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  1. Re:Why IT is annoying on Are You Annoying? · · Score: 1

    A solution applied in these cases is to let the user have root (or admin) on his work machine, but tell them that they WILL NOT support it, except for re-ghosting to their standard image. If you can deal with it, fine.

    Oh, and they firewall you to prevent virus spreading and other problems.

  2. Re:Here's one way to get the most from it on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    If the domain has a bad e-mail contact, try the owner of the IP block. If it's also junk data, try a traceroute and the owners of the intermediate links (the ISP of the IP block owner). One of them is bound to have an anti-spam policy.

  3. Re:Here's one way to get the most from it on Is A Catch-All Address Worth The Spam? · · Score: 1

    Can you e-mail me and/or post the scripts you used for the bounces. I'm in the middle of being joe-jobbed for random addresses on my domain. I'm trying to filter these for spam content, with varying levels of success.

    Oh, and don't use the default address posted above (It's blackholed). Use quinxy AT alon.wox.org. Thanks.

  4. Re:Question.... on System Downtime, Maintenance · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because the UK is in daylight savings time...
    UK TIME != GMT.

  5. Re:EULA on 'Stealth' Worm Hinders Sandbox Analysis · · Score: 1

    It would be even stickier if you neglect to provide the "I reject" button...

  6. Godel, Escher, Bach on Books that Changed Your Life? · · Score: 4, Informative

    an Eternal Golden Braid.

    A must book for anyone serious about CS.

  7. Re:Maybe They're Testing the Waters... on MSN's Slate Recommends Firefox over IE · · Score: 1

    First, there are many IE-only websites which will become broken if IE switches to the Gecko rendering engine. Second, the IE-only sites are a good thing for M$. That way they keep their monopoly on IE and subsequently on Windows.

    IE is not a profit center in itself, but it is there to lock people into Windows. If you make IE standards-compatible, you have one less application lock people into Windows.

  8. Re:Why I don't do Hard Drive backups anymore... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Well, I have TWO backups of everything. One offsite.

  9. Re:My accident on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    What you should have done: Boot from floppy (any DOS version would do) and run:
    FDISK /MBR

  10. Two Words on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    Offsite backup.

  11. Re:A word of advice... on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    until someone does touch -- -rf\ .. in /tmp or whatever. Now try doing rm * there...

  12. Re:Get Computer Insurance on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    However, insurance does make sense when you know more than the insurance company. For example, my Mother is a very untypical user of VCRs. She runs it for 5-12 hours a day (and I mean taping or playing). So, the repairs insurance we have (part of the home insurance) repays itself well. Just to say that the VCR repairs alone repay the cost of the repair insurance for the entire house.

  13. Re:The Worst. on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    That's why I always keep backups. I have a nightly scripts that rsyncs /home /etc /root /var and /usr/local to both a spare drive on my machine and a remote server. Furthermore, critical stuff like my thesis is CVS'd and I check in versions every once in a while.

  14. Re:The Worst. on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    My program consisted of several directories, with executables in each, thus the possibility for the existence of core files in each.

    In that case, your command would not have worked correctly, the wildcard expansion is done by the shell before the filenames are fed to the command (rm in this case). The correct command would have been something like: find -name core| xargs rm.

  15. Moore's next film on Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If Moore is against Copyright, he should make a film about the DMCA, the Sonny-Bonno copyright extention act, software patents, and similar freedom-inhibiting laws. That kind of film could really make a difference.

  16. Audio on Dialup? on Dial-Up Audio Public Listening Test Opened · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just USE THE PHONE?

    Yes, I know there are applications for this, like doing some other thing while listening to audio, and the prohibitive internatioanl call rates, but still..

  17. Re:Find a new bank on New IE Malware Captures Passwords Ahead Of SSL · · Score: 1

    Well, I did that when my previous bank only supported IE. I also told them exactly why I left them.

  18. Re:A few random thoughts... on Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Why are people still using IE6?
    I've recently installed IE6 on a computer (I've also restricted it to a very limited set of IPs). There are some companies who use IE6 as a thin-client for their proprietary applications. I installed that computer for someone who does business with that company (the company also supplied dedicated hardware and internet access to run this application).
    If anyone knows of an easy way to make IE only contact a fixed list of sites, please let me know.

  19. Re:this law stinks on Supreme Court Rules Against Anti-Porn Law · · Score: 1

    I just did that search, and there was no objectionable material in the first three pages, even without safe search enabled.

  20. Re:A Plea to the Linux Developers on Slow Printing on Linux? · · Score: 1

    Mustek 1200UB works with provided binary Linux driver. HP PSC1110 (printer/scanner/copier) works with hpoj (open-source, HP supported driver).

  21. Re:And it will still be no good on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want to pay "e-mail insurance", better buy your own domain and host your e-mail address there. If your ISP goes under, you can always switch.

  22. Hey Scott Rubin! on Lessig Legal Team Needs Your Copyright Stories · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No need to find original Scorched Earth source code, because there's xscorch, the free software clone.

  23. Re:Practice puzzle slashdotted but I copied it her on Google-Sponsored 2004 US Puzzle Championship · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Solution: ._.

  24. Re:Not that impressive on Gmail Spam Filter Testing · · Score: 1

    Impressive, given that Firebird does not include a mail client. You're probably referring to Thunderbird or Mozilla.

  25. Prior Art on McAfee Granted Far-Reaching Spam-Control Patent · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bayesian spam filtering was invented and implemented long before Paul Graham's "A plan for spam". A project I wrote for a course in July 2001 that does Bayesian filtering was based on papers suggesting to do the same for spam, the predated that time. I used the same technique in 2001 to write an internal ad filter (something to filter ads inside mailing list postings) using bayesian methods, so this is clearly prior art.