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  1. Re:Samba as a security measure? on Learn from Samba-Man Jeremy Allison · · Score: 2

    Samba already offers SSL support.
    NT machines only support this via a 3rd party utility (sslproxy), Win9x machines need a proxy server running sslproxy because they cannot handle it directly at all.

  2. Re:Replacing NT on Learn from Samba-Man Jeremy Allison · · Score: 2

    You obviously do not have the remotest idea who Dave is. In his way, he is as much a part of the Samba team as Jeremy; in my book anything he says about Samba is automatically 'Insightful'.

  3. Re: Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapit�n on SuSE 'Name-the-Mascot' Contest is Over · · Score: 3

    It is the German equivalent of antidisestablishmentarian, simply the longest word in the language.

    The 'Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft' was the 'Danube steamship company', an Austrian company that closed down 2 or 3 years ago after having existed for over 100 years. As to the 'kapitän' bit, you got it.

  4. Re:DOS has wunnerful TCP/IP support on Procom to Release NETBEUI for Linux · · Score: 2

    I know that client.
    It does not support dns or even wins (or NetBEUI for that matter) and it uses lots of room.

  5. Re:We're losing the masters. on A.E. Van Vogt, 1912-2000 · · Score: 2

    Vernor Vinge?
    Try reading his ex-wife's books. Joan Vinge has a lot going for her, as does Ursula LeGuin. There are still a lot of good ones out there (m and f).

    Van Vogt stories were broadly similar in that his (super-)hero kept expanding his capabilities, and then meeting dangers he would have been defeated by just one chapter earlier. I suppose the stories would have been a lot shorter otherwise!

  6. Re:typical on Uruguayan SuSE Reseller Trying to Trademark Linux · · Score: 2

    What did you base that statement on? Any facts? Or is it just a Troll?
    (no, I do not work for SuSE).

  7. Re:Here is the right addy: info@linux.com.uy on Uruguayan SuSE Reseller Trying to Trademark Linux · · Score: 2

    If you look at http://www.linuxtech.ch , you will see that some halfwits have been flaming them. They apparently have nothing to do with Linuxtech in Uruguay.

  8. Re:Amazon had a duty to patent on Wired on Amazon.com Boycott · · Score: 2

    Unless the loss of business through the boycott exceeds the loss of income if they had not enforced the patent.

    Since Amazon runs at a loss, it might well be more lucrative to them to generate income from patents than by selling books. Higher margins.

  9. Re:History (very off topic) on Jeff Bezos Named Time Person of the Year · · Score: 2

    KZ Auschwitz was (and is) in Poland so it was built later. KZ Dachau was in the village of the same name on the edge of Munich and had existed for years before 1939.

    I suppose you could say that it was justified in the sense that he did have a huge influence on world affairs. How often did FDR (comparison: influence, nothing more) get it?

  10. Re:Read the article, for God sake.... on Corel Sues U.S. Department of Labour · · Score: 1

    I seem to remember that Corel were pointing out (then) that new levels of MS Software were not necessarily compatible with existing levels. This meant that the cost of conversion (which was held to be zero with MS) applied to the MS Software as much as anyone.

    The $9.9 Million that Corel got were not worth the lawsuit. They could not be said to have won that case.

  11. Re:Well, it DID work (off Topic) on Y2K Movie Followup: The Slashdot Effect Gone Wrong · · Score: 2
    How do you think the Nazis pulled it off? Not one worker ever killed Jews en masse: the only thing they did is pull a lever, drive a locomotive, show the Jews to the gas chamber.

    Utter crap. Both the SS and the Wehrmacht routinely massacred people (mostly Jews) in Poland, the Baltic States, the USSR, wherever.
    In Kiev (for example), several thousand were walked up to large pits, ordered to strip and then shot.
    In the Pripet marshes, the Jews were walked into the swamp and shot so they fell there, babies were to be held close to their mothers so one bullet would do for both.
    In France and Italy, whole villages were expunged.

    Sorry about this rant, but you have absolutely no idea of the scale of the operations.

  12. Re:Translation on The Spotlight is a Harsh Mistress · · Score: 1

    esperanto?

  13. SuSE v Red Hat on Intel Invests 12 Million Euro in SuSE · · Score: 3

    This had to happen. SuSE and Red Hat are almost exactly the same size (SuSE makes a profit, Red Hat a small loss) and Red Hat are expanding into SuSE's 'patch' - even recruiting Alan Cox along the way.
    Now SuSE are trying to expand in the same way - this money is to expand their marketing.
    They still have to take the step of 'going public' (an IPO) - this is not a good time to go that way in Germany.

