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  1. password thresholding on What Happens To Your Data When You Die? · · Score: 1

    divide the password among several people - when enough of them get together, they can decrypt the data.

    you can impliment pretty complicated ACLs with this.

    there is a more accurate term for it, i am hazily remembering from applied cryptography. i'd welcome someone to remind me.

  2. subversion! on First Ten Programs on New Install? · · Score: 1

    i keep /home under version control, with parts of /etc

    install screen, beep, ratpoison.

    who needs the other four?

  3. a beer or two to fix on On Gamers Whining About Cheese · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    watch out - you know how they are when they drink.

  4. and it's as easy... on Commodore BBSes Return using the Internet. · · Score: 1

    ...as sys 49152

    who knew?

  5. subversion? on How India is Saving Capitalism · · Score: 1


    maybe my research is crap - but these look like the funders of Subversion...

    thought that name rang a bell.

  6. Re:Not exactly "complete" on Linux Sourcecode To Minitar Access Point · · Score: 1

    you're a troll, TROLL!

    now get in there, private!

  7. Re:Zip through on Microsoft Gadget Keeps Record of Your Life · · Score: 1

    try imgseek.

    real nice. real nice.

    for family photos, of course.

    real nice.

  8. Re:not so shady... on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 1

    i nestle it up there in the really high port numbers (> 10000 or so)

    not that that does anything if someone knows the port, but it's wasting someone's time to have to scan that high and multiple times.

    it's the sneakiest i could come up with for iptables rules like this. though i'd been thinking about hooking netcat up to inetd to do what is being suggested here...

    maybe someone else can cobble up some quick shell for us?

  9. not so shady... on "Port Knocking" For Added Security · · Score: 4, Interesting

    i've been running SSH on a nonstandard port with this in the way:


    iptables -N ${SSH_TABLE}
    iptables -Z ${SSH_TABLE}
    iptables -A ${SSH_TABLE} -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 2/minute --limit-
    burst 2 -j DROP
    iptables -A ${SSH_TABLE} -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 7/hour --limit-bu
    rst 7 -j DROP
    iptables -A ${SSH_TABLE} -m state --state NEW -m limit --limit 10/day --limit-bu
    rst 10 -j ACCEPT
    iptables -A ${SSH_TABLE} -j DROP


    well, I thought it was cool...

  10. take that on Three Blind Phreaks · · Score: 1

    have devoted their lives to proving they can out-think, out-program, and out-hack anyone with vision.

    you know, though - how often do you hear about what those sighted people are doing?

  11. Re:Text Adventures on Teaching Kids to Make Games? · · Score: 1

    mmm... i'm pretty sure the one i'm thinking of was written in TADS and was about aliens in the backyard - it may have actually been called 'the back yard', or somesuch.

    it was a one-guy effort, and was in the running for the interactive fiction competition...

    not to take the limelight from a perfectly good alternate. ;)

  12. Re:canopy vs turango on Wireless Technologies for ISPs? · · Score: 1

    borked the spelling, sorry.

    spelled trango, it's not as impossible to find.

  13. Re:Text Adventures on Teaching Kids to Make Games? · · Score: 1
    just what i was going to suggest.

    tads or
    • inform
    (no link jumped into my hands) are decent toolkits.

    might try the interactive fiction archive for more along these lines.

    it'll hone the storytelling, which is pretty durn important against the graphics and whatnot. kids games are jawsome!

    there was a pretty neat one using claymation from a few years ago, as an adjunct to the text. i think it was in Tads - a quick look through the competitions from previous years and nothing rang a bell for me - maybe someone else knows it.

  14. canopy vs turango on Wireless Technologies for ISPs? · · Score: 1

    we've done comparisons of canopy vs turango, and found turango to be pretty cool.

    our tests today gave us 8 meg at 10 miles with no reflectors dead on, with degredation to 3 down / 1 up at the edges of the WAP coverage angle.

  15. Re:Merrell trainers, on Airport and Foot Friendly Trade Show Shoes? · · Score: 1

    another vote. merrells are like the New Sock Feeling every day for the first three months, and then they slide into foot-glove mode.

    great stuff, good gription.

    now, where's my kickback? ;)

  16. Chip Morningstar!!! on Engineer Deconstructs Literary Criticism · · Score: 1

    i hope this is the same guy that worked on SCUMM / Habitat...

    man, to have worked at lucasfilm games back in the day...

  17. Re:Pollution? on The Hidden Costs of Bargain Electronics · · Score: 1

    you must have bought the 'snowstorm in a box' model... i think i have the power supply to match, if you're intrested.

  18. Re:My mother ran into this problem on Wasting Time Fixing Computers · · Score: 1

    heh. we had this happen, and when all was said and done, ALL the drives in our RAID were hosed. we figure the backplane went tango uniform and fried them.

    hope you have better luck.

    back your RAIDs up to a separate machine! the power of tom clancy compells you!

  19. you forgot on Robots Of The Victorian Era · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and then bursting into flames.

  20. american action movie on Chessboxing - The Sport Of The Future? · · Score: 2, Funny

    can we just get done with the whole sitting thing and have something blow up?!

    i can imagine most modern theatre would be improved by sporadic fisticuffs...

    and art museums.

  21. interestingly... on Sony Claims First Running Humanoid Robot · · Score: 1

    really, the only thing it needed was something to run from...

  22. in a world... on Culture of UNIX and Windows Programmers · · Score: 2, Funny

    two men... one keyboard...

    this summer, USB stands for revenge - in the shape of a Model M...

    so buckle in...

    you've never felt coding...

    like this...

  23. SLASHDOTTED! comments thread here on Open Source Finally Hits Real Silicon · · Score: 3, Funny

    let the jokes about what sort of processor runs their webserver thread here...

  24. neuromancer on Linux PCs Drive 74-Channel Pipe Organ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    su finn
    echo 'jack in, case' | festival --tts &
    killall case


  25. Re:this on Gore Vidal Savages Electronic Voting · · Score: 1

    actually, i have no feelings for him either way...

    well, i think he writes books that need dust jackets that go all the way around... but him no more than a lot of others i could prattle on about.

    i just thought it was fun trivia and would make for a happy day for someone. really.