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  1. Re:It's democracy and freedom in action. on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 1

    I'm sick of the attitude that ORBS owes you
    something when your mail server is an open
    relay. If your system is an open relay, your
    fuck-up will cost them time and effort as they
    add your system to the database.

    This is BS, by the same logic used above, you owe me for adding your email-adress to my hypothetical spamlist... Would you pay me to remove?

    Spam needs to be fought, but not by principles based on such faulty logic.

  2. Re:I honestly can't figure out on What is .NET? · · Score: 1

    > (Short Version: go back and actually read the > article, then try posting again.)

    You make it sound so ... unslashdotted

  3. Re:I thought it was crazy, but ebooks rock. on What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book? · · Score: 1

    I might be unusual by slashdot standards. But when moving I rather do away with old hardware than any book from my library (which tends to get even bigger between me moving).

    I agree with the point how manageable a library would be on a microdrive, but would it really be the same? Aaah the smell of books in the morning!

    And how satisfying would it be to find a long sought after book, only to put it on your microdrive, instead of sorting it into one of your bookshelves. The point being, I not only read books, I collect them in much the same way man ./ers collect hardware.

  4. Re:Just a note.. on GNOME 2.0 Desktop Alpha · · Score: 1

    It's gibberish in swedish too, but it's quiet obviously a description of what a gnome (you know one of those disgusting 'statues' kept in gardens all around britain)is, or for you swedes, en tomte.

  5. Re:nope, sorry. on Latest WinWorm Spreads Via ICQ And Outlook · · Score: 1

    would be "viri". But then we have to be careful to indicate that we mean "viri" as in the plural form of the word for poisons and noxious stuff and not "viri" the plural form of the word for man. :) Good someone wrote a tutorial for proper latin, there's no end of how annoyed I've been by all those _virii_. You got one thing wrong though. The plural nominative of vir, translating to man, is _vires_, another declension see ;-). And no, neither latin nor english are my first language.

  6. Re:Will it melt? on Dual G4 Mac Cube · · Score: 1

    Strictly speaking, talking about RISC and CISC is irrelevant when comparing x86 and PPC, for one the "RISC" G4 actually has more instructions than the "CISC" Athlon (dunno whith the new SSE instructions though).

    Anyhow there's not much to say about the powerconsumption, G4 clearly rules (and therefore runs cooler and quieter, no fans...).

  7. Re:A Workaround on Serious Bug In 2.4.15/2.5.0 · · Score: 1

    Umm, no...

    ReiserFS do also have inodes (as do most filesystems, I suppose). The difference is really that ext2/ext3 has a fixed number of inodes (initialized by mkfs) whereas ReiserFS has dynamicaly created inodes. IE created when there is need. Therefore a ReiserFS could _theoreticly_ hold an infinite number of files onm contrast to ext2 where the number of possible files is fixed by mkfs.

  8. Re:I don't know, mate on Security Auditing for Linux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sheep?

  9. Re:To clarify a couple points on Black Death's Genome Cracked · · Score: 1

    In short, yes, less likely to get it. From the top of my head, the pestilence-resistance gene is most common in northern europe, scandinavia, where 1 in 20 is supposed to have it, most common it is in Finland, where 1 out of 10 has it (the finns are renowned for their small deviation in their genome).

    A bit of trivia, the gene responsible for this also seems to make you less inclined being infected by HIV.

  10. Give me karma! Printer drivers on Who Has Faster Pipes? Linux, Win2000, WinXP Compared · · Score: 0

    http://www.cups.org/

  11. Re:It's not just IIS... on The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Holes · · Score: 1, Informative

    This is really important, to think what the machine is really supposed to do.

    It has been said a thousand time already, but disable all services, daemons etc, and start only those needed for the particular things this machine do.

    This is the first and foremost security measure, and sadly it seems, one of the most overlooked.

  12. Re:CygnusED on VIM 6.0 is Out · · Score: 1

    Editing the registry over a serial line, cool! You do use Windows 2000, do you?

  13. Re:Only had to be a matter a time (and my 0.02$) on Gartner Group Suggests Dumping IIS For Now · · Score: 1

    .... it would take n months to write, beta and then lauch IIS+ 1.0

    Of course you meant IIS XP, didn't you?