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  1. Re:These two strings walk into a bar... on Current Thoughts in String Theory · · Score: 1

    A baby seal walks into a club.....

    I know, off-topic and really not that funny...

  2. Admins beware on DoS Assaults Underway Against Spam Blocklists · · Score: 1

    If you are retrieving a blacklist from a site that is that is down, remove it ASAP. When I first started as net admin here I was getting a lot of complaints about people not being able to receive email from other companies. After learning how our mail server worked I realized that the smtp daemon was getting blacklists from a big list of servers. What I didn't realize was that more than half of those servers where down. This was making the smtp daemon take forever to respond, which caused a lot companies mail servers to timeout when they connected to us. Removing the servers that were down fixed the problem.

    "The Internet is a fad."

  3. Lame Matrix Reference on IBM Testing New Grid Technology with Quake 2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    IBM is also planning on developing Quake 2 bots to take advantage of the system

    Dont't they mean "agents".

    "The Internet is a fad" -WB

  4. Re:Toyish? on New Longhorn Screenshots Leaked · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think Microsoft consulted Disney when they developed WinXP.

    "The Internet is a fad." -WB

  5. Don't forget the real bad guys on Microsoft Worms Crash Ohio Nuke Plant, MD Trains · · Score: 1

    You know, the person/people that wrote the worm.
    Without them none of this mess would happen, they should be caught and punished severely. Proving a point that MS software sucks is one thing but causing potential disaster is another.

    "The Internet is a fad" -WB

  6. No matter how good they make it... on LavaRnd: A Open Source Project for Truly Random Numbers · · Score: 1

    Random is relative. What may seem to be a bunch of random numbers to you might make perfect sense to someone else. Why do you think it is so easy for people in movies to break into systems?

    Oh wait, nevermind.

    "The Internet is a fad." -WB

  7. Snort is good but, on Three Snort Books Reviewed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Beware of the Gnu-Emacs hole.

    "The Internet is a fad" -WB

  8. Stay away from the top on Disclosure of Major Software Exploits by Students? · · Score: 1

    Only tell the people that matter. Don't go to the director of the IT department and tell he/she that you can break into their system. They might not understand, they will just see you as a hacker, which could lead to trouble. Tell the net admin or someone that understands the problem and help them take the proper steps to fix it.

    "The Internet is a fad" -WB --> Actual quote from an IT director BTW

  9. ARGHHHHHH on IBM Countersues SCO, And More! · · Score: 1

    Stop the insanity. This is getting out of hand, I'm not even sure who is suing who now. WTF? Am I being sued?

    "The Internet is a fad." -WB

  10. Yes! on Bent Fibers Put Networks At Risk · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I was a student worker I was "volunteered" to pull cable. We were running fiber from the Science Center to the Health Professions building. At the time I had no idea what fiber was even made of, I just knew to take it from point A to point B. It was a pretty fun day though, I still remember swinging on the fiber like it was vine. Good times.

    "The Internet is a fad." - WB

  11. WoMD? on HomeSec Warns Again About Microsoft's Insecurity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Windows of Mass Destruction?

  12. Re:Google Cache, in case of slashdotting on Googling Your Way Into Hacking · · Score: 2

    Trekkies go here

  13. Re:Google Cache, in case of slashdotting on Googling Your Way Into Hacking · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or go here google

  14. Re:Poor guy. on The Star Wars Alphabet Project · · Score: 1

    Christ, got much imagination Lucas? You hack.

    He's got a couple billion dollars, I'd say he has a pretty good imagination.

  15. This keyboard rocks! on A Condensed History Of The Keyboard · · Score: 1
  16. I've got mine on If I Had My Own Distro... · · Score: 1

    It's called FUSI Linux.
    You can make your own with the help of http://linuxfromscratch.org

  17. Re:Shameless Hucksterism on The Return of Chewbacca · · Score: 1

    From what I have been told, they are throwing Chewie (and the rest of the wookies) into Episode 3 because they were put into slavery and forced to build the Death Star. Chewie was freed by a rouge Emperial soldier by the name of ..... Anyone?

  18. Re:Wait, what does MS innovate??? on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 1

    Microsoft's definition of innovation --> Other people's work.

  19. M.U.L.E ruled on Salon on M.U.L.E Creator Dani Bunten · · Score: 1

    I loved the music! I was only 7 at the time and I didn't really know how to play, but I loved the music!

  20. Re:Cost over Students? on A College Without Microsoft? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Just a though.

    Maybe your university should put more $$ into it's English department =)

  21. Would you rather watch a 6 hour movie? on "Clone Wars" Cartoon Shorts on Cartoon Network · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Lucas didn't do this Episode III would be about 6 hours long. It's a cheesy idea, but at least George is trying to fill in the gaps. I just hope I don't end up fighting over the remote with my 5 year-old. She loves SpongeBob on Nickelodeon, but who doesn't?

  22. Re:Use them both! On the same port! on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    HTTP isn't clear text?

    This is a request from a web browser.

    GET / HTTP/1.1
    Host: 127.0.0.1:16
    User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20020923 Phoenix/0.1
    Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,tex t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/pn g,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1
    A ccept-Language: en-us, en;q=0.50
    Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9
    Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66
    Keep-Alive: 300
    Connection: keep-alive

    Seems plain enough to me.

  23. Use them both! On the same port! on FTP: Better Than HTTP, Or Obsolete? · · Score: 1

    You can run a HTTP and FTP on the same port using an app called JavaSwitch. Doing this can actually make FTP a little more secure.



    Let's say you use JavaSwitch and have it accepting HTTP and FTP traffic. You can set JavaSwitch up to run on port 80 (the "standard" port for webservers). Now when someone scans your ports all they will see is port 80 open and assume that all you are running is a webserver when in fact you are running a webserver and a ftp server. This still doesn't help the fact that FTP is a clear-text protocol and shouldn't be used anyway. Stick with SSH.



    You can get JavaSwitch here.


  24. Re:Standards schmandards. on Microsoft Sends Broken Stylesheets to Opera · · Score: 1

    Why should standards on the web matter? It obivously doesn't affect people with disabilities.

    http://slashdot.org/articles/02/10/22/177239.shtml ?tid=123

    I'm going to put some stuff on my page

    if Browser == IE, then send(latest_exploit)

    Zend all Sig.

  25. He doesn't know why it tanked? on Rick Berman Doesn't Know Why Nemesis Tanked · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess he didn't watch it.