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  1. Re:Good idea...except... on Large IDE Drives as Long-Term Archival Media? · · Score: 2

    I think you would be smart to invest in a push cart
    to move a three foot stack of 100 gig + IDE backup
    drives.

    I bet you couldn't even lift 3 feet of disk drives
    they are really really heavy when they are large,
    and have sharp edges.

  2. Re:Chris Rock on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 2

    "Like most other sheep, you appear to believe that just by removing access to an instrument that can be used in a crime the world will be a better place. How about cars? Knives? Hammers? Fucktard."

    get a clue. Chris Rock is a COMEDIAN. It's FUNNY

    LAUGH NOW OR I WILL SHOOT YOU

  3. Chris Rock on An Unbiased Analysis of Gun Crime vs. Gun Control? · · Score: 2

    I think Chris Rock (the comedian) said that gun
    violence would be no problem if the price of ammo
    was higher. If bullets cost $5,000 each, there
    wouldn't be any innocent bystanders shot or drive by
    shootings with dozens of shots fired.

  4. gentoo phoenix 0.5 -- make your own ebuild on Phoenix 0.5 Has Arrived · · Score: 2

    For those using gentoo
    instead of redhat, etc. you don't have to wait for
    the portage tree to be updated and rsync to get 0.5
    phoenix.

    Just do this (as root):

    cd /usr/portage/net-www/phoenix-bin
    cp phoenix-bin-0.4.ebuild phoenix-bin-0.5.ebuild
    emerge phoenix-bin-0.5.ebuild /usr/sbin/ebuild phoenix-bin-0.5.ebuild digest
    emerge phoenix-bin-0.5.ebuild

    the ebuild script has the right paths built in
    and finds the proper download from the 0.5 in
    its filename.

  5. Val Kilmer? on Refrigerators To Cool With Sound (Cool!) · · Score: 2

    say... wasn't this the story of a movie?

    something like the one with the space laser some
    college kids redirected to the professor's house
    and ended up destroying with popcorn?

    http://www.dvdmoviecentral.com/ReviewsText/real_ ge nius.htm

  6. ob: office space on Immobile Robots · · Score: 3, Funny

    PC LOAD LETTER ??

  7. Re:It's like cellphones all over again on UN Advised on Wireless Insecurity · · Score: 2

    Why don't we encrypt all IP traffic to begin with?

    well, that would be what the security part of IPv6 is for.

    it's been backported to IPv4 (the current TCP/IP we all know and love) as IPSEC

    you can get the freeswan version for Linux for free, then
    make yourself a VPN and refuse to route data from the
    wireless that doesn't come over the VPN address range

    that will stop 'em

  8. ob python: "Blackmail" on Verizon Sues to Stop Privacy Rules; Wants to Sell Call Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    Follow a bunch of people with the best technology you can put your hands on, WITHOUT them knowing or consenting.

    That sounds like the Monty Python sketch called "Blackmail" ....

    But right now, yes everyone is the moment you've all been waiting for; it's time for our 'Stop the Film' spots! As you know, the rules are very simple. We have taken a film which contains compromising scenes and unpleasant details which could wreck a man's career. (gasp) But, the victim may 'phone me at any moment, and stop the film. But remember the money increases as the film goes on, so,.... the longer you leave it, the more you have to pay! Tonight, 'Stop the Film' visits the little Thames-side village of Thames Ditton.

    (music--announcer's voice over)

    Well, here we go, here we go now, let's see...where's our man. Oh yes, there he is behind the tree now.... Mm, boy, this is fun, this is good fun.... He looks respectable, so we should be in for some real...real shucks here.... A member of the government, could be a brain surgeon, they're the worst.... WHOW! Look at the *size* of that.....briefcase. Aah, yes, he's, he's up to the door, rung the doorbell now.... O-oh, who's the little number with the nightie and the whip, eh? Heh-heh. Doesn't look like his mother....

  9. Re:Latency problem is unsolvable. on Another Stab At Internet Access By Satellite · · Score: 2

    maybe there's a niche where 56k for interactive
    type things like ssh and port 80 could be used
    and satellite could be used for bulk data ftp/email?

    how to make the http request and response take advantage of the bw in the satellite but keep
    the responsiveness of dsl/modem would be a problem

  10. only secure when it's powered down on Justifying the Common Criteria Security Evaluation · · Score: 2, Funny

    A properly configured Windows Box can be just as secure as any OS, you just have to know the system

    yeah, right. only when both systems are turned off

  11. Re:Since some of us run Windows, on Mozilla Adding Spam Filters · · Score: 2

    well, then you shous have made the title
    "Since some of use like running Outlook"
    and there would have been no confusion.

    Windows can run stuff other than MS programs

  12. Re:The first thing you need to know... on Teach Yourself UNIX System Administration In 24 Hours · · Score: 2

    bah -- I hate pico. give me vi or emacs

  13. Re:Just a lead-in on Teach Yourself UNIX System Administration In 24 Hours · · Score: 3, Funny



    Crimony folks, you kind of need experience to do these things well. Kinda like plastic surgery; you may get it cheaper, but look at what you're risking. Your poor wife may come out with crooked boobs! ;)


    The latest mke2fs command has a --symmetrical switch to make sure that doesn't happen.

