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  1. Re:Why? on My Short Life As An Unintentional Porn Spammer · · Score: 1

    Not accepting mail with a null from field is a violation of rfc 1123 specifically section 5.2.9. The from field is not the only way to bounce a message and if one of the other ways is specified in an already bounced message than rejecting mail with a null from can create a mail loop. This results in other people not accepting mail from people who don't accept mail with null froms.

  2. Re:No Rescue? on Latest Columbia News · · Score: 1

    The orbital transfer vehicles wouldn't have brought the Columbia up to the ISS. They would have been approximately Soyuz sized vehicles which would have gone down to the shuttle, gotten the crew off, and brought them up to ISS. This would have been possible due to the capsules much smaller mass. It would still have been impossible to bring Columbia up to the ISS due to its very large mass unless you planned on transferring a whole shitload of fuel from the ISS to Columbia, probably a lot more fuel than the ISS has.

  3. Re:Please on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1
    Why is it always a small prayer?

    Because there is usually not that much to say to God.
    What is the proper ratio of prayer time to disaster magnitude?

    There is no proper or improper amount of time. One simply asks God the things one wishes to ask or tell.
    If prayer works, and only a small prayer is required, then why didn't you pray before this happened, you insensitive clod?

    Because I had no idea this would happen.
    What exactly will you pray for?

    I pray for the highly unlikely escape of the crew from the shuttle.
    I pray for the families and friends of the crew.
    I pray for the safety of those at the crash site(s).
    I pray that the cause of the disaster is discovered.
    I pray for the continuation of America's manned space program.
    When we definatively discover the crew is dead (I will continue to hope otherwise despite the very, very minuscule chances otherwise), being Catholic I will pray for the quick passage of the crew's souls through Purgatory into Heaven. Others with different beliefs will not.
    Is the ship supposed to reintegrate now?

    no
    Do me a favor and say a long prayer. Quietly. That should keep you busy for a while.

    Yes, it did for awhile. It will do so again when I pray other prayers as I think of other things that need to be prayed for.
    The rest of us have work to do.

    And what work prytell will you do to help the situation? I'm quite curious as to what you think people on slashdot have to do that will help this tradgedy. I suppose flowers for the family of the crew expressing condolances? Do you think they do not want my prayers or are offended by them.

    Supposedly something like 90% of the world population believes in some sort of higher power of diety(s). In times of tragedy, these people often turn to prayer. Perhaps the previous poster should have said, "Those of you who believe in such things, pray a small prayer," especially considering the large (relative to the general population) porportion of slashdotters who are aethiest/agnostic. I am a fairly religious person. My roommate is an aetheist and I would never ask him to pray for anything. I doubt the previous poster meant you or anyone else who doesn't believe in praying any offense. He probably just wasn't thinking about it. I know I'm a bit overwhelmed with sadness right now and am not in my best condition for thinking and addressing large groups of people without saying anything to offend any of them.
  4. Re:Photos on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1

    Why is Columbia your favorite? What are the differences between the various shuttles?

  5. Re:Very sad... on Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas · · Score: 1
    They made no indication that they knew anything was wrong before contact was lost.

    They always lose contact on reentry to the atmosphere. The heat generated makes radio communication with the earth impossible. It's when they didn't reestablish contact at the scheduled time that they knew something was wrong.
  6. Re:Big claims... on IBM Trials TCPA Chip Under Linux · · Score: 1

    The TCPA spec provides for both what it calls migratory and non-migratory keys. You can create applications that will use only non-migratory keys or applications that will use migratory keys or both. A keychain usb TPM (TCPA complient device) would kick serious ass. The most useful properties of TCPA devices are kick ass (but unfortunately host-based) key management and hardware based random number generation.

  7. Re:Benchmarks? on Helix Server Source Released · · Score: 3, Informative
    Are the RSPL and ASPL compatible? I mean, can we take code from Darwin and code from Helix and legally put it into the same app?

    Yes, details here
  8. Re:Cloning on Maine School & Linux · · Score: 1

    Ok, I have to know, what did you do to get on his foes list? I'm just curious.

  9. Re:Nothing new here on Mozilla Project Hurt by Apple's Decision to use KH · · Score: 1
    the licencing of apple hardware was flawed from the beginning and handcuffed apple into killing the program because of abuse.

    Howso? I only vaguely remember the mac clones, but I thought the reason they were canceled was that there purpose was to increase mac's marketshare of computers sold and the only thing they did was take away from apple's share of macs sold. I don't know much about the clones and am curious what kind of abuse was occurring and besides what I mentioned how was the licencing flawed? Or are you talking about something besides the clones?
  10. Re:Oh BooHoo on Voters News Service: What Went Wrong · · Score: 1
    How libertarian-minded conservatives can tolerate Ashcroft is beyond my limited ability to comprehend human irrationality.

    Many of us can not, but honestly what can we do about it besides vote for someone other than Bush in the next primary?
  11. Re:Sales tax is wrong idea on Internet Taxation May Be Imminent · · Score: 1
    If as you say "Income tax may reduce spending", it discourages spending just the same as a sales tax. Calling it a different name doesn't change the beast.

    He means spending as opposed to saving, investing, etc. Those things are not taxed by a sales tax but stuff you buy does. This leads to the poor being taxed at a higher percentage of their income since they spend more and save less of their income percentage wise. Taxes that tax those in the lower income bracket at a higher rate than those in the upper income bracket are called regressive. Taxes that tax those in the upper income bracket at a higher rate are called progessive.
  12. what are the benifits to Open Source? on Discuss BIOS and Palladium Issues With an AMIBIOS Rep · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The tcpa spec states that the TPM (Trusted Platform Module) contains hashing (SHA-1), random number generation (RNG) , asymmetric key generation (RSA), and asymmetric encryption/decryption (RSA). What advantages can open source projects such as openssh and openssl take by using the TPM implementation of these algorithims instead of normal software implementations? What potential uses can open source software get out of TCPA?

