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  1. Re:Best control goes to... on The History of the Game Controller · · Score: 1

    In Super Monkey Ball Deluxe they made the joystick have a huge dead zone from some reason, it isn't really the controller's fault.
    It does make the game unplayable, though.
    Metal Gear Solid uses the stick's sensitivity well, as does Katamari Damacy.

  2. Re:Easy instructions on Opera Turns 10, Gives Away Free Registrations · · Score: 2, Informative

    That's not right, just go to this page and give em an email, get code

  3. Mirrordot on Old Floppy Drive Becomes New Turntable · · Score: 4, Informative
  4. Re:Misleading first few paragraphs? on System Exploitable With USB · · Score: 2, Informative

    The fault in USB is that the device supplies it's own ID (which is reasonable),
    if you RTFA you will see they say the problem is in the drivers
    drivers often do not verify data correctly and always run with system level privileges,
    meaning you just need to find one driver that is installed by default (or auto installed) to attack the system.

  5. Re:Advice? on Protecting Your Personal Info While Traveling? · · Score: 1

    You can also use OpenSSH's tunneling and SOCKS4 proxy mode to reach (relative) safety,
    most programs support SOCKS natively (others can usually be socksified).
    Firefox supports it well(in the proxy settings, only set the SOCKS proxy), and you can select one of multiple endpoints with the SwitchProxy extension
    I use this occasionally to get around stupid firewalls.

  6. Yep on Writing Down Passwords? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I write my passwords down, most of them anyway, on my Palm, using Keyring.
    Everything's protected by a master password and triple DES, so it's fairly secure.

  7. Re:already done for quake on Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox · · Score: 1

    I don't know about Quake, but there's a patch for Crystal Space/Mozilla called Crystalzilla which does this.

  8. Re:cubicle? wish I had one of those.. on Cubicle Privacy · · Score: 1

    I'm in an open-plan too, my solution so far is noise cancelling headphones (that remove most of the fan hum from the machines I'm surrounded with) and a constant supply of music (mediated by IMMS).

    Can't do anything about the lighting, though...
  9. Re:And even better... on LinuxWorld Response to 'How to Kill Linux' · · Score: 1

    The flash plugin probably attempts to open the sound device itself while it is locked by esd/artsd.
    you should try running your browser (or any other misbehaving program) under esddsp/artsdsp, will most likely solve your problem

  10. Re:Marx and Engels on Stallman Feeds Gates His Own Words · · Score: 1
    I doubt someone who can't spell "USSR" knows a lot about its political history.

    or maybe he just speaks french?
    see Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques in wikipedia

  11. Re:This one's fun to debug - perl via url on Net Worm Uses Google to Spread · · Score: 1

    it does, but you can use Opera's new Fit to width feature to bypass this (View->Fit to width), as I am doing

  12. Re:Mirror of source tarball on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    okay, seeing as there are official mirrors, I'm removing mine

  13. Mirror of source tarball on 2004 IOCCC Winners Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    here we go, Mirror
    please don't kill me

  14. Re:Tired of the whining... on Xybernaut Patents Collar Computer · · Score: 2

    I can't do anything but complain about the USPTO.
    I can't write a letter to my senator, as I'm not a US citizen.
    I really can't see anything I can do about it.

  15. Re:Magic Carpet on Quake II In Full Motion Stereogram 3D Engine · · Score: 1

    how about a text mode SIRD? aa3d!

  16. Re:Server-side filters? on Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? · · Score: 1

    I highly recommend MailScanner works with a large group of AV software, allows you to filter by magic! (file content, that is :)
    Also works with SpamAssassin, RBLS, and all sorts of other goodies

  17. Re:Ah, the power of /. spelling! on Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? · · Score: 1

    IRC? forums? AIM? ICQ?

  18. Re:Warnings... on Microsoft Mail Worms Gang War? · · Score: 3, Informative

    That's Beagle.K (or Beagle.J, it's linked from the story, though), I've only recieved one, but it's annoying as all hell to block.
    I'm now blocking all encrypted zip attachments via my trusty MailScanner
    (there's a beta version which adds this, I couldn't trust the filename rules, and wouldn't block all zip attachments)

  19. Re:RSS acronym on RSS Web-Feeds, The Next Big Thing? · · Score: 4, Informative
    Google is your friend,
    the specs say
    Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication.
  20. Re:Answers on Opera Browser Creators Planning IPO · · Score: 1

    As does opera.

  21. Re:Deprecating username/password in URLs on Microsoft Security Patch Fixes URL Security Flaw · · Score: 3, Informative
    Opera sez:
    Security warning:

    You are about to go to an address containing a username.

    Username: fubar
    Server: slashdot.org

    Are you sure you want to go to this address?

    OK Cancel
    (there is no option to disable)
  22. Re:You can't modify the image... here's why. on Digital Camera Image Verification · · Score: 1

    connect camera's inputs to computer, feed modified picture
    camera signs picture, adds signature to card
    am I missing something here?

  23. Re:getting sick of this shit... on More MyDoom Gloom · · Score: 1

    Good idea, but then 90% of windows machines will be dead

  24. Re:Who are they hiding this from? on Linux Centrino Driver Update · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't anyone interested enough be able to reverse engineer the binary drivers anyway?

  25. Level 2 listing, on SPEWS Adds DSL Reports to Block List · · Score: 5, Informative

    from openrbl.org
    SPEWS/spews.org: 209.123.109/24: 553 SPEWS2 [2] nac, see http://spews.org/ask.cgi?S2814
    from the SPEWS FAQ

    Q22: What is Level 2?
    A22: This includes all of Level 1, plus anyone who is spam-friendly, supporting spammers, or highly suspicious, but not blatant enough to be included in the Level 1 list yet. If it becomes obvious that someone at Level 2 has become a real problem, they will be escalated to Level 1 after some attempt at education. The Level 2 list will have some inadvertent blocking (non-spammer IP addresses listed), but can still be used by small ISPs or individuals who want a stricter level of blocking/filtering. By having a two tiered list, you can make the hardcore spamfighters happy; those who want to block first and ask questions later. Also, a listing in the Level 2 list may exert a bit of pressure on spam friendly sites and may keep them from turning totally bad - but that is not really the point, stopping spam is. (note: a Level value of "0" means that area is not listed)