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  1. Commercial Model Available on Get RSS Feeds on Your Toilet Paper · · Score: 1

    I'd hate to see one of these "for a captive audience" devices in the wrong place. Just think what you'd get when you sell direct marketed toilet paper (Cue Spaceballs reference).

    Oh wait, my snail mailbox is full of that already (just a little rougher paper, that's all).

  2. Re:Actually on Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Sadly I can't find the source, but I have read (take this for what it's worth) that the install begins before the EULA is displayed, and does not completely remove itself if the EULA is refused.

    Any unexpected EULA, password request, etc. should be a reason for caution anyway, and a EULA for an audio CD is not expected.

  3. Re:The Art of Staying Away from Slashdot. on Book Excerpt: The Art of Project Management · · Score: 1

    as someone's sig once said:
    echo "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org >>/etc/hosts"

    All cured! (If you're really desperate, firewall the IP off, but I actually occasionally use info form this place on the job at times.)

  4. Re:Shared Objects on 'Type Manager' The File Manager of Tomorrow? · · Score: 1

    OS X has a nice command line utility, simply titled "open" that basically lets you do this from the comand line. I just don't like GUI file management. I've yet to be able to find anything that can do this under linux w/o using a GUI. Any pointers out there? Yes, I have checked google, freshmeat, sourceforge, etc, but I haven't come across the right search combination if there is such a utility out there.

    man open:
    The open command opens a file (or a directory or URL), just as if you had
              double-clicked the file's icon. If no application name is specified, the
              default application as determined via LaunchServices is used to open the
              specified files.

  5. Re:Make it into MP3 & Torrent it on War of the Worlds by the Star Trek Cast · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have mercy on my tracker.... Here is a torrent for an .ogg.

    I've edited out the hour long performance after it (never liked I Love Lucy anyway), so it's 53 minutes.

    Leonard Nimory is good, but Orson Wells is excellent, and overall I like the original much better. Even the scratchiness of the reproductions adds to the realism (AM radio then). I would everyone get the original (linked below) and listen to it instead, or at least get both and decide for yourself.

    I'll remove the link when KPCC does.

  6. Re:This is over 10 years old on War of the Worlds by the Star Trek Cast · · Score: 1

    But now you can listen for free instead of paying for it. Not to mention you don't have to look at the hacked goatse image to order it.

  7. Re:md5, sha1? on How Do I Determine If My PC is a Zombie? · · Score: 1

    You mean Tripwire? Or maybe a poor man's tripwire?

  8. Re:Bloggers Outed a Virginia Congressman? on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    Probably mixed up here. No anti-homosexual rhetoric coming from his mouth.

  9. Bloggers Outed a Virginia Congressman? on Forbes Goes After Bloggers · · Score: 1

    a Virginia congressman outed as a homosexual
    Funny, it was common knowledge before the internet, and he's still winning re-elections despite intense spending by the other party to defeat him. He's even spoken about with respect on Slashdot. But, yeah, it's all the blogger's fault! (Assuming there's not another homosexual congressman from Virgina.)

    Forbes=Flamebait

  10. Re:Naive a little? on Congress Pays You $3 Billion to Keep Watching TV · · Score: 1

    They don't even care enough to goddamn vote once every four fucking years.

    Last I heard, elections are usually help *every year*. Politics are not just about the Presidential election, and if you want to complainin about national elections, they are every 2 years (though not all districts may have anything to vote on nationally at that time).

    Get out and vote in local elections folks. There are frequently more choices, you can actually get to know the candidates your vote counts more, and politicians start somewhere, usually at the local level.

    As the bumper sticker reads: "Think globally, act locally"

  11. Re:Any toxins in em? on What Can You Do with Old RAM? · · Score: 1

    If you that short-sighted, then it leaks shit in the local water supply, it will be your problem.

  12. Re:Or Google cache on 200gb Hack for iPod Nano · · Score: 1

    Google doesn't cache the images, so half the humor is lost (and that's why it's slow to load).

