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  1. Article ist not correct on Linux: Beep Command Can Be Used to Probe for the Presence of Sensitive Files (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Beep is not pre-installed on Debian GNU/Linux.

  2. Re:Normally I side with the EFF, BUT on EFF: Cisco Shouldn't Get Off the Hook For Aiding Torture In China (eff.org) · · Score: 0

    Torture is a crime against humanity. TANSTALT: There ain't no such thing as legal torture.

  3. Recursive Naming on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    If they go straight, they'd call their fork OpenOpenSSL. :-)

  4. Two words on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    Two words: Clbuttig mistake.

  5. Musicians - or some kind of on Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'm glad you asked.
    For over a decade now I named all my machines by cheesy european dance-muzak combos:
    pharao, dune, 24seven (server), das-modul (laptop), aqua (macos), 2unlimited (nas)...

  6. Re:Language Independent! on 6 Languages You Wish the Boss Let You Use · · Score: 1

    Hmm, I think I should feel a little insecure about his fetishes if my boss forced me to do imperative programming in prolog...

  7. Little Bug in the Teaser on Open Source Cities Followup — Munich Yea, Vienna Nay · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair: The migration of 720 computers used in kindergartens will cost the city about 105,000 euros not 8M.

    First I thought this may have been a bug in TFTtranslation but It's even correct in TFTofTFA.
    Just not in the teaser.

  8. Re:Nuclear powered on Spirit Outlasts Viking 2 Lander · · Score: 1

    sort of like typing "shutdown -h now"

    Like the guy who noticed that the "-h" argument does not mean "help" on shutdown. :)
  9. Re:My battery was affected... on Sanyo Blamed in Lenovo Battery Recall · · Score: 1

    `cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info | grep model` gives me "IBM-COMPATIBLE".
    I have one of those cheap chinese clones so I must be on the safe side. :)

  10. In the other news... on Who Needs a Satellite Dish When You Have a Wok? · · Score: 1

    nzherald really seems to rock: Strange but true...

  11. Obligatory NRA reference on Raymond Knocks Fedora, Switches to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    And I thought we'd have to take Fedora *from his cold dead hands*. :-)

  12. So let the flame wars begin! on The Birth of vi · · Score: 5, Funny

    (I'm using Emacs, BTW.)

  13. This reminds me on a nice 23c3 talk on An Overview of Virtualization · · Score: 1

    "Inside VMware - How VMware, VirtualPC and Parallels actually work":
    http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events /1592.en.html

    It was really interesting, though not too deeply (including some hilarious throw-in questions from Dan Kaminsky).
    An unofficial recording of it is here: ftp://ftpmirror.sectoor.de/ccc/congress/2006/gropi -mitschnitte/vmware-t4s2.wmv

    Official recordings of the streams should come anytime soon (read: when it's done).

  14. Re:Windows XP as a server? on How One Small Business Switched to Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    > Instead, Larry Wall and Bill Gates got a bit richer by selling products inferior to free ones.

    You mean Larry Ellison, not?

  15. Re:Typical idiot. on Thai IT Minister Slams Open Source · · Score: 1

    Theo is not always right, but when he said "Linux has never been about quality." he was.

  16. Doomed either way on Why Johnny Can't Code · · Score: 1

    I started with BASIC, Inmos-Assembler, Motorola Assembler then C. Later on I had a hard time abstracting from the machine when I had to learn LISP and Prolog because the "machine thinking" was burned in my brain.
    But I know if I first had learned LISP or Smalltalk then the way down to C, Assembler, Machine Language, Memory and Registers would have been equally hard.
    If I had to start over nowadays I think would start right in the middle with ruby (more abstract than C, less academic than LISP). But I would never ever start with a line oriented language nowadays.
    The reason why there aren't any line oriented languages is simply because there is no need for them: If you want to do some line oriented things: Learn C und look what the compiler makes out of it.

  17. Lesson I have learned on German TOR Servers Seized · · Score: 1

    The story teached me that you should not run a tor exit node (in Germany) on a server that you cannot walk out in thirty seconds flat if you spot the heat around the corner. [in style of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(film) ]

    If you don't want too much troule but want to donate: run a middleman only node.

  18. It was an external USB Device on Less Than a Minute to Hijack a MacBook's Wireless · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe It's worth mentioning that instead of the internal airport device they cracked an external USB Wireless Device attached to the MacBook which is IMHO not "fairly close to their default state". (Although that does not tell us anything about the security of the MacBook's airport)

  19. Re:Why all of the PHP postings? on Recommended Reading List for PHP · · Score: 1

    Hmm, why is this a laugh?
    The theoretical power of php is really low. It's more its practical power that made it popular.
    And although it is a pretty huge niche where php fits it stays a niche by definition.
    (Don't get me wrong, I do professional php from time to time).

  20. Re:second gen Pentium M on Macworld to Bring Updates to Laptop Lines? · · Score: 1

    NIAGRA?

    hilarious

  21. -1 redundant on Worm With Rootkit Package Loose On AIM · · Score: 1

    'The rootkit is designed to not be detected, and that is the scary part.'
    If it wasn't designed to do so, it would not be a rootkit.

  22. obligatory missing option on BSD Usage Survey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm missing CowboyNeal in almost every question.

  23. June 8th 1995 on MySQL Mug and Ten Years of MySQL and PHP · · Score: 1

    Reason #1: It was a thursday
    Reason #2: It would be a nice conicidence if it was released the same day as Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools) version 1.0. :)

  24. Re:missed opportunity on Free Pascal 2.0 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm neither in GCC nor in FP, but FP as a GCC *frontend* would make more sense to me.

  25. Re:No thanks on Simple Cross-Platform File Sharing with Chungles · · Score: 1

    with NFS