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  1. Re:And how can we stop this? on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just keep making web caches of the banned documents and they will have a "whack-a-mole" problem.

    A mini cache with the most subversive web pages that could fit in 2MB could be automatically distributed to hundreds of web sites.

    You can walk around the so-called "Great" Firewall right now by using existing web caches. Can you imagine how bad they'd lose if there were thousands of caches of subversive pages?

  2. The reason The Great Firewall sucks. on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    click me
    Me too.

    Just keep making web caches of the banned documents and they will have a "whack-a-mole" problem.

  3. Re:slashdot is blocked on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    I have problems using the " Test another URL:" field. Many unblocked sites show up as blocked when given that way. You will notice that the wrong URL is in the brower's URL bar during the test and the blocked site won't show up in their blocked site list after the test is finished.

    Seems it's better to just edit the URL in the browser's URL field.

  4. Re:Won't be long on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    It is possible to pull up banned web pages via the google cache. I used to do this at work all the time to get around the firewall back when we had one. That is probably why the blocked it.

  5. Re:Does this test actually work? on Real-Time Testing of China's Internet Filters · · Score: 1

    I have problems using the "test another URL" field. Seems it doesn't always update the site being checked and causes "random" blocked/unblocked results. The "block" errors are never logged to the list of blocked sites.

    It is much easier and more reliable to just edit the URL in the brower's URL field at the top.

  6. SIV In Cameroon Of Potential Danger To Humans on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    Studies have shown that several types of SIV could replicate in human lymphocytes, thus suggesting that a potential for human contamination exists, or even for an HIV-3 to appear. [More]

  7. Re:Rather simple on Chimps, AIDS, And Immunity · · Score: 1

    There are problems with that theory.

  8. Insider Trading on Venezuela Goes Open Source · · Score: 1

    Bill Gates sold about 23 million shares of M$ today.

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Proposes Sale of 1,000,000 Microsoft Corp Shar 8/30/02 1:54 PM

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Proposes Sale of 1,000,000 Microsoft Corp Shar 8/30/02 1:49 PM

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Sells 7,000,000 Microsoft Corp Shares 8/30/02 1:37 PM

    Gates William H III, Off, Dir & Ben Own, Sells 1,993,700 Microsoft Corp Shares 8/30/02 1:37 PM

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Sells 999,400 Microsoft Corp Shares 8/30/02 1:37 PM

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Sells 2,000,003 Microsoft Corp Shares 8/30/02 1:36 PM

    Gates William H III, Chmn of Brd, Sells 10,000,000 Microsoft Corp Shares 8/30/02 1:36 PM

    Probably just diversifying his portfolio or funding some charity or ???

  9. Re:Yeah in a big way! on Changing Face of Linux? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:postscript on Where's GNU/Linux Usage Headed? · · Score: 2, Funny

    But everybody should be running GNU and X11. There's no excuse. :)

  11. Re:postscript on Where's GNU/Linux Usage Headed? · · Score: 2, Informative

    What can a microsoft peon like myself view a postscript file with?

    What you're not running CygWin with XFree86 and GNU ghostscript on your Windows box?

    While running Windows go to those web sites and click on "Install Now" on each of them to run setup for each free product. If you have enough disk space you will eventually have the X Window System and a UNIX emulator running on your box. To update the system at a later date just use "install now" again.

  12. Re:But they did sell it on Gobe Productive To Be GPLed · · Score: 1

    So the fact that the FSF isn't happy with you simply GPLing your software, but wants you assign them the copyright is for what reason exactly? The copyright holder, usually the original author, does have special rights.

    RMS grew up in a world where all software was Free. On day he encountered a program that he felt he needed to modify and discovered that the source code would not be given to him. The GPL stems from that.

  13. Re:You know, it's just too easy on Diamonds - Are They Really Worth the Cost? · · Score: 1

    It is freaky to see them grow up and get married but it happens. Click here and scroll down to The Permanent Traveling Julia Roadshow.

  14. Re:Upgrading once a week? Is he serious? on August 2002 Daemon News Ezine Published · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's really quite simple. You can lock into the RELEASE version of the OS and only get critical updates that way. If you edit your /etc/cvsupfile so that this this is set:

    *default tag=RELENG_4_6

    when you run "cvsup /etc/cvsupfile" you will pull down FreeBSD 4.6.1-RELEASE-p7 today not 4.6-STABLE.

