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  1. Re:again, he's right on ESR Says Linux Followers Should Compromise · · Score: 1

    I'm betting you don't, either, if you think knowing how to deal with any particular OS makes you computer-savvy. There's a lot more under the hood, like how modern memory management works.

  2. Re:Bittorrent and Firefox on Opera 9 with Widgets and BitTorrent Now Available · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you won't get off your own ass and actually help, please shut up. Firefox is free software, and free software is primarily driven by the needs of those who write it. If you think the state of things in that area is poor and feel that that is not changing any time soon, then go hack on it yourself.

  3. Re:Pandora and DRM on Comparison of Pandora and Last.fm · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last.fm used to offer you direct access through any mp3 player and, as such, it was easily rippable too. To use the service you now have to download their player, but Vidar Madsen, a GIMP developer, created a nice proxy that makes listening through regular players possible again. It is called lastfmproxy, and you might be able to rip streams from the URL it gives you too.

  4. Re:Perfect timing on Comparison of Pandora and Last.fm · · Score: 3, Informative

    Go to "Download" and select "I'm using an exotic platform" on the dropdown menu and it will give you the option to download the source code. It's not the most intuitive thing in the world, but it's there.

    Direct link: svn://svn.audioscrobbler.net/player/trunk

    You'll have to use subversion to download it.

  5. Re:The site died, so I didn't RTFA on Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think · · Score: 1

    For comics:

    http://comix.sourceforge.net/ (which I personally recommend)
    http://icculus.org/6reader/ (haven't tried yet, but if it's hosted by icculus it's worth a shot)

  6. It could work! Bring Clippy back! on Would You Use Ad-Supported Windows? · · Score: 1

    "You seem to be looking for bestial pornography. Have you considering e-n-l-4-r-g-i-n-g your p|e|n|i|s? 14 inch3s n*o*w, all natural!"

  7. Re:Ummm... on Review: City of Villains · · Score: 3, Funny

    So I take it you're a paladin?

  8. Re:Wait what? on World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It's horde , not hoard, you dolt.

  9. Re:I feel for ya, but them's the rules on Blizzard Made Me Change My Name · · Score: 1

    No way for them to validate that it is truly him? How are they charging his credit card then?

  10. Re:Ads on TransGaming Releases Fast Software 3D Rendering · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Gavriel, do you still sue people for packaging your software?

    Love,

    Someone who remembers the feud you had with Debian

  11. Re:blackholes.us on EU Claims Internet Could Fall Apart Next Month · · Score: 1

    As a Brazilian user, I'd like to mention that the vast majority of the open relays I've come across were from, yes, the good old United States of America.

  12. Re:S'top the press'es! on Novell's Releases Linux Usability Testing Videos · · Score: 1

    You remind me of a bad programmer... You forget required syntax and expect the compiler to do your job for you.. :)

  13. Re:Dear Bruce Schneier on Schneier: Make Banks Responsible for Phishers · · Score: 1

    Do you even know who Bruce is?

  14. Re:Less Useful Than USENET? on OSDL CEO: Microsoft Has to Accept Linux · · Score: 1

    Oh noes!!

  15. Re:You guys are amazing... on MyDoom Windows Worm DDoSing SCO · · Score: 1

    I use Postfix + amavisd-new + ClamAV on Debian stable with an official Postfix backport for stable and a couple of other modifications, probably.

    Here's the appropriate configuration change.

    Edit /etc/amavisd/amavisd.conf and change the $viruses_that_fake_sender_re variable to include
    "Worm.SCO" (and all its variants; ClamAV detects this virus as "Worm.SCO.A"). The proper Perl notation would be, eg. from

    $viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
    qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizz er|palyh|peido|holar'i,
    qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex| mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
    qr'swen|gibe|mimail'i,
    );

    to

    $viruses_that_fake_sender_re = new_RE(
    qr'nimda|hybris|klez|bugbear|yaha|braid|sobig|fizz er|palyh|peido|holar'i,
    qr'tanatos|lentin|bridex| mimail|trojan\.dropper'i,
    qr'swen|gibe|mimail|worm\.sco'i,
    );

    Save, /etc/init.d/amavis reload, go get some coffee, pat yourself on the back.

    Some stats:

    # zgrep Worm.SCO.A mail.log.1.gz|wc -l
    1840
    # grep Worm.SCO.A mail.log|wc -l
    7679

    (mail.log.1.gz is the mail log that was rotated this morning at 6:25 AM BRST (8:25 AM UTC/GMT).

