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  1. It's a picture of the US flag on Alan Cox talks about laws... and Linux · · Score: 1

    OOO... no, it's a copyright circumvention device LOL.

  2. Executable JPEGS on Alan Cox talks about laws... and Linux · · Score: 1

    Great idea:

    1. Write a program that embeds a file in a jpeg image

    2. Write a program that extracts a file from a JPEG image and executes it.

    3. Encode the DeCSS algorithm over the American Flag.jpg

    4. You're done..... :)

  3. It should work by now on Migrating Your Office from Windows to Linux? · · Score: 1

    My solution:

    Debian Woody+2.4 kernels
    KDM(my fav login screen)
    IceWM(my fav wm + iceme + icepref)
    Mozilla
    AbiWord
    gnumeric
    evolution
    s shd(for remote control)
    or
    vncserver (I never got around to this)

    For programmers:

    gcc+kdevelop

    Also, you should have central auth (maybe LDAP -- I never got around to it -- I have absolutely no idea how to do it), and an apt-proxy somewhere around the net.

    This should run on a Duron/Celeron >700 + 128Mb RAM pretty well and gobbles only about 500Mb of the HDD (maybe less, maybe more)

    Good luck!

  4. Idea on Patent Granted on Sideways Swinging · · Score: 1

    Rsync file synch. Very technical. Very useful. Prior art widely available. They're never going to catch on if you change file to database or the like (bitstream etc.).

    I expect cash.

  5. Re:here's the problem on Globalism, Corporatism and Open Source · · Score: 1

    It's very hard to define happiness, or spiritual happines as you call it.It can't be measured. Money can.

    And anyway, if ensuring happiness would be at issue here, isn't it chemically feasible (see : drugs)?

  6. Re:Statement of conjecture on wolfram incorrect? on The Poincaré Conjecture has Been Proved · · Score: 1

    hell, boy, add infinity to R^3 and you got your compact, don't ye?

    but the question is correct and the answer is:
    compact simply connected 3-manifold without _a boundary_ (any closed simply connected 3-manifold) and stuff :)

  7. Funny :) on Cross-platform Password Management? · · Score: 1

    WinXP 2003. It does your dishes and dirty laundry too. Hell, it'll even marry you and make you seven billg lookalike children. And it screams in pleasure when you "tickle" it.

    Debian comes with Mozilla and office apps. Windows comes with IE. Hard choice, huh?

  8. Re:hey everyone on Open Source in the Military? · · Score: 1

    That's sugar and gas. You can try it on your dad's car gas tank. Just pour a couple of cups of sugar in it.
    He'll probably just buy a new one.

  9. Whaaa... 5000 Mp3 ? on Next Windows to Have New Filesystem · · Score: 1

    That's like 25 to life under SSSCA. They're gonna save you from prison by including DRM.

  10. Mod this up on WinInformant Says Windows More Secure Than Linux · · Score: 1

    Well, the guy has a point.
    The last bug I saw listed on the linux list on this site was: kicq DoS attack. LOL.

  11. Whaaaat? on Audio Download: Linux Kernel to be on Radio · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kernel.org is down again?

  12. Re:Red Hat and Goldman Sachs on LinuxWorld rundown on CNN, HP and IBM Highlighted · · Score: 1

    You're a Debian fan, aren't you?

  13. Talk about cheating on Cheating Detector from Georgia Tech · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well we got every assignment in the last 5 years on file. We run hacker (which produces functionally equivalent programs = renames functions and vars) and the like (rotate ORCAD schemes) and got a cgi script that does most of this automagically.

    Those dumb enough to carbon copy stuff deserve to be caught.

  14. Re:Everybody needs a HW-independent platform? on Microsoft's CLR - Providing a Break from HW Vendors? · · Score: 1

    Besides the fact you're an IDIOT for using StarOffice which is at best unstable and at worst downright shit, you should try using gnumeric and abiword. I got along right fine. At work.

    Or the KDE stuff (unstable but waaay better than staroffice).

  15. No, no, no on OpenPKG 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    apt is a general tool for managing dependencies meaning it works with RPMs, DEBs and whatever else you can imagine.

  16. i got that one too... on Perception of Linux Among IT Undergrads · · Score: 1

    I got that one too... when I set the number of the connections allowed in MySQL to 10 and then tried to connect 11 clients.

    Those numbers are unforgiving bitches, I swear on it.

