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  1. Poster? on Visual Map of Unix history · · Score: 1

    Someone needs to license that from the author and make a nice poster out of it. It's pretty interesting data and shows the family trees well.

  2. Re:I have an interesting tale about Akamai on Censorware Blocking Methods Using Akamai · · Score: 1

    "an external attempt to connect to me" doesn't really say what it was. They were probably doing ping triangulation to see which of their servers was closest to you. I'm pretty sure they weren't checking to see if you'd shared your C drive.

  3. Re:BUILTIN/System not the same as a user account on Default Behavior: Piranha vs. Microsoft SQL Server · · Score: 1

    The hole will let you run arbitrary commands as the user that is running the sql server, usually administrator. Yes, you can delete files from the server. It's an administrator-privileged command shell.

  4. Of course it wasn't news on Default Behavior: Piranha vs. Microsoft SQL Server · · Score: 2

    Everyone knows that Microsoft only makes perfectly secure products. Only that Linux stuff has security holes, and people need reminded of it constantly (even if it's not a completely accurate reminder).

  5. Re:No! on Techno Jacket · · Score: 1

    For those with the Dead Kennedy's Give me convenience or give me death, would track 2 be a 500 error?

  6. Re:Language on English Language And Its Effect On Programming? · · Score: 1

    I can't believe "programming style" and 4th Dimension are being mentioned in the same breath. It's such an ugly language and an equally bad environment.

  7. PowerPuff? on Cool Cases At QuakeCon · · Score: 5
    I get nervous putting a powerpuff girls sticker on my case *grin*
    In my neighborhood, you'd better be real nervous to be putting powerpuff stickers on anything.
  8. Re:256 Pages ... on Cyberselfish: Technolibertarianism · · Score: 1

    No, 256/32 = 8. 32 is the number of pages on the large sheets of paper that are cut up to produce books.

  9. Re:Some thoughts for when the crisis hits on Overcomming Programmer's Block? · · Score: 1

    That's hilarious!
    My puppy has figured out how to get lots of attention and make me very animated - just bumping his nose on the glowing button on the front of my computer causes me to make sounds and motions and usually results in some petting during the reboot and fsck.

  10. More and more frightening on Apple, Pixar And Disney To Merge? · · Score: 1

    This still isn't as scary as the AOL-TW merger, IMHO.

  11. deja vu again? on Merging Unix And Mac OS · · Score: 2

    Must be a slow news day, this has been circulating for weeks...

  12. ouch on ARM-Based ATX Mobos · · Score: 2

    too expensive! not to mention the only dealer that carries them has a total of about 3 html pages on their site not labeled as under construction...

  13. Looks like parts of AIX on IBM Promises Logical Volume Management For Linux · · Score: 1
    The lvm system in AIX is pretty much like this. I'm guessing they are going to yank pieces of that out to implement it.

    It works fairly well, but I've only used it up to around 15 gigs.

    I wish some of this cooperation would result in the release of specs for the older RS/6000 machines. I guess releasing an lvm system is more sexy than documentation on 5 year old machines.

  14. Re:RIAA demands the impossible on Napster Wars · · Score: 1
    That's just such a bullshit statement coming in a forum full of IT people or aspiring (college student) IT professionals. A music CD which costs a record company tens of thousands to produce prior to it even being pressed (and that's just for a small no-name band) and being sold to you for $15 is too much, but Redhat selling a CD full of software that they in no way financed for $49 is okay. RedHat isn't selling the CD for $49. They are selling a person at the other end of the phone or replying to your email. You can buy the same thing at cheapbytes for $1.99. If you're on a fast connection, you don't even have to purchase anything else (other than your connection).

    This is more like buying the cd for $15 if you want the case/cover art, but being able to pay $.50 for a single song.

  15. cuts changes of theft on Titan AE Distributed Digitally · · Score: 1

    if it never hits film, you can't snag it and run at the theater. hope their bandwidth is up to it.

  16. Self Publishing on Publishing-Online or "Dead Tree" Format? · · Score: 1
    If you wanted to publish it yourself, check out http://www.bookzilla.com/.

    You get to keep all the rights and deal with the marketing yourself. We can print anything up to about 400-500 pages. If you buy a few hundred copies, we can work out a custom cover design.

  17. Interscope? on The MP3 Troubles Continue · · Score: 2

    Are TVT and Interscope still together? I hope I don't have to stop listening to my NIN cds. The newer ones are labeled with the Nothing/Interscope labels, but the older ones (broken) have TVT on the back.

  18. Re:Google and that much data on Google's 4000 Node Linux Cluster · · Score: 2
    How long did it take you to make this up?



    This presented some unique problems, tho. Using 300 nodes meant that, potentially, you could have 300 connections to EACH CLIENT. We needed to make a transparent single point of entry and use a 10.X.X.X ->legal NAT translation. Problem with that, of course, is that NAT often breaks apps like Real Audio or Napster or anything that embeds source/destination within the packet to be router through the routing level of the requestor.


    Using NAT as a front-end to a server farm returning straight HTML documents won't cause any problems.


    Go away!

  19. Re:What's next? on Rural India Could Get Internet Access Via Railway · · Score: 2
    Scientists at MIT have succeeded today in turning a poodle into a 10Mbps data link. While the technology is still in its infancy, analysts speculate that in the future the internet will no longer rely on wires or satellites. Instead, roads will be artificially sprayed with water to form large puddles.

    Well, I would rather slosh through puddles than poodles, but that's because I have a dog and know what they can be like :-)

  20. Re:Legal disclaimer needed on What's in Your Issue File? · · Score: 1

    That's ridiculous. Ignorance of the law is no excuse. People are ignorant enough without encouraging them to know even less.

  21. Re:Question about 1 time pad on Crack A "Numbers" Station · · Score: 1

    The recipient of the message would have a document that says 344 = do an action or not do an action, etc. 344 next week may be a different action. You use the pad once and dispose of it.
    It's different than a cipher type thing that can be decoded based on a key. The key here is a book or paper.

  22. sounds bad on Crack A "Numbers" Station · · Score: 3

    "Thanks for cracking the code! Your prize is a bullet in the head from a black helicopter in your back yard."

  23. A bit sparse? on Linux IA-64 Resource Portal · · Score: 1

    It's more of a shell than a portal :-)

  24. Re:OK for me, but not for you. on At Last And At Length: Lars Speaks · · Score: 1

    By the time that tape gets to a dozen people, it's going to sound like hell. The 100th person to get the mp3 will have the same cd quality audio as the first person.

  25. an expert generalist on What are Your Programming Goals? · · Score: 1

    To start with knowing a little bit about absolutely everything, and then expand depthwise from there.

    Failing that, be a web nerd until I can become a beach bum full time.