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  1. Re:Design Flow on Microsoft Developers Respond To .NET Criticism · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Props are due.

    Hardly anyone ever mentions that little tidbit anymore as it was assumed (correctly) from the beginning that .NET was only supposed to fool the Windows Java developers to give up on Java.

    Everyone else saw through the thin veil.

  2. Re:Wouldn't it be easier on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 1

    There is a simple explanation for this

    Openvpn + bridge How-to

    The examples given use the de:ad:be:ef mac for the bridge.

    Funny to see it out there though.

    (and the output stuff? use tags. )

  3. Re:Really stable? on Revamped Linux Kernel Numbering Concluded · · Score: 1

    I haven't really hand built a kernel in a long while but is it really that difficult now?

    (I use gentoo-dev-sources and genkernel, easy-peasy) running 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 on an AMD64 laptop. So far very stable.

  4. Re:Wouldn't it be easier on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 2, Informative
    root@lappy64 program # ifconfig eth1 down
    root@lappy64 program # ifconfig eth1 hw ether de:ad:be:ef
    root@lappy64 program # ifconfig eth1 up
    root@lappy64 program # ifconfig
    eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr DE:AD:BE:EF:00:00
    inet addr:192.168.1.207 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    inet6 addr: fe80::dcad:beff:feef:0/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:1183198 errors:31 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:1015816 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:1198811021 (1143.2 Mb) TX bytes:216844240 (206.7 Mb)
    Interrupt:10 Base address:0xa800
  5. Re:Wouldn't it be easier on Tracking a Specific Machine Anywhere On The Net · · Score: 2, Informative

    ok I'll repeat this .

    MAC ADDRESSESS ARE NOT UNIQUE TO THE INTERNET.

    on a single segment local lan, yes you can be fairly sure they are unique (but not indellible)

    Mac address are trivial to change, spoof , alter,randomize.

    In other words:
    mac based security, isn't.

  6. Re:Everybody knows on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 1

    It was a joke. But thanks for the mod :-)

  7. Re:Advantages of VoIP? on Costa Rica May Criminalize VoIP · · Score: 1

    VoIP is probably best for people with friends and relatives that live out of town.

    Just my guess

    I am in the same boat, have not had any need for it. Unless I just decide to start calling up random people of foreign lands to chat.

    hey?! now that I mention it....gotta go do some research.

  8. Re:Everybody knows on Engineers Devise Invisibility Shield · · Score: 2, Informative

    Didn't Wendo O Williams sing for them in the 70s-80s too?

  9. Re: I have a jar of blood in the garage to prove i on LinuxWorld Response to 'How to Kill Linux' · · Score: 1

    this cracks me up.

    uname -a
    Linux lappy64 2.6.9-gentoo-r14 #1 Tue Feb 22 16:47:43 EST 2005 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

    iwconfig wlan0
    wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
    Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437GHz Access Point: DE:AD:BE:EF:15:A1
    Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
    RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
    Encryption key:off
    Power Management:off
    Link Quality:98/100 Signal level:-41 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:122 Invalid misc:2443470 Missed beacon:0

    All in the glory of 1280X800 accelerated nvidia goodness. (spare me the taint)

    If this isn't a "new" "current" laptop, please send me one ( and 1 for the first commenter below).

  10. Re:Spooky Business on Bank Of America Loses 1.2 Million Customer Records · · Score: 1

    sounds like they were lost, as in misplaced and not yet found.

  11. What about the opposite? on Dvorak on How Microsoft Can Kill Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why not run windows under linux (ala VMware)

    When it crashes hard, kill it's pid and move on.

    I hardly think it work well the other way around (as per FTA)

    Now as for drivers.

    I like ndiswrapper. Wish there were more like it. generic wrappers for windows drivers.

    then the manufacturers that are pressed for cash can still "support" linux and the larger manus can develop native drivers (or release specs).

    I know some will cry that given the choice, no one would bother with the native ones. Make the wrappers work well and it won't matter.

  12. Re:Article text on Software Patents Affecting Futures Exchanges · · Score: 1

    Wow

    Very good. +1 informative even.

    Was he really a former catfish farmer?

  13. Re:So this is... on SysInternals Releases RootkitRevealer · · Score: 1

    as a previous poster humourously stated
    "I didn't think people needed rootkits for windows..."

    Windows is it's own rootkit. This one is for high-availability reasons.

  14. Re:This bitch is going to be tossing salad on First Arrest Made in U.S. For Spimming · · Score: 1

    Tell that to Martha Stewart

  15. Re:I don't understand on Anti-Muni Broadband Bills Country Wide · · Score: 1

    Why don't they just start a PRIVATE company.

    Wholly owned by the subscribers.

    Can't be bought out, isn't anti competitive.

  16. Re:I'm all for it! on Microsoft's 'IsNot' Patent Continued... · · Score: 1

    I'm for farming.

    I hear it's a growth industry.

    Thank you, I'll be here all night. Try the fish.

  17. The return of sneaker net. on NTT's Cool - Human Area Networking Technology · · Score: 1

    now if we all join hands will we have INTERNET2?

  18. Re:How? on The Return of Free Internet · · Score: 1

    I think the phrase may be "bottom of the screen"

    I am not usre that this means the bottom of the browser.

    Probably an application that manages the connection AND the adware.

    no adware = no connection

    Just my guess though.

  19. Re:SPAM :: Mod Parent Down ! on Arkeia Network Backup Agent Remote Access · · Score: 1

    my apologies.

  20. The slashdot community mourns the death of on Arkeia Network Backup Agent Remote Access · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hunter S Thompson

    Died yesterday. Apparent suicide.

  21. Re:if i were to make wildly unsubstatiated guesses on Intel Develops Hardware To Enhance TCP/IP Stacks · · Score: 1

    "i can imagine only once in a blue moon would you find someone with libpcap and the patience to find holes in some of the most trusted code in the net."

    Apparently some people missed the sarcasm here.

    To those, this happens OFTEN.

  22. Re:Are they constructing traffic pattern maps? on Wireless Shopping Carts Run Windows CE · · Score: 1

    Do you mean things like putting BBQ sauce near the meat?

    or maple syrup near the frozen waffles and pancake mix?

  23. Re:That's funny... on Business Considers Open Source on Par with Commercial Software · · Score: 1

    I wish they would throw SmartSuite (or whatever it's called these days) into the mix.

    That would impress me (well that and a native linux Notes client). Me and a quite a few businesses.

  24. Re:Added Benefits on Inside Windows XP Reduced Media Edition · · Score: 1

    If it comes without ie,oe,wmp,etc.....how often will it still need to be patched?

    3 times a year?

  25. Re:Americans are different on NASA Says 2005 Could Be Warmest Year Recorded · · Score: 1

    no offence intended but...

    This logic is flawed.

    So other countries are going to be doing what America and others HAVE been doing so therefore it's ok to compound it further?

    remarkable.