    Most productions systems are safe to update once a week that way. You will eventually need to do a real update.

  15. Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX on Microsoft To Exhibit at LinuxWorld Expo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Are they going to be plugging this creature? They are testing it against RedHate Linux.

  16. Re:vi on Solaris 5.7 still crashes! on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1

    I always use "x" as the default mark name. The c'd worked on 2.11BSD vi version 3.7, 6/7/85 which is the oldest one I have handy.

    I'd be interested in seeing what SunOS 4.x.x does. I bet that this is a result of that train wreck with SysV crashing into SunOS.

  17. Re:vi on Solaris 5.7 still crashes! on Pet Bugs? · · Score: 1
    I just figured it out. In vi, make a mark named "d" ( for those who are limited out there, do this by simply hitting "m" and then "d", no ":" is required ) next move down a line ( "j" key, or down arrow for the limited ones ) Then hit do a change to that d mark. ( type c'm ) Do this on Solaris and vi will core dump. vim 5.8.7 on Redhat 7.1 seems to be fixed.


    Version 3.7, 6/7/85 on 2.11 BSD on a p11 PDP-11 emulator just beeps when you do that.
  18. Wal-mart re-words ad on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 1

    Seems they have changed the wording of their ad a bit over time. It
    no longer makes any claims about lindows ability to run windows apps.
    There was an older ad which said lindows was a unix and could run most
    windows apps but it cannot be accessed from the search engine built
    into the walmart.com site. You only get this:

    Microtel PCs with LindowsOS
    The low cost alternative to computers preloaded with Microsoft
    Windows. These PCs ship with an exciting new Linux based Operating
    System (OS) named Lindows. This exciting new OS delivers the stability
    of Linux with the ease of Windows and they include a trial membership
    to a library of over 1,000 software programs so they can be outfitted
    for any purpose whether business, home, or entertainment.

  19. Re:Stromatolites on Baked Alaska · · Score: 1
    Evidence of removal of CO2 leading to global cooling in the past

    See this page for this quote

    The major cause of snowball earth and its subsequent melting is down to variations in the quantities of greenhouse gases.


    and much more about the effect of green house gasses in the past.

  20. Stromatolites on Baked Alaska · · Score: 1

    Stromatolites must have also caused a climate change as they removed C02 from the atmosphere. Has anyone studied this change in relationship to what is happening now?

    See this page for a timeline of atmosphere activity including the introduction of oxygen. Was there a climate change during that period?

  21. ouch my brain hurts! on Baked Alaska · · Score: 1
    "We're not going to let global warming sneak up on us," said Curtis Thomas, a spokesman for the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, which runs the pipeline.

  22. Lindows runs AOL 7 on Walmart Ships PCs with Lindows OS · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to an artcle on NewsForge AOL runs on Wine 2.0.

    Here is a screen shot with an AOL icon

    Running AOL wins most of the user acceptance battle.

  23. Re:MicroBSD on OpenBSD 3.1 Released · · Score: 1

    The MicroBSD features list includes:

    * No System User Accounts

    So you got rid of that nasty root account?

    Seriously, what on earth does "no system user accounts" mean?

  24. Re:Fabric of Reality on The Universe in 4 Lines of Code? · · Score: 1
    That said, if it's only 4 lines of code, how possible would a brute force attempt to check out the 3 or 4 lines of code idea be? I wonder if the author would consider licensing the mathematica program for use in a distributed attempt. How would you check?


    Didn't waste of your precious time reading the Wired interview, did you? If you had you would have read that nobody has the code.

  25. Re:I've been using this same software for a year n on Caldera releases original unices under BSD license · · Score: 1

    2.9BSD_rl02_1145 turns out to be very boring. RL02 drives do not have but one partition. There is only an empty /usr directory with nothing to mount.

    The one you want is 2.11_rp06 174,423,040 bytes long. It has a complete source code distribution to 2.11BSD and is still being actively maintained via patches sent to USENET.

    I think the PUPS archive has it.