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  1. Re:MS & Google on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But if you extend that law, you'll give protection to spammers as well. At that point, only client-side solutions would work.

  2. Re:Stunning on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I don't know if it's legal, but it's certainly unethical.

    I don't understand why ISPs would block gmail mail anyway. (I understand the invites, though.)

  3. Re:Time for download then on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Thanks for all your help.

    Not at all. :)

  4. Re:I don't see Ruby on there on The History of Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    cool programming challenge: figure out the optimal vertical order for the languages so as to minimize the length of relationship indicators

    Which is more important, a minimum average length, or a minimum deviation from that length?

  5. Re:Well, since you asked.... on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Exchange I can understand, but you show me a version of Windows 2000/XP that doesn't come prepackaged with IIS.

  6. Re:Meh on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad your average consumer doesn't know enough about computers to see the irony:

    Salesperson: Buy our Operating System!

    Customer: OK.

    Salesperson: Now buy our Antivirus solution! Without it, hackers will steal your identity.

    Customer: Egads! Here! Take all my cash!

  7. Re:Perhaps It Belongs in the OS on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    Fixing Outlook would require a complete re-write. It's cheaper for them to try to catch malicious code before it reaches the mail client. Failing that, it's still cheaper for them to scour your computer looking for signs of said code.

  8. Re:Bonus karma on Microsoft Plans To Sell Anti-Virus Software · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised, but I wouldn't go so far as to expect it.

    This might be the first time Microsoft's ever written an application securely from the ground up, but they've got the manpower to do whatever they set out to do.

    Who knows? Maybe they'll stop using shoddy code generators for this project. :)

  9. Re:Just remember the RAID song on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 2, Informative
  10. Re:Dear Slashdot on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't think Google would help much for that question.

    OTOH, Ars Technica has a decent piece on RAID.

  11. Re:raid and ide channels on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Could you put one drive each at the master setting of the primary and secondary channels, and have another controller for CDROM/DVD/ZIP/etc?

  12. Re:Woohoo, another kernel compile. on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    I suppose you could write a kernel boot-up benchmark module to do it. But I don't know enough about the subject matter to do it effectively.

  13. Re:Is it just me... on Linux Unwired · · Score: 1

    That's why I use SSH tunnels for VNC...But, damn, it can feel slow at times.

    My biggest gripe is that tightvnc insists on drawing all the changes that occur to the screen in the order that they occur...it'd be much nicer if it'd abort-and-retry drawing from the top when I'm, for example, dragging windows.

  14. Re:what about 2.4? on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. But I still suggest you email him directly. It's much more likely to get his attention than a message on lkml...I don't think there are many people who could read all the posts on that list and still manage to get work done.

  15. Re:How to get around this on California Orders SBC to Split Phone, DSL Service · · Score: 1

    Well at least you can attend a LAN party whenever you want. :)

  16. Re:Woohoo, another kernel compile. on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Understood...I was talking about a bit-lower level, though, regarding how the physical CPU divides resources between its logical processes.

  17. Re:so.. on Northwest Privacy Lawsuit Dismissed · · Score: 1

    because privacy policies do not form a contract in the first place

    Ouch. So what does serve as a contract between a person viewing a site and the person providing the site? Sure, there are usage policies, but is there anything passive?

  18. Re:Can anyone say why they don't release... on Slackware 10-RC1 Released · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That doesn't really help those of us who burn ISOs at work in order to take them home, where we don't have an internet connection. (Yes, Linux is still useful without the Internet. :)

  19. Re:what about 2.4? on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Email the maintainer for the relavant kernel module...if something was broken from the transition from the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 kernels, he ought to know.

  20. Re:Woohoo, another kernel compile. on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    For HT, doesn't the process on the second logical CPU get blocked until the resources it needs on the first logical CPU become available?

    If so, wouldn't it make more sense to put higher-priority tasks on the first logical CPU, and lower-priority tasks on the second?

  21. Re:Now everyone... on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    They must not be enabled by default...I murdered my machine while trying to test a safety trigger mechanism.

    It was so much fun, I changed the script to write the system load and timestamp to a text file. When I got the chance to examine it, I saw it had pretty much slowed to a halt at about 350.

    It was a fun experiment. At least now I know to make the trigger automatic instead of keyboard-controlled. :)

  22. Re:Argh! Dilemma! on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 1

    Well, I'd try user-mode-linux. I don't know what chroot has to do with it.

  23. Re:A soul? on Ars Technica Interviews Scott Collins · · Score: 1

    I don't know if it's a problem with Mozilla or with Slashdot, but Slashdot pages frequently render with either the left table cell all-the-way-across the screen, or with the data on the right shunted down below where the data on the left ends.

  24. Re:Time for download then on Linux Kernel 2.6.7 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Well, a quick googling didn't turn up a howto, but here are a couple of related links for your perusal:

    ATI's Radeon 9800 Pro technical issues page

    A LinuxQuestions.org thread on ATI with the NForce2 on Mandrake 10.0.

  25. Re:My camera on Beyond Megapixels - Part III · · Score: 1

    Personally, I'd like an uber-camera that'd let me turn photos of buildings into texture sets.

    It'd have a decent load of pixels, along with support for saving in a non-lossy format.