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  1. Re:Apache Rewrite Rules! on AVG Fakes User Agent, Floods the Internet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just to comment that this has been working flawlessly for me and others for days.
    In addition to much reduced load, AVG will be getting the combined load with an appropriate message in their logs.

    Note it's quite safe for valid IE 6.0 users as it checks for very specific user agent strings that most IE 6.0 users don't in fact have.
    In addition the referrer must be blank and the Accept-encoding header must be missing.

    Also I'm using a 307 redirect so so that potentially non linkscanner clients will keep checking the latest rules.
    This also allows you to change the redirect destination without worrying about cached old redirects.

  2. list of Google's open source stars on Microsoft's Biggest Threat - Google or Open Source? · · Score: 1

    I try to keep this list of Google open source luminaries up to date

  3. Re:Can still switch DNS servers on DDoS on Domain Registrar · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that? Perhaps you only heard about it last Saturday?
    For me it was definitely getting hosed at 09:30 (GMT) last friday (24th Mar).
    My domain wouldn't resolve, and their web admin interface was seriously slow,
    and they had a news item about it on their homepage.
    I was just about able to change the DNS servers for my domain away from joker to my hosted server.
    Their web servers currently show about the same amount of lag,
    so I presume one can still change the DNS servers for their domains.

  4. Can still switch DNS servers on DDoS on Domain Registrar · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their website is still functional enough to allow
    one to change the DNS servers away from [abc].ns.joker.com
    I did this last for my domain.

  5. my notes on grub on The Boot Loader Showdown · · Score: 1
  6. goodbye /. on The 3 Billion Dollar Typo · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Total noise.
    I've been reading every day from the start
    no longer, bye.... hello digg.com

  7. Re:Linux Desktop on Time Saving Linux Desktop Tips? · · Score: 1

    That wiki is very slow!
    Here's my summary of screen:
    http://www.pixelbeat.org/lkdb/screen.html

  8. Re:Simply ludicrous on AMD Alleges Intel Compilers Create Slower AMD Code · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's a script to auto gen those options for gcc:
    http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/gcccpuopt

  9. Linus' side of the story on No More BitKeeper Linux · · Score: 4, Informative
  10. Re:wrong on New Standard Keyboard · · Score: 1

    It's not surprising that the fastest typist uses the dvorak layout, since it is nearly optimum for english text and three row keyboards.

  11. 11000 titles? on Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD · · Score: 1

    Doesn't correlate with here or here

  12. Re:Where is that video on Gates Nose-Dives at CES · · Score: 1
  13. Re:resolv.conf on Ask Unix Co-Creator Rob Pike · · Score: 1

    For the same reason his email address
    is r@google.com rather than rob@google.com
    or God forbid rob.pike@google.com

    Pity squatters already have ggle.com

  14. a monopoly is uncapitalistic on Free Can Mean Big Money - The Open Source Economy · · Score: 0

    The most anti capitalist thing I
    can think of is a monopoly, and
    we all know Microsoft is one.

  15. Re:More or Less ? on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    Actually that should be just X not -X.
    Anyway that may be a little drastic as
    it causes no terminal initialisation to
    occur which may affect things like cursor
    keys etc.
    Other useful LESS options to add to the
    environment variable are F to auto exit if
    only one page, and Q to not ring the bell.

    If you want to turn off this "clear screen"
    thingy for all your terminal apps do:

    mkdir -p ~/.terminfo
    infocmp $TERM |
    sed 's/rmcup=[^,]*, /rmcup=, /; s/smcup=[^,]*, /smcup=, /' > /tmp/$TERM.src
    tic -o ~/.terminfo/ /tmp/$TERM.src
    rm /tmp/$TERM.src

  16. Re:More or Less ? on Top Ten Linux Configuration Tools? · · Score: 1

    10 seconds reading the man page says doing
    the following will stop LESS from doing that:

    export LESS="-X"

    You could put that in your ~/.bashrc

  17. Re:centericq on The Latest And Greatest Console Applications? · · Score: 1

    How do you take a screen shot of tty1 !?!

    On a linux virtual terminal you can:
    setterm -dump -file screen.dump

  18. lean fedora = cobind on Is the Linux Desktop Getting Heavier and Slower? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Have a look at cobind
    It uses xfce, and only gtk apps.

  19. Linuxtoday is useless anyway on Linux Today Founder Calls for Boycott of Linux Today · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've looked at linuxtoday every day for the
    last 3 years. However that stopped 2 weeks
    ago when I switched over to lxer

    It's a little broader and much less noise.
    Try both over 56K modem to really see what I mean.

  20. Same in Ireland! on Software Upgrade Crashes UK Air Traffic Control System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Much the same thing happened last
    week in Dublin

  21. my notes on Dealing with the Unix Copy and Paste Paradigm? · · Score: 2, Informative

    X' clipboard confused my when I started so I made these notes:

    X has 2 clipboards. There is a selection buffer which is updated
    automatically when you select any text. You can paste from this
    buffer by clicking the middle mouse button.
    Then there is the clipboard (which can be managed using
    the xclipboard utility), which works like the windows equivalent
    (Ctrl+Insert or Ctrl+c for copy, and Shift+Insert or Ctrl+v for paste)
    Note gnome-terminal uses Shift+Ctrl+c and Shift+Ctrl+v instead.
    Note when you copy something in an X application
    and you close it, the content of the clipboard and selection
    buffer is lost (unless you use an external app to manage the
    clipboard (like xclipboard)).

  22. Re:And so what? on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yep, Network Associates aquired Deersoft,
    the makers of spamassassin in Jan 2003
    (one month after this patent was filed).
    I know the main guy behind spamassassin
    Justin Mason
    is very opposed to software patents.

  23. Re:Happy :-) on Mozilla 1.8 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    That's questionable now since firefox/thunderbird
    have just forked

  24. Re:oki, here is a nice solution or two : on The Windows Security Nightmare · · Score: 1

    You can get a lot of the way with dd/bzip2/ssh
    However if you want bells and whistles like
    progress bars etc, then have a look at partimage.
    BTW, I asked question 3.1 in the FAQ.

  25. Re:In other news... on Control Lightshow Over Dublin Sky From A Webpage · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Yep. The hacker emblem is the best I could come up with.
    I'll be in Dublin tonight, so I can have a look.