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  1. Learn the OS first on Windows Virus Takes Out Gov't Agencies in MD, PA · · Score: 1

    FTP is not "tied" into the OS. In fact, none of these services are tied into the OS. I run many servers and Full set of services: http, ftp, pop3, imap, ssh, smtp.... and none of them use a /etc/passwd file. In fact, they all come out of an LDAP store.

  2. Re:Amazing on New Theory on Water Strider Propulsion · · Score: 0

    I think it's amazing that people can actually believe that things like this happen by accident. Maybe evolution didn't come up with this design. Maybe God did.

  3. Re:Lawyers on Who Owns Source Code When a Company Folds? · · Score: 1
    In short, contact a lawyer


    Especially since you mentioned that you are from an ex Soviet nation. What would a bunch of American /.'rs know?

  4. Re:Is Red Hat big enough to fight? on Red Hat Sues SCO, Sets Up Legal Fund · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it also works well to let Red Hat be the barking dog to distract them while IBM prepares the death blow. :)

  5. NET Bible on In The Beginning & The Keys of Egypt · · Score: 1

    Yes, it's the NET Bible

  6. Re:Sound familar? I'll say the same thing I did th on NASA Test Shows Foam Could Be Culprit · · Score: 4, Informative

    They didn't just pull that number out of thin air. They looked at the film, calculated the distance the foam traveled in one frame, and thus the speed it hit. True, there's some margin of error in that, but there's an awful lot of intelligent people behind that number.

  7. I see it all the time on Public Confused by Tech Lingo · · Score: 2, Insightful
    In an ISP and computer repair business, you see this all the time.

    "Please bring your computer in so we can look at it."
    "The whole thing?"
    "No, just the main tower."
    "Oh, you mean the hard drive?"
    ....

    Sometimes I can understand that not everyone is this interested in computers, and wouldn't know all th terms.

    OTOH, I'm not a bit interested in cars, but I know what an alternator is.

  8. In other news... on Addicted to Information? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oxygen can give you a high feeling. I think I'm addicted to air...

  9. Score -1: Troll on July 6th - Website Defacement Day? · · Score: 5, Funny
    Once again the desire to moderate a story flares up.


    Please don't feed the trolls.

  10. Mod up! on SCO Gives Friday Deadline To IBM · · Score: 1
    Lol! This is the best twist of an argument I've seen yet! ROTFL

  11. Re:Unix looks generic to me on Apple Sued Over Unix Trademark · · Score: 1
    No mod pointss, but LOL.


    Indeed. LOL!

  12. Re:Oh My God! It's true! on The Gospel According to Neo · · Score: 1

    Nal GEHR qvfpvcyr xabjf lbh arrq gb EBG13 svefg.

    BS pbhefr, gung znxrf ab qvssrerapr ba ahzoref...

  13. Re:Enforceable? on E-mail Tax As Way Of Preventing Spam · · Score: 1

    Do you own a business? Would you care to justify that thought?

    I own an ISP, and I don't have room in the budget for the cost that an email tax would place on us. Not to mention the cost of the hardware needed to run the accounting for all email messages.

  14. Re:Beautiful on SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE · · Score: 1

    Ok, what's scary is that I completely followed that bit of reasoning. Darned calculus.

    I'm going home now.

  15. List of RSS feeds? on Content Syndication With RSS · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It seems like this would be a good way for major news outlets to draw traffic to their sites - if I could put a brief RSS generated bit of info on one of my web pages, people might click the link and go to the other web sites. So why can't I find any RSS feeds for major news sites like CNN and such?

    Making an RSS feed is easy - I want to have RSS feeds of other more interesting sites avaiable to put in my own web pages. And that would benefit everyone, no?

  16. Re:This doesn't make any sense at all on The Future of Leap Seconds · · Score: 1

    I saw that subject, and then read the comment, and was very disappointed. With a subject line of "That doesn't make any sense" the comment should be "but then again, you are very small."

    -- with apologies to Peter Jackson and Treebeard.

  17. Does this mean... on "Super-DMCA" Outlaws Ph.D. Thesis · · Score: 1

    Kansas is no longer the state to dump on?

    (I'm from Kansas)

  18. Please on Enlightenment goes 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Who in their right mind would ever *actually* release a product on April 1st?

    At least, not in the open software world... :P

  19. Re:They may be shared machines on Arrested for Planting Spyware on College Compus · · Score: 1

    That's what programs like Ghost are for... if a user installs something that breaks other programs, just ghost a fresh copy of a known good configuration back over the hard drive. All trojans, viruses and broken programs are gone.

  20. Re:Natural? on XML and Perl · · Score: 3, Informative
    Not really. If you're using XML as "just another text format", then you're making a funamental mistake. Within your software, you should always be treating XML as a hierarchical data structure, not as a text stream. Apart from manipulating CDATA or attribute value text, Perl has no particular strength with XML.

    Indeed, the perl only XML libraries are quite slow. I believe most of the quality perl XML handling is done by modules that use C libraries to do the grunt work. However, if the data in the XML itself is text data, then of course, perl and XML are a good match. Add SOAP and mod_perl into the mix, and you got some very nifty tools.

  21. IT is subset of CS on Girls not Going into CS · · Score: 1

    No, the truth is that IT is a subset of CS. The domain of CS is ultimately the study of all the potential uses of computers. IT is just one practical application of CS.

  22. Re:Faramir got jobbed (SPOILER) on LOTR: The Two Towers · · Score: 1
    This is the most infuriating aspect of the whole movie for me. Faramir is actually my favorite character.
    • Faramir resisted the temptation very solidly while still in Itilien. He laughed at the irony, and it alarmed the hobbits, but he truly had no desire to take the ring.
    • He was a leader that all of Gondor loved. Frodo and Sam had no trouble trusting him, in fact, Sam slipped and revealed what the ring was because of the fact that he trusted Faramir
    • He fearless led the battles even without his Father's blessing. He tried to take his fallen brother's place. But as far as I remember, he never really complained.
    • He recognized his King when he awoke. He knew his duty, and he was humble enough to recognize his Lord when he saw him.
    Who was that *&^(*@# jerk in the movie? that was NOT Faramir.
  23. Better Use for it: on On EBay: Shuttle Flight Deck Simulator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A place like the Kansas Cosmosphere might be a btter place for this thing. A truly wonderful place, despite /.'s fear of Kansas.

  24. Re:on home-based solar power... on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    That's why electricians *ALWAYS* treat the wire as being hot.

  25. New popup material on Micro Air Vehicles · · Score: 1, Funny

    And you thought the X10 cameras were *NOT* used for improper spying... sheesh