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  1. Now keep doing it. on 4chan Gives 90-Year-Old Vet a Great Birthday · · Score: 1

    The power of 4chan and Anonymous is tremendous. It must be held carefully. This is one good example of how to put this power for good instead of evil.

  2. Drobo. on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need a Drobo (from http://www.drobo.com./ The various units are expensive, and you'll probably need the Drobo FS if I read your post correctly. The upshot is, though, it's expandable to 20 TB of space. Just shove a drive in.

    (Note: Not a Drobo vendor, just a fan who wants one himself)

  3. Ban lifted, but limited to one per person. on Israel Repeals iPad Ban · · Score: 3, Informative

    At least they finally got it tested so it proved what it said. Isralies are picky to a fault.

    But you can't ship 'em in yet. Limit's only one per person, so no gifting yet.

  4. Reconnect. on Keep SSH Sessions Active, Or Reconnect? · · Score: -1

    Seriously, reconnect. The keys used for the encryption will change, and it's multiply keyed to boot. Check the discussion on SSL (which SSH uses) on Steve Gibson's Security Now podcast. http://twit.tv/sn

  5. Check the blog... on Microsoft Bots Effectively DDoSing Perl CPAN Testers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looks like Microsoft's Bing managers are on it. They'll make it worse in no-time flat. :)

    BTW, the difference between a DDOS and a Slashdotting? You know why your site went down -- you got linked!

  6. Yubikey and YubiPAM on Preventing My Hosting Provider From Rooting My Server? · · Score: 1

    Simple:

    1. Require all passwords to be Yubikey OTP passwords on any login prompt.
    2. Refuse access, and only give them the logs manually.
    3. When they shut your server down and open it up to yank the drive, hit 'em with a breach of lawsuit.
    4. ????
    5. PROFIT!

  7. Penny Arcade and Hothead Games on Linux Games For Non-Gamers? · · Score: 1

    Depending on how capable your card is (decent 7-series NVidia or a good ATI), you may want to hit up HotHead Games and Penny Arcade Adventures' On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (both episodes). This is a good 3D "It's your turn when you act first before anyone else" game, well worth $15 for each episode, and plays very well in Linux. Just turn off Compiz/Beryl; it interferes with anything 3D.

  8. Forget FAT/VFAT, make your own. on Which Filesystem Do You Use On Portable Media For Linux Systems? · · Score: 2, Informative

    First of all, FAT is patent encumbered and Microsoft's willing to go to court to protect it; so that's out. That includes the old UMSDOS file system Linux had at one time.

    Someone needs to make a good file system that matches FAT, but is more extensible. A good choice is ext2 now... if we dropped a few things that wouldn't work nicely. Like device nodes, pipes, and Unix sockets. Like ownership, since it's assumed that the person mounting the system would own the files on it, along with groups. Simply access restrictions; they wouldn't apply.

    This will simplify the structure a bit, which is a nice bonus and could let it be put on floppies. In other words, it's a light, anonymous, extended file system. LAEFS.

    I got an .h file. Anyone want to help develop it as a FUSE driver?

  9. DEPLOY A SENTRY HERE! on Marine Corps Wants a Throwable Robot · · Score: 1

    All of this makes me think of what could be an Acme Instant Sentry. You throw a toolbox over, it rights itself, builds up a bit, and in seconds you got a limited capacity automated sentry. If there's room, just add a speaker and program it to say "Hell-looooooooo-hoooooooo? Can-you-come-over-here? There-you-are." *ratatatatatatatatatatat!*

  10. Can we.... on NASA Has the Lost Tapes · · Score: 1

    actually now go around and start yelling at the top of our lungs "THEY FOUND THE TAPES!!!!!"

  11. Re:Let's see on Twitter "Twitpocalypse" Snags Mac, iPhone Apps · · Score: 1

    It's mainly chatter, so if you could fit it in a few gig with some nice compression.

  12. Someone forgot about the Cradlepoint! on Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Someone forgot about the battery powered Cradelpoint systems. They're at http://www.cradlepoint.com/ and aren't tied to one system or another: You provide a USB dongle for it. It provides everything else. The PRS300 or the CTR350 has been around for years now.