  14. this is Austrian and non-official. on Possible EU Embargo on Pentium III · · Score: 2

    The whole tone of this article was very speculative. There was nothing in it that would indicate that a boycott could actually take place.
    The EU moves very slowly anyway, and the P-III is already selling here.
    The German governments (as opposed to the Austrians) have always accepted Echelon in the past. While this *could* change, it has not done so yet.

  15. Re:Look at the german C't on Are Computer Magazines Dead? · · Score: 2

    It is all of those things, along with a website: http://www.heise.de/ct/ (english version with reduced content: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/ ) but it is also imho so technical that large parts of it are unreadable for all except very small groups.
    This has got worse in the last 18 months, or maybe it's me.

  16. does it cover smbmount at all? on Using Samba · · Score: 2

    Looking at the index, it does not appear to cover smbmount at all. I know that one of the authors (D C-B) has a Solaris background, not sure about the other two.

    The new smbmount is really easy to use, I have not tried it with fstab yet. Once I do, it will go up in my home-page which covers this sort of stuff.

  17. Fortran is easy to understand, BUT . . . on How To Write Unmaintainable Code · · Score: 1

    try this:
    ivar = 27
    call sub (27)
    if (ivar .ne. 27) stop 'error'
    .
    .
    .
    subroutine sub (int)
    int = 35
    return
    end

    This delightful bit of coding overwrites the constant 27 with 35. It 'works' under some compilers I have used.

    I actually find most Fortran programs easier to read than C programs. If course you can produce spaghetti with 'go to's but C allows things that have been outlawed by the Geneva Convention.

  18. it will not cover 2.0.6 (especially smbmount) on Using Samba · · Score: 1

    This book was originally scheduled for some time around August and had essentially been completed then.
    Maybe it has been updated to cover newer levels since then so as to avoid duplicating the 'Samba in 24 hours' information, but 2.0.6 is less that a week old so no chance there.
    If in doubt, see how smbmount is documented - that is the item where the user interface has undergone major changes recently.

  19. Re:Let them know you are in compliance. on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 5

    No. We have been here before. If you mail to the address given in that page, you get an underpaid secretary (Cheryl) who has had to wade through all this filth once already.
    Give her a break, no flames.

  20. They can't be serious on Microsoft Cracked · · Score: 1

    This must be a hoax - can someone really be cracking all these platforms because his love is ignoring him?

  21. It is known that 2.95 does not work on Linux Kernel 2.2.13 Makes the Scene · · Score: 1

    I am not sure how relevant this is, but the release notes for Kernel 2.2.12 - http://www.uk.linux.org/VERSION/relnotes.2212.html - state:
    This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. It is known that not all of it builds validly on the x86 CPU's with gcc 2.95. As far as we know these are Linux not gcc issues. Fixes for gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.0 may go into Linux 2.2 in time. You should therefore not use gcc 2.95 to build stable kernels for the moment.

  22. Re:I'm waiting for a big sting. on Dvorak Takes On The Crackers · · Score: 0

    Complacent / Inept managers *never* get sacked, the ones who should be sacking them are the ones who promoted them in the first place.
    The ones who get landed in it are the guys who implemented it - especially if they are contract programmers. THIS MEANS YOU :-(
    You will have to move south for a new job (or across the Pennines!)

  23. Unreliable source on Israelis Crack RSA 512 Bit in Microseconds · · Score: 1

    The Sunday Times is not very good at checking it's sources. This story looks impressive but there is no guarantee they have the remotest idea of what they are talking about.
    The 'Hitler Diaries' were a different case altogether, the decision to publish them was allegedly taken by Rupert Murdoch himself - even though they were considered possible forgeries.
    If they *were* faked, Lord Dacre could be - and was - blamed. Either way, it sold papers.

  24. Re:Not the processor on Bug in Pentium III Xeon Processors · · Score: 2

    I *think* this is related: According to C't in Germany, VIA are also having problems with their newest chipset. This is a case for the Babelfish - the article is in German. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ciw-29.09.99-0 01/

  25. Re:Heavily biased and incomplete article on Petreley on Win2k Installs and Softway Systems · · Score: 1

    Win95 and Win98 are desktop OS-s, NT and 2000 are server OS-s. Win9x does not support 2 NICs because it was not designed to, no-one in their right mind would want to use it for a server because it is simply to insecure anyway.
    Usually the FUD goes the other way (attacking linux) but this is part of the report is certainly pro-linux FUD.