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  1. Re:Sun and/or IBM zseries hardware on SGI to Scale Linux Across 1024 CPUs · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What happens if both pipelines make the same mistake because the L1-cache feeds them both the same corrupted data?

  2. Re:Stress testing on Stress-Testing The Linux Kernel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not only that: also the timing, the memory layout, etc.

  3. nothing at all! on Appropriate Music for Callers 'On Hold'? · · Score: 1

    Nothing at all please! Most of the time it's crap anyway.
    Just a beep every x seconds or so and a message every half-a-minute telling me how many people are before me in the queue.

  4. browsing logfiles? on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    When it comes to monitoring logfiles, I prefer my own program MultiTail big time. It took quiet a lot of effort to develop it, but I think I included all functionality that I could think off.
    I use it always and install it everywhere. But then, I might be a little biased :)

  5. libsd might help you (secure delete for ALL apps) on Passwords Can Sit on Hard Disks for Years · · Score: 2, Informative

    Altough this might sound like an ad (it is not - it is not commercial) one might take a look at 'libsd': libsd makes ALL applications on your system do a secure delete without changing a single line of code.
    It does this by intercepting calls like 'unlink' (delete files) and 'truncate': before deleting or truncating a file, the previous contents is first overwritten with garbage which is forced to disk.
    So if you use this library and you delete a file with a password in it, that password should not be recoverable (altough it might still reside in your swappartition...).

  6. Voodoo 2 on Alienware Discuss New Video Array Technology For Gamers · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Multiple cards for one image?
    Back to the days of Voodoo 2 cards :-)

  7. evil but cunning plan on Set Your Clocks With Pooled NTP Servers · · Score: 1

    If I had my own company, I would let all the workstations of all employees to my secret and local timeserver. At 16:45 I would then automatically rewind it to 16:15 to get half an hour work for free!

    p.s.: don't repeat to often on the same day as those employees with families will get suspicious when their families start calling what is taking them so long

  8. Re:God be with you on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    Why should I? I'm not sick? I would not be good testing material for such a test.

    Also: what if someone says eating salt helps preventing cancer. I would not believe that but in your analogy I should still try it?

    p.s. there actually IS someone saying that eating salt (1 spoon a day) helps against cancer

  9. Re:God be with you on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    With that in mind, they are starting to be scientific studies that show the power of prayer and how it helps. People who set out to disprove it, end up getting data that actually supports it.

    Bollocks. Give me pointers to valid studies.

  10. Re:God be with you on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's fine with me. But my reply was also very sincere: as much as he was trying to help with praying, I was informing about the fact that it is not helping and people should not rely on it.
    My point is: I see way too many people relying on praying and such while completely ignoring regular medical stuff which may be their only help.

  11. Re:God be with you on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if that helps.

  12. speed is not relevant on New Quantum Cryptography Speed Record · · Score: 1

    Just use it to transmit session keys on a regular base. 3DES keys for example and if that is too breakable, make it 4DES 5DES or even 128DES. The last one only needs 1024 bytes of keys to transmit.
    (replace DES with BLOWFISH if you like)

  13. Re:what? on A History of Every GUI Ever · · Score: 1

    Well, you have 2 types of those:
    1. full screen (through (n)curses for example)
    2. line mode (on your teletype device)
    The first one can be seen as a gui more or less.

  14. issue! on Getting A Laptop With The Low U.S. Dollar · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a 110v/60Hz versus 230v/50Hz issue?

  15. mars on NASA Says Mars Once "Drenched With Water" · · Score: 1

    I wonder what the hotels are like at the coast there on mars.

  16. Re:SCO Seems To Be Blocking Requests To It on SCO Licenses Now Available · · Score: 1

    Really? It works for me:

    folkert@muur:~$ httping -h shop.sco.com
    PING shop.sco.com:80 (http://shop.sco.com:80/):
    connected to shop.sco.com:80, seq=0 time=345.64 ms
    connected to shop.sco.com:80, seq=1 time=322.71 ms
    connected to shop.sco.com:80, seq=2 time=388.07 ms
    connected to shop.sco.com:80, seq=3 time=322.60 ms
    error receiving reply from host
    --- http://shop.sco.com:80/ ping statistics ---
    5 connects, 4 ok, 20.00% failed
    round-trip min/avg/max = 322.6/344.8/388.1 ms

    (httping does a 'HEAD' and waits for the reply)

  17. waste of time and energy on Google's Bigger Index · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    6 bilion pages?
    What a waste!
    There's only one url that matters: http://www.vanheusden.com/

  18. Re:The main reason a PPC emulator doesn't exist on Bochs x86 IA-32 Emulator 2.1 Released · · Score: 1

    To prove that; I once wrote an MSX emulator in GFA basic :-) (on an Atari ST)
    I emulated all chips (Z80, videoprocessor, etc.) and ran on average 1,5% of a real MSX (which runs at 3MHz, the Atari ran on 8MHz).
    You can find it here.

  19. what was the change? on Linux 2.4.24 Release Fixes Root Vulnerability · · Score: 1

    What was actually the change? that way I can merge it into 2.4.21

    (upgrading to 2.4.24 ain't an option for me: the UPS-software stopped working after version 2.4.22)

  20. POTS is obsolete: use internetphone systems on Suggestions for Computer Answering Systems? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Since POTS is obsolete, one should also handle calls initiated from the internet. Via GnomeMeeting/NetMeeting for example using OpenAM (http://www.openh323.org/code.html).

  21. Re:Banks? on Risk Management of Wireless Networks · · Score: 1

    I really hope those banks use SHIELDED cables then(!)

  22. ehr, am I reading freshmeat right now? on Evolution 1.5 has Been Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It really puzzles me why this evolution-program is announced on slashdot.
    Ok, the linux-kernel I can understand, but some program clearly not every linux-user is using? This isn't freshmeat.net!

    -- Flok 3.0.2

  23. Re:Moore's Law vs. Evolution on Real Security? · · Score: 1

    eats the card?
    what bank is that?

  24. patch for 2.4.21 on Kernel Exploit Cause Of Debian Compromise · · Score: 1

    A patch for 2.4.21 can be found here:
    http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/lsecpatch.diff.gz

  25. answer machine on Get to Know GnomeMeeting · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's also an answermachine available compatible with gnomemeeting/netmeeting available. You can find it here: http://www.openh323.org/code.html.