    Rumor is that the new kernel configuration system will be more graphical which will also help ;)

  14. Re:Font specifications on Open Fonts For The Web -- Harder Than It Sounds · · Score: 2

    Another possibility is that the poster wasn't even talking about Tim Berners-Lee, but rather indicating that someone named Tim Bernard Lee has died. ...

    and may currently be spinning, or not ;-)

  15. Re:How about https? -- check for mozilla-psm on Mozilla: The Good And The Bad · · Score: 3, Informative


    I've been using Mozilla for over a year now and for the life of me, I still can't access anything via. https...


    do you have the mozilla-psm package installed?

    the https part of mozilla is often in a second package, maybe for export or something. if you
    only installed the rpm for mozilla, you may still have to install the personal security manager part.

    here's what rpm on my redhat 7.2 based machine shows for example:

    [root@mouser root]# rpm -qa | grep mozilla
    mozilla-1.0.1-2.7.3
    mozilla-nspr-1.0.1-2 .7.3
    mozilla-psm-1.0.1-2.7.3
    mozilla-nss-1.0.1-2 .7.3
    nautilus-mozilla-1.0.6-16

    so, check to see if you can install the mozilla-psm package and https should be all set

    here's the rpm -qi Description for mozilla-psm:
    Description :
    The mozilla-psm package provides Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) support
    for the Mozilla Web browser.

  16. Re:Changing for better or worse on FBI Bugging Public Libraries · · Score: 2

    "whole idea of things changing for the better came about in 1940's - 1950's America. Previously, everyone pretty much agreed that things were much shittier than they had been before......."

    well, the 1930s were mostly about the depression and WWI so, it would be hard to get much worse for most people around that time.

  17. Re:g4u source code mirror on Ghost for Unix · · Score: 2

    one of those bootable unixes or rescue cdroms would be fine. they run the os out of the ramdisk they copy during bootup.
    That leaves the hda free to be repartitioned, etc.
    I'm pretty sure that's how the orginal author intended

  18. Re:Acount system screw up=ISP fault on ISP Sued Over Suspended Email Account · · Score: 2

    well said -- this person should not win the lottery at the expense of the other isp customers just because she lost some email

  19. Re:too bad -- she doesn't have a telephone on ISP Sued Over Suspended Email Account · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no -- that's not what I meant. If the contract owner had really wanted to hire this
    person, they might likely have called her sometime over the 4 weeks that she didn't
    reply to the email they sent.

    What I am saying is that this $60,000 contract was nowhere near a final deal which was
    lost because of this email message. She simply wasn't prepared to do the job if she
    would let this lead be missed so easily, and her
    only connection to the business world is a sketchy email isp account.

    The $100 she owed comes from the link she wrote. Here's a quote:
    I demanded the email back, but was told I had to pay the $106.87 they said I owed them in order to get my messages.

    It really doesn't matter if she owed that or not, if she thought there could be job or contract offerers worth thousands in there, she would have
    been happy to pay and then switch the email to somewhere else.

  20. too bad -- she doesn't have a telephone on ISP Sued Over Suspended Email Account · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, she gets one email message and no phone call and decides that she's out 60 grand, so sue?!

    If it was really all that important to her, she would have paid the $100 she owed the company,
    or find a company that hosts email properly.

    The free email that comes with the isp package is usually not very good.
    Most people figure that out without losing $60,000.

    But really, if you are using email for work you should pay and get a good service, or better yet,
    set up your own email host, so if something goes wrong, you have someone to fix it.

  21. Re:go to redhat on Submitting Bug Reports To Open Source Projects? · · Score: 3, Informative

    use strace -e trace=file to run the program, and it will give a
    clue about what file it tried to open when it said the passwd file was locked.

    if you can ammend your bug with that pathname, it may help to fix the bug that you have run across

    you really didn't need to reinstall just to fix that

  22. Re:Microsoft Halloween on Howl-o-ween · · Score: 1, Troll

    Acutally Microsoft is hoping people will dress like this [msads.net]
    http://global.msads.net/ads/HOTENG/00482280008_PP. jpg

    Hey! That must be where the Tick is working now that the show was cancelled.

    Poor bastard.

  23. Re:Interesting on Antimatter Space Drive · · Score: 2

    hmm... maybe the two of you are alternate realities of a
    single ego/person? spooky

  24. Time to CLEAN THE FANS on Building the Ultimate Silent PC · · Score: 2

    I know most of the machines around my house have started to get noticibly loud fan noise. I'm
    guessing that if I took the time to shut them down and give the fans a good cleaning, it would
    cut the noise out by half or more.

    It's cheaper than a new super quiet power supply too

  25. Re:Misleading on Porsche Designs a Laptop · · Score: 2

    I wondered what happened to the nice sleek curvy Porsche design look.
    This laptop looks like crap -- it's just a boxy box.

    from the article, it looks like it's got a fancy sound system -- which
    as everyone knows, is the biggest problem with a laptop :*P