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  1. Re:No, don't treat the parasites on Scientists Isolate and Treat Parasite Causing Decline in Honey Bee Population · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's what I thought too.

    What the hell were they thinking?

  2. Re:Anyone else surprised... on "Tweenbots" Test NYC Pedestrian-Robot Relations · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We Dutch are the rudest people in the world, so you can still learn a lot from us I think. In Amsterdam these little robots would be flattended or thrown in a canal in no time.

    Interesting, given that New York City was at one time called New Amsterdam :)

  3. Re:Hard to be optimistic about Hungary on Hungary, Tatarstan Latest To Go FOSS · · Score: 1

    In any case, the language the minister used is a bit deceptive. Unfortunately after taking a close look at what he said, it seems the money can only be spent on _licences_.

    On the plus side, you can "buy" a hell of a lot of licenses for Open Source software with 12,000,000,000 florints!

  4. Re:very odd on How To Build an Openfire Chat Server On Debian 5 · · Score: 1

    Either that, or it could just mean that Openfire is more focussed on the c2s part of XMPP and what is experimental is the s2s functionality. i.e. the "XMPP" they are calling experimental is under "Experimental Gateways" in the configuration.

  5. Re:A Strategic Solution on What If Oracle Bought Sun Microsystems? · · Score: 1

    Although I have been using Ruby and Lisp more the last few years, much of my business is based on Java

    You might want to have a look at Clojure

    Clojure is a dynamic programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It is designed to be a general-purpose language, combining the approachability and interactive development of a scripting language with an efficient and robust infrastructure for multithreaded programming. Clojure is a compiled language - it compiles directly to JVM bytecode, yet remains completely dynamic. Every feature supported by Clojure is supported at runtime. Clojure provides easy access to the Java frameworks, with optional type hints and type inference, to ensure that calls to Java can avoid reflection.

    Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, and shares with Lisp the code-as-data philosophy and a powerful macro system. Clojure is predominantly a functional programming language, and features a rich set of immutable, persistent data structures. When mutable state is needed, Clojure offers a software transactional memory system and reactive Agent system that ensure clean, correct, multithreaded designs.

  6. Re:kids and AI's... on Why Toddlers Don't Do What They're Told · · Score: 1

    hell, it would not surprise me if depth perception is a learned thing, based on variations between inputs from the eyes as the various parts get their parameters changed.

    Depth perception has been shown to be learnt:
    Introduction to Psychology

  7. Re:auto-hack or brute force? on Microsoft Unveils Open Source Exploit Finder · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article mentions it does fuzz testing, so it'd be the former.

    Actually, the article says it's used during fuzz testing, not that it does fuzz testing.

    It's a Windows debugger extension that's used during fuzz testing[...]

    It sounds more like an automated crash dump analyzer used after a fuzzer has caused the program to crash.

  8. Re:rename completes before the write on Ext4 Data Losses Explained, Worked Around · · Score: 2, Informative

    If power is lost at the right time, the same results would happen.

    The right time being the hundredths of a second between the commit of the file data and the commit of the directory data, not 60 seconds.

    No, not "hundredths of a second". Five seconds. Or 30 if you're using laptop mode.
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+source/ecryptfs-utils/+bug/317781/comments/54

  9. Re:Here we go again..... on Exchange Comes To Linux As OpenChange · · Score: 1

    I haven't used the Exchange plugin for Evolution, but I have used Evolution before. It was rather unstable for me too using IMAP and SMTP.

    One problem with the Exchange plugin AFAIK is that it works by talking to Outlook Web Access. i.e. it does not talk to the server using the same protocols as Outlook itself uses.

  10. Re:router on 1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack · · Score: 1

    The grandparent is so clueless it's got to be a troll.

  11. Re:Really now. on Perfect MITM Attacks With No-Check SSL Certs · · Score: 1

    If you read the bug and the comments you will see that the submitter was complaining about having to click through the "yes I really want to add this dodgy cert" process for every HTTPS site she visited. She thought this was just Firefox 3.0 being stupid. What was actually happening was that she was the victim of a MITM attack and the certs were actually bad. i.e. Firefox was working as it should and was doing everything it could to warn her of this possible MITM attack.

