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  1. Android too. on When Your Company Remote-Wipes Your Personal Phone · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't it be just an option to remote wipe the exchange store? Why force a pin lock on the phone, and remote wipe it? Why not just pin lock the app and remote wipe the email store instead? This applies to Android too. My phone forced me to pick a pin lock because someone in IT checked a box over the weekend. I immediately removed corporate email from the phone.

  2. Re:Geniuses on Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation · · Score: 2, Informative

    From what I heard, what actually happened was the mandate to have ceiling fan manufacturers include CFLs instead of incandescent for their fans IF the fan utilized a socket that has a readily available supply of CFLS. So instead of including CFLs in their boxes, they simply went to a socket where there was no CFLs available. Thus they didn't have to spend $ on CFLs

  3. Re:I thought we already had this option... on ESPN's Play To Make ISPs Pay · · Score: 1

    I just sent an e-mail to my ISPs customer service center thanking them for NOT being affiliated with ESPN360.

    Me too. Thanks Time Warner!

  4. Re:Some data 4 U on OMG Did U C What U R Paying 4 Texting? · · Score: 1

    i have an AT&T phone - i don't have a text message plan because i have the data plan and juse AIM/ICQ on my phone...

    i get charged 25cents for each incoming text message - there is no way for me to disable incoming text messsages...

    I have AT&T, and you can opt out of Text Messages. Its both ways though.

    Log into your account
    Click on "Rate Plan & Features" towards the top
    Click on "Add/Manage Features" on the left
    You'll see the option to restrict text.

    You also can remove MMS as well, seperate from SMS

  5. Re:so use encryption. on Weave... Mozilla Is Trying To Be More Social · · Score: 1

    http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/ is a plugin to firefox that alters the gmail UI to integrate with gpg. It adds all the signature and encryption options locally after it is in your browser.

    It isnt as slick as integration with a local client, and it will definitely blow away search, and it will effectively make it a local email client for the encrypted mails, but its an option as well

  6. Re:A Year of MythTV on MythTV 0.20 Released · · Score: 1
    I plug into CATV and start tuning the digital Cable channels directly... something that is 100% impossible under windows because of "safety" features built in the driver.
    How do you do this? What capture card supports that?
  7. Re:funny department on Vista To Be Updated Without Reboots · · Score: 1

    Except for binaries, since they can be "swapped" to. That would be what used to be called the "text file busy" or whatever that was called. Not sure if dynamic linked libraries do that or not though.

  8. Re:Nope on TiVo Plans More Functionality Reductions · · Score: 1

    So is there an option for US customers to have a few DVB cards attached to a dish? I have a DirecTivo now, and like the fact that it simply records the incoming stream, and doesn't have to re-compress it to store it.

    I know MythTv can use a serial port to change the channel, but then its back to having to having multiple receivers instead of the 2 you get in the DirecTivo.

    I've called around and searched. Is CBan/4dtv the only way to go in the US? Are there PC receivers that will attach to these dishes? And I guess its only 1 satellite at a time for recording purposes..

  9. Re:Why didn't he downgrade immediately? on 2.4, The Kernel of Pain · · Score: 1

    The best reason to upgrade to 2.4 for us was pure usability. The SMP of 2.4 allowed us to deploy a large ETL application on Linux. We had them on 2.2, and once their jobs started, the interactivity of the box died(3 second responses on telnets). 2.4 gained us some interactivity, and cut the run times dramatically. Of course, this is a 8 proc box, and the upgrades weren't without pain(VM comes to mind). Many of our smaller machines are happy in 2.2 land still.

  10. Re:Two and a half YEARS? on Another Gaping Microsoft Security Hole Goes Unpatched · · Score: 1
    This isn't the only time I've had a problem, I don't want to even get in to how IE badly handle dynamically generated PDF's, how since 5.5 it ignores the settings to not embed PDF since that's the only work-around, and how 5.5 also asks the "open here/save" question TWICE when passing it some file types.

    I had the same problem with the save twice feature in IE5.5(worked fine in 5.0). In the content disposition line, get rid of the attachment part, ie,
    Content-Disposition: filename=ks.img
    instead of
    Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=ks.img

  11. Re:The real issue on Earthlink's Extra HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    Or they could have given the public key, as public key encryption allows you to do, which would require no passphrase or private key.

