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  1. Re:what's cuba like? on Cuban Government Toughens Internet Restrictions · · Score: 1

    Wooohooo............ man, you should talk more with cuban people... yes, they have free education, free medical system, and they push sport a lot over there. that's the good news. the bad news is : they don't earn enough money to do anything. like eating, like moving around, owning a car, buying some clothes, having your own appartement... people over there earn little money. (10 to 30 US$/month) i knew a .net programmer which earns 10$US/month. any restaurant is 5$/person. any cloth is 4$. say 6$ for pants. (2 weeks salary !). food is not cheap. transportation is not cheap. there is no new appartemennts, every body leave under the same roof. from your granma (;-) to your kids, to your SO. major pita. oh, and public transportation is horrible. like, you have to get up 1 hour earlier to be sure to be at work on time. and of course every day, you're cramed into some extra-old bus. you don't own anything in your life. housing is owned by the state, cars are for rich people.

  2. random might be better this way.... on Can You Raed Tihs? · · Score: 1

    compare : (first line input, second scrambled text)

    aaaabbbb
    abbbaaab
    aaaabbbb
    abbbaaab

    with

    aaaabbbb
    aaabbbab
    aaaabbbb
    aabababb

    this perl script is sorting letters together...

    url for patched script :
    scramble

  3. pop proxy ? on Anti-Spam Software for Mom? · · Score: 1
    what about a pop proxy ? you set up spamassassin, and others tools of auto detection you may need, and point outlook to the pop proxy. (on the same box, or more easily on your fbsd gateway)

    then you can tag or trash. tagging implies playing with outlook filters.

    .com site

    sf repo

    also have a look at spamassasin for windows, the plug and play way

  4. lbx proxy (low bandwith) on Citrix-Like Server for Linux? · · Score: 1
    Hi,

    http://www.paulandlesley.org/faqs/LBX-HOWTO.html

    Here is an howto on a low bandwith proxy. it's included with x, no modules to add on, works over a phone line, and has a kitchen sink.

    LBX (Low Bandwidth X) is an X server extension which performs compression on the X protocol. It is meant to be used in conjunction with X applications and an X server which are separated by a slow network connection, to improve display and response time

  5. it has already happened on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 1

    Back in the 30's, when the navy was studying dvorak... The war begun, they forgot about the dvorak keyboard, and now we're stuck with a keyboard designed to slow down people... (when typewriting machines were jamming, they had to think to some layout that will slowdown typists)

    Now, every time someone learns i'm typing on dvorak,
    (custom dvorak, i didn't like the place of some characters ({},/,-,|....) and the way to get them... what do you use the most, { or [ ? if{, then let it accessible without pressing shift, and press shift to get [ then... this kind of things) she looks me like a freak....

    Looks like it's too late to change, so many people learned qwerty and don't want to switch to anything else.... manufacturers makes standards products, typists learn on standards products, and the power users remaps every key on their keyboard... (who needs caps lock any way ? or num lock ? let the numpad only print numbers....)

  6. sometimes a joke open new views on the worlds on What is Your Best Tech Joke? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
    the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

    I'm different, just like everybody else.

    It's never too late to panic.

    It's bad luck to be superstitious.

    If it was said on slashdot, it MUST be true!

    The configuration files for Tomcat 3.x look like they were designed by a monkey on crack (or a Sendmail developer)

    Without C, We would only have Pasal, Basi, and obol

  7. Peep : The Network Auralizer on Hark! I Hear a Dropped Packet! · · Score: 1

    Peep is a network monitoring tool that represents network information via audio output. Network diagnosis with Peep is made not only based on singular network events, but on whether the network as a whole "sounds normal."

    http://www.auralizer.com:8080/peep

    This software is quite fun, you can reproduce an
    atmosphere of "rain forest", making the differents
    sounds (birds, rain, animals....) matching events.
    (mail incoming, mail outgoing, http requests...)

  8. patch to iptables on Simple DIY Linux/BSD based Network Balancers? · · Score: 1

    there is a patch to iptables which does some load balancing ; it looks really cool : http://netfilter.samba.org/documentation/pomlist/p om-base.html#nth

  9. the really cool thing is coming on FreeBSD: Perl to be removed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I couldn't stand the obsolete perl 5.005 which was on the base system... once you install 5.6.1, things can mess up pretty quickly if you don't take care to separate things... not to say that you have to convince sysadmins...

    The worse is that the perl5 base would install obsolete modules, like cgi.pm.... and now if you install the cgi perl port, you have to either remove the original cgi.pm (will break at the next make installword) or tweak PERL5LIB to insert the path to the new modules before the others.... thanks god all that pain in the . will be gone ... one day...