  13. Re:Uptime ++ on Tips for Increasing Server Availability? · · Score: 1

    It's interesting that people such as yourself that use lesser equipment are the ones that have experienced most multidrive failures.

    I never said that I experienced a multi-drive failure. I am aware of how they come about, and I know of those who have experienced them. You are making assumptions that are not supported by fact.

    HotMail and Google were cheaper why?
    I also never said this. I said they used less expensive components. I made no statement as to their total cost. Again, you are making assumptions that are not supported by fact.

    Two machines, by themselves, do not make a cluster. The machines within a cluster are ware of each other and interact with each other.
    Again, you show your lack of research into the subject:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster#Load _balancing_clusters
    http://www.linux-ha.org/FAQ#head-7f4d8eec3b4075a46 4bab8ccedfc1c970cb2cd29
    Your statement implies a HPC cluster:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster#High -performance_.28HPC.29_clusters

    But, your situation is probably not the same as everyone else and what works best for you may not suite everyone.
    Yet, you spout that the only "real" way to achieve high reliability is using *your* recomendations, using *your* recomended hardware. I agreee that the solution to clustering is situationally dependent upon what the needs of availability are, the budget constraints, etc. I present a possible scrnerio, and corrections to your statements, not an answer for the submitter. You present your statement as "all this will cost big piles of cash", which I provided counter examples that it will not require a large budget.

  14. Re:Uptime ++ on Tips for Increasing Server Availability? · · Score: 1

    Ever heard of a failure somewhere else other than the drives causing the failure? The controller? The Cable? 2 drives from the same batch that had a flaw? And saying it is going to cost big piles of cash, you obviously haven't heard of how Hotmail and Google started. (Hotmail back when it ran BSD.) He's not asking for marketing speak for big iron, but real examples. My One Big Servers have cost me more sleep than my little cheap, but well thought out cluster ever has. And the cluster has been running for over 3 years now with only a halon trip in the data center an planned upgrade to the power systems taking it down. My One Big Servers go down every time they need a reboot.

    Also, if you really knew your stuff, you'd know that a load balancer includes a basic cluster of at least 2 machines, so saying "If you're super paranoid, both." shows you don't work with load balancers.

    (for my set up, see my above posting - brand names removed to prodect the innocent, but they make both low and high end servers, and the high ends are outside the cluster because if I could cluster the apps, I'd save the money.)

    Real demanding applications (your Fortune 1000) *will* have load balanced clusters, even if they use expensive hardware, and that is the key.

  15. Re:You need to start looking at server redundancy on Tips for Increasing Server Availability? · · Score: 1

    The parent has said some of the most important things about high-availability, and load balancing includes HA as well. The nugget of the logic driving this is that with redundancy outside servers, you don't need redundancy *within* a server. Then whiteboxes will do, RAIDs are less important, and a reboot on one machine will not take you down (you can actually kill the correct half your machines without a hitch). Add in redundant, seperate UPSs and network switches - my pager is *so* quiet these days - and you sleep well at night. A rack of properly configured cheap boxes beats the big iron that is out of your budget any day ($30k from the submitter's earlier answer).

    If you have no linux admins, I'm sure there is a Windows load balancer out there, or you could shell out the big money on a hardware load balancer.

    My credentials can be served up by any of the 2 peers that are currently live (the others are being reconfigured and are in testing, then I'll switch to the 3 not up today and reconfigure the other 2). It's a LVS, using Direct Routing, with linux HA on the front and back end. The servers inside the dashed rectangle are all either older boxes or simple 1Us. The expensive component is the shared storage, and if you can get by on a few hundred GB, you can do this for a lot less (soon to be replaced with one of these, fully redundant).

    Another advantage of this logic (which grew from 2 machines in a Linux HA setup) is the possibilities for growth. Got an box that's too slow for a desktop? Make a peer out of it!

    And one day I'll get the darn thing slashdotted and see how it holds out. ;)

  16. Re:Slashdot falling on it sword? on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Troll or Funny? I believe it's called sarcasm (which is insigntful in my mind), but I already posted, so I can't moderate it.