    I suggest that you check this solution out, it might ease your pain.

  16. Re:BIG problem. on Microsoft Wins Browser War, Abandons 'Innovation' · · Score: 1

    But I have lessons in high school, with bunch of idiots who love hip-hop, gangsta, graffitti, this kind of junk.

    "Hip-hop, gangsta, graffitti, this kind of junk"? This only shows that you don't know anything about hip-hop and, even worse, you're patronizing people based on their musical preferences. Please, don't mix it up with gangsta rap and don't call that junk you see spray painted on the walls of your high school graffitti. Inform yourself first, my friend.

    Here are some suggestions for you: Jedi Mind Tricks, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Talib Kweli and Common. Check those out and see if there's anything "gangsta" about that "junk".

  17. Re:Oh PLEASE! on Open Directory Project Adopts Debian Social Contract · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Not news to me on Telstra Says Freedom (Plan) Has Its Limits · · Score: 1

    I bet you are just kidding, but if you do some simple math ((7 * 1024) / 30), you'll see that this allows you only 238 MB a day. I can download that very, very easily, without even resorting to illegal stuff (and pr0n isn't).

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  19. Fair, IMHO on IPIX Shuts Down Free Software Developer - Again · · Score: 2

    Well, it is pretty obvious that they are in all their right. Otherwise, these lawsuits wouldn't be getting thru (or else, everyone will just start saying that Justice isn't effective).

    Think about it: you pay for the right to have access to thousands of other patented technologies. Why, when it comes to software, do we always want to GPL the world? It doesn't matter that the project was about free software; we're talking about Intelectual Property here. That's why patents exist: to protect indefensive corporations from malevolous open source developers.

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  20. Re:Will someone explain to me... on C&W De-Peers PSInet · · Score: 1

    IMHO, "peering" is when you have some agreement between your network and someone else's, so that you can have free/good traffic between both of them. PSINet's situation is pretty much like the situation where someone has a 100 Mbit connection to a machine in his university that, in turn, has a 1 Gbps connection to the world. You get the picture.

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  21. It's the truth on Ballmer Calls Linux "A Cancer" · · Score: 1

    I know how people on this weblog will feel, but Mr. Ballmer speaks the truth in a direct and concise way. Linux tries to attach itself to everything out there, thanks to the virotic nature of the GPL that we all know about.

    Mr. Ballmer makes good points regarding software piracy too. Microsoft is giving us a great opportunity of watching our legal situation by taking care of the piracy monitoring herself.

    Now, the strongest point IMHO: Internet Explorer. It is the best, really. Coming bundled in the OS is nothing but a commodity for us. Can you imagine still having to run the bloated Netscape 6 or Mozilla? Windows and IE run better on old hardware than anything else. And that's a proven fact. Which leads us to that same old question: will open source software ever be as fast as proprietary but user-concerned software? I seriously doubt so.

    So I say, listen to wise people like Steve Ballmer. Give your MS bashing a break.

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  22. Re:*BSD is dying on lpf Removed From OpenBSD · · Score: 2

    That's 42,808 verified users. While re-working this site I had to tossed a couple of thousand users that I could not verify ie. bogus or dead email address. IF that 42,808 users represent only 1% of the FreeBSD users ...

    I'm a Debian user. A verified Debian user. Now, IF this 1 user represents only 0.00000000000000000000000000000001% of the Debian users, then gee, we have trillions of users! Quite a logic you've used there, sir. I'm amazed.

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  23. About time. on Judge OKs FBI Hack Of Russian Computers · · Score: 5

    Very smart move. If possible, I would like to congratulate the judge for his wise decision in person.

    You see, America's traditional values are being completely laughed at by the commies. In the past, there was fun, pro-market hacking. That happy situation changed when access to the U.S. Online Network was opened to development countries. Teenage commies and their relatives now have the opportunity to put in risk our way of life, the safety of our children, and everything else we fought for over hundreds of years, by displaying offensive and satanic material over the Internet. It is something that abhores me and my family.

    These soviet hackers are a direct threat to the safety of your family. Don't let them takeover America. Support foreign prosecution of hackers.

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  24. Re:not neccessarily uphill... on Eurorights Launched · · Score: 1

    We're Sorry, this page no longer exists. Please go to our home page for further site browsing.

    (http://www.mpa.org/about)

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  25. Re:I would love this feature if it was improved on Earthlink's Extra HTTP Header · · Score: 1

    or, you could write a page that will open in any browser.
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