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  1. Re:Why do this? on Ripping from Vinyl, Simplified · · Score: 1

    Q: "Why do sound techs say 'check 1, 2'?"

    A: The 'O' in One checks for low-frequency rumbling.
    The 'T' in Two checks for high-frequency feedback, but not as well as the 'S'ibilance, and 'P'op checks.

    Besides, everybody knows that the sound techs don't know how to count -- they're just repeating words that the singers use.

  2. Re:Secure Audio Path on Real Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 1

    And this is exactly why mickeysoft doesn't like us Linux users running VMware. Because we can intercept the audio between VMware and the audio device, and save all that lovely wave table data. Mmmm, free digital music.

  3. Re:Cost breakdown on Real Launches Music Download Service · · Score: 1

    Really? You can listen to the whole song?

    For 9.99/month?

    Now, where's did I misplace that HijackAudio2MP3 applet.....

  4. Re:A batch of Irish Ale on Is the Seeking of Lost Skills/Arts a Hacking Analog? · · Score: 1

    Sure.. coffee stouts are pretty common anymore, although most of them hardly have enough caffiene to make it worthwhile.

    I suppose i should get off my Duff and whip up a batch of beer. Of course, having worked for a local brewery it's much easier just to take my kegs down and get them filled back up. Still, it's fun to get the boys together and put up a new recepie.

  5. Re:Err... on Use a Honeypot, Go to Prison? · · Score: 1

    Very cool. Since i've read that it only takes 6 lbs/in^2 to puncture the sternum, can I be considered a lethal weapon? How about if I know that I can just twist somebody's neck? Or make a chopping motion toward the throat?

    Where's that fine line between stupidity and absurdity, anyway?

  6. Re:Source tarball here, download ASAP on Linux Desktop Without X11 · · Score: 1
  7. Re:Video iPod... on Cheap New 1 Inch HDD Holds 1.5GB · · Score: 1

    Well, for contrast, my Archos Jukebox Recorder (running Rockbox) has 5 navigation, 2 power, and 3 menu buttons. It's been modded to 60Gb, and I've got 12Gb free, with nearly 10K legal MP3s. upgrading from the standard 1500mAh to 2000mAh batteries, and I can listen from coast to coast without hearing the same song twice, and still have enough power to make it from airport to hotel before plugging in.

    I love my AJR+RockBox. It makes the iPod look like something from the early '90s by comparison -- in terms of functionality and cost/feature.

  8. Re:A big part of the equation missing on HD DVD Coming Very Soon · · Score: 1

    COmpression/DECompression = codec?

  9. Re:Old, but stil used. on Implementing VisiCalc · · Score: 1

    Nearly all of my Apple-][/e disks still work. It's not so amazing when you think about how much magnetic material is actually in use to encode the bits with the 1982 tech (170K/5.25") versus the 1992 tech (1440K/3.5")

    I should probably fire that ol' thing up again. I need to find the CPM disks though, and see if I can get that z80 card booted -- unless somebody has figured out how to interface an Apple-slot to isa/pci/usb/xxx... Heh.

  10. Re:As I've said before... on LCD Price Fixing? · · Score: 1

    Funny, I drive a truck (96 Toyota T100 FWD SR5 5-speed) because I have asthma (excercise induced, thank you very much) and had to stop biking.

    I like to breath, and the inhalers only work so well for me. So I don't bike and I use up fossil fuels. Just my way of getting back at the environment for not allowing me to save it.

    Of course, if it were warmer here all the time, I'd probably use a motorocycle, but since it's cold and snowy for most of the year (it is Alaska) and there are moose (ever see one? Ever see a chevy 1/4 ton? pretty close) that like to jump out of the woods.. and i've hit a moose. $9k damage to the truck...

    (I guess I like parenthesis (can't you tell?))

  11. Missed! on Meteor Over Midwest · · Score: 2, Funny

    That meteor missed me by >< that much....

    Would you believe > < that much?

  12. Re:Hudson Hawk is not Cannibal: The musical on What's Your Favorite Underappreciated Movie? · · Score: 1

    Cannibal is so awesome! I've seen it half a dozen times, and actually saw it performed live. Since i'm an actor I plan on performing in it someday. Too bad the script and libretto won't be finished until next year!

