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  1. Re:Screw multimedia; how about software? on P2P Meets Push · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can crontab emerge --fetchonly -u world, that'll download updates automatically. But this system's more scalable.

  2. Re:Clie and Linux on Review of Sony Clie TG-50 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Pilot-link works nicely. Note that USB links are a bit tricky - you need to start pilot-xfer shortly after you start the hotsync, but not too long or too short.

  3. Re:Hacked into Geocities? on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 4, Funny
    Next time try doing a little research (like asking in the IRC channel) before posting.
    You're new here, aren't you?
  4. Ansivirus companies' advice on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 4, Interesting
    From the F-Secure page:
    The current variant of the worm can uninstall itself if a file with the following name is found in the Windows main directory:

    Uninstall.pky

    When the worm finds a file with this name, it kills all its tasks and removes its registry keys thus disinfecting a system.
    [...]

    To get rid of the worm, it is enough to delete its files from the Windows main directory and from the Kazaa shared folders. Please download and execute the following Registry patch:
    Why not just create the Uninstall.pky file? Seems like it'd be harder for a luser to screw up...
  5. Quota? on Fizzer Worm Uninstalling Itself · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why isn't the geocities site saying it's 'bandwith exceeded' or something?

  6. ABI? on GCC 3.3 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does this release break binary compatibility?

  7. Re:Freenet on Distributed Filesystems for Linux? · · Score: 1

    That's not a distributed fs - it's certainly too slow, and files can't be updated. Also, they can vanish without warning. And you don't get any communication between nodes besides its internal protocol, so don't think of tunneling.

  8. Re:Why pay attention when your extorting? on RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice · · Score: 1

    Wrong analogy - a web server is an active mechanism. The remote host asks for it, your server gives it. If you don't even bother to put a password, and put it where anyone can get at it (including spiders), then I don't think the courts will agree with you.

  9. Re:I'm not sure I understand this fully on Spamhaus Responds To Spammers' Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    I'm sorta vague on the law aspect here, but near as I see it... EMarketersAmerica.org sends out mail. This goes without saying they are using some form of a sendmail server.

    On the contrary - they could be using postfix.
  10. Re:Why pay attention when your extorting? on RIAA Apologizes for Incorrect Infringement Notice · · Score: 1

    When you put something on a webserver, IMO, you're implicitly allowing people to download it. Otherwise, how do we legally go to a website to find out if we're allowed to go to said website?

  11. Re:/etc/rc.d ? on Self-Repairing Computers · · Score: 1

    Put all the data for a session in a few tables, link it all to the SID. Then just do a SQL query to kill it if a sanity check somewhere detects corruption.

  12. Re:/etc/rc.d ? on Self-Repairing Computers · · Score: 1
    Imagine you could restart the troublesome session and not affect the other 999 hits that minute...
    So delete the offending session from the database.
  13. Re:/etc/rc.d ? on Self-Repairing Computers · · Score: 1

    HURD is an even better example - TCP breaking? Reboot it! Of course, you have a single-threaded filesystem, but that's okay, right?

  14. Good thing it's posted. on How to Become A Spammer · · Score: 1

    Now that it's slashdotted, nobody will be able to read it.

  15. Re:too bad on Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM · · Score: 1

    When you remove the power, your key may be in RAM. If the NSA or whatever gets the chips, they won't use the randomizer.

  16. Re:too bad on Buckminsterfullerene Strikes Again - Nanotube RAM · · Score: 1

    Hope you don't use PGP - non-volatile isn't as good as you may think.

  17. Re:Why on Dynamic /bin support on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Dunno, I just have: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1104040 Mar 21 11:19 /lib/libc-2.3.1.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 4 16:19 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so

  18. Re:Why on Dynamic /bin support on FreeBSD · · Score: 1
    As for why, the NSS code works by dynamically loading the necessary backends. That's presumably why a dynamic /bin and /sbin are needed.
    You could statically link all the libraries except libdl, if you really want static /bin and /sbin.
  19. Re:Why on Dynamic /bin support on FreeBSD · · Score: 2, Informative
    The last dozen or so times I have installed Linux, I have had to go on a treasure hunt to find exactly the right version of libc for a given application
    There are only two versions of the libc ABI still widely used - libc.so.5 and libc.so.6. If your app requires a more specific version, override it. It'll work fine, IIRC.
  20. Re:Why on Dynamic /bin support on FreeBSD · · Score: 1

    Pssh. I'd just boot with linux init=/sbin/sash if my libs got corrupted.

  21. Re:tivo BASIC on TiVo Basic · · Score: 1

    10 LET i = 1
    20 OPEN "tcp:tux:8888" FOR OUTPUT AS #1
    30 OPEN "video:" + i + ".mpg" FOR INPUT AS #2
    40 WHILE NOT EOF(#2)
    50 READ #2, foo$
    60 WRITE #1, foo$
    70 END WHILE
    80 CLOSE #1
    90 CLOSE #2
    100 LET i = i + 1
    110 GOTO 20

  22. Title searches? on TiVo Basic · · Score: 1

    The Tivo could be hacked to allow title searches - it already has the data from the 3-day grid. Bets on when?

  23. 404'd on Taking Apart An Airport Extreme Base Station · · Score: 1

    Anyone have a mirror from before they pulled it?

  24. Re:simpler on Latest Animatrix Short Released · · Score: 1

    Don't you know shell?

    wget -c `echo URL with spaces here | tr -d \ `

  25. Re:Totally sweet...wget -c rocks... on Latest Animatrix Short Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    There's this cool new thing called 'hyperlinking'. Why don't you check it out?