  12. Re:Mathematical masturbation on Distributed.net Starts New Project · · Score: 1

    That would be a really cool project. Since it was written to scale to a 1000 beowolf, how much harder would it be to write a distributed.net core, to spread the GP work across the world? Since you're taking the class, and are obviously interested, have you talked to your prof and the d.net people? Maybe you could bring GP to d.net. It would be a nice project that I wouldn't mind dedicating CPU time for..

  13. Re:burned by 6.1 on Red Hat 6.2 Beta on FTP Servers · · Score: 1

    Then just do a "xhost localhost" prior to su -. I also believe man on X will describe the authentication. I believe the key word would be magic cookie or something like that. If you take a quick look at your startx script, you'll notice something like this..

    serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"

    The auth is what is killing you. This isn't protecting you from remote users specifically, but local ones. If I had a shell account, I could telnet in, and run whatever X app I want on your screen, like a keyboard grabber, etc. Thats what the auth primarily protects against. It used to be based on a host system, which trusted your local users. You probably don't have any, so you can remove this feature.

    BTW, from a security standpoint, never trust your firewall. It makes you a little more conscience about you system. Assume its there to prevent the lusers, others can always just break in the the firewall, then walk into your machine. Why not double lock your system?

  14. Re:burned by 6.1 on Red Hat 6.2 Beta on FTP Servers · · Score: 1
    It also has done something to X windows now. I usually am able to su - to root in an xterm and then export DISPLAY=:0.0. and run certain programs as root in X. Now I get xlib connection refused. I'M ROOT!!! How the hell can you refuse me a connection??????

    Thats good. Prior to them setting up this authentication, any user on the box could run a X program on the xserver on the console. To solve it, allow localhost to connect to the xserver by getting a xterm open as your user, then 'xhost localhost'.
  15. Re:Wow on Blind Get Wired - for Sight · · Score: 1

    He could see before the age of 36. At least thats what the article said.

  16. Re:Raids Will Be For The Wrong Crime on U.K. Pirate Broadcasters Steal Car Radio Listeners · · Score: 1

    I really don't think Approach is broadcasting on 124.4 mhz. From what I remember on my little radio, the frequencies used for aviation are typically measured in khz, not mhz. More like 124.4 khz. Just a small order of magnitude apart.

  17. Re:Raids Will Be For The Wrong Crime on U.K. Pirate Broadcasters Steal Car Radio Listeners · · Score: 1

    True, but most AM are measures in khz, ie 121.5 khz, while FM is in mhz, ie 97.5mhz. I'd imagine its tough to tune an FM transmitter to AM, but that could be igorance talking.

  18. SMP? on Quake III Arena Demo Test for Linux · · Score: 1

    Does the Linux version support SMP yet? Just wondering if my dual pent will stand a chance this round...

  19. Re:Makes sense on Zona Research Does Programming Language Poll · · Score: 1

    With gcc 2.95.2 19991024 a hello world program takes only 4640 bytes

  20. But is instruction level compatibility enough? on Transmeta Awarded Another Patent · · Score: 1

    Granted, its a huge very important idea. But we already have binary compatibility between x86 and x86 running 2 different OSes(which is what WINE does if Im not mistaken), and it's getting better and better every day. But isn't the binary compatibilty just half of the battle? This will be a kick ass chip, but it's not going to let a fortune 500 company run werd on linux still. Of course, this is my wild speculation. Could be totally wrong.

  21. Screenshot @ Enlightenment page - MPEG player on Interview: Ask Mandrake Anything · · Score: 1

    What is the MPEG video player in the large screenshot located at the bottom of the screenshot page at www.enlightenment.org?

  22. Re:Civ:CTP has made it to CompUSA on Heretic II for Linux · · Score: 1

    Well. Thats a shock. I always get,
    "Sure, we have CTP"
    "Is it for Linux?"
    "Umm... Nope."

    Was this a new stack? Maybe they got on it here finally.

  23. PPP on Linux Kernel 2.2.6 Released · · Score: 1

    That happened to me once, and no one could ever help me. It happened after I patched the kernel between versions(no errors were seen during the patch). The way I fixed it? Rebooted back to an older kernel, downloaded the newest non-patch, and recompiled. It worked great. Or you might want to try just untarring the old 2.2.x tree you have, erasing the current one first, then patching it.