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  1. He's right you know on SCO Says 'Linux Doesn't Exist' · · Score: 2, Funny

    root@honningsvag root # uname -a
    an unlicensed version of Unix honningsvag 2.6.7-gentoo-r7 #1 Mon Jul 12 18:45:05 CEST 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz GenuineIntel GNU/an unlicensed version of Unix

  2. Re:Application Level Proxies on Missing Open Source Security Tools? · · Score: 1
    Yes! We have some arcane ATM switches that cannot comply with our access policies (use tacacs, radius or ldap). They need static user accounts.

    I've been trying to find an authenticating/logging telnet proxy to work around this, but it's impossible to find, so I'm facing writing one myself.

  3. Re:You forget on Knock Safely With portknocking_v1.0 · · Score: 1
    "And it shows a listening port in the case of the deamon, well, listening, conventionally."

    Not if you firewall it. I cannot see the point of this (except for academic exercise ofcourse).

  4. Re:Avoid Promise like the plague! on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Dear Joe,

    Any Windows 2000 program can run as a service. That's where srvany.exe is for (clicky).

    Ofcourse, your urge to project your own shortcomings on the manufacturer of your RAID controller is very reasonable and totally non-indicative of your evolutionary distance to the Western Lowland Gorilla.

  5. Re:disable compiler access for non-trused shell us on New Linux Kernel Crash-Exploit discovered · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That's not much of a solution; I'd just compile the binary on another system with matching library versions and then upload and execute it on your machine.

  6. Re:No SCUMM engine? on Fan-made Maniac Mansion 256 Color Remake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does seem to work flawless in wine (Crossover 3) for me.

  7. EEK! on KernelTrap Interviews Andrea Arcangeli · · Score: 5, Funny
    The parallel port was the device I knew best in the PC hardware because for the final exam at high school we developed an autorange (from a few millivolt to thousand of volts) digital oscilloscope (designing both hardware and software) and I was acquiring the data from the 8 bits output of the ADC using the parallel port in nibble mode with a multiplexer with x86 inline assembler in a C++ program.

    If you understand this sentence you know you're a geek.

  8. Google cache on Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slashdotted, here's the Google cache.

  9. Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? on Is the Key to Linux a Games-Based Distro? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No.

  10. A what now? on MS Word File Reveals Changes to SCO's Plans · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also, SCO has A HREF

    What's a href and why are you yelling?

  11. Mmmm.. on Intel to Increase Linux Support, Release Centrino Drivers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    ZDNet UK is reporting that Intel has promised to increase Linux support by releasing Linux drivers at the same time it releases Windows drivers for its hardware.

    Pingla writes in with more good news: "Intel promises to release Linux drivers for its Centrino chipset at the same time it releases drivers for Windows.

    OK, that first piece of news is nice, but the second one really gets my heart racing.

  12. Program? on Previewing the Next Solaris OS · · Score: 4, Funny

    It covers how the program works

    But can you run this program called Solaris 10 on Linux? Or do you need wine for that?

  13. Re:Bittorrent here! on Linux & Mac UT2004 Demos · · Score: 1

    | dl speed: 132.2 KB/s
    | ul speed: 117.2 KB/s

    This one seems to be doing fine.

  14. Here's how on Creating A Super-Router (For Free) · · Score: 1

    Actually enabling telnet access is trivial (/usr/bin/strings is your best friend).

    curl -u admin http://[LAN ip adres DG834G]/setup.cgi?todo=debug

    Enter your webinterface password, telnet to the device, and busybox greets you.
    Firmware flashing is difficult, at the end of the file two bytes are some sort of CRC, if they are incorrect the webinterface refuses to flash your firmware. I'm still trying to find out what these two bytes mean.

  15. Re:Already? on Sun Opens Cobalt Code · · Score: 3, Informative

    They got chilisoft out of the aquisition of Cobalt. Chilisoft have coded an ASP engine for UNIX which Sun now sell as Sun Java System Active Server Pages 4.0.

  16. Vendor pressure on XFS Merged into Linux 2.4 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Interesting about this is that Marcelo didn't want to merge big patches like this anymore. It seems he has given in to vendor pressure (SGI whining because competiting filesystems like JFS are in the kernel).
    It will be interesting to see how much influence major companies will gain in decisions on the main kernel tree as their contributions grow.

  17. Re:Why go back to the CLI on GTK+ TTY Port · · Score: 1

    Starnet for example charges $245 for their X-server.

    On the other hand, Xfree86 on Cygwin is free - as in beer and as in Xfree license.

  18. Re:linux? on Linux will have 20% desktop market share by 2008? · · Score: 1

    He he.. The Hurd. You are funny.

    If the Hurd is ready in 2008 hundreds of people will have to eat their shoe.

  19. Re:Would be handy on TCP/IP Connection Cutting On Linux Firewalls · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If your security at work consists of a Linux box running iptables, I would be scared. On the other hand, this could be usefull for the home network.

    Upon what do you base this conclusion? I guess ignorance. We are the second largest DSL telco in the Benelux countries, and we use redundant Linux firewalls to protect important pieces of our network, such as places where our DNS and radius servers live.

    This doesn't scare me at all, actually I like the setup better with regards to availability, maintainability and security then the setup in other parts of our network which are protected through Cisco PIX firewalls.

  20. US situation on Cable Beats DSL For Average Speed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This article describes the relations between cable and DSL in the US only. Worldwide it is a very different story, because of vast differences in quality of infrastructure.

    I work for a DSL network provider in the Netherlands. We deliver DSL connectivity to ISP's, for them to sell to their customers. The fastest connections we deliver (constant bitrate) are 8192/1536 kbits for ADSL and 2300 kbit/s for SDSL lines. This is way faster than any cable provider can deliver, they usually top at 2048/1024 kbit/s. The consumer versions of the 8 MBit ADSL connection are usually quite affordable at something like $90 a month. Elsewhere in Europe the story is similar.

  21. Re:Comment Summary on Winex 3.0 Released · · Score: 2, Informative
    20% Its dreadful they limit it to subscribers for the RPMs

    If your are too lazy to compile, and to cheap to subscribe, you can always wait for a couple of days until the merry men at FreshRPMS build the RPM for you.

  22. Re:Bummer. on Interview with Jordan Hubbard About DarwinPorts · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Hubbard has said he joined Apple because they achieved the "holy grail", a easy-to-use UNIX-based desktop where he could hack and also play RtCW. He wanted to help so he went to Apple, while FreeBSD and Linux still aren't there yet.

    I can hack away all I like on my Linux boxen, play native RTCW when I'm done, and I'd say Jordan can manage to handle either Gnome or KDE.

    What was your point again?

  23. Re:Reminds me of Coy on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    See the online docs here. Quite funny.

  24. Poetic justice on Habeas Seeks Poetic Justice for Trademarked Spam · · Score: 1

    Haiku fighting spam
    Now spammers spamming Haiku
    Poetic justice?

  25. Re:why do people still use sendmail? on ISS Discovers A Remote Hole In Sendmail · · Score: 1

    Because it's what most distributions ship as default.