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  1. Re:Is there a way to block Pakistan? on Pakistan To Scour Google, Yahoo For Blasphemy · · Score: 1
    All things are possible, it's just a question of how much work you want to put into it.

    is there a way to detect visitors who are (probably) in Pakistan (like, is there a specific block of IPs that is assigned to Pakistan)

    http://www.find-ip-address.org/ip-country/

    redirect them to a page explaining that you'd rather not risk getting a death sentence from Pakistan, so you are not willing to serve content in that jurisdiction?

    http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html

  2. Re:No, Ulrich Drepper's response was appropriate on Debian Switching From Glibc To Eglibc · · Score: 1

    What other "in jokes" am I missing out on and accidentally relying on because no one bothered to tell me not to?

    memfrob(3)

  3. Re:ms passport on IBM to Open Source Novel Identity Protection Software · · Score: 1

    My name is Werner Brandis. MS is my passport. Verify Me.
    Too many secrets
  4. Re:CSS Question - Rounded corners? on Slashdot CSS Redesign Winner Announced · · Score: 1
    ... how does one do those rounded corners on the article titles without using an image
    http://www.html.it/articoli/nifty/index.html has all you ever needed to know.
  5. Keep an eye on MediaMVP from Hauppauge on Want a Cool and Quiet PC? Dunk it in Oil · · Score: 1

    Hauppage make this Windows only thing:

    http://www.hauppauge.com/html/mediamvp_datasheet.h tm

    but once you replace the OS with the Linux version:

    http://mvpmc.sourceforge.net/idx.php?pg=main

    it does fairly well as a MythTV front end. The Linux version is still in it's infancy so there are the normal teething problems (hangs, audio sync problems, etc.) but I've had one for about a month now and it does well enough for me.

    The big wins are that it is absolutly silent (no fans at all) and it's about CAN$130 or the equivalent in US$

  6. Re:Small book on Write Portable Code · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Java doesn't run everywhere: For instance, there is no Java JVM for a Palm

    Hmmmm, IBM and PalmSource might disagree with you there.

    But you're correct in general. Not every platform you'll want to port code to will have a JVM. And those that do will not have the right JVM

  7. Re:I'd love to see an Apache Project mailserver. on IETF Approves SPF and Sender-ID · · Score: 1

    I'd personally love to see the Apache Project coordinate and release a mail server. Is this: http://james.apache.org/ close enough for you? It looks to be fairly complete.

  8. Re: Privoxy on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 1
    Does Privoxy allow the user to prevent downloading JS/Flash? (ie, by modifying the HTML to remove the malicious/annoying portions)?
    Yup, you can do both globally or on a per-site basis. Check out the predefined filters at http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/filter-file.htm l#PREDEFINED-FILTERS
  9. Re:As Gates feared: The browser is the new OS on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 1
    I think that's the big kicker, then. Adblock (and newer things like Greasemonkey and Playtpus) are the only criteria where Opera will probably lose out to Firefox
    True indeed. I use Privoxy (a.k.a Junkbuster) which is an ad killing proxy, so every browser I used is protected from (most of) the crappy ads and malicious Javascript. I don't really notice the lack in Opera. What I really miss is selective Flash blocking. In Opera, it is all or nothing for Flash.
  10. Re:As Gates feared: The browser is the new OS on Which is Better, Firefox or Opera? · · Score: 1
    [...] Opera does not have adblock ...
    True indeed.
    ... or any of the "cool but marginally useful" things like context-menu web search
    False. I can select any text on a page, right click on it, and
    • search with any number of engines
    • look it up in an online dictionary or encyclopedia
    • send the text to an online translation site (currently translation.lycos.com).

    All with Opera. As for web development, I could not live without the extra panels Opera allows: http://my.opera.com/community/customize/panel/. Or go without the built in spell checker for text boxes.

    To be fair however, aside from AdBlock, I think that Opera and Firefox are pretty much dead even and choosing between them becomes more about personal preference that about technical merit.

  11. Got more money than sense? iCEBOX! on Kitchen Internet Kiosk? · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you do then this is the toy for you. I ran across it a while ago and bookmarked it for my post-lottery kitchen remodel.

    iCEBOX FlipScreen

  12. Re:Huh? on The Illiteracy of Corporate American E-Mail · · Score: 1
    I'm pretty sure he meant rediculous, unless the hundreds of idiots posting on the internet every day are spelling it wrong too [ ... ]
    Idiots? On the Internet? Impossible! http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=rediculou s
  13. Re: I have a couple-o-three questions.... on HP Thailand Sells $450 Linux Laptop · · Score: 1
    The government of Thailand is the real force behind this move. That is an interesting development, has Microsoft ever taken on a government before? (I'm kidding)
    Yes. See the Wired story on this.
  14. Re:Large Commercial Entities on Responses to ADTI Paper · · Score: 1
    And are they really distributing these products, or just the underlying "UNIX APIs and migration tools" upon which they depend?

