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  1. Re:Author is off... on The Importance of Portal · · Score: 1

    Well, they haven't needed to update CS:S. The community is rabid. There's nearly 1000 different modifications for it:
    http://addons.eventscripts.com/

    CS:S will also be moving to Orange Box source engine, so it should see a little love then.

  2. A ways to go before element 137 on Element 118 Created · · Score: 4, Informative

    Element 137 should be the max element: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untriseptium

  3. or you can use EventScripts instead on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    Heh, CS:S server admins will just script around it for their servers using something like EventScripts. Whenever people aren't fond of Valve decisions they write a script for their use-- hundreds of these for CS:S here.

  4. Script your way around it on Counter-Strike Opens Weapons Market · · Score: 1

    Heh, server admins will just script around it for their servers using something like EventScripts.

    For those not fond of other Valve decisions, there are hundreds of server-side scripts/mods to change the gameplay of CS:S. (Here)

  5. time to update wikipedia on African Catfish Hunts On Land · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to add this to the eel catfish article on Wikipedia. It's a little lacking.

  6. geek pres on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Did you know Hu Jintao got his degree in hydraulic engineering? Why can't we have an engineer presient?

  7. Why? on Alternatives to Citrix Remote Computing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We are investigating alternatives to the Citrix system we currently operate.

    You said this, but didn't state why you're searching for alternatives. Is it because it's too expensive, because you need more features, or because you think there's a better alternative out there?

    I think about the only argument you can really have is that it's expensive. There really are no other alternatives out there with more features (other than perhaps value-add things on top of Citrix Presentation Server, the new name for MetaFrame) or more stability/usefulness.

    Some shops are able to make-do with the lower costing alternatives, but they have to live with far fewer features (e.g. only allow full desktops, don't do printing very well, have no way to load balance, have no way to isolate bad apps from one another, etc). If your needs for it are lighter then you can try piloting a Terminal Services-only solution which is (necessarily) less expensive than a Citrix one.

    It's hard, though, for people to offer something better than Citrix. They've spent their entire lifetime focusing on the whole remoting applications gig. TS and RDP was built on top of code licensed from Citrix, so even MS takes a backseat.

  8. Post your online engagement story on Love in the Time of Pixels · · Score: 1

    We'd love to hear about your online engagement stories, too.

    Post them here at the AppleBride wedding encyclopedia (like wikipedia):
    http://www.applebride.com/pages/Online_engagement_ story

  9. Next stop... on Eight Year Old Physics Student Admitted to College · · Score: 1

    ... Ender.

  10. Goowy on Preview of New MSN Hotmail · · Score: 1

    It looks nice.

    Still, by far the nicest looking web-mail interface I've seen is:
    http://www.goowy.com/

  11. MSN AdCenter on MSN Takes on Google AdWords · · Score: 4, Informative

    The actual URL to Microsoft's MSN AdCenter:

    adcenter.msn.com

  12. Re:Coming soon? Try "already" on GoogleTV Coming Soon? · · Score: 1

    I think it's been a few weeks now on my DirecTV.

  13. They're Hiring on Epic's Rein On Next-Gen And Secondhand · · Score: 1

    They make a big point in the article about hiring. Here's the link to their open positions:

    http://www.epicgames.com/epic_jobs.html

  14. PEP source code on Bridging Torrent and RSS · · Score: 4, Informative

    PEP is less than 400 lines of PHP. Here's the source code for the curious:
    http://prodigem.com/code/pep/pep.txt

    (from the PEP home page)

  15. Virus data on Korean Mozilla Binaries Infected · · Score: 5, Informative

    This virus has been in the wild since at least early 2002.

    Here's Symantec's take on the virus:

    http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/linux.rst.b.html

  16. Original Symantec Article on Mozilla Hits Back at Browser Security Claim · · Score: 5, Informative
    The download for Symantec's actual report is here (registration required):
    https://ses.symantec.com/Content/displaypdf.cfm?SS L=YES&PDFID=2124

    But to save you some trouble, here's the excerpts about Mozilla:

    Mozilla browsers have the most vulnerabilities

    During the first half of 2005, 25 vendor confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for the Mozilla browsers,
    the most of any browser. 18 of these were classified as high severity. During the same period, 13 vendor
    confirmed vulnerabilities were disclosed for Microsoft Internet Explorer, eight of which were high severity.



