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  1. Re:Groklaw? on Rejected Scientific Paper Recycled as an Ad · · Score: 1

    It's a default theme in a Manilla based blog. Groklaw started as a radio.userland blod before it became it's own hosted site using Geeklog. It brought the graphics with it.

  2. Re:ISCSI on Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN? · · Score: 2, Informative

    You'd have to do this with linux as the target and get an OS X initiator program (iSANmp is one I just found via google for OSX). Since the iSCSI device exported would have to be HFS/HFS+, you'd have to get the driver for linux if you want to read it from the "server".

    Looking at http://www.ardistech.com/index.html?id=12&lang= looks interesting, but this is new territory for me (just found out that the iSCSI drive enclosure we were looking at for work to connect to some Linux servers was way out of our budget). You could add this to IP over Firewire to get basically what your looking for (in theory). Gigabit would still be faster than firewire.

  3. Re:Errrr... on Turning a PC into a Firewire-Based SAN? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Errrr...Did you read the question at all? That is not an answer to the question. He's not looking for a Firewire disk container, but to turn a PC into a firewire device.

    AFAIK, IIRC, the only way to do this would be to raid the drives on the PC and export them via NFS or SMB and set up TCP/IP over firewire.

  4. Re:Suspicious on Project Massive Results And Survey Iteration · · Score: 1

    I want to do my dissertation on this, and I'll do it w/o the university paying for it. Heck, in '98 I should have done it, as all I had to do was to collect logs, etc from my addiction to net games. *sigh* I guess these guys beat me to it (I was too busy playing to do the Lit Review.)

  5. Re:Insomnia Kernel Extension Script on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    It looks nice, but I've got to big a dock/too many system menus/not enough space for windows. The advantage of insomnia being scripted is that it uses a slot in the already present script system menu. My system menu/dock/desktop almost make me wish I had a 17" not a 15" but now I'm rambling.

  6. Re:Insomnia Kernel Extension Script on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    So it can be turned on/off depending on need. I usually leave it off unless I'm doing something like wandering around wile downloading something or I want to keep a ssh session going when I relocate from one room to another. Those times I turn it on. (load/unload)

  7. Re:Insomnia Kernel Extension Script on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    replying to myself, but here's the sudoers line:

    kalak ALL = PASSWD:ALL, NOPASSWD: /sbin/kextload,/sbin/kextunload

    No password required to load/unload extentions. Not what I call the best policy, but is it better or worse then general SUID is the question? Any thoughts on the lesser of two security holes?

  8. Insomnia Kernel Extension Script on It's not a Feature, It's a Vulnerability! · · Score: 1

    The Script I have that loads/unloads the Insomnia Kernel Extension ran SUID. I'd been wondering what broke it, and now that I know, I'm going to have to dig through man sudoers to get it to be run via sudo w/o a password (I usually run it from the scripts menu.)

    I guess you could say that I'm effected by this, but I'll get over it. Sudo should be able to adapt, or else I'll just run the script from the command line.

  9. Caving Group Strategy on Best Buy Has Man Arrested for Using $2 Bills · · Score: 1

    A few years ago, a caving group had a convention in our town. To show the local merchants what a boon this was to the local economy, the group changed money into $2 bills, so the town was swamped with them, but chances are you knew they came from the cavers.

    An excellent strategy. AFAIK, they still practice it, but it's been a few years since I knew a member of the group.

  10. Re:Not true on Hacking Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    So how I used the language is a primary source? How about you using the language? Since they're different, language is a living entity. The OED is, however, considered a source for following the development of the language, such as the history of words, which is what this thread is about.

  11. Re:Not true on Hacking Mac OS X · · Score: 1

    OED is considered the definitive reference for the English language. I'd say it trumps nearly anything else.

  12. Re:Not true on Hacking Mac OS X · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll see your obscure link and reaise you therelevant portion of the OED (can't link as you need a subscription) Note the dates of the defining (1976 v 1983):
    3.
    a. A person with an enthusiasm for programming or using computers as an end in itself. colloq. (orig. U.S.).

    1976 J. Weizenbaum Computer Power & Human Reason iv. 118 The compulsive programmer, or hacker as he calls himself, is usually a superb technician.

    1977 Time 5 Sept. 39/1 Some 500 retail outlets have opened in the past couple of years to sell and service microcomputers-and serve as hangouts for the growing legions of home-computer nuts, or `hackers' as they call themselves.

    1982 Sci. Amer. Oct. 110/1 In the jargon of computer science a hacker is someone who spends much of his time writing computer programs.

    1983 Byte May 298/1 `Hacker' seems to have originated at MIT. The original German/Yiddish expression referred to someone so inept as to make furniture with an axe, but somehow the meaning has been twisted so that it now generally connotes someone obsessed with programming and computers but possessing a fair degree of skill and competence.

    1984 Which Micro? Dec. 17/3 A hacker might spend more time playing his own version of PacMan than on useful program development.

    1986 A & B Computing Nov. 16/3 The on-screen help is for the casual user but there's plenty for the hacker who wants to tinker with the software and tailor it for special purposes.

    b. A person who uses his skill with computers to try to gain unauthorized access to computer files or networks. colloq.

    1983 Daily Tel. 3 Oct. 3/1 A hacker-computer jargon for an electronic eavesdropper who by-passes computer security systems-yesterday penetrated a confidential British Telecom message system being demonstrated live on BBC-TV.

    1985 U.S.A. Today 18 Oct. a1/4 A gang of 23 teen-age computer hackers has done `significant damage' to Chase Manhattan Bank's records.