    Yep, they really are shipping all those packages. Kind of freaky in a way.

    They borged up a company called Software Systems that makes the Interix product. It is basically the same idea as Cygwin.

  15. Re:Large Commercial Entities on Responses to ADTI Paper · · Score: 1
    Which reminds me, doesn't Microsoft distribute GPL'd software in one of its "migrate-to-Windows-from-Unix" packages?

    Yes:

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/o verview/default.asp

    Windows Services for UNIX 3.0 also includes more than 300 UNIX utilities and tools that behave exactly as they would on UNIX systems, plus a software development kit (SDK) that supports over 1900 UNIX APIs and migration tools such as make, rcs, yacc, lex, cc, c89, nm, strip, gbd, as well as the gcc, g++, and g77 compilers.
  16. Re:suggested X changes on XFree86 10 Years Old · · Score: 2, Informative
    A standard widget and graphical component library. I don't care if you use GTK+, Qt, Motif or some other more or less perverted set of functions, they should all result in using the same components with the same look and feel

    The problem with this is that X is intended as a much lower level toolkit. X is what you you when you want to create a widget set such as Qt or GTK or Motif of Athena. As far as X is concended (and rightly so), widgets are "someone elses job"

  17. Dropping 80386 from default kernel: Good Idea on FreeBSD 5.0 Developer Preview #1 Released · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I would say that it is about time that both *BSD and Linux look at dropping support for 80386 chips from the default kernel.

    From the FreeBSB-5.0/DP1 release notes:

    Support for the 80386 processor has been removed from the GENERIC kernel, as this code seriously pessimizes performance on other IA32 processors. The I386_CPU kernel option to support the 80386 processor is now mutually exclusive with support for other IA32 processors; this should slightly improve performance on the 80386 due to the elimination of runtime processor type checks.
    Supporting 386 chips is a good idea, but it should not be the default. I would like to be certain that the kernel that I build is taking advatage of the new features that my processor offers.
  18. Re:By the way, how are One Time Pads created? on One-Time Pad Encryption With No Pad? · · Score: 1
    Given the amount of data needed in a one-time pad, I can just imagine someone in the CIA firing up his computer program and saying "Give me 500 pages of one-time codes" :-).

    Generally, the data for one time pads is collected from random natural sources. Point a radio receiver at some used portion of the sky, record some data, wash it with some hashing algorithms to make sure it is random. apply some randomness tests and save it for later use. A karma whore would link to The Handbook of Applied Cryptography Section 5.2 (Random bit generation).

  19. Put 'em in jail on Isolated Apache Virtual Hosts? · · Score: 1
    Have you though about a chroot jail for each virtual host? I have not tried it, but this would seem to be an easy way to keep them out of each other data.

    Might be worth looking into whether or not Apache can handle chrott with virtual hosting.

  20. Re:Kohan on The Best Linux Games of 2001? · · Score: 1

    my only beef... listening to "praise the kohan" or whatever every time I move someone.. chreeerist!

    You do know that you can turn this off under the optios tab?, right?

  21. Re:How to install patches without a network? on Nimda To Strike Again · · Score: 2, Informative

    Turn off (IIS/PWS) before you hook the machine up to the net.

    Now reinstall and try again.;-)

  22. Re:Kzinti homeworld! on Planetary System Similar to Sol Discovered · · Score: 1

    Close, but no cigar ....

    "The Kzinti homeworld orbits the star 61 Ursae Majoris at a distance somewhat greater than that at which Earth orbits the sun."

  23. Re:Hotmail running Windows again? on Hotmail Servers Shut Down by Code Red · · Score: 1
    So they moved it over to an MS platform. According to my scanner, it's running IIS 5.0.
    [64.4.53.7:80] World Wide Web HTTP
    HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected..Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0..Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:48:33 GMT..Location: http://lc2.law5.hotmail.passport.com
    Hmmmm, redirected eh? I wonder if they have read this?

    I wonder if IIS 5.0 is vulnerable as well?