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  1. Symantec Ghost is platform independat on Ghost for Unix · · Score: 1
    My school's computer lab uses symantec ghost to clone ANY style of machine.

    Regardless, if u want a non-commercial version, there is "ubercopy".

    Here is an email i had with the developer:

    > What this email is over: http://www.linuks.mine.nu/ubercopy/
    > Question to developer: does ubercopy work over networks, similar to
    > Symantec's ghost? IF not, do you have any plans of implementing this
    > feature? I would be interested in helping, maybe martin too.
    not yet, i've had the plan to do that, but then the problem arises:
    how?
    using tcputils... i'd need to make client floppy diskets/or cd's..
    i'd even know how to do that! but the problem is to make floppy disks
    with the tools i need: see www.linuks.mine.nu/ubercopy/TODO
    (i'd like to support as much archs as possible!)

    i noticed there's another tool to clone systems over network already,
    something with "clone" in the name, see freshmeat.net

    regards
    gürkan

  2. speed of gravity on Examining Gravity Waves · · Score: 1

    What about that experiment this sept2002 with the alignment of some planets...

    Arent the results still being crunched?

    I believe it was about measuring the speed of gravity.

  3. I think he could have preserved it on PumpkinPC v1.0 Makes Its Hallowe'en Debut · · Score: 1

    You know, if the guy did some research on enamels and stuff, he could have coated/soaked the pumpkin with something so that it could last indefinately.

  4. 7 years later.... on Microsoft Anti-Trust Rulings Due Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now the browser is back into the OS really.

    Hopefully court cases can start moving at a O(1) pace instead of a O(N^2) pace.

    I do however think this situation is different from the big tabbacco lawsuits that we saw from "The Insider" movie (eg they have enough money and time to wait out a 15 year lawsuit) since the comp field is far more dynamic than simple ol cigarettes.

  5. who cares on ICANN Ditches Public Participation · · Score: 0

    Sometimes its good to let them take care of themselves.

    Its not like it prevents them from being accountable (which is all that really matters) when they screw things up.

    Although on the other hand, this is one of the true places where u could exercise amazing democracy with internet voting for them.

  6. Re:Misunderstanding about Module on New Apache Module For Fending Off DoS Attacks · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Heres a simple hack to your service: simply get 10 or so files from the server, and use your scripts to randomely fetch all 10...or 100, or 1000.

  7. Mac OSX + IPSEC on Crypto and IPSec Merged into 2.5 · · Score: 0

    i remember seeing that osx provided IPSEC since 10.1 or 10.2, so they beat linux.

    Anyone know how the osx IPSEC compares to whats going into 2.5?

  8. Heres the deal on Senate Bill to Subsidize Anti-Censorware Research · · Score: 0

    How about forbidding American corporations from trading censorware goods or services to these "repressive governments," wouldn't that be a good start?

    That would be censoring them, and messing with the US's economy, so there is less reason to need to make these countries mad AND hurt the US than make both parties happy, and then address the problems in the future, as the US is doing now.

  9. hmmm on Nanotech Paints For Military · · Score: 0

    Seriously....with nanotech jerk-lube there will be even less of a need for real flesh.

    Remember, vaseline is very similar to another military application: napalm.

    In fact, all american military technology fuels the sex industry, and this is a real,legitamate reason that fuels all these jihads we've been hearing about.

    Fatwa that!

  10. Re:Merger + Patents = Monopoly = Evil on Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 0
    Okay, full stop. Slashdot is the main spokesite against patents, digital rights, monopolies, and generally all the bad side effects of big business and capitalism. So now this news about 2 major players in a developing industry sector is heralded as a positive thing? I don't get it. Sure it's a free country and you can pick your philosophies, but it's just not right to change them at will depending on whether it's Monday or not.
    Slashdot has no opinion. And u are being shot down for thinking it should.
  11. This idea is old hat on Roll-Up Monitors A Step Closer To Reality · · Score: 1, Informative

    Since 1975 a researcher at Xerox has had the idea of *some* form of paper-thin rendering device.

    Over the years, and until I heard of this article, there were two main labs with two different approaches.

    One is a shootoff from xerox. It uses microbeads with a different color on each side, and voltage to rotate them. www.gyriconmedia.com. This company has been in production mode for a year now, and has just built a massive new factory. It will be the initial leader. It only has 2 color versions right now, but more stuff in the works.