    Well I just couldn't resist. Feed the flame boyz.

  17. Re:Outsourcing Code on How To Make Software Projects Fail · · Score: 1

    I just don't believe this :)) Check my mail adress.

  18. Unlike The Somalis on Sell Out: Blocking an Open Net · · Score: 1

    Which is very unlike the Somalis which can
    1. Play DVDs on their choice of equipment.
    2. Smoke dope.
    3. Kill American soldiers.
    4. Kill fellow Somalis.
    5. Die out of hunger.
    6. Surf on an uncensored Internet.
    7. Do all this and still be a law abiding citizen.

    Wow such are the freedoms of the third world (slightly exaggerated).

    Anyway WHAT THE HECK IS ALL THIS ABOUT:
    Mr KATZ : The Saudis had to choose between a censored Internet or NO INTERNET AT ALL (well I had too much coffeine - nicotine is illegal in my county)

  19. Re:Why Some States are Going Along on California Takes Issue With Microsoft Settlement Idea · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but what's that got to do with it?

    I mean I'm sure the government in those states is also one of the biggest users (direct consumer) of MS software anyway. I suppose the biggest buyer of MS software is the federal government.

    (Neoclassical economists say that monopolies are the direct result of bad government procurement practices -- as if there are any good g. p. pr.)

  20. Bull all the way on Message from Kabul · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is obviously a fake. Afghanis watching Baywatch? A Linux-Loving geek from Kabul? Where the heck did you people come up with this stuff?
    Stupidity.inc?

  21. Note to self: Read next post dummmie on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    Since it wouldn't run Linux, it would make a nice Turing machine though...

  22. Anybody porting Linux to it yet? on Intel 4004 Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    I don't remember any computers built around this one but since there exists an emulator... it would make a nice pet project.

  23. Is this RedHat's fault? on The Case For Full Disclosure In The Linux Changelog · · Score: 1

    What if there is some serious kernel security hole in pre-2.2.20 and 2.0.x kernels affecting Bastille, RedHat up to 7.0 and EVERY OTHER linux system having a pre-2.2.20 kernel installed? What the heck is Alan hiding?

  24. Nothing's wrong with RedHat... but I prefer Debian on The Linux Distribution Game · · Score: 1

    You got it wrong lad. WinXP is not like a Linux distro... WinXP is an OS, a Linux distro is the OS PLUSSSS Office suites (Koffice, StarOffice/ OpenOffice, AbiWord+Gnumeric come to mind), compilers, IDEs, webservers, fileservers, nameservers, mailservers, database servers
    (closed source or open source -- I just went the Debian way -- free or costing money -- with or without source code bundled on CDs -- providing various grades of phone/chat etc. support to their customers).
    Since there is so much free software out there the commercial distros do the mix and match and compile stuff for you and give you phone support at a cost. Non-commercial distros are mixed and... by volunteers and don't provide the "phone and get no clear answer" support.
    Of course a closed-source monopoly would be a lot more profitable. But this is mostly FREE software.

  25. Restrictions of privacy are _totally_ useless on Civil Liberties And The New Reality · · Score: 1

    How would a database tracking each person flying on the territory of the US stop suicidal terrorists?

    The FBI already knows the names of most hijackers, what can the FBI do now to them? Freeze their credit?

    Even if such a database existed there are many ways one can forge his identity. And even if such database existed it wouldn't have prevented tthe terrorists board the planes. MOST OF THEM WERE NOT INVOLVED IN TERRORIST ACTIVITY BEFORE THIS INCIDENT. IT TOOK THE FBI A FULL WEEK OF DIGGING TO FIND THAT SOME WERE "DIRTY".
    And even if such a database was in place and was functional, will you deny to every person ("any potential terrorist" -- those with a tan perhaps -- everybody knows that Middle East is sunny) who doesn't fit the bill the "right to fly"? Or subject them to strip-searches?

    And what good will crypto-backdoors on all US software will do? Will it push back into oblivion the RSA algorithms, or simply the old "Rebecca is OK, we're meeting Tuesday, two weeks from now." (meaning that we'll deliver the bomb two month from now on the third..don't take this literally, Echelon) post on a public site.

    You want to solve the problem -- stop whining.The FBI has all the brawn they need, more muscle won't fill the place were their brains should be (remember the "We did not imagine this scenario" crap -- well you needn't -- Tom Clancy already did, 5 YEARS AGO). Find those responsible and quit whining.