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  1. BCP38 on Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38

  2. Re:what's the point of IOS? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 1

    Whoops, I guess I was thinking IOS-XE, which is vulnerable.

  3. Re:what's the point of IOS? on Microsoft, Cisco Finally Patch TCP DoS Flaw · · Score: 1

    Cisco IOS-XR, which is not vulnerable, has a Linux kernel.

  4. DLP has had "3d" for years on Sony To Launch 3D TVs By Late 2010 · · Score: 1

    DLP has had 3d for a long time. I think my TV has it. This is an interesting trick. Other than that, no one cares.

  5. Asset Tracker for RT a toolkit? on Best Tools For Network Inventory Management? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your description of AT is completely off. I'm an active user of RT and Asset Tracker (AT). It's not a toolkit at all, it's a clean modification that adds an 'Assets' link in the nav bar where you hold assets. From there you create and manage custom fields and custom field values from within the standard locations of RT. At no point must you know a URL to do anything in RT or AT. There are simple or complex searches, linking assets to others (depends on, requires, etc) is simply typing a few letters into a box to search on, then choose the appropriate action from a dropdown box.

    Unfortunately there have been no releases of AT in a while, but it still cleanly applies even to the latest version of RT. It does have a new home for its code on google code and is getting updates, just not a new release for a few years.

  6. Re:DLP TV? SegaScope 3d? on Fallout 3 DLC Detailed · · Score: 1

    Holy wrong thread, batman!

  7. DLP TV? SegaScope 3d? on Fallout 3 DLC Detailed · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is new? Many DLP TVs support this even though not many probably care (I have one and I don't).

    It took over 20 years to come out with what looks like the same technology as the Sega Master System's 3D Glasses?

    I also think I saw Captain EO with the same glasses back when Michael Jackson was loved by most.

  8. Re:And why is this bad? on Some 12% of Consumers 'Borrow' Unsecured Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    why is it bad to do so?

    What if someone decides to download all sorts of child pornography, and it gets tracked back to your IP?
  9. Re:What a useless article. on Extending SpamAssassin and Amavis · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anyone that's done much exploration of spam filtering already knows the basic architecture of self-learning filters. This article has nothing new.
    Well, since Amavis/Spam Assassin don't do what the article addresses out of the box, much of what's listed in it is useful. However, anyone interested in this article should probably check out Maia Mailguard, which does most of what the article talks about and much more, with a web interface.

    Recently I've implemented greylisting on my mail server. The drop in spam has been enormous, though there have been a couple cases where email didn't go through on the first try.
    Yes, greylisting is nice. However, this has nothing to do with Amavis/SA. Greylisting is another technique that one would use along side SA.
  10. Re:Honestly... on Impress Your Friends While Watching "Untraceable" · · Score: 1

    ..it's 15 minutes of a plastic ship landing on the moon..

    What about the 45 minutes of monkeys?

  11. Re:Hollywood hype on Cloverfield Discussion · · Score: 1

    I usually wait for movies to come out to some format to watch at home. In this case, I wanted to see it before I read anything about it. With Dolby Digital 5.1 stuff, generally my home sounds better than a theater. In this case it sounded FAR better than anything has sounded at home in a long time. (Yes, I know that there is 7.1, 10.1, etc for the home). I liked this movie, but much of that was due to the absolute barrage on the senses from the theater's superior setup.

  12. Re:Couple Thoughts on Where are Wii? · · Score: 1

    360 - $350
    Extra Controller - $60
    HD Cable - $20
    The 360 comes with component HD cables, and two free games (for a while) for $350. Add a $50 controller, you're at $400.
  13. Compatible Media Streamers on Xbox Live Fall Update Drops Tomorrow · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just a heads up for some poeple who intend to use the Xvid support but want to stream. The 360 requires a UPnP server to do it, they prefer you use Windows Media Center or whichever version of Vista does that. However, there are several other alternatives. The one I was able to get work best on FreeBSD (actually, the only one to work on FreeBSD) was ushare. There are several other options for linux, as well as windows and OSX.

  14. Re:Idiotic premise on Why Microsoft's Zune is Still Failing · · Score: 1

    Players with 80 gig drives are for people who like music

    So, no mp3 players were for people who liked music until two months ago?
  15. Re:The PC isn't dead yet, just resting on The Orange Box Review · · Score: 1

    I'm 23. I have used computers my entire life.
    This may be why have this opinion. While I havent been around forever, The first time I remember PC's eclipsing a console is when I got a S3 ViRGE. This card was not great by any means, and only 5ish games ever came out supporting its 3d-ness. It did however come with an accelerated copy of Descent, which looked great, and was the first game I remember looking better than a 3d console game (Playstation 1 at the time). I don't remember when this was exactly, perhaps a year or two into the PS1's lifetime. The 3dfx Voodoo 1 came out just after this, and since then PC gaming has been on top.

