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  1. crap ... on Web Security for the Masses? · · Score: 1


    This Internet Explorer-only, not-really-private-at-all service

    Well this brings it to the point ... i liked the idea with the multiple-random servers more, and it seems a lot more secure than this because you acctually don't know which route your packets will follow.

  2. Re:Congratulations! on Debian Developer Wins Gold in Paralympics · · Score: 1

    Uhm many people are actually thinking this ... but i don't think it's entierly true. I don't consider myself as a geek, but i spend a lot of time in front of a computer, but i also do sports, more or less regularly.
    Anyway it's a really good way get a break (no, not in a dark fitness room, that won't help alot :)

  3. Without Swap on Swap Performance in Linux · · Score: 1

    Have you actually tried without a swap partitioun? I don't know it it makes a change here, but i think it's worth a try if you've got enough RAM in you machine!

  4. Is this because ... on Air Force Warns Microsoft/Others to Tighten Security · · Score: 1

    ... a 12 year old taliban-boy hacked their win2k servers? *outch*

  5. Tough ... on How Can You Straighten HDD Pins? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Mhm, I once had a similar problem with my monitor cable, where some pins were receded, too. I had to open the plug to pull them out again. I think the bent pins are not the problem as long as they are not pushed in!

    Perhaps you could open the hd carefully
    (i don't know what model it is) so figure out the best way to do it, and try to pull Pin11 out again!

  6. How? on Nukes: The Next Generation · · Score: 1

    How do they want to penetrate deep into the earth with a nuke bunker-buster? hum, from what i've seen yet atomic bombs give away their force to the sides and upwards!?
    Anybody who's got a link to some technical details/explanations?

  7. apologize?! on Digging Deep for the Real Mars · · Score: 1

    Um... apologize and hope they don't have any interplanetary weaponry?

    Sure, but in which language? Perhaps we could ask them for language courses first ;-)
    - knowledge is power ...

  8. Re:"Certified"... by a news website? on AMD MP Athlon FreeBSD certified · · Score: 1

    I agree. The story title was indeed misleading. "AMD MP Athlon: Daemonnews certified" would have been a better choice. The article itself is ok, it says "AMD Dual Processor Certified for FreeBSD " and the certified-logo clearly shows the daemnonews name ...

    Well anyway, shit happens, and we all make mistakes ;)

  9. Re:"Certified"... by a news website? on AMD MP Athlon FreeBSD certified · · Score: 1

    Sure. They test it, and tell you wheter it works or not. It's good to know these facts when you plan to buy a computer to work with a specific os. I mean, ok they're a news site and i don't think that AMD will post this to their site, but it's good to know that it works anyway!

  10. SMP on AMD MP Athlon FreeBSD certified · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Finally FreeBSD works fine with multiprocessor systems, the autor had no problems with his 2 Athlon MPs, that's really great. Finally, you can have a really powerful smp - FreeBSD server system for not too much money! The installation was completed with only one cpu, but a new kernel with the options SMP and APIC_IO enable both cpus.

  11. This is quite sweet! on Carrot, an Open Source C++ scripting module for Apache · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is a good mod_,it's a lot more flexible than mod_php4 and gives you more possibilities to do stuff. But what about security matters? Does it have anything to prevent people, using it on your webserver, to access files etc.?

  12. I want 2 clones! on Britain Approves Human Cloning · · Score: 1

    Yes, I want two o them, one to go to school, and one to make my room and some coffee ... that'd be great!

    But cloning seems to be a big subject nowadays, we're even talking in 2 different classes (at school) about it ... pro's and contra's included.

  13. Re:this isn't news on Allchin Admits MSFT Violated the Law · · Score: 1

    Allchin isn't Bill Gates, and he isn't Steve Ballmer.

    Of course he isn't Ballmer, he can't dance like a monkey :)

  14. Re:*BSD is dying on ClosedBSD 1.0b Released · · Score: 1

    So your one of those self-righteous losers who are unable (too stupid) to handle *BSD? hah. and therefore you just keep posting crap about *BSD, and wasting your time? perhaps you should f*uck your inflateable girlfriend/boyfriend the next time you plan to post trollish trash!

