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  1. Re:pff, old stuff on Depenguinator "Upgrades" Linux to BSD · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, the suggested way to netboot-install gentoo on sparc is to use the netboot installer of debian, chroot, and then do the gentoo stage installs. Sadly, the netboot kernel (2.2) was too old to chroot into the 2.4 environment, so I had the joy of rebuilding the kernel just to chroot just to build all of gentoo (with another kernel).

  2. Re:Nothing New on Microsoft Word Forms Passwords Hacked · · Score: 1

    The fact that the checksum is one-way has nothing to do the problem you describe, which is that the size of the resulting checksum is too small to be useful for security purposes. It's easy to brute force, where as there is no known tractable way to match md5 signatures (i.e. find two keys that hash to the same checksum).

  3. Same company that "supplied" music to LAMP on Off-The-Shelf Online Music Stores · · Score: 1

    This is the same company that dicked over MIT's LAMP project.

    Let's hope their clients are getting what they're expecting to get.

  4. Re:Good stuff, but... on Hiding Secrets With Steganography On FreeBSD · · Score: 4, Informative

    a) you can always strip these headers.
    b) you don't have to output to ascii armor. (although I'm certain that the resulting files still have a recognizable, openpgp compliant structure.)

  5. Bar joke on So You Think Physics is Funny? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Werner Heisenberg, Kurt Godel and Noam Chomsky walk into a bar.

    Heisenberg looks around the bar and says, "Because there are three of us and because this is a bar, it must be a joke. But the question remains, is it funny or not?"

    And Godel thinks for a moment and says, "Well, because we're inside the joke, we can't tell whether it's funny. We'd have to be outside looking at it."

    And Chomsky looks at both of them and says, "Of course it's funny. You're just telling it wrong."

  6. Re:OK... good on Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful
    OK, so therefore, Windows 95, 98, ME, 2K and XP are ... all Win32 emulators.
    They are all win32 implementations with a common API. It would be a stretch to call them emulators, IMHO.
  7. Re:Definitions. on J2EE Design Patterns · · Score: 2, Informative
    What's the difference between a Design Pattern and a template?
    A template you fill in. This assumes that someone has already solved your exact problem, and you just need to add the details specific to this particular incarnation of the problem.

    Design patterns are programming concepts that you can assemble to solve your problem. They are reusable in the sense that the problems that patterns solve come up often enough that knowing when and how to use them becomes important.

    Design patterns also encapsulate nicely the best ways to look at some problems. Using patterns does not imply that there is only one way of solving a problem. Several patterns provide similiar functionality and yield different trade-offs, such as future customizability, efficiency, straightforwardness to implement, and opportunity for code reuse. Knowledge of patterns can help when designing solutions and analyzing alternatives, and they can also provide a good road map during implementation.

  8. Re:Recycled usenet post... on Why Random Encounters In RPGs Aren't That Bad · · Score: 1
    Chrono Trigger is the best SNES RPG (although it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief to get past the timetravel illogic.)

    Although I personally think that FF6 (FF3US) is the best SNES RPG, Chrono Trigger is excellent. The time travel logic isn't grievously bad, although this depends heavily on how self-consistent you consider time to be.

    CT does let you do some clever things with time travel, such as looting chests in a "future" time and then going back to a "past" time and looting them again. (The medallion trick also makes this quite worthwhile.) You can also attack and loot the final dungeon in any several time periods, and if you do the "future" ones first, you can go back and redefeat it in the past times as well.

    Game+ doesn't make sense, but it sure it fun. And defeating Game+ at various points in the story, at various times, gets you all sorts of cool alternate realities and endings.

  9. tshirt on Congress Expands FBI Powers · · Score: 1
    Time to get out my patriotic hat and pin before it's too late.
    I would prefer one of these.
  10. Re:Use AOL? Are you nuts? on How to Handle an Internet Outage · · Score: 1
    When I first read this, I read "AOL Dicks".
    Perhaps jerkcity can save us from the aol dicks.
  11. Domopers! on Gates Comdex Keynote Shows Plans, Matrix Spoof · · Score: 1
    What is the background of this "walking around stage shouting "DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!..."?
    Once you know why, be sure to check out the Domopers. I know this link works, but some of the US ones don't.