    This is all 3d related, but for 2d stuff, the console was always ahead of x86 pc's, but not something like an Amiga.

    However, certainly others will chime in with other non-x86 "IBM PC" computers (Apple, Commodore, etc) to disprove me, but x86 stuff was the only PC's I've ever had, going back to 8088 amber/monochrome stuff.
  16. Re:Demos only on The '360 Arcade' Made Official · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, it comes with full versions of games, and demos. The games listed in the description are full versions.

  17. Re:Webinar on Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet · · Score: 1

    1) Webinar
    2) Vortal
    3) LOL

    Also, While not annoying words, company names like "Cingular" and "Verizon" seem like they only renamed their companies that because the domain names were available (or inexpensively purchased from someone).

  18. Re:4 count 'em 4 wires. on Why Are T1 Lines Still Expensive? · · Score: 1

    T1 is not the same as DSL.

    DSL is a 2 wire system, as it's just a POTS line. T1s have a pair for transmit and a pair for receive.

    Wrong. Look at a smartjack. It's fed by two wires. Most of them even say xDSL on them.

    Indeed, the smartjack puts out four wires (tx/rx pair) but it's only a pair of copper that's feeding it.

    Go look. Seriously.
  19. Re:Strange... on Human Head Offices Destroyed, Company Bands Together · · Score: 3, Informative

    I live in Madison and I didn't heard anything about this.

    Madison's local news websites aren't the best. It was the historic Train Roundhouse building:

    http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/7118931.html
    http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=10980

    Human Head simply rents space in that building, they moved there a little over a year ago.
  20. "Print view" of article on From Football to Fantasy - Bethesda's Long Journey · · Score: 2, Informative

    The article that's linked to shows up very strnagely in my browser. The print view has article text all one page:

    * http://www.escapistmagazine.com/print/83/12

  21. Auto-create trouble ticket upon phone call on Improving Operations in a Small Helpdesk System? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Two options.

    1) If you are using analog phones, this likely will not apply to you

    However, if you use VoIP based on something like Asterisk, you could force-open a trouble ticket when a call comes in to the support line. This way, they are forced to go in and close it, which should lead them to putting notes in it. You could further auto-assign the ticket to them if it went to their phone.

    We currently do this when someone calls our on-call number- there's a big annoying ticket setting there awaiting resolution. Once this is working, set up some automated job to spit out a text listing of who has unclosed tickets, how long they've been open, etc. Have this list sent to all techs automatically.

    We use RT for tickets, so creating new tickets in the appropriate queue can be done a few different ways. Sending an email to the account we have setup to create the tickets is the way

    2) Incentives ($$)- bonuses and raises based on time/tickets/minutes logged. Nothing logged? No money for you.

    --falz

  22. Re:This isn't a film for geeks. on WarGames Sequel Now Filming · · Score: 1

    Hackers 2 (yeah they made one, believe it or not

    Where is this? It's not on IMDB. I must see it.

    --falz

  23. Re:Good God... on Capcom Implements Lost Planet Beta Feedback · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Actually, this seems to be a console specific (Xbox specific?) issue. Many of the games that have multiplayer Live have serious matchmaking GUI issues, such as:
    • Issues that capcom mentions- not showing you how many you're going to play
    • Only 8 or so players at a time (likely because one of the consoles is the host vs. a dedicated server)
    • Once a match is complete, dropping you back to the main menu to re-search for another game instead of keeping you with the same players

    On the 360, I know that Prey, Saints Row, and a few others have these stupid issues. PGR3 must have been listening to feedback, as they issued a patch about 4 months after it came out that:
    • Shows the handle of who's talking while they're talking in-game
    • Implimented some new game modes (cat vs. mouse) that people were playing on their own (these may have been in earlier PGR games, I don't know

    Since MS has strict development guidelines now, such as all games must be at least 720p- one would think they'd set minimum standards of some of the aforementioned features in all live matches.

    --falz

  24. Re:Paper ballots on Voting Machine Glitches Already Being Reported · · Score: 1
    The black arrow rules.

    Seconded. This is what i voted on this morning, and it seems quite human-friendly as far as paper trails go. I'd imagine that machines would have no problem reading them as well, but I have no data on this subject.
  25. Re:What you're looking for... on IT Asset Tracking and Helpdesk Software? · · Score: 1

    Seconded. My company uses this and we're quite happy. We had already been using RT for trouble tickets, so we were quite happy to add the AT asset portion on. Definately check it out.