    You want secure and low requirements? Run lynx (or a variant) since that's not mentioned in the same discussion anyway. Seems fine to me after choosing light (which I used to use, and will turn back on when the slashboxes are back in it - don't need no stinkin' fancy graphics and layouts).

    If he's really worried about Mosaic, I'd say he's using a 2400 bps modem, so images are just a pain anyway.

  17. Re:Kudos on a great upgrade! on Slashdot HTML 4.01 and CSS · · Score: 1

    Just a guess that it's Taco's.
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163040&cid=136 22050

    Non-employee number is another question entirely. I don't believe we can just start counting up numbers to figure it out (but I'm sure I'll hear if I'm wrong).

  18. Re:computers: still not for lay people on Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Plugin Control on Plugin Lets Users Turn IE into Firefox · · Score: 1

    Winpatrol.

    Disables IE Plugins and some other good features as well.

  20. Re:Trademark == reputation on 1 in 9 Companies Sign Linux Trademark Letter · · Score: 1

    This post is all about the article you cite.

    Changes:
    You sign a contract for a specific jouristiction. Last I heard worldwide contracts are not the norm, and if you read your own source "it is not possible to simply create a worldwide trademark license" (LWN).

    A new clause for being in breech of the contract. It gives permission to seek relief for a breech, and a timeline for fixing it. You mean LMI can ask someone to play nice and not be snubbed as a result? The bastards!

    *This is the "money grubbing" part, so everyone pay attention:
    A new fee structure. The cost of running this show is something I have no idea of, and no one else who lacks this can say anything about if this is excessive or reasonable. I don't care how much pro bono you get, there is a cost of LMI doing business. The paper they use may grow on trees, but LMI doesn't own any trees. LWN even states in the the article you quoted: "The old licensing fee was simply not enough to fund LMI at the level it needed to properly manage the trademark."

    Also there is Bruce Perens objection that you sign a contract and can't transfer that permission to a 3rd party. In other words, you can't give permission for others, they have to come sign the contract themselves. 3rd parties cannot be held to a contract they are not a party to, so leaving this transferrable would leave the possibility for abuse there. i.e.: "www.debianlinux.xxx" So they either must get permission or name their redistribution something other than Linux. (GNU/Debian maybe, that's Debian's issue.)

    If you actually read the article you post in support of your position, you'll find it not in support of your position. It concludes in the final paragraph:
    "So a group like the Linux Mark Institute seems like a necessary evil."

  21. Re:Trademark == reputation on 1 in 9 Companies Sign Linux Trademark Letter · · Score: 1

    Trolls who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

    Note this is from 2000, and it was Slashdotted

    If you don't like the trademark thing (which grew out of misue of the Linux name), fork.

  22. Re:Trademark == reputation on 1 in 9 Companies Sign Linux Trademark Letter · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Compare this to the Open Group owning the trademark of UNIX. Linux companies fought for the trademark of Linux and gave it to Linus (as it should be), and he has contracted out to a group to keep his trademark rights appropriately, in accordance with the needs of the law.

    I don't hear anyone claiming the Open group is making a ton of money off the trademark of UNIX. I'd say your comment is dead on and the recent Linux trademark efforts are highly similar to the UNIX trademark issues.

    Preserving the good name of "Linux" is what this is all about.

  23. Re:Okay...How do I install these things... on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1

    You need to get rid of the "/" at the end or you get a 500, so use this link

    Thanks for the link.

  24. Re:Okay...How do I install these things... on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 4, Informative

    Backup our data, etc.

    Boot off of the Windows CD, and go into the recovery console. I always forget which command, so I do both:
    fixmbr
    fixboot

  25. Re:Try again on The Impact of Planescape Torment · · Score: 1

    I actually installed the game last night on my notebook, so seeing your suggestion here today is very ironic. It was given to me by a friend wh oheard that I had never played it.

    So far, the only problem that I can see is that there is this update I can find talked about, but I can't actually *find*.

    Also, for those who say you never have to have any combat, I believe you do have to at least start off by fighting a zombie to get the first key.