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  1. Re:It's a bit of a challenge, and one to be avoide on Additional Security in the Linux Kernel? · · Score: 0, Troll

    "kernel were written in x86" ??

    is x86 a language? You mean if the kernel were pure Assembly it would not have the problems it does because its written in C?

    You know C was designed more or less as a "portable assembly language" for the PDPs. That is WHY it has the buffer-overflow type problems it does.

  2. Re:Lexmark on HP: Rival Printers Mean No More HPs Through Dell · · Score: 1

    Slashdot ate my

    Im assuming you forgot the <sarcasm> tags around that statement.

  3. Re:Lexmark on HP: Rival Printers Mean No More HPs Through Dell · · Score: 1

    Im assuming you forgot the tags around that statement.

    Lexmark makes the most unreliable printers I have ever seen, from big office printers to little home printers, they are all the same: Jam frequently, low quality output. And the network ones cant even seem to stay online for a single day. DHCP is hopeless, and even if you go assign a static IP on the things, they still become unavailable on the network for no apparent reason.

  4. Re:Unisys should be hunting these guys down on ISO Could Withdraw JPEG Standard · · Score: 1

    http://www.forgent.com/images/front_page/photo_who le.jpg

    So what program made that JPG? Must be something Sony made...

    But really, I hope unisys finds a way to sue forgent for something related to gifs, because that would be really damn funny.

  5. BBSing! on Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee · · Score: 2, Interesting

    JPG was popular way back when I was running a dialup BBS. There were lots of utils like GIF2JPG.EXE and JPG2GIF.EXE and big debates on the message boards about which was better. I know I was still running a dialup board in '94 so JPG has been popular for well over 8 years from my standpoint. Its definately past the 6 in which you have to make the claim of infringment.

    Oh, Im sure I can dig up a backup of those GIF2JPG.EXE utils which would probably have a date they were made in them too.

  6. Re:"Compression Labs" on Suddenly a JPEG Patent and Licensing Fee · · Score: 1

    Do you really want browsers to support MNG? Seriously, JPG and PNG are just fine (still and behaved) whereas GIF (and MNG) are just exploited for really annoying obnoxious banner ads.

  7. Re:Digital not that big an improvement???? on The Future of Digital Cinema · · Score: 1

    I always hate the dust floating around the screen in movie theatures, but I thought that was from the air and light projection from the back of the cinema having to go all the way to the front.

    Does digital projection somehow change that, or does the dust come from some other place.

    On the other hand, I kinda like the cigarette burns. Ever since Fight Club tought me what they mean..

  8. This is a step in the WRONG direction on One Terabyte On a 12-inch^H^H^H^Hcm Disk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well sorta ...

    at 100mbit/sec, we can say about 12.5 mbyte/sec transfer rates. That is really slow now-a-days for a hard drive. 1gbit/sec (125mbyte/sec) is decent, but with UDMA100/UDMA133 standard right now, this technology seems to be behind times in speed when it finally gets released for PCs a year or two from now.

    Remember, the hard drive is probably the bottleneck in almost every PC and server, particularly with huge databases. I would really like to see hard drives get faster and faster instead of bigger and bigger.

  9. Re:I've said it before, and I'll say it again on Liquid Audio Sues In Pitiful Attempt to Appear Relevant · · Score: 1

    Does the so-called Great Firewall of China really allow for such development?

  10. Re:It IS getting out of hand on Firm Pays 6.5 Million for Fax Spamming · · Score: 1

    I've got perlscanner+fprot (free) on my personal linux mail server. Is spamassassin free for personal use, or is there something else free I can use? Give some URLs!

  11. Re:Has it occured to anyone... on Video Games Found To Decrease Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't decreased activity be a good thing?


    Kinda like how people who run long distances all the time eventually get a really low heart rate because its so efficient at pumping, it doesnt need to beat so fast.

  12. Why do we even need instant messaging? on Will Instant Messaging Ever Unite? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is there anything really useful that any instant messanger does that could NOT be done via a tray-application communication over IRC? You can still have messages pop up or be displayed in various styles. You can still have some sort of encryption over IRC if you wanted to Im sure. Transfer files? sure, thats what DCC is for. ICQ supports sending messages when the user if offline, but it hardly works since they might not gett the message for days. Most other IMs require the user to be online. I look at something like Trillian, with IRC support built in, and wonder what is great and new about the ICQ/Y!/MSM/AIM protocols? Do they really let you do anything different?

  13. Re:The article summary was misleading on The Reverse Challenge: Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    IPv4 is IP version 4, IPv11 would be version 11.

    The protocol field is stored in the IP header, not the TCP or UDP header. IP protocol number 11 is correct here, just as IP protocol number 17 is UDP.

