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  1. Re:I'll buy that... on Swedish ISP Blocks Computers That Send Spam · · Score: 1
    In these instances filters like SpamAssasin may even add to the problem since they often consume more overhead than even SMTP daemons do, so that usually goes out the window as well (It's great, but not on a large scale (perl)).

    I want a Ponie.
  2. Re:yet another reason for (CONSTANT == var) on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1

    And C# dosen't work in a kernel.

  3. Re:Curious abot the hack, was it remote? on Linux Kernel Back-Door Hack Attempt Discovered · · Score: 1
    Case of normal test would be (current->uid == 0). Just imagine, without the brackets gcc could interpret it as (current)->uid == 0. How bad !
    No. Technically speaking, it's interpreted as (((current)->uid) == 0). The parenthesis are okay around the left oprand of the -> in this case.
  4. Re:bittorent / proxy on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent requires incoming connections - AFAIK proxies don't support that.

  5. Re:um.. on Fedora Core 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Close. Debian aims to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from last decade's free software.

  6. Re:yeah, that was my first thought. on LinuxAnt's DriverLoader Loads Centrino Drivers · · Score: 1

    Did you try the modules that came with the kernel? I once got a linksys card like that - but the driver for it ('tulip') had been integrated into the main source tree, so I didn't need the old 2.2 driver.

  7. Re:on permban on Gator Forces Site To Remove 'Spyware' Label · · Score: 1

    Popups, eh? What were those, again?

  8. Challenge-response on Sending Files w/o Sending Clear Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Send some random data to the client. The client SHA-1's that and the password, and sends it back. The server checks it against a locally-calculated value. Simple. Using full ssh with no compression would probably be better, though.

  9. Re:Yep on BIND Patches Make Bad Situation Worse · · Score: 1
    But within 6 months of that, the gate opens and a pile of people pop up doing things significantly worse or ugly with little effective resistance?

    The number of root nameserver operators is much smaller than you think, and if a subdomain operator wants to wildcard, that's their business. I fail to see what things you refer to.
  10. Re:full speed ahead on The Cost of Distributed Client Computing? · · Score: 1

    Wierdo laptop setups including every Linux kernel on HTL-supporting cpu's?

  11. Re:My own experience from No Windows to XP... on Linux Users Try FreeBSD 5, Windows · · Score: 1
    Sigh. garcia is right about dependencies though. I just looked at the Bluefish thing referenced by Roblimo in "A Week Of Windows". I have to have what? And what? GTK is what? I WANT SO MUCH to use Linux but when I see this sort of thing I think "hmmm, setup.exe is so comfortable".


    # emerge -p bluefish

    These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

    Calculating dependencies ...done!
    [ebuild N ] app-editors/bluefish-0.9

    # emerge bluefish
    [...]


    If you prefer, you can use debian's apt-get or something instead.
  12. Re:Weak legislation on First Lawsuits Filed under Missouri's No-Spam Law · · Score: 1

    Either the ESMTP SIZE extension, which rejects either at the sender (maximum size is reported), or after the MAIL FROM: SIZE=nnn, or after the message is received (discard it, send a 5xx after the '.')

  13. Re:Weak legislation on First Lawsuits Filed under Missouri's No-Spam Law · · Score: 1

    It can, but the send may be retried several times. Plus the sender might send a few kilobytes of data before it gets the RST or FIN packet(s). The only way to stop it is to wait, or return a 5xx error code - and if you close the connection early, the 5xx might be ignored.

  14. Re:Summary on Linux File System Shootout · · Score: 1

    I've lost two filesystems to XFS - until it gets a fsck program, I'm not using it.

  15. Scanning computers? on Schools to Avoid: University of Florida · · Score: 1

    Does this mean they'll only allow Windows machines on their network? Or will Linux and *BSD users be ignored?

  16. Re:Palladium can fix this. on Sebek2 - A Kernel-based Data Capture Tool · · Score: 1

    The distinction between the user-mode process and the kernel is in the kernel. After all, most modern kernels shuffle a program's code and data around periodically (swapping, etc) - what's to prevent it from loading kernel code instead? Or what about just replacing the Palladium hardware with a kernel emulation?

  17. This subject intentionally left blank. on What is a Good Free MUD Client? · · Score: 1

    I prefer gMUDix on *nixen, and RoAClient on win32

  18. Re:Pump and dump now! on IBM Adds SCO Counterclaim Charging Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Bad example - GNOME is entirely seperate from the Linux kernel, and thus isn't affected in any way with this. For example, you'd still have a licence to use/copy it in FreeBSD with linux emulation. However, any of the Linux code that's not owned by SCO would be under GPL, etc.

  19. Re:Game Consol. on Live CD for PC Games? · · Score: 1
    As a sidenote this would allow you to play games from independant studios that might not have money for licencing fees or development hardware.

    Not if you don't pay the licencing fees to get it signed, it won't.
  20. Re:MIT say it isn't so on Slashback: Blaster, Sabers, Canada · · Score: 1

    It'll restart unless you delete it and its registry key. Just terminating it is insufficient.

  21. Re:P2P on Slashback: Blaster, Sabers, Canada · · Score: 1

    Well, you just need to be anonymous while transferring the file.

  22. Re:Make it hurt. on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Point it to verisign's servers:

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;
    use Net::DNS;

    my $res = new Net::DNS::Resolver;
    my @servers = map { "$_.gtld-servers.net" } ('a'..'m');
    my @dnschars = ('0'..'9', 'a'..'z', '-');
    while(1){
    my $host =
    my $serv = $servers[int rand scalar @servers];
    $res->nameservers($serv);
    $res->search($host);
    }

    sub randhost {
    my $host;
    for(1..10){
    $host .= $dnschars[int rand scalar @dnschars];
    }
    return $host;
    }

  23. Re:Ok---Is this a fix? on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Nope. It'll still resolve, but cause a problem after you get 3xx'd to it.

  24. Re:I can't confirm this is true.... on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Try .gtld-servers.net - that's the authority for .com

  25. Re:network operators are pissed at this on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Then just resolve a few randomly-generared .com address every minute (adjust interval to taste) directly from each one of the gtld-servers, and block those.