    *BSDs are great os, and if you don't like it, skip it! Funny anyway that you're hiding behind an AC ... that's typical!

    - I'm dead serious, so don't mod this funny!

  15. Security ... on Open Source Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Security is obscurity ... is an old proverb that describes today's terrorists attitude very good, they try to hide their data in the really big mass of data floating trough the net every day. The U.S. have IMO a good chance of fetching up such information, when they do it the right way ... but what is the right way? :-)

    - I'm not stupid, but somethimes I do things that make me look stupid!

  16. You can still get it ... on Be Throws in the Towel · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's a link for those who still want to try it ;)

    http://ftp.pcworld.com/pub/system/other/beospe.exe

  17. Great! on PHP-GTK based IDE for Midgard and PHP · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Dreamweaver is one thing why people have difficulties migrating from Windows to Linux/ I miss Dreamweaver a lot, but hopefully PhpMole will help us out of that lack. Of course there are a few great HTML editors for Linux, like bluefish, but these can't replace a good web-dev program like Dreamweaver!

  18. Re:Why... on ClosedBSD 1.0b Released · · Score: 1

    I guess the name is ClosedBSD, because it closes the doors/ports for bad guys such as hackers ... what a firewall is supposed to do. The name is basically an allusion to security ...

  19. Oh no... on Kazaa Conundrum -- The Plot Thickens · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    In the end, we're all going to buy cd's again, after 3 years of excessive p2p mp3 leeching :-)

    - Now, flame me ...

  20. Re:IPFW vs. IPTables on ClosedBSD 1.0b Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    First of all: NEtfilter/Iptables is Linux stuff, IPFW is from *BSD!
    I think iptables has a lot more features than IPFW, and of course, the syntax is different!

    Another interesting thing is that the first Linux packet filter was a port (done by Alan Cox) from BSD's IPFW to (the Linux) Kernel 1.1!

  21. Re:Reduplication of efforts on ClosedBSD 1.0b Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    do we really need n+1 floppy-based firewalls ?
    Perhaps yes, perhaps not ... IMO it's better to get a 1gb harddrive to install the full freebsd distribution, not only a kernel and some stuff, because you'll have a lot more possibilities to play around with ;)
    On the other hand, they're useful, if you need a firewall/gateway solution in very short time ... for example in case of a harddrive failure, you put in the floppy, and your firewall/gw is back up and running in no time!

    Seems to me like these guys should pool together and try to merge the best of everyone's toolset.
    Nope, there i can't really agree ... it's very hard to mix different things together to get one good thing. Suppose you want to buy a new stereo, and you put together the best product from each of the big companies (f.e. the amplifier from JeVeCe, the MP3 player from sonie, the speakers from YXC)... when you put the thing together you'll experience a lot of problems due to incompabilities between the different parts. With software, it's the same, merging is tough and requires a big effort ...

    - Don't get upset, it's just _my_ opinion!

  22. Color is important! on Red vs. Blue Lasers Complicate DVD's Future · · Score: 2, Informative

    With the wavelength of the laser, the color varies! For example red has a wavelength of 622-780 nm and blue has a wavelenngth of 455-490 nm! Red Has the longest wavelength, followeed by orange, yellow, green, blue and violet which has the shortest wavelength!
    Refer to this document for further information ...

  23. Gattaca on 42 Worlds in 32 Days · · Score: 1

    In the end they'll send ships to every known and nearly habitable planet, because there a re sooo many unexplored planets waiting to be settled ... sounds nice, but a little far away. but i think it's cool anyway.

  24. Mmmh on Looping E-mails Beat The Net Down · · Score: 1

    Yep, I've seen this before, it happened with two web.de mail accounts which had both set up reply messages that the mail had arrived and guess what happened ... but i think they've done something against it, at least i hope it!

  25. Re:SLASHDOT IST TOT on Cryptographic Software in Debian's Main Archive · · Score: 1

    Glückwünsche, haben Sie Slashdot ermordet, indem Sie zum korporativen Druck beugten und subskriptionen einleiteten.
    translation:
    Congratulations, you killed slashdot because you couldn't resist the coroporate pressure and because you introduced subscriptions.

    The translation may not be 100% accurate, but it's about the new subscription system introduced yesterday ...