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

    from the author of 'caligula', the motion picture.

    take it or leave it.

  2. Re:Tomsrtbt anyone? on System Recovery with Knoppix · · Score: 1

    note that you can boot right into a CLI if you use 'knoppix 2' at the boot prompt.

    really - if the computer boots from CDROM, you've got a much richer toolset (and manuals) than tom's.

  3. Re:time scale readjust required on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    funny, i get a doubling each time, as each echo call appends itself to the end of the login file.

    so - one echo becomes two, those two become four, etc...

    where did i go wrong?

  4. time scale readjust required on Practical Jokes on Co-Workers? · · Score: 1

    you're going to get exponential sleepage doing that, so you're possibly looking at less than a month before they notice.

    depending, of course.

  5. Re:Other living fossil plants on Jurassic Plants Make A Comeback · · Score: 1

    you don't have to go out in the woods - horsetails will rip through your driveway for you.

    it's like geology and biology at once. and finances.

  6. Re:I welcome our new e-paper overloads... on Paper Capable Of Playing Videos Developed · · Score: 1

    no need to be afraid - that's thinking negative.

    embrace the schism.

    the rocket for venus will be leaving shortly.

    don't get on it.

  7. Re:Why? on The Oldest Mouse Contest · · Score: 1

    i think this was all covered rather nicely in the documentary rondo the highlander.

    as you can see, once you're immortal and undergone training by sean connery, life becomes an endless series of swordfights and explosions.

    so, in conclusion - don't undergo swordfight training, even if it's a zillion AD and you're on some other planet - thank you.

  8. not exactly stirring, but not too bad either on (Yet Another) Mobile Keypad · · Score: 1

    well, i'm glad this got posted.

    i'd hate to miss out on this ambiguously interesting news.

  9. winning entry for biology/physics on Education Game Development Contest for Collegiate Programmers · · Score: 2, Funny

    WHAT is your name...
    WHAT is your quest...

  10. Re:hmm interesting... on Noticed Welchie/Nachi in Your Bandwidth Bill, Yet? · · Score: 1

    you're right.

    i don't know where i read they were spoofed, but obviously i was smoking crack, and the crack smoked me while i tested it.

    must have nmapped someone behind a firewall the few times i checked - but i just got a fat hit off a Win Me/XP/2003 machine.

    thank goodness it'll time out in 2003 - oh, thank you virus writer for the infinite wisdom that this needed to go on for FIVE MONTHS.

  11. search industry rags on Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities · · Score: 1

    i'm sorry - i'm from a small town - but you've got to be shitting me.

    how can you have a whole magazine devoted to search engines?

    are the full-page drug ads for OCD?

  12. Re:hmm interesting... on Noticed Welchie/Nachi in Your Bandwidth Bill, Yet? · · Score: 1

    if it's nachi/welchie - good luck tracking down the originating IP - most of them are spoofed.

    i assume it's just proof that the virus writer(s) are as retarded as i'd always thought - or maybe they're really smart and have some reason to flood everything.

  13. before you get too upset on Traffic Cameras Used for Pedestrian Monitoring · · Score: 2, Funny

    the article says the camera was broadcasting to the whole town -- so it's not like they were keeping it to themselves.

  14. Re:Not calvin on Ford To Move To Linux · · Score: 1

    i have two.

    they're on the inside and outside of the window.

    they're pissing on each other.

    yes, i like adbusters....

  15. Re:ugh on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:disappointed on Back To SCO · · Score: 1

    this is the type of dialogue i'd hoped the book 'code reading' was about. though maybe less caustic.

    thanks for showing another way to do it. i just learned xargs existed a month or so ago - looks like that and expect should get upped on my RTFM list.

    i also f*d up in that it counts lines in the documentation, which is patently wrong.

  17. Re:disappointed on Back To SCO · · Score: 2

    how about:

    cd (linux kernel dir)
    find . -exec awk '{if ($0 ~ /^$/) {print $0}}' {} \; 2>/dev/null | wc -l


    I get 650580 off of 2.4.21

  18. future primitive on XIII Shows Off Cel-Shading FPS Skills · · Score: 1

    on a tangent: if you're into jurassic 5 or mix master mike you should pick up the 'live @ the future primitive' session #1 before it goes out of print. lucious.

    also: LFPSS 2 w/ z-trip and radar is pretty damn fine, as well.

  19. Re:Interesting technique on IBM's Billy Goat Squashes Worms · · Score: 1

    just turn on labrea and put a tail on the logs.

    this slowed a kazaa box from scanning my internal network endlessly. little bastard. next step: boot it off Knoppix, shred /dev/hd*

  20. can't wait till the judge hears this on Highway Shooters Claim To Emulate GTA · · Score: 1

    oh - well let them go then. sorry, big misunderstanding.

  21. Re:security vulnerability on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    I was referring to a packet larger than addressable memory...

    Probably not that funny, anyway.

  22. security vulnerability on A TCP/IP Stack and Web Server In BASIC · · Score: 1

    This doesn't even cover buffer overruns > 64K -- man, that's weak.

  23. From the article linked... on Real Announce Helix Grant Program, Player · · Score: 1

    In effect, these companies seek to gain the favorable cachet of ``open source'' for their proprietary software products--even though those are not ``open source software''--because they have some relationship to free software or because the same company also maintains some free software. (One company founder said quite explicitly that they would put, into the free package they support, as little of their work as the community would stand for.)

  24. most of the people who regularly read slashdot on Part Two: Technical Self-Employment For All · · Score: 1

    ...the scientists, engineers and people who like to solve problems and learn technical things...

    I hate to tell you this...

  25. Re:that crazy hook thing on Required Tools for PC Repair? · · Score: 1

    I looked at that explanation for quite awhile.

    I have a feeling even they don't know what it's for - like the engineer that thought it up was lost in the alps before he could explain its true meaning.

    Future archaeologists, beware!

    The reason I looked it up was because I figured - heh, it's for buttoning swiss boots. Boy, was I wrong.