    Since there was a MITM attack and no actual Firefox bug it was closed as RESOLVED INVALID.

    I can't comment on the lack of comments at the time you posted, though :)

  12. Re:the short hairs. on Rewriting a Software Product After Quitting a Job? · · Score: 1

    Not forgetting the Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Danish, Faroese, Galician, German, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Kurdish, Latin, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Occitan, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, and of course, Walloon markets.

    You mention Afrikaans, but forget IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga?

  13. Re:This isn't alarming... on Worm Attack Prompts DoD To Ban Use of External Media · · Score: 2, Informative

    PEBKAC, at least in the business setting can be effectively eliminated by the use of simply being unable to even execute the programs.

    You can make it harder to execute something, but even on filesystems that are mounted noexec, you can still run shell scripts with:

    $ sh /path/to/script

    or binaries with:

    $ /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /path/to/binary

    So mounting filesystems noexec (and nodev etc.) is a good idea if they don't need to contain executables, it will not stop a determined idiot from running something on that filesystem :)

  14. Re:Easier than the iPhone on Bug In Android Passes Keystrokes To Root Shell · · Score: 1

    Yes, but "vmlinuz" does not have a dot in it, so "rm /*.* -r" will not remove it. (i.e. Unix globbing != DOS FindFirst/FindNext)

  15. Brutus? on Is There a Linux Client Solution for Exchange 2007? · · Score: 1

    1.) Get the admins to enable IMAP.
    2.) If they won't do that, see if they will install Brutus Server (unlikely if they won't do 1 but might be worth a try.)

    Brutus wraps the MAPI API and provides a CORBA API. There's an evolution plugin that talks to Brutus Server.

    I have never used Brutus.

  16. Re:JFS can't shrink and doesn't need to (on AIX) on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 3, Informative

    JFS2 on AIX can shrink and it's silly to say it doesn't need to.

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/Wikip5/Lesson+2+-+AIX+5L+Features+and+Benefits

    The JFS2 file system shrink function supports optimizing storage utilization by removing unused disk space from the file system environment. Administrators can dynamically add and delete disk space as needed to manage both the JFS2 and LVM environments in place, without the need to copy and reboot.

    http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds1/chfs.htm

    To reduce the size of the /test JFS2 file system, enter:

    chfs -a size=-16M /test

  17. Re:PC Pro is clueless. on Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC · · Score: 1

    A 2 square inch computer would be very impressive. This, however, is an 8 cubic inch computer...

  18. Re:Great! on 33-Year-Old Unix Bug Fixed In OpenBSD · · Score: 1

    You could try:

    tar tf archive.tar | while read fname; do rm "${fname}"; done

    but that will break if you have newlines (and probably other non-printable characters) in your filenames.

  19. Re:We know who wins this one on Previously Uncontacted Amazon Tribe Photographed · · Score: 2, Informative

    ummm... I think you mean 63 years.

  20. Re:Lame on Can You Access Your Own Cash Register Data? · · Score: 1

    Looks like a character encoding problem.

  21. Re:Anyone know the details of the MIT agreement? on From "Happy Hacking" to "Screw You" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Can they not use jtag to fix them?

  22. Re:Seems to me... on The Limits of Quantum Computing · · Score: 2, Interesting

    come up with a cryptographic algorithm that resists a quantum computer, whatever that happens to be.


    Something based on Quantum Cryptography maybe?
  23. Re:Any recommendations? on Mass Hack Infects Tens of Thousands of Sites · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe this?

    sqlmap

    I haven't tried it.

  24. Re:I like firefox... on First Look At Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 · · Score: 1

    I haven't run it on a truly low end machine since the early 1.x days but back then it would run fine for about a week on a win2k machine with a P3 266 and 192MB of ram, anything older than that isn't worth powering up.


    I assume you mean a P2 266?
  25. Re:Nothing to see here... on Dell's Linux, IT Re-Invention · · Score: 1

    LVM was written by Sistina. You're thinking of EVMS.