    And HH is a great spoof, as is Undercover Brother. It is a "solid" send-up of blacksploitation films. Much better than most people give it credit for.

  13. Rot13 security? on Security Expert Paul Kocher Answers, In Detail · · Score: 1

    My next license plate will read (only 6 char's)

    "shpx h"

    yeah, it's an obscene turn of the phrase, but nobody will understand it.

    the new fad in custom licenses!

    or maybe l33t-speak? Oh, wait, no special chars..
    1]4m!+ !!

  14. Gnutella2 on Gnutella2 Specifications · · Score: 1

    Great, just in time to start spreading ISO's of Mandrake 9.1!

  15. Re:This is not really new... on Fooling NMAP for Whatever Reason · · Score: 2, Informative

    ObReadTheArticleFirst:

    "IP Personality
    The first and probably, best option is IP Personality. It'a netfilter module (then, only available for 2.4 linux kernels) that allows us to change the IP stack behaviour and 'personality', having multiple network personalities depending on parameters that you can specify as an iptables rule. "

    etc, etc, etc..

  16. Re:HaHaHa on Making a House That Will Last for Centuries? · · Score: 1

    Say your ee's with an 'ay' sound, ala Italian.

    McClayod... McClaod.... McCloud...

    Closer to what you expect?

    Chalk it up to the divergence of sounds over time...

  17. Re:Boot Times on Slashback: Humility, Patents. Vapor.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    > You can't run Office XP on RedHat.

    Bzzzt. You may not be able to run it completely right now, but the fine folks over at CodeWeavers
    have XP on their radar for this year.

    But really, why would you want to when OO/SO work so well?

  18. Re:Makes me glad I'm an American on British Telecom Pushes Universal ID Check System · · Score: 1

    It's a great play. I was involved in it in college, working tech at the time.
    Lysistrata was read around the world Monday as a protest against the war. Sydney Morning Herald

  19. Re:DMCA compliance? on New Developments in Music Technology · · Score: 1

    Talk to Harley Davidson about copyrighting/patenting/licensing the sound that their bikes make. I seem to remember them filing a claim against another manufacturer for producing a bike with a similar sound.

  20. Re:Date of the article? on The Linux Uprising · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hmm.. Good question!

    ($ageInDays + 13)-year-old =
    ( 12156 + 13 )-year-old =
    12169-year-old

    I'd like to tell my 12169-year-old self:

    "Hey, good job on staying alive so long! I'll bet that 666th year was a killer!"

    Oh, to be alive in AD14172. Can you imagine my Slashdot Karma by then? Of course, the conversion to IPv32 was a real pain...

  21. Re:Impact on SSH? on Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL · · Score: 1

    If this turns out to be true (impacting SSH) then would using certificates instead of username/password alleviate the issue?

    The keyspace is much larger with the certificate, although the underlying packet structure is probably going to be much more regular than trying to deal with an HTTPS session to some random site..

    This could end up being pretty serious.

  22. Re:Huh? We must not have read the same article... on Swiss Researchers Find A Hole In SSL · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I don't think this would be work in the field, unless the attacker had a very good idea of what the underlying infrastructure of the website was.

    Since everything is encrypted, how would the attacker know if you were using authentication, or just surfing blindly over SSL? There's not going to be anything in plain text to differentiate between the two types of sessions.

    Or am I missing something here?

  23. Re:Logo? on Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip · · Score: 1

    Damn, i should have read this far first before I posted My comment, which is practically the exact same thing, only different. And I might have spelled 'clipped' correctly too..

  24. Re:Niiiiiice logo.... on Intel Announces New, Slower, Chip · · Score: 1

    That's what I thought too, but was immediately struck by the fact that MS's butterfly had been cliped, and so wouldn't fly..

    Hmm....

  25. Lifers in IT? on Lifetime Careers in IT? · · Score: 1

    Not bloody likely. Well, maybe more like probably, unless that movie offer comes through...

    And that's why I have an alternate carreer in the theatre, because of the money! (Would you like fries with that?)