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  1. How to work Linux pre-2.4 kernels? on Glimmers From The 2.4 Horizon · · Score: 1

    Anyone have any pointers or web sites on getting these pre2.4 kernels up and running? I'm going to try to get it running in Slackware 7. Thankfully, I have VMWare up and running and registered...

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  2. Isn't this unlawful? on Banner Ads on Your Cell Phone · · Score: 3

    We already have a law in which it is illegal to get unsolicitated commercial phone calls to a cell phone. Don't these ads fall under that law?

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  3. How to quickly shut-down Slashdot on Outside Total Request Live · · Score: 1

    1. Spam out Slashdot's URL from a Slashdot server
    2. You're done!

    Seriously. Alot of anti-spam folks read Slashdot. If Slashdot turns pro-spam it'll find itself removed. Andover.net was(and may still be) close when it's Dave Central archive listed spamming software.

    Don't Spamvertize. It'll save everyone's hyde.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  4. Re:Yeah, but they broke the rules when they posted on @Home Responds to the UDP Notice · · Score: 1
    I read the news.admin.net-abuse.* herechary myself. This notice is concidered non-spam, even with the well-written Request for Discussion that was made public through the system. This is also on-topic for all of news.admin.*. If you have any problems, post your complaint to news.admin.net-abuse.usenet and we will explain it to you (as that is the proper area of discussion for this).

    Also, the BI would be too small to consider cancelation, and Dave the Ressurector would repost it anyway.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  5. Some limited mirrors... on Linux Kernel 2.2.14 · · Score: 3

    us.kernel.org doesn't have it, but tux.org does. It's a 1.3 meg patch.

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  6. Re:Minumun machice specs? on FreeMWare: Like VMWare but Open Source · · Score: 1

    I have a 200MHz Pentium MMX system with 64 megs of ram, and it ran VMWare fairly well with their drivers and an old XFree86.

    Unfortunately, some of us don't have the money for such a program, so I'm stuck with Bochs or FreeMWare.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  7. Bye bye banners!!! on Cookies are Security Hole in HTML Email · · Score: 1
    Let us see now, if I can predict the future:
    • Gathering starts for sites. Banner ad sites start grepping their logs and recording addresses.
    • Several knoledgeable anti-spam activists (including the Lumber Cartel(tinlc)) start browsing with tracking numbers.
    • Spammers get the lists and spew out junk
    • BOTH Spammers and Banner ad providers get nailed because people connected with who gathered the ads.
    • MAPS gets more subscribers and users.

    I think if the banner ad folks want to stay in business, they stay away from cookies. Otherwize it's a quick one way trip to bankruptcy.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  8. Re:GILLIAN ANDERSON on ArtX, Hannibal and Consumer Fraud · · Score: 1
    That'd infringe on the Great American Right Of Freedom of Speach

    It would, yes, ONLY IF SLASHDOT WERE THE GOVERNMENT!!! Reread the Bill of Rights. That right is only applicable for the government. On Slashdot, it is a privlage. Slashdot is privately owned, and we are given the privlage to post our own minds here. Some get moderated up, saying that the person's worth listening to. Some are moderated down, saying that the person's full of hot air.

    -35 tells me that the person's abusing his or her privlage to post on Slashdot.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  9. Re:GILLIAN ANDERSON on ArtX, Hannibal and Consumer Fraud · · Score: 1

    -35 Karma?!?

    Sheesh, at that level, it's proven the person is only hot air and doesn't exist at all. Don't we have a "You're a proven kook" flag which removed posting abilities from the member (or better yet, just remove the member)?

    Game over, man, game over!

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  10. MIT's Cathedral 7 hack. on Slashdot's Top 10 Hacks of all Time · · Score: 1

    This in itself is the best thing students have done, in the guide of the Church of the Lady of the All Night Tool, overnight transforming MIT's Lobby 7 into a cathedral. The hack was so good that a handbinding marrage cerimony was performed in it.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  11. MD state in fight, but Univ of MD under contract? on Interview: Ask Antitrust Experts About Microsoft · · Score: 1

    1. Maryland state attorney's office is along for the fight against Microsoft.

    2. University of Maryland (the whole system, aprox five or six site univerisities at http://www.umd.edu) just joined in contract with Microsoft to provide cheaper upgrades of system and office software. Univ of MD is partly state funded.

    Isn't this a conflict of intrest? What can happen in this case?

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  12. Keyboards on PalmPilot Fullsize Keyboard · · Score: 1

    Looks like to be a more compact GoType clone. But then, there's also an PS2 Keyboard adapter out now thorough the guys who make the Happy Hacker keyboard.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  13. Re:Real Networks and privacy. on RealNetworks' RealJukeBox Monitors User Habits · · Score: 1
    It's clear that people feel more strongly about pushing RealNetworks into adopting this policy, to the point of using the RBL to declare them spammers, and that's fine. I don't disagree with that stance, and I hope they're successful. But I don't think RealNetworks is particularly evil one way or the other.

    I agree with you there, but the MAPS RBL team gave them a timeline to respond back with ideas on how to secure their servers (see the Deja News articles. Nick Nichalous(sp?) is the one to look for). They didn't. Nick ran out of patence and threw their servers in the RBL.