  13. Re:Oh this is cute on Judge Rules that Kazaa can be Sued · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Wilson [the presiding judge] said the case was different from a similar one involving a Texas man

    Obviously there's already a case on point, so on appeal, jurisidiction will be reversed. But could somebody please tell me how this case is different?


    The difference is that Texas is a state in the United States and was considered to have stronger claim of jurisdiction on the case than California did(Texas or the other state which I no longer remember where the man initially put up the web site), but kazaa is based in another country and who has jurisdiction in the matter is bit trickier.
  14. Re:redefines the meaning of 'low end.' on Linux Kernel Code Humor · · Score: 2, Informative
    It brings up an interesting use for having source though, even if you don't code. Before buying a particular bit of hardware it might be interesting to read the driver comments to see what the programer thought of the thing at the low level.


    Another good place is in section 4 man pages. The bsd's actually have man pages for most of their drivers. Here are FreeBSD's ethernet drivers, OpenBSD's ethernet drivers, and NetBSD's list of all drivers (NetBSD's web page doesn't provide a link to just their ethernet drivers. Also check out the quick reference catagories on FreeBSD's and OpenBSD's online man pages for other device drivers.
  15. Re:Get your heads out of the ground people! on India's Bargain Supercomputer · · Score: 1
    I've heard some explanation about difference between US and Japan. In US everybody forced to graduate high school - 'kicking and screaming'. In Japan only those who want do it.

    Actually not everyone who wants to gets to go to high school. I think it's something like only the top ten percent are allowed into high school in Japan, but I can't remember exactly what the entrance requirements are. The rest are sent to trade schools.
  16. Re:Same question I asked, actually on The Age Interviews Linux Advocate Rick Moen · · Score: 1

    Well, I don't know about anyone else, but I certainly enjoyed it. Especially the part about only raising top quality rabble.

  17. Re:case for external ide drives... on IDE/ATAPI to SCSI Converters Reviewed · · Score: 1

    3ware offers a serial ata controller, but no drives. No one else offers any drives yet either. You can get these adapters, but the adapters themselves draw power and the number of power supplies you end up needing gets ridiculous really quickly. Hopefully companies will start offering drives for serial ata "real soon now."

  18. Re:Spiky fish? on Aussie Uni Dumps Dual-Boot In Favor of Linux · · Score: 1

    OpenBSD's mascot is the blowfish. Blowfish is the name of one of the ciphers for ssh and I think the password system. The OpenBSD team wrote that cipher, and at some point someone drew a picture of a blowfish for it. Because the daemon was so strongly associated with FreeBSD, and Theo liked the blowfish so much, it became the mascot for OpenBSD. You can see their various posters, t-shirts, and cd covers featuring blowfish here.

  19. Re:The "Taken" Channel... on Taken? · · Score: 1

    I actually liked them showing it over and over like that. I didn't have to worry about missing it at all. It was the kind of thing where if you missed one you would be kind of lost. I often came in on the second hour of an episode and watched it through and then watched the first hour. I'ld usually watch the second hour again after that so I could see it in a more linear way.

  20. Re:More TiVo hacking links on Tivo 2 Features On the Horizon · · Score: 1
    From the notes on converting the TiVo to use PAL signals
    As docs on some of the video chips in the TiVo were not available a primary technique used was to do random register operations until the desired result was achieved.

    Damn, those samba guys are badasses!!
  21. Re:You'd like that on MS Proposes Disclosing Windows Source To India · · Score: 1
    But could you imagine the damage if M$ was successful in claiming that their code ended up in a linux kernel? Or apache? or php? or perl? or gcc?

    More likely wine or samba. Maybe an apache module for asp, or the .net projects for linux, but that would be if they got iis (or .net) source not windows source. There would be little reason for source from windows to wind up in the kernel, perl, php, or gcc.
  22. Re:I'm shorting MS stock. on Linux Lands Big Bank Account · · Score: 1

    Yes, http://www.luyer.net/software/tn3270/
    bsd licensed and been around for ever.
    There is also x3270 for x, c3270 for curses, s3270 to run scripts, and tcl3270 as another program to run scripts.

    3270 emulators implement rfc's 2355, 1576, and 1646.

    I didn't think tn3270 runs on windows. I've always used qws3270, NMTTelnet, or Hummingbird's 3270 emulator on the windows side of things or telneted to a unix host that had tn3270.

  23. Re:How about XWindows? on MS Asking Makers of 'Windows' Software To Rename · · Score: 4, Informative
    (BTW: What does the X stand for? uniX? Xor?)

    It does not stand for anything. X comes after W which is what X's predecessor windowing system was called. The W window system was developed at Stanford. I do not know what W stood for if anything. It probably stood for window or windows.
  24. Re:Isn't this America? on Toledo Uncappers Getting Shafted · · Score: 1
    I think there was a big deal about this a couple of years ago, when their were some criminals crying that they had their stuff taken AND got jail time, which was tantamount to being tried twice for the same crime or something...


    No, there was a big deal about this a few years ago when certain areas of Louisiana became infamous for having state troopers on I-10 confiscate people's cars with out of state plates who had no drugs and had committed no crime. It was next to impossible for the people to get there stuff back even when the were not tried with any crime. Eventually Louisiana had to repeal the law since it was such a problem. I believe it was on 20/20 or something once.
  25. Re:Still useful on PINE Releases 4.50 · · Score: 1

    Pine is not small. I know back in the day our system administrators use to hate it because having many people use it would cause a really high load on the unix machines. They much preferred people to use elm.