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  1. Re:Aims & Reality on Peek-a-Boo(ty) · · Score: 1
    As for the dogs, are you referring to the four-legged kind

    I believe he was referring to the five-legged kind. :-)

  2. Re:Good for some, nightmare for others on Peek-a-Boo(ty) · · Score: 1
    The only way to keep people from looking at porn at work is to not give them ANY Internet access, not even filtered, make sure their computers have no floppy, Zip, or CD drives, and do a full strip search anytime anyone enters the building to make sure they're not carrying a Playboy. Even then, people would find a way if they wanted to.

    Instead of trying to block porn, I would just grep the logs for porn sites and ask the bosses of offenders to warn them about accessing porn at work. If it happens again, fire them.

  3. Re:Just curious on Mozilla Development Roadmap Updated · · Score: 2, Informative
    IIRC, Mozilla was the original codename for Netscape, and was included by Netscape 1.0 in its HTTP headers. Many sites detected Netscape by grepping for "Mozilla" and provided a special Netscape-enhanced version of a page if the user was using Netscape (eg., a page using frames, tables, Javascript, and other Netscape-specific extensions that weren't displayed by other browsers).

    When Microsoft released IE, complete with support for most of the Netscape extensions, they used "Mozilla" in IE's headers in order to trick sites into thinking it was Netscape. That way, IE users could also see enhanced pages.

  4. Re:I demand to see the source! on KDE 3.0 Beta 2 is out · · Score: 1
    On Debian sid:

    $ file /usr/bin/konqueror
    /usr/bin/konqueror: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

  5. Re:What do you mean... 'IF'? on What if Harry Potter 5 Was an E-Book? · · Score: 1

    As of last year, my local library had 63 holds on Harry Potter 4. Good luck getting a copy.

  6. Re:Its a good thing on Apple Delays QuickTime 6 Over Proposed MPEG-4 Licenses · · Score: 1

    Realplayer doesn't come with Windows, but that doesn't mean lots of companies don't use RealMedia streams. It's really not that hard to download and install a Tarkin player/plugin (at least, it won't be once Tarkin actually exists).

  7. Re:Write You're English Gooder on Teaching Fahrenheit 451 and Censorship w/ a Tech Twist? · · Score: 1

    I believe he meant he had been teaching for two years.

  8. Re:Nice... on An Open Source Direct3D 8.0 Wrapper for Open GL · · Score: 1

    That's basically what SDL does.

  9. Re:I know what someone should make! on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    int O = 1;
    printf("O is %d", O);

  10. Re:What a coincedence! on Google Programming Contest · · Score: 1

    Just wait until Google indexes this page.

  11. Re:Actually... on Algorithms for Motion Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Yes, it can be done. I have a free-beer Windows program to do that (I don't remember the name, I almost never use it). I dunno if there's anything like it for Linux, but it's certainly possible.

  12. Starcraft on What Games are You Addicted To? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Starcraft and Brood War. Two of the best games ever made.

  13. Re:Damn it on (Almost) Free Movies On-Line... Sorta · · Score: 1

    If it's too slow to stream, download it and play it off your hard disk.

  14. giFT on Security Hole in Morpheus · · Score: 1

    This is why people should be supporting open-source file sharing systems such as giFT. This could never happen if we could just see the source code and find/fix these bugs.

  15. Re:They sure aren't advertising... on A Review of Existing Music Subscription Services · · Score: 1

    75GB's of mp3's is a helluva lot more than 100 hours. 75GB=629145600Kb. At 192kbps, that's 3276800 seconds of music, or 910 hours.

  16. Re:It's quite ironic on Kernel 2.5.3 Released · · Score: 1

    So we have to have it on the /. front page when MS releases XP Service Pack 3.14159?

  17. Re:Use The Mirrors, Luke! on Kernel 2.5.3 Released · · Score: 2, Informative

    mirrors.kernel.org isn't the mirror page. It's a list of other sites mirrored by kernel.org. The correct URL is http://www.kernel.org/mirrors.

  18. Re:Here it is on Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy? · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. Re:What have horses done to this? on EverQuest and the UN · · Score: 1

    Just use Overrated. It's cheap, but it works and there's no metamod.

  20. Re:Ahh, Technology at work... on How Many Keys Have You Pressed? · · Score: 1

    That would be a kernel module (or compiled into the kernel, which is just as bad).

  21. Re:Confused on DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases · · Score: 1

    I can't get to the site, so I'm not certain, but they probably just released the binaries into the public domain. I guess we could decompile it to get the source, but that takes a lot of effort and produces strange code.

  22. big surprise on DesqView/X: Night of the Living Dead Codebases · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $ host disvr.cjb.net
    disvr.cjb.net A 66.24.22.15

    $ host 66.24.22.15
    Name: syr-66-24-22-15.twcny.rr.com
    Address: 66.24.22.15

    $ ping syr-66-24-22-15.twcny.rr.com
    PING syr-66-24-22-15.twcny.rr.com (66.24.22.15): 56 data bytes

    --- syr-66-24-22-15.twcny.rr.com ping statistics ---
    5 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

    Run your site on a Road Runner cable modem and you KNOW it'll get slashdotted :-)
    Anyone got a mirror?

  23. Easy Weight Loss! on How Many Keys Have You Pressed? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Someone should calculate how much energy it takes to press a key, and write a program that counts how many calories you've burned. "Mom, let me have that extra desert, I've been playing Quake for two weeks!"

  24. Re:Ahh, Technology at work... on How Many Keys Have You Pressed? · · Score: 1
    Though of course it's possible

    Is it? Is there a way to capture all keys on a Linux system, both in a console and using X? You could probably implement as a kernel module, but I don't know of any other ways to capture keys pressed on a standard Linux console. And there's no way I'd put in a kernel module for something like this.

  25. Re:What you also have to remember on Lindows Reviewed · · Score: 1

    If you wished, you could just chmod a-w system files on a Linux machine for the same affect. Or chattr +i.