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  1. Running out of ideas? on CSI Takes On Grand Theft Auto · · Score: 0, Troll

    CSI is going to turn into the new baywatch if they are not careful...

  2. Have you not had your coffee yet?! on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 1

    Obviously a satirical article. Much akin to the satire contained in A Modern Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729).

  3. All find and dandy on Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Tech · · Score: 1

    but what kind of weapons can be made from this technology - and how long is it going to take?

  4. Re:Hm. on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1

    Try Cut and paste from one document to another: say from xterm into Mozilla, and see how easy that is.

  5. Re:Security vs. Usability on Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux · · Score: 1

    Too typical of todays market place. Especially if the organization doesn't feel they have anything to protect.

  6. Re:Missed a link :) on Red Hat Seeks to Deliver Most Secure Linux · · Score: 1

    But OpenBSD ships with it's own, patched version of Apache which has numerous security enhancements.

    You forgot about this. See the New Technologies section.

  7. Re:Same Old PR Spin on Why Vista Had To Be Rebuilt From Scratch · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about that too half way down the slashdot comment page. I'm wondering if Microsoft Stock went up a couple of points after the article was printed. After all, it shows Microsoft on a "Good Track" doing "Good Things"..

  8. Re:I wonder... on SpecOps Labs offers $10,000 to Emulator Developers · · Score: 3, Funny
    How much would the pay for a Linux emulator running on Windows XP?
     
      must be able to run David in it.

    Hey! I have a brother named David! If I take a movie of him repeating saying "i am a linux emulator" while he runs in place ontop a retail box of Microsoft XP, do I get $10,000?

  9. Re:Our sunfire was one of our worst investments. on Sun Unveils 64-bit Server Line · · Score: 1
    And is in relation to the press release because... ?
    Sun Fire servers run on Advanced Micro Devices Opteron processors.
    Comon, these Sun Fire Servers can't be as bad on upgrades, because being based on x86 arch means they would take standard x86 parts (think PCI/X/E and daughterboards). Although, depending on your service contract, may void the warranty. Even still, that didn't stop Anandtech from looking inside a Google Search Server.
  10. Re:This is going to confuse the hell out of people on Windows Vista To Come In 7 Flavors · · Score: 1

    Popping out the cup holding is a 'A Good Thing' (TM), cause this way I can use it. However, should the cup holder somehow attempt to 'pop in', because not only could the cup get damaged, but the holder as well. Of course, if the cup is still full ...

  11. What about Online Games? on New Security Ideas From Intel · · Score: 1

    Huh. Well, they just updated MSN Messenger to 7.5, and it seems to have a better firewall detection engine. Although it ticks me off that I cannot force messenger to go through my http proxy anyway - the boxes are greyed out.

    You might be right about P2P having longer connection cycles than the average virus. But virus writers will quickly get around that by padding their connections with garbage. It shouldn't take them too long.

    How is this technology going to handle the short but seamingly repetitive connection of on line udp port games? And of course, we all know how well the original Quake server was exploited. This idea is about as good as "Security through Obscurity".

  12. Re:Ever since the P4S8X on ASUS Secretly Overclocking Motherboards? · · Score: 1

    I noticed this little trick on ECS boards (I worked in a VAR shop - Value Added Reseller) since the mid-pentium classic days - 134MHz vrs 133MHz using something like a WinBench.

    Although, oddly, it could be over-estimate from the clock generator - after all, they don't use crystals anymore.

  13. Re:Apple v. Dell?1 on Speculation on Real Reasons Behind Apple Switch · · Score: 1

    The Pentium 4's design is superior in the ranks of a server chip

    Are you reading the right stories? Please, read:

    http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-0 4.html

    Please slashdot, clarify this if I've left anything out:
    The Opteron has it's own memory controller. That means it is not sharing the single memory bus in multiprocessor systems like Intel does. The more CPUs you add to an Opteron, the better it scales. Somebody is likely better at explaining this than I can.

    As for the "Apple switching to Intel Debate", slashdotters might find this of interest:
    http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p =1

  14. Re:RAV *nix developers were hired by Kaspersky Lab on Microsoft Cuts Anti-Virus Support For Unix / Linux · · Score: 1

    For those that need the comments on Slashdot when Microsoft took over RAV, see here.

    It is too bad that Kaspersky only continues to support Linux based servers - then they might have had my business -- my small scale email server runs OpenBSD. Any chance that Microsoft can buyout ClamAV?

  15. They just realized this? on IT Giants Accused of Exploiting Open Source · · Score: 1

    In the years that OpenSSH has been available, not one of the major companies using it has given back to the project for its worth.

  16. Re:Done this for years on Load List Values for Improved Efficiency · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I figured that all out on my own when I made I links database application a few years back, and believe me I didn't even know how to program ASP. As the catagory list grew longer, the administrative interface running with the catagory select list began to get unbearably time comsuming.

    The first thing I did was to stick the selection list into the session object - then the time it took to log into the admin interface grew to 4 seconds. Looking further on the M$ website I eventually discovered the application object. When I wrote that in, poof no more obscene delays. Of course I wrote the select list building feature as a function so I could recreate the list as soon as a new category was created.

    Need to now more about classic ASP and the Application Object? Start here.

  17. Re:Parody! on Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You! · · Score: 1

    Natalie Portman sucks

    Ok sure - but the real question is - does she swallow?

  18. Re:Spoilt Holidays for Admins on Four New Unpatched Windows Vulnerabilities · · Score: 1

    You will pardon my 'xcuse while I backup my servers ...

  19. Re:Not Anti-gimp on Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP? · · Score: 1

    I'd have to agree with you. I'd say it's biggest downfall is selection manipulation and lack of shadow effect. It is not going to displace my Paint Shop Pro app (still using v6 - it has everything I need), at least not yet.

  20. Re:And get paid 40% less? No thanks. on Why Offshore When Canada's Next Door? · · Score: 1

    .. You must be one of those non-married types.

  21. Of course they struck it down on Violent Video Game Law Struck Down · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you realize how much tax revenue would be lost if they banned violent video games?!

  22. Re:Who to believe? on IE Download.Ject Exploit Fixed · · Score: 1

    you mean eXtra Problems * 2

  23. Re:Don't buy it on Is Finding Security Holes a Good Idea? · · Score: 1

    Oh great. Can we say - You'll need a license to drive that computer!

  24. There is no I in EEE (was Re:Microsoft Support?) on Intel To Release Next-Gen BIOS Code Under CPL · · Score: 1

    Embrace, Extend, Elimate.

  25. Re:CPL on Intel To Release Next-Gen BIOS Code Under CPL · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok. So then, what is the big difference between the CPL and the BSD license?