  13. Generic server from Shuttle on Reasonable Hardware For Home VM Experimentation? · · Score: 1

    I've bought a small Shuttle K45 system, adding my own Intel chip and extras in there. Cost about $450 for my setup. About to put VMWare Server on it. I'll let you know how it works out.

  14. Re:IANAL.. on Judge Orders Record Company Execs To Duluth · · Score: 1

    My guess is that Oppenheim's barred from negotiations. RIAA has to send in the head of each record company, or it's contempt of court.

  15. Gentoo! on Which Distro For an Eee PC? · · Score: 1

    No, really! Even with a 16 gig SSD card, Gentoo works great after all the configuration. I sped up the compile by pushing my 900A to 2 gig, compiling on the RAM disk, and setting up the initial config on a VMWare virtual PC.

  16. And begat the Fed Trade Commission complaint... on Facebook Scrambles To Contain ToS Fallout · · Score: 5, Informative

    Facebook Privacy Change Sparks Federal Complaint

    For those who don't like long reads: Promises aren't enough. EPIC wants it reversed, and is filling a Federal Trade Commission complaint.

  17. Official responce from Alfred E. Neuman: on What, Me Worry? MAD Magazine Going Quarterly · · Score: 1

    "Along w/MAD going quarterly after issue 500, our dental plan has been eliminated-so my idea of getting my missing tooth replaced is on hold!"

    --- From http://twitter.com/AlfredENeuman (and I do have it from a good authority that it is the real Alfred E. Neuman.

  18. If you really want to stream... on Streaming the Inauguration In a School? · · Score: 1

    Grab a Pinnacle PCTV HD Pro, and slap Linux on a laptop. Plug in, tune in a station with Kaffeine, and note it down. Then get VLC configured to multicast that channel to the classrooms.

    No need to kill the T1, when you can get digital TV of it for free.

    The only other way is to have VLC multicast a smaller stream that won't choke the T1.

  19. AirTran's fault on Overzealous AirTran Boots 9 Passengers Off · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A bit of research through the Consumerist (just bought by Consumers Union, yay!) reveals that AirTran fouling up like this is nothing new.

  20. Wait, via Facebook? on Australian Court Lets Lawyer Serve Papers Via Facebook · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Couldn't the lawyer request Facebook give up the goods on the couple?

  21. When will the port be out to Linux and Mac? on Ask Blizzard Employees About Things That Matter · · Score: 1

    I mean, you got NVidia and ATI drivers for both platforms, plus you have the guys at Hot Head Games doing high-action 3D Linux games (Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness Part 1, 2 just announced and previewed). You also have Linden Research (Second Life) being the closest thing to a Massive Multi-user Online Role Playing Game (in this case Massive Multiuser Online Social Gathering Game) while hitting the 3D card almost as heavy as Crysis -- all after switching from DirectX to OpenGL. You also have id Software releasing for Linux, Mac, and PC.

    So, there's no excuse for not releasing for Linux and/or Mac. When will the ports be out?

  22. Obvious comment... on Restaurant Owners Use Zapper To Cook the Books · · Score: 3, Funny

    Spahs zappin' my cash registah!

    Sorry, just got off playing about 2 hours of TF2.

  23. Re:Blank Label Comics, Schlock Mercenary on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 2, Informative
  24. Re:Who's hosted on ThePlanet? on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1

    Keenspot's hosted at Hurricane Electric in California. We're still up, but we're doing some work to the servers and consolidating them a bit along with Comic Genesis (Keenspot's free-for-all service). So you may not find many of your comics for a short (one day) while.

  25. Blank Label Comics, Schlock Mercenary on Explosion At ThePlanet Datacenter Drops 9,000 Servers · · Score: 1, Informative

    Schlock Mercenary, the popular webcomic, as well as most of the Blank Label Comics collective is down. Schlockmercenary.com now points to a holder site, and Sunday's comic is on the Livejournal community at http://schlocktroups.livejournal.com./