  10. Re:Filtering helps spammers on Christmas Spam Level Skyrocketing · · Score: 1

    Filtering is good.

    Filtering is good because when you come back from vacation, you have the very personnal email (the one you want to read first) in your "personnal" folder.

    Filtering and detection is good because we can easily answer to that spam (mail-abuse, spamcop...)

    In short, filtering is good but is not everything ! action should take place !

  11. passion and networking on How Did You Become a UNIX Administrator? · · Score: 1

    if you have the passion, it means that you're spending time to learn things. So basically, you're ready to learn anything new. This is your power. And as you learn more and more new things, you're faster at learning thoses.

    here is for the passion.

    Now you need to network your self. finding a programer job is not very hard, and in the enterprise you'll go you'll bright with your sysadmin skills. a good job is "webmaster" because usually you have to take care of the machine, apache and the content, which is eventually dynamic. As your skills get reconnized by others, you might be moved to a more "sysadmin" job.

    Let's get the ball rolling !

    bye.

  12. Re:Whose war? on US Starts Attacking Afghanistan · · Score: 1
    The barbarians ? who is this ?

    The guy who puts the bombs or the guy who learned him how to set up a bomb ? Bin Laden or USA ?

  13. Re:Can't get Lego's like you used to on Why Can't LEGO Click? · · Score: 1
    Yes there is.

    You can get them at http://www.lego.com/bulk/.

    There is plenty of them. (I didn't find the proper way to get them in red, so I changed the get url (the parameter) by hand ... %-)

  14. squid can protect your http server on Code Red III · · Score: 1

    Just a single line to say that squid ( http://www.squid-cache.org) can be configured as an acceleration server only (without the proxying), and will automatically deny the default.ida, as well as protect your server from unacceptables requests.

  15. it has already happened on Fight Virus With Virus? · · Score: 2, Informative

    The virus nVIR A was propagating the macintosh world.(1990) Someone created a second nVIR B to counter attack the nVIR A, to replace A with itself.

    There were bugs into nVIR B, making the computer part unusable. and the nVIR B could propagate on a computer which wasn't infected by nVIR A.

    Not everybody was happy :-(

    bye

  16. Re:reflective of American values... missing values on How Many Hours Do You Work in a Week? · · Score: 2

    I think there's missing something.

    If one work more than 10 hours a day, he will probably have no time to spend his money. Look, when you take holidays, you spend a lot more than if you were working. Get some equilibrated life is good, you can spend time with your family. If you take holidays and if you stay at home, you could do some activity (sport, shopping...). You will spend money ! If you stay at work, you'll not spend more than your lunch...

    But money and possession are American values. There's missing the time to enjoy the possessions... ;-)

    bye

  17. Re:It's not patents per se, it's their use on Patent On 'Private' URLs · · Score: 1


    Tom sayer, it's america,
    the country of the liberty....

  18. my guess on Guess When Mir Will Splash · · Score: 1


    2001-04-20 07:10:00

    we might think it's too late, but it would be without the help of the Russians.

  19. Too good you mean ! on Microsoft And Sun Settle · · Score: 1

    Now MS drops another thing that could keep them alive longer !

    That's good news, man !

  20. Spam : irl and uce. We have tools to fight. on Spammer Gets Spammed · · Score: 1

    I often prefer displaying my real email on web site, on news groups, because I love fighting spammers. we have _tools_. *grin*

    uce :
    before spam :


    http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/ to protect your webserver from search bots.
    teergrubing to protect your MTA :
    http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teergrub e.en.html
    (and of course, hide your email like that : xavieratbocaldotcsdotunivdashparis8dotSPAMfr ;-)

    after spam :


    http://spamcop.net/
    http://www.samspade.org
    http://mail-abuse.org(RBL)

    tools to semi-automaticly report/fight spam :

    http://freshmeat.net/appindex/console/anti-spam.ht ml

    irl :

    As other says, send back the empty enveloppe.

    One funny thing about phone spam is the possibility to talk to the person which is trying to sell you something, like to a human being. (after all, it's often a woman poorly payed to do this job. she(he) deserve humanity). I usually ask if the person is in good mood, and it's easier to say goodbye after this.

  21. object / functional programing on The Object Oriented Hype · · Score: 1
    I think we can do good code both in object and functional programing.

    However, the object orientation, well used, tends to produce a more readable code, a more reusable code. The reusability of a code is very important. Doing a perl module and submiting it, is better than doing a quick and dirty script to do the job. Plus, I think this is a good exercice to the programer, as the usual approach is functional. It helps structuring code.

    Of course, it takes more time.

    The benefice for the community is an objective to keep in mind.

    xavier.