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  1. Re:I guess the lesson isn't that clear after all.. on Projectionists Using Night Vision Goggles in Theaters · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but "Don't fucking violate copyrights, dipwad" dosen't have the same ring to it...

  2. Re:Nice start on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 1

    It would be nice to be able to use one-time pad to generate the port sequence. By changing constantly, it would be almost impossible for passive listeners to snif the port sequence.

    How is a one-time pad relevant? You can just put ssh behind the knocked port and authenticate normally once it's open.
  3. Re:About as secure as telnet(1) ie not. on Port Knocking in Action · · Score: 1
    You can also require that the packet contain an IP address in addition to the password and then verify that the IP in the packet matches the IP the packet came from. This prevents people from intercepting and replaying the encrypted UDP packet.
    Except they can forge the source IP address. It's UDP right? No acknowledgements?
  4. Solution on Paid To Spam · · Score: 1
    1. Configure iptables to forward outbound port 25 on this program to local port $x. (Or use LD_PRELOAD).
    2. Make a fake mail daemon on port $x, which accepts mail and sends it to the bit bucket.
    3. Profit?
  5. Re:Bad idea! on Security and School - How Should One Speak Up? · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yeah...there are some people on Slashdot, but this guy is one of the dumbest I've seen yet.
    You're new here, aren't you?
  6. Bad idea! on Security and School - How Should One Speak Up? · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "I have made suggestions before with little results. Should I send an e-mail with an ultimatum. What should my after-ultimatum actions be. I was thinking that I could simply start to sniff passwords (18,000 students and quite a few use wireless) and then place them on my webpage at school."
    If you're going to blackmail your school (and threaten to break various computer crimes laws), don't post about it on a high-traffic site beforehand! Better would be to talk directly to the network admin and offer to show them a live password-capture session.
  7. Re:File names in Linux on 2004: Year of the Penguin? · · Score: 1

    There are only two characters not allowed in filenames: '/', which is the directory seperator ('\' is available but makes things a bit confusing since you need to escape in the shell), and the ASCII NUL, which cannot be typed or displayed and is used internally to terminate pathnames. All other characters are available, but some need to be escaped in the shell (same as in DOS, mostly, except you actually can escape things like |). The maximum filename limit is somewhere in the 200s of characters. Note that this may vary with filesystems - vfat might not let you use '\' for instance.

  8. Re:If it works very well... on Will Linux For Windows Change The World? · · Score: 1

    Yes, running a linux kernel with an expermental patch in ring 0 on a production server is a really good idea, isn't it?

  9. Re:Google Backups! on Forbes Reviews Google's Gmail [updated] · · Score: 1

    Google cannot distinguish between encrypted, compressed text and encrypted, (poorly?) compressed binary data.

  10. Re:Java eh? on Can You Spare A Few Trillion Cycles? · · Score: 2, Insightful
    the C code will be forced to generate non-SSE instructions to support the old Pentium Is out there.

    gcc -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse -march=pentium4 -O3
  11. Re:Present problem. on A New Type Of Realtime Blocklist: The SURBL · · Score: 1
    the other RBLs allow you to drop the connection before the message is transfered.
    How can URIs in the body of the message be checked before the message is transmitted? It's still going to use up bandwith, either way.
  12. Re:HDD-based storage? on Patience, Grasshopper - On Long Load Times For Games · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The hard drive could be made optional, and act as a cache for whatever game you insert - no need for installation of uninstallation. You have to sit through the loading screen once, but it gets a lot shorter later on.

  13. Re:What about 802.11G? on Use Multiple Channels for Faster Wireless Networking · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Oh, and 1000baseTX is a switched-only Ethernet(Of course, it's only really ethernet due to marketing decisions).
    Actually, it's called "ethernet" because its frame format is identical to that of the slower variants, and it supports autonegotiation to be backwards-compatible with 10Base-T and 100Base-TX.
  14. Re:credibility? on P2P News Syndication? · · Score: 1

    Use an OpenPGP signature to validate it, and its web of trust to determine if the key's good. You'd need to modify it to use credibiliy instead of accuracy of identification, but the principle's the same.

  15. Re:It is 1000baseT, not 1000baseTX on Gigabit Networking for the Home? · · Score: 1

    Wrong. 1000base-T used all four wire pairs, yes, but it was extremely limited in length. (10m, IIRC). 1000Base-TX goes the full 100m, uses all four wire pairs, and is full duplex on all wires simeltaneously. Advertising 1000base-TX when it's 1000base-T would be false advertising, and certainly would have got a class action by now.

  16. Re:Windows has problemss... on New Windows Vulnerability in Help System · · Score: 1

    Too bad you can't use them in a story you commented it (does it check IPs, too?)

  17. Re:ie rants on New Windows Vulnerability in Help System · · Score: 1

    Anyhow, my feeling is that the desktop situation on Linux and BSD won't be solved until X is ditched completely. Just give me the dang screen buffer(s) and some basic routines and I'll draw my own shtuff. X is a 25-year-old terd, designed for machines with, like, 4k of memory (warning: hyperbole). Just give me font, line, point, ellipse, bitblt and friggin window data structures -- straight to the video card. And access to the video card reg's would be nice too.


    And how do you plan to synchronize between multiple programs? A server process mediating between the processes and the video hardware would do it - but isn't that X?
  18. Re:OK my first thought - Open CPU on IBM Plans Collaboration On Power Architecture · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see it now - Gentoo PPC. They ship you a chip fab, and you spend the next few hours doping your CPU. Of course, the system supports prebuilt CPUs, but nobody actually uses them.

  19. Re:"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a VW bug" on Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified · · Score: 1
    160GB Hard drive is how big?
    Approximately 149.012 GiB.
  20. Re:please everybody on The Subtle Tyranny Of Spreadsheets · · Score: 1

    Sounds like an ideal job for ReiserFS...

  21. Re:Standards on What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft? · · Score: 2, Informative
    FILE *
    concat_fopen (char *s1, char *s2, char *mode)
    {
    char str[strlen (s1) + strlen (s2) + 1]; ...
    }

    This is actually legal in C99, though the others aren't.
  22. Re:Impressive! on Xiph Releases Ogg Theora Alpha-3 · · Score: 1

    MPlayer uses ffmpeg, which has an open-source DiVX implementation.

  23. Re:just installed it today on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1
    Some common stuff like w3m-ssl, links-ssl, and naim.

    Did you add the non-US mirrors to your sources.list?
  24. Re:The Big Hurdle on Ripping DVDs to Handhelds = Fair Use? · · Score: 1
    Sure, it takes about a full 24 hours to get around 1-2 hours of video (shrink down to 45-90 minutes when you're done with credits that appear at the beginning and end of every anime episode).

    Dude. Use bittorrent. Then you'll get it in maybe 1-2 hours for recent releases.
  25. Re:Puhleeeasse NO! on Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux? · · Score: 1

    Use Flash Click to Play with mozilla firefox. Then you can just click on the flash navbar placeholder if you need it back.