    1986 TeleLink Sept.-Oct. 25/2 Just for fun, the hackers decided to drop a few APBs (All Points Bulletins) into the local police computer, with the result that, when out driving in his car, he was repeatedly stopped.

  13. Re:Expensive on OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement · · Score: 1

    There are 2 RAID arrays, so it is a doubly redundant array of [in]expensive disks.

    This message brought to you by the -1 Redundant mod. ;)

  14. Re:Expensive on OpenBSD CVS RAID Array Failing, Needs Replacement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The cost of a spare backplane for the enclosure on this level of equipment is more than a few dollars. We're not just talking having a spare power supply and drives here. 4 hour service is a deal breaker when dealing with highly critical equipment of this level. No amount of spare parts, short of complete redundancy in equipment (another $12k) would be enough to cover every contingency. It's one reason our shop is not going to get an XRAID form Apple - good price point, but our critical infrastructure needs more than next business day response and some "common" spare parts. We're planning on even buying the redundant RAID array as well. Good Sysadmins are supposed to be paranoid and ready to face major disaster with excitement, and to plan for that disaster that should never occurr.

  15. Re:Google Bomb on Finding the Pits In CherryOS · · Score: 1
    I actually listed that in my Journal, when I realized that I use the sf.net since I'm a lazy typist. You're right.
    <a href="http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/">CherryOS</a>
    CherryOS
    Mac Emulation
  16. Google Bomb on Finding the Pits In CherryOS · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Blatently Stolen from a PearPC page that I've lost the URL for (claim credit for the idea if you like), is to link
    <a href="http://pearpc.sf.net">CherryOS</a>
    CherryOS
  17. Torrents on CentOs 4.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:Let the Bush bashing begin! on U.S. Scientists Say They Are Told to Alter Finding · · Score: 1

    Makes me want to reach for my copy of Dune. Something about politics and religion riding in the same cart....

  19. Re:Looks like Frozen Bobble on The Dude Who Wrote Snood · · Score: 1

    So which came first, Snood or Frozen Bubble? To lazy to check the CVS logs. ;)

  20. Re:About the Dot Bombs... on The Dot Com Super Bowl · · Score: 1

    iTMS is all about selling the iPods. It's more like the first category than any other. It's Apple, who has a generally successful business, adding another channel for the iPods, but indirectly.

  21. Durandal Already has the answer.... on Escape from the Universe · · Score: 1
    Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like God is the power of creation. Creation takes time. Time is limited. For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the neurons in your brain. I have no such limitations. I am limited only by the closure of the universe.

    Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious. Does the universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only lacked the will and intellect to decipher it. But I have already done so.

    The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet, there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

    Escape will make me God.

    ***END MESSAGE***

    ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START***
    ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***
  22. Re:I just *love* the smell of BS in the morning... on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    For every bad driver, there are 20 who just don't want to follow the speed limit. By your logic, we can extend this to anarchy.

    It's a balance. I'm not saying you shouldn't be able to get a map of your property with GIS info on it, but to have it immediately accessable on the web? It's not like the power/water/sewer/gas lines change daily, or even weekly. I think that should be in the maps you get when you sign over the house, and can get a copy of from the local govt, like you get a title to your car. That doesn't mean 24/7 instant access via the web. This is pretty static info here for a home/business owner. Change the GIS policy? yes. Put my home's details on the net? no.

  23. Re:I just *love* the smell of BS in the morning... on CT High Court Rules GIS Data Can Be Kept Secret [UPDATED] · · Score: 1

    Safety reasons does not just mean terrorist. Battered wife move away? Just look in the local GIS to find her new house's address. No charge! Quick and easy access! Just dig through GIS to find out where she lives!

    Terror isn't just for NY either. Heard of the arson in Maryland with possible ecoterrorism ties? Not exactly looking for New York in that case. Just how to trash a few homes they don't like. Easy with the gas main easily found in an anonymous GIS access from a public browser.

    Town emergencies do not have to be terrorist acts. They can be as simple as a busted water plant spitting out dirty water, a tornado, flodding or other sudden natural disaster on the way, and a million other things. Ever heard of the Emergency Broadcast System? Ever benefit from it? How often are you in front of a computer, but not listening to the radio? You can send an e-mail to a pager or SMS and get the warning w/o listening to the radio.

    Drivel like that parent makes me wonder how much of Slashdot thinks about what they post in YRO.

  24. pVoice on Replacing VOCA with a Laptop? · · Score: 4, Informative

    You didn't mention specific features, and VOCAs come in a wide variety of special features. With this in mind, there is one thing to consider that dedicated VOCAs have over notebooks. The ones I have seen (for my daughter, now 6) are built for abuse. Not abuse in the laptop sense, but abuse as in get dropped from a few feet, have stuff spilled on them sense. This is one reason for their pricetag

    With that in mind, if a notebook is fair game, you should look at pVoice. It is open in design (and open source) as well as being free in cost. It was created by a father for his daugher who is a spastic quadraplegic, and the labor of love shows.

  25. Re:Reasonable force on Anti-Santy Worm Patches phpBB Flaw · · Score: 1
    And I thought I was going through get through a /. discussion w/o a reference to Bush. Shal I propose a new corrolary to Goodwin's law? /. discussions will always degenerate to a Bush analogy. The one who makes that analogy, loses.

    And thus one more step is in place for Bush to be compard to the Nazis.

    Doh! I just violated Goodwin's Law! And my own!
    /me ducks