    Developers Developers Developers Developers
    Developers Developers Developers Developers
    I've got one word for you!
    Developers Developers Developers Developers

  12. Re:Well written? Well understood? on Brazil Moves Away From Microsoft · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Case and point would be the linux kernel, which has dozens of options which for years have had no help, no corresponding HOWTO, and names that remind you of ...
    If you are truly interested in learning about the linux kernel, I highly recommend Understanding the Linux Kernel 2nd ed . Although not the most exciting of books in parts (hurf burf memory management), you should be to work your way around the 2.4 source afterwards.
  13. Re:I'd rather buy this on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 1
    Funny is funny.

    The creator of the powerpuff girls also made the hilarious No Neck Joe shorts you can find in Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation.

  14. Re:I'd rather buy this on The Ultimate Desk... Sort Of · · Score: 2, Informative
    On their own product they got the colors wrong (on the bed, for starters)! From left to right, its pink, blue, green (Blossom, Bubbles, Buttercup).
    I've actually seen the bed colors vary from episode to episode.
  15. Mooninites! on Lunar Polar Ice Not Present · · Score: 1
    Well that sounds like a personal problem.

    Some would say the earth is our moon [We're the moon], but that would belittle the name of our moon, which is The Moon.

  16. Re:dd on Experiences w/ Drive Imaging Software? · · Score: 1

    I've done the exact same thing, but piping through ssh instead of netcat. Just make sure both disks are mounted read-only. Afterwards, I changed the ssh keys on the target machine and had purge the dhcp lease, but that's only to be expected.

  17. Re:I don;t know about 9 on The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S. · · Score: 2
    What is the speed of light in elks?
    Zero. Elks are opaque.
    Oh this is easy. You've got the entire EM band. Pick something besides visible light.

    I'm sure you won't have a problem if you use gamma rays. Although, it would be a problem for the elk.

  18. frontend to /. on The Worst Jobs in Science · · Score: 3, Insightful

    and I shall make a new frontend to slashdot. one that is screened by people who actually read slashdot content -- or at least the front page summary -- and hides dupes. a url matcher could also help. perhaps it could also generate a "dupe report card" for the article posters.

    (I'd need some serious bandwidth, though.)

    geez, come slashdot. perhaps you could give your "article preview subscribers" a big DUPE button to click to save yourself from embarrassment time and time again.

  19. Re:MacOS on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 1

    Although you will notice at any Apple Store (at least the one near me) that they do have and use an Apple POS system. Including lickable buttons on the little credit card swiper screen.

  20. (offtopic) Tac Nuke Grenade on New Optical Chip Claims 8 Trillion Operations/sec. · · Score: 1
    Only during testing did they find that thermonuclear hand grenade's blast radius was further than anyone could throw it.
    I don't know if you play Paranoia, but in Paranoia this is exactly the case. :)
  21. no manual entry for here on P2P Contact Info Service From Napster Co-Founder · · Score: 1
    Check the press here(1), here(2) and here(3).
    $ man 3 here
    No manual entry for here in section 3
  22. Re:It's math on Study on the Effects of Spam on End Users · · Score: 2, Funny
    Or, in tagline form:

    "It's people like you that make people like me above average."

    :)

  23. Re:More to this story on X10 Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection · · Score: 1

    Thanks to x10 and bottlerocket my lava lamp has a cron job. :) The hw deal I got was under $10.

  24. Re:Powerbook premium on Apple Updates iBook Line With G4 Processor · · Score: 1

    The newest 15" and 17" pbooks support up to 2GB of RAM.

  25. Re:Did you catch the patent? on Windows iTunes Sells A Million Songs In 3.5 Days · · Score: 1

    some banks, in fact, do let you set up automatic payments and automatic transfers.