    One side point: Real Networks threatened to sue MAPS LLC (owners of the RBL) over the listing. However, like other spammers, they didn't follow through. The tactic wouldn't of worked, from what I read, due to property issues and a few RFC's that are on the spam topic.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  14. Re:Real Networks and privacy. on RealNetworks' RealJukeBox Monitors User Habits · · Score: 1
    I realize RealNetworks puts ads out on their various pieces of software, which is perfectly fine (that's the price to pay for free software), and as far as I know, the RBL deals only with spamming-related issues.

    When you get it, but not ask for it, it is NOT fine. Period. For example, I asked for mailings from Palm Computing. I did not ask for Real Network mailings of any kind (which it says so many places but one).

    A Deja news search gives you the whole story, but just for the heck of it, Wired did a few stories on it: Is RealNetworks a RealSpammer? and RealNetworks Blacklisted Again . I also talked with the author before the last story about the "RealSpams" I got (and I remember not giving concent to 'em).



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  15. Real Networks and privacy. on RealNetworks' RealJukeBox Monitors User Habits · · Score: 2
    RealNetworks' has said that they do gather the information, but "the practice did not violate consumer privacy because theinformation was not being stored by RealNetworks nor distributed to other companies," according to their VP of consumer products.

    YEAH. RIGHT...

    This is from a company who spewed ads from their servers and is so far still on the MAPS RBL for doing it. It's already been proven that Real Networks will gather and spew out anything and everything. Real Networks has a security problem on the scale of the Goths invading Rome durring it's downfall.

    Love the technology. Don't love the problems tacked onto it.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  16. Re:What about other LZW compressed formats? on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 1

    I can confess to this one. I used to use LZW'ed TIFF files for my scans until they gotten too large to work with on a ZIP drive. I then took them all (they crashed Paint Shop Pro if I ran them through GIMP...) and changed them to PNG's. NOW THAT WORKS!!!

    PNG's superscede TIFF's, not GIF's. Lets put Deflate into GIF and call it GIF99a.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  17. QT 4.0 Re:How PNGs get handled on my 2nd 'puters. on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 2

    Quicktime 4's infamous for grabbing PNG's. It happens on the Macs too.

    But if you view them on Linux, or w/o any such plugins, they're fine.

    I just wish QT4 had scroll bars. I use PNG's instead of TIFF's now, and they work very well.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  18. Re:Shakedown unenforcable due to common usage on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 4
    I'm not a lawyer either, but I don't think this is a valid argument for the GIF algorithm being "in the public domain." Just because the exact specifications for a Proctor-Silex toaster are published on the internet doesn't mean you can build your own and sell it. Not just the Internet, but as I said before, it's been published in books, Windows Bitmapped Graphics is one example, and it does LZW compression.

    Phil Karn did something similar which proved that the source code printed in the book Applied Cryptology wasn't a mutition that couldn't be exported in accordance to ITAR regulations here in the USA, while the source code typed in and saved onto the disk *IS* a mutition (and thus can't be exported). Something's wrong there.

    If Unisis wants to charge fees, it better have it's laywers start on getting all the books pulled from every shelf. Not very eazy, eh?



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  19. Re:Shakedown unenforcable due to common usage on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 1

    Apologies for the double posting.

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  20. Shakedown unenforcable due to common usage on Are You Ready For Burn All GIFs Day? · · Score: 3
    I won't participate in the burn.



    It's not because I can't change my GIF's to PNG's (I can) nor that PNG's aren't supported (if you can't see them, complain to the site for not recognizing them as PNG's).



    It's because the source code to GIF encoding/decoding is published here on the Internet AND in deadtree form. I can go to my public library and check out a copy of Windows Bitmapped Graphics and get the code to do GIF encoding/decoding using LZW. There's probably ten to twenty books that do this. Therefore, it's already wide-spread. I bet it would be in the public domain now.



    I'm not a lawyer (someone get a lawyer) but I bet it would be nice if someone could take this tactic and nuke the claims Unisis has to charging site owners.





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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  21. Dug in, now correcting. on Toshiba Settling Billion Dollar Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    If you read the article, Tobisha was caught with being sold a defective product (which looks like a new way of pinning it to them legaly). Now it has to part with $2 billion to correct the problem and replace hardware and software.

    Anyone got the numbers for those lawyers? They got a good settlement agreement there.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  22. The power of the press on Comdex Lets Teen Execs Attend · · Score: 0

    Commend Wired and Slashdot for getting the word out. Forcing the issue with thousands of people complaining works wonders!

    FIRST POST!!!

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  23. Re:Doom, how about Quake? on Kill -9 With a Doom Shotgun · · Score: 1

    Nah, they now have client-side bots for Quake now. Each process can be monitored by a central control program and the bots be apropriately dispatched (possibliy in an ugly select() call, but still feasable). Maybe perl could do it.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  24. Re:Doom, how about Quake? on Kill -9 With a Doom Shotgun · · Score: 1

    > Not only that, but you have Fiends for Daemon models and Zombies for zombied processes!

    Just think, axe 'em to hang 'em up, shoot lightning bolts to give 'em a kill -15, and a rocket or grenade for a kill -9.



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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack

  25. Re:Doom, how about Quake? on Kill -9 With a Doom Shotgun · · Score: 1

    Just a reply to myself, using the mikeBot code and modifying it would work. However, it may need QuakeWorld for skin support.

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    Another non-functioning site was "uncertainty.microsoft.com." The purpose of that site was not known. -- MSNBC 10-26-1999 on MS crack