User: Wakko Warner

here's mine:

On: Rackmounting at Home?

Both my main servers are in here (the bottom one has 160 gigs of MP3s.) Got mine from here for just under $500 with shipping. I love the little bastard, it's in the corner of my room and doesn't make a sound.

- A.P.

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can of nanobots

On: Nanotech Advances Forward

If you only had a few, how would you know they were there?

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what the hell will they call it?

On: Fourth Indiana Jones Installment

Indiana Jones and the Colostomy Bag?

Indiana Jones and the Prescription Viagra?

Indiana Jones and the Motorized Wheelchair of Death?

- A.P.

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Re:Hmm...

On: Your Daily Dose of Microsoft

Well, yeah, because that's a matter between you and the government, and the government can send people over to audit you.

Why the hell do shitty software companies have the right to harass you over licenses, unless you're blatantly breaking the law? Will they keep hounding me until they've found the one unlicensed copy of Windows NT 3.50 sitting around on some long-neglected 486 in a remote office? Is that entirely legal to do? Could I sue them for pestering me too?

- A.P.

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Hmm...

On: Your Daily Dose of Microsoft

Does the BSA reimburse companies for the waste of manhours it takes to find and verify all software licenses?

They should, you know.

- A.P.

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A mirror for y'all.

On: Killustrator Author Required to Pay Two Grand

Fight the power! And stuff!

http://bitey.net/mirrors/killustrator-0.7.2.tar.gz

- A.P.

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Re:identd needs to die anyway.

On: On the Definition of a Hostile Network Connection?

Having IDENTD pass something like an X.509 digital certificate that you can check might actually be stronger than using SSL/TLS-enhanced FTP that only uses anonymous connections.

Yes, and watch the average Windows user's head explode while you explain to him that he can't get onto IRC or Yahoo Chat because his digital X.509 certificate isn't valid or is missing.

- A.P.

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identd needs to die anyway.

On: On the Definition of a Hostile Network Connection?

The only people who use it are the paranoid IRC admins, and they're not exactly the "cream of the crop" when it comes to network security. Why the hell do we still use ident anyway? It's pretty much worthless in the age where most client machines run Windows 9x, which has no concept of multiple users.

If you ask me, identd is nothing more than a waste of bandwidth. Someone, please prove me wrong.

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hereing my stereo.

On: Building the Quiet PC

I prefer to there my stereo, actually, since it's over in the corner there.

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Are you an idiot?

On: "Defacing" Sites Without Intruding?

Or is this just a really poorly-thought-out troll?

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well, in a battle of "which sounds stupider"...

On: Debian's apt-get vs Mandrake's urpmi?

"urpmi" wins, hands down. It sounds like what a gassy baby would say if it could talk.

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See?

On: Microsoft Verdict Vacated

This just proves me right: Good old-fashioned business sense and innovation is hardly illegal.

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This is a sound business decision.

On: VA Linux Systems Leaving The Hardware Business

We've decided to exit the volatile hardware industry to concentrate our efforts on the more stable "internet banner ad-funded website" industry.

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Re:Original Story: Who are you?

On: Slashdot Back Online

A perfectionist would know that South Park isn't on the Cartoon Network.

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Re:Some source I'd like to share with Microsoft:

On: Microsoft Plans "Shared Source" .NET

This is why I shared the source: so people could point out errors and not be able to fix them.

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Some source I'd like to share with Microsoft:

On: Microsoft Plans "Shared Source" .NET

#include <stdio.h>

void main () { printf("Bite me!\n"); }

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Heh...

On: Blow-by-Blow Account of the OSDN Outage

...apparently slashdot's NetOps staff doesn't bother to read Slashdot either, or they would've noticed it was down... :)

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So?

On: MSDN Subscriber Forced to use Passport

Just make a cypherpunk/cypherpunk login. I doubt anyone at microsoft would `get it' anyway.

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holy crap, GPLTrans is hilariously bad!

On: Mandrakesoft To IPO

Try and english->spanish translation on any page you know well in either language...

It turns it into spanglish!

An example from my page:

this página probablemente breaks many, si no lo más, of las reglas i've heard bandied about para correcto html el uso.

This could be hours of fun.

- A.P.

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Any report on...

On: PGP/GnuPG June Key Analysis

...how many people were murdered because they PGP-sign things but don't make their PGP keys publically available?

Don't you just wanna SHOOT those people!?!

- A.P.

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Taco is stupid.

On: Senator Says Spammers Have First-Amendment Rights

You know what they use opt-out for? To VERIFY that YOUR EMAIL is VALID and ACTIVE! No WONDER you get hundreds of spams a day!

- A.P.

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Linux is composed primarily of:

On: What Actually Makes Up "Linux"?

2 million lines of kernel code.

Several hundred utilities.

And three hundred and fifty thousand annoying slashdot trolls.

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Re:oh no!

On: Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers

It hasn't been in the news much lately, plus I left Boston, never to return (but brought a degree with me).

I miss Boston. It was... very weird.

(-1 offtopic)

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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?

oh no!

On: Eye in the Sky Busts Fraudulent Farmers

there are cameras in space watching us! crap! gotta hide my pot^H^H^Hherb crops under netting.

- A.P.

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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?

so who wants to bet it looks like this:

On: Red Hat Enters The Database Market

bash-2.05# find /usr/src/MySQL -exec sed s/MySQL/Red\ Hat\ Database/g {} \;

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Forget Napster. Why not really break the law?