  14. Re:Deep L:inking Defined on Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal · · Score: 1

    My ad blocker (socks proxy) has the ability to strip referer headers:

    http://www.morpheussoftware.net/sab/

  15. Re:No more search engines either on Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal · · Score: 1

    Anybody actually seen ads like this in real use?
    Without software that filters Javascript good enough, these could be really annoying, as they "force" you to look at the ad before the site, without any redirects.

    http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex11/dhtmlad .htm

  16. Re:Who's this? on BitchX 1.0c19 IRC Client Backdoored · · Score: 0, Redundant
    According to http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space Its a RIPE IP, and according to http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois/

    inetnum: 213.77.115.0 - 213.77.115.255
    netname: DATACOM
    descr: Datacom
    descr: Warszawa Bemowo
    country: PL
    admin-c: AW7760-RIPE
    tech-c: RW7118-RIPE
    status: ASSIGNED PA
    mnt-by: AS5617-MNT
    changed: tkielb@cst.tpsa.pl 20000915
    source: RIPE

    route: 213.77.0.0/16
    descr: TPNET (PL)
    descr: Provider Local Registry
    origin: AS5617
    notify: konradpl@zt.piotrkow.tpsa.pl
    mnt-by: AS5617-MNT
    changed: konradpl@zt.piotrkow.tpsa.pl 20000728
    source: RIPE

    person: Arkadiusz Wrobel
    address: "DataCOM" S. A.
    address: ul Radiowa 21a m20
    address: 01 - 485 Warszawa
    address: POLAND
    phone: +48 606 298639
    fax-no: +48 22 6672495
    e-mail: awrobel@wat.waw.pl
    nic-hdl: AW7760-RIPE
    mnt-by: AS5617-MNT
    changed: tkielb@cst.tpsa.pl 20000915
    source: RIPE

    person: Rafal Wrzosek
    address: "DataCOM" S. A.
    address: ul Kaliskiego 11a /312
    address: 01 - 485 Warszawa
    address: POLAND
    phone: +48 606 145187
    fax-no: +48 22 6672495
    e-mail: awrobel@wat.waw.pl
    nic-hdl: RW7118-RIPE
    mnt-by: AS5617-MNT
    changed: tkielb@cst.tpsa.pl 20000915
    source: RIPE
  17. Re:Kind way of asking them to be unblocked... on All Sourceforge.net Being Blocked by SmartFilter · · Score: 1

    hehe, its ./'d

    Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, webadmin@securecomputing.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

  18. Re:Kind way of asking them to be unblocked... on All Sourceforge.net Being Blocked by SmartFilter · · Score: 1

    We all know that's not easy enough, so click here, enter sourceforge.net and pick Remove From List from their choices.

  19. Re:Ad-aware on Web Publishers Sue Gator · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mine is smaller: http://www.morpheussoftware.net/sab/

  20. Re:Make people not want to use it on Blocking Instant Messengers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I thought ICQ, at least, supported encrypted communications of some sorts.. that would prevent simple sniffing..

  21. Re:excuse me but on Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    Turning pipelining on always seems to break some secure sites (moz just sits after loading like 1-2 images and never gets the rest unless I disable pipelining)

  22. Re:WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT - It's already been done on Spoofing URLs With Unicode · · Score: 1

    My Mozilla 1.0rc3 at least, makes if very obvious the differences between L and i in opposite cases. I think its because Win2000 uses Tahoma instead of MS Sans Serif all over the place now though.

  23. White LED made from Blue? why not just add R+G ? on White LEDs for a Brighter World · · Score: 2, Interesting

    My PC has plenty of red and green LEDs, so why both with this phosphorus addition to try to make it white? Doesn't blue+red+green = white?
    Just stick 50 of each together in interleaved and let them blend to white..
    What I dont really get either is why these lights for sale at theledlight.com cost so much? Is the cost for brightness or what? It seems that standard LEDs used in PC cases and other blinky status lights on almost anything electronical cost a lot less.

  24. Time zone? on Penguins Invade the North Pole · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What time zone is the north poll in? All of them? None of them? I see the pics say GMT...

  25. No oxygen?? on Fire Extinguisher Balls · · Score: 4, Funny
    Fire-proof powder, monoammonium phosphate and non-chlorofluorocarbon foam spurt out to dampen the flames and suck up the oxygen that keeps fires burning. At the same time, the ball emits a high-pitched alarm, set at 101 decibels--loud enough to signal for help and just tolerable to human ears.


    so, you roll the ball into the fire, suffocate the burning victim, and then run away from the annoying sound the thing makes? sounds great!