      Mozilla browsers have the most vulnerabilities

    The Web browser is a critical and ubiquitous application that has become a frequent target for
    vulnerability researchers. In the past, the focus of security has been on the perimeter: servers, firewalls,
    and other systems with external exposure. However, a notable shift has occurred, with client-side
    systems--primarily end-user systems--becoming increasingly prominent targets of malicious activity.
    More and more, Web browser vulnerabilities are becoming a preferred entry point into systems.
    During the first half of 2005, the Mozilla browsers, including Firefox, had the most vulnerabilities of all
    browsers. During this period, 25 vendor confirmed Mozilla vulnerabilities were disclosed, compared to 32
    in the previous reporting period and two in the first half of 2004. 18 of the 25 Mozilla vulnerabilities in this
    period, or 72%, were classified as high severity. This is up from the 14 high-severity Mozilla vulnerabilities
    in the second half of 2004 and one in the first half of 2004.


    During the first six months of 2005, 13 vendor confirmed Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities were
    disclosed. This is a decrease from the 31 documented in the second half of 2004.26 During the first half of
    2004, seven Internet Explorer vulnerabilities were confirmed by Microsoft.
    The average severity rating of the vulnerabilities associated with Internet Explorer during the first six
    months of 2005 was high. Eight of the 13 Internet Explorer vulnerabilities disclosed during the current
    period, or 62%, were considered high severity. 18 Internet Explorer vulnerabilities were considered
    high-severity in the last six months of 2004, amounting to 58%. In the first half of 2004, four of the
    seven, or 57%, were rated high severity.


    [...]

    The fact that Mozilla browsers had the most vendor confirmed vulnerabilities over the past two six-month
    periods may suggest that Mozilla is currently acknowledging and fixing vulnerabilities more quickly than
    other vendors. This could be because the Mozilla browsers are open source and may be more responsive
    to reports of new vulnerabilities and subsequently developing and delivering associated patches. For
    instance, except in certain instances,60 Microsoft releases fixes on a relatively fixed schedule rather than
    as needed, potentially increasing their acknowledgement time.

  17. His first article on Mini-Microsoft Shakes Things Up · · Score: 1

    His first Mini-Microsoft article:
    http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2004/07/blast-off-for -mini-microsoft.html

    I wonder if he was at PDC?

  18. Textism on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's a tool I saw linked off of O'Reilly Radar once:

    http://textism.com/wordcleaner/

    I used it once and it did a pretty decent job at preserving the tables. Yet if they're using anything odd like graphics or it's been incredibly tweaked, it probably won't be 100% perfect.

  19. P2P on existing tech? on Is Rodi BitTorrent's Replacement? · · Score: 1

    What about P2P based on IRC?

  20. Re:Contest site is flawed on Contagious Media Showdown · · Score: 2, Interesting


    I'm not sure why the #1 is at first place, the best one is:
    ipjusticeleague.com


  21. Re:Winning strategy No. 1: on Contagious Media Showdown · · Score: 1

    This is the best one:
    http://ipjusticeleague.com/

  22. ERD on IBM Using iPod to boot Linux on PCs · · Score: 0

    Why not just use a CD? I use ERD Commander.

  23. Lost? on Torvalds on the Linux Security Process · · Score: 1, Insightful

    the risk of the thing getting lost and delayed for the wrong reasons

    As opposed to getting lost for the right reasons?

  24. Re:First the letter i, now this on Google Announces 'Mini' Search Appliance · · Score: 1

    Or Gemini

  25. Anecdote on Too Much Gaming, Anyone? · · Score: 1

    After enough Counterstrike, I come out of it looking at hallways and thinking how I might bounce a grenade off the wall to get around corners.

    Since I never actually have grenades, this isn't so bad.

    Half-life 2 was worse. It makes you lazy. I'd come out of the game feeling like I didn't have to walk over towards anything I wanted to pick up. I could simply pull it towards me with my, ummm, non-existent gravity gun.

    It's amazing how persistent that feeling is-- it makes one yearn for telekinesis.