    The other effort has been at MIT using a process spawned off of the lab technique electrophoresis. These displays seem to be more refreshable (eg ive seen a movie playing off on). http://www.eink.com/

    So thats that, old hat.

  12. Re:I know these twits... on Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price · · Score: 0

    While I think your post provided lots of great insight. I do hope even you would admint that your final utterance could be worded better.

    The project should be finished and the workers repositioned. Fire...sheesh.

  13. Example of patch to kernel b/c of an application on Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price · · Score: 0

    How about an application's compatibility with the kernel however that doesnt just go over to another OS


    Umm... can you please show me an example of a server-oriented application that only works on solaris and doesn't have a substitute on other systems?


    not for solaris. But here's an example of a patch to the linux kernel for postgres.

    Here
  14. Re:Bad move...[im not so sure] on Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price · · Score: 0

    I find your comments to be an overly complex stream of belted out opinions without much support. How about an application's compatibility with the kernel however that doesnt just go over to another OS. Also, does anyone know the strategy behind this move of sun's: whether its because they're phasing out of hardware development, or what? Who's able to read through the lines anyone?

  15. This is big news on Solaris 9 Support On x86 - But With A Price · · Score: 0

    This is the first port of a major OS to x86 in years really, yes?

  16. actually on Car Cellphone Bans Driving Bluetooth · · Score: 0

    I was living working and driving in NYC around the time of its ban. NYC's rules were that u couldnt have anything in your hands. So an eirpiece is fine. Blueteeth eirpieces go for $150US+. And they are so easy to lose. Altough a complete ripoff at 15$, my wired one has been excellent for 3 years now. I can actually use my hands while working at home as well (mobile phone is my only (traditional) means of voice comm.)

  17. hmm what does this thing do on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition · · Score: 0

    all it seems to do is handwriting recognition, thats all i could determine from the ms research site.

    I wonder what mystical powers that team of psychologically astute marketrons made u think u could do with your handwriting...

  18. too flashy on Water Computing · · Score: 0

    I think that this guy should really see that water is just an example of a material transmitting information using electrostatic repulsion as opposed to electrons.

    And because of this, its ineherently going to be slower. Not to mention the awkwardness of a system of this.

    I said similair info wrt the micro-micro computers a day ago http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=43239&cid=4527 661

  19. yo on Yet Another Exchange Killer? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Interesting phenomena at work here: let the company with the $$ develop the product first. Then the open sourceres write it for free in their leisure time and the people that paid for the $$ eventually switch to free. This makes the writers of $$ want to change their product enough so that its either:
    a) 100% as difficult to rewrite, but transparent to the users OR
    b) defend their licensing in court.

    Anyway, this is a very weird cycle. I'd be enlightened if some other enightened minds could suggest some alternative cycles. Maybe there arent any.

    -skimpIzu!

  20. Need for AI on First Worm with a EULA? · · Score: 0

    For all the legalese thats probably in the eula, this is a perfect application for an expert system than can extrect semantic information. Until then, i think its perfectly ok for a joe like me to legally be LESS bound to this type of forcefull contract.

    another great application of this would be to compare all of the different open source countracts found as osi.com

  21. good on Malicious Distributed Computing · · Score: 0

    im seriously glad this type of creativity is being put into thinking about worms.

    When AI start to become an issue, they'll be able to launch crap for their masters (or for themselves) that is far more complex than can be possibly imagined.

    But its good to get some practice in now.

    Someone save us...

  22. Re:Online Tetris tournaments on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard · · Score: 1, Informative

    Just analyzing and categorizing the problem is usually far from formulating a solution.

  23. size isue on Cascading Molecules Drive IBM's Smallest Computer · · Score: 0
    Size of the chips is becoming a big issue.

    As the components get smaller, they get very fragile. This is actually the reason that chip makers seek to fully automate chip plants...eg to keep shaky human hands off the product.

    I wonder how viable this small technology is here. probably wont be good for laptops.

    Im also curious how this tech. performs speedwise; this wasnt mentioned.

  24. Re:nah on Critical Kerberos Flaw Revealed · · Score: 0

    and hence the motivation for high level languages that do memory managament for you. http://www.twistedmatrix.com/services/twisted-adva ntage

  25. hmm on Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics · · Score: 0

    is the Advertising Standards Authority above the Euro domain registry people??