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  1. Evoluent Vertical mouse on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    The Evoluent Vertical mouses have three base buttons, are ergonomical and is programmable.

    http://evoluent.com/products/v...

  2. simple and automatable on Ask Slashdot: Best Management Interface On an IT Appliance? · · Score: 1

    * A simple web frontend for manual things, that simply works in modern browsers
    * A complete and easy (no SOAP please, yes I'm looking at you BIG-IP/F5) API and/or cli that can be driven from automation tools, and that provides easily for idempotency.

  3. Re:Ok, so I got the popcorn ready.... on First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ngix or whatever it's called is clearly a bot,

    It's called Nginx (http://nginx.net/) and it's a well known HTTP and proxy server.

    any program that recieves input and performs a task fits that definition

    Isn't that also some kind of definition of every networked software?

  4. abuse of process on Patent Trolls Target Small East Texas Companies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    > "It will be interesting to see how East Texas judges respond
    > to this abuse of process perpetrated against their own residents."

    abuse of process? Does such a thing exist in the USA?

  5. Re:Blame employers on The Death Of CS In Education? · · Score: 1

    Too many employers look for checklists of skills rather than overall knowledge of an area.

    You couldn't be more on target if you shot it with a .357 Magnum.
    Let me guess, you live in the Far West area?
  6. Plain Old Telephone?? on Movies Delivered Via Television Signal · · Score: 1
    The bad part? The Moviebeam player also requires a connection to a phone jack -- every fortnight the box dials a toll-free number in the middle of the night to tally how much you've spent on movies so far, for the benefit of your monthly statement.


    Through the phone line? My God, that's like back to the nineties. Here in Belgium the set-top-box connects with ethernet to a cablemodem (just like my LAN router) and gets a (private range) IP address to communicate those administrativa.
  7. More than security updates? on New Enterprise-Level Ubuntu Due This Week · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I hope "Ubuntu Support" means more than only security updates, like we now have with Debian Stable.
    IMHO, Debian sometimes leaves certain packages broken for the sake of stability, which is not always a good thing.
    Support means more than security, functionality is also important.

    Of course I'm not speaking of newer versions of packages, but more of the full range of bugs that apply to a certain package. Dapper having 5 years support, I also expect more backports to become available.

  8. Re:Collaboration on Office Delayed, Too · · Score: 2, Funny

    We should tell Linus and his team about this software. I'm sure it could help kernel development, which happens online all over the world. As they can't have a lot of face to face meetings, this Office 12 looks like a good solution for them.

  9. Attacks reflected by authorative servers? on DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion · · Score: 1

    What would be the difference to start a DRDOS attack by sending spoofed requests to authorative servers, querying for records they are authorative for?

  10. DRDOS on DDoS Attacks Via DNS Recursion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds more of a Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attack actually. Old news indeed.

  11. Zoneminder on A DVR Security System That Isn't Based on Windows? · · Score: 1

    Maybe this software can help you:

        http://www.zoneminder.com/

  12. Readable email transcribes on Infamous Emails Don't Always Kill Careers · · Score: 1

    Since when are email transcribes (http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=1635684) easily readable from top to bottom??

    On another note, as email is easily forged, how easy would it be to victimise someone you disliked and get away with it before the victim could prove his right? With some luck a forged email would spread like most hoaxes and may be picked up by the media.

  13. The Star Trek Magic on International Call for Open Standards · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Open Standards are what it takes to reroute energy from an Alien Ship to the Engine Room or reconfigure Energy Coils and adapt special Capacitors.
    OK, I'm no Trekkie, but you get the point. You'll need Open Standards (and adherence to them) to make things "Just Work (tm)."

  14. Re:Obviously on Infrastructure for One Million Email Accounts? · · Score: 1

    FYI, Exchange 2003 Service Pack 2 will allow for a 75GB store.

  15. The ususal missing Coral Cache link on Earth Departure Movie From MESSENGER Spacecraft · · Score: 0, Redundant
  16. Re:Active Directory integration? on Exchange Alternatives Round-up · · Score: 1

    Exchange 2K3 SP? (the latest who is to come) will grant you a limit of 75MB.

  17. What about Windows DNS servers? on Ten Percent of DNS Servers Still Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    Are they vulnerable for this, and if so to what extent, (what versions)?

  18. Re:No, because on System Administrator Appreciation Day · · Score: 1

    if you work in an environment where the servers are reliable, systems work smoothly, etc, then you have sysadmins who are doing their job well.

    You mean, if they get the time for it?

  19. Keep it simple if you're small. on Online Backup Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Always make local online backups / synced mirrors.
    If the data is small or doesn't change that often, make mirrors on external discs (cheap USB or the like).

    If your data is really small enough (e.g. 3GiB), you might consider online backups. Don't forget to calculate the download time when you would be in the need to perform a disaster recovery though.

    If you got lot's of data (e.g. 30 GiB) go for tape backups.

  20. Re:Paul Vixie really controls it... on U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS · · Score: 1

    Actually, the root hints file is used at start up. That data is updated in memory, fetched by querying one of the name servers.
    At least AFAIK that's what happens in Bind.

    Manually updating the file is as simple as

    root@dns:/etc/bind# dig NS @A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > db.root.new

  21. Yet another Palm on PalmOne to become Palm Again; PalmSource & Linux · · Score: 1

    As long as they don't mess with http://www.palmbreweries.com/index.php?language=en :test this one, let those PHB's have fun.

  22. Old news on Linux and OpenOffice save Microsoft Presentation · · Score: 1

    Did anybody checked this? It's old: http://paq.osdn.org.ua.nyud.net:8090/~mike/img/MS- uses-OOo/ [IMG] hpim2544.jpg 11-Oct-2004 21:25 460k [IMG] hpim2544.sized.jpg 11-Oct-2004 21:25 95k

  23. Script it on Updating Free Software in the Enterprise? · · Score: 1

    psexec @computerstodeploy.txt -u user -p pass firefoxsetup.exe -ms

    Also check http://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/

  24. Re:DNS? on Loophole found in Internet Domain Naming · · Score: 2, Insightful

    IP addresses are for n00bs. REAL hackers memorize MAC addresses.

    You won't get very far beyond your LAN with those.

  25. Other news: Gates Promises Action on Spy & Mal on Microsoft Warns of Impossible to Clean Spyware · · Score: 1