the simple trick of being substantially lighter. How much does a horse-sized bird eat?

  4. Re:misleading headline on Personal Firewalls Mostly Useless, Says Mail & Guardian · · Score: 1

    I meant the need to reboot as an advantage --- as long as the attacker does not have console access, there is not much he can do.

  5. Re:They called Clinton crazy on U.S. Adds Years To Microsoft's 'Probation' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Then why would anyone want to become a monopoly?

  6. Re:Jabber on New Secure IM Client from NTT Due this Year · · Score: 2, Informative

    You can do whiteboarding over Jabber using Coccinella.

    jabberd2 can use your LDAP for authentication, data storage and maybe as a directory. I don't know about a web-based UI.

  7. Re:Source? on New Secure IM Client from NTT Due this Year · · Score: 2, Interesting

    http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/

    You have to look at the compiler, the OS, the microcode and the hardware, too.

  8. Re:IPv6 isnt really wanted on IPv6 Readiness Report · · Score: 1

    Yes, but most of can't get our own /0.

  9. Jamming on Color Laser Printers Tracking Everything You Print · · Score: 1

    Could you bypass this by adding your own little yellow dots to the document? Or are the dots added by the printer somehow different (size, color, maybe even shape, though it should not be possible) from anything you can tell the printer to print?

  10. Python on Siemens on Nokia to Port Perl to Mobiles · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if only Siemens ported Python, that would be cool.

  11. Re:Ummm... on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    His people?
    What do you mean by ``his people''?
    If you mean Russians, you are wrong, if you mean the people living in the countries USSR has occupied, well, he couldn't have killed anybody else.

    Besides, killing your people (if you have any) is just as bad as killing anybody else's.

  12. Re:Ummm... on ICANN Gives VeriSign 36 Hours to Pull Sitefinder · · Score: 1

    Evver been to eastern Europe?
    You wouldn't be so sure.
    (of course, Hitler was a bastard. So was Stalin)

  13. Re:But still less... on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    The first server that sees a Sobig message is the MX it is being delivered to.

    Upstream blocking is completely irrelevant.

  14. Re:Virus autobounces are stupid on Lousy E-mail Filters Complicating Outlook Worms · · Score: 1

    The problem is not in the traffic generated --- a typical antivirus bounce mail doesn't include the virus binary and is therefore much smaller.

    The problem is in the users getting these mails and starting to PANIC.

  15. That's not valid C! on "Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked · · Score: 1

    return)((ulong_t NULL);

    The Linux hackers can't even copy the code properly!

  16. A catch on Darwinian Poetry: From Bad to Verse · · Score: 1

    There's a catch --- the evolution requires a certain amount of consistency in the criteria, used for selection (ie. your offspring will probably live in an environment similar to the one you live in).

    This is not true with the poems.

    If most of the ``selectors'' (the people representing the cruel nature) kept coming back without changing the criteria, that would be different. Unfortunately this is probably not the case with Slashdotters.

  17. Re:can't you tell by my ridiculous accent? on French Government Bans Term 'E-Mail' · · Score: 1

    Which reminds me...

    There has been an initiative to rename Hamburg (the German city) to ``Veggieburg''. About as reasonable as the courriel idea.

  18. Re:Is AFS, apple file share on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    The AFS we were talking about is Andrew File System.

  19. Re:Security? on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    Arla should run on BSD (at least on FreeBSD).

  20. Re:Security? on State Of The Filesystem · · Score: 1

    What about AFS?

  21. Re:AFS good on linux, good luck on FreeBSD on Distributed Filesystems for Linux? · · Score: 1

    frankie@kyblik$ fgrep BROKEN /usr/ports/net/arla/Makefile
    BROKEN= "Does not build"

  22. Not a problem with FreeBSD on More On Detecting NAT Gateways · · Score: 1

    Just add
    options IPSTEALTH
    to the kernel config and
    net.inet.ip.stealth=1
    to /etc/sysctl.conf

    I guess it works with other BSDs too, but I haven't tried it yet.

    Rewriting TTLs would be nice too, does anybody know how to do it?

  23. Not that cool (and some ideas) on 1KM 802.11b @ 2MB · · Score: 4, Informative

    2Mbps at 1km point p-t-p is not much - we do that at work all the time (I'm working for a wireless ISP).

    Linksys WAP11 is one of the worst pieces of HW I have seen (I haven't even looked at the worse ones). You need a trained monkey to monitor it (no SNMP - try using Cricket or MRTG) and have to reboot it once a week. Even if you have the monkey, the box won't tell you anything - no signal strength, no retransmission counter, just the packet counters (at least in version 1.009).

    If you intend to build such a link, use either decent FHSS devices (but those are quite expensive), or something like SparkLAN (sorry, no URL, try google) - a friend of mine is using those for 5km 8Mbps links (under ideal conditions, of course). These are about $200 in Slovakia, don't know about US (or Egypt).

    It is also better to use high-gain (like 24dBi) antennas - have a look at Andrew. Do not use omnidirectional antennas.

    Also try to keep the HF cables as short as possible (the guy could have made them some 2ft shorter) and water-proof your connectors - or your link will go down anytime the rain coes (and will not come up after some months due to rust)

  24. Re:War on terror on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 1

    Oops, I mean !=.

    The article is about AMI (American Megatrends), not AMD (
    (Advanced Micro Devices, IIRC)

  25. Re:War on terror on AMI Introduces 'Trusted Computing' BIOS · · Score: 1

    AMD ~= AMI