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  1. Re:Legitimate reasons on FBI Investigates Open Records Request · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's actually accessable from the physics building. Enter the doorway facing the chemE building, go to the basement and turn around. You'll see a door under the stairs that says PRIME lab.

  2. 5 REM Testing.. on BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 PRINT "I hearby declare..."
    20 PRINT "that all comments in this story"
    30 PRINT "be typed in basic"
    40 END

  3. Re:CERIAS on Interview with Eugene Spafford · · Score: 1

    You mean LAEB :)

  4. Re:CERIAS on Interview with Eugene Spafford · · Score: 1

    MA, CL50, University or BEER :) ?

  5. Re:Mirror of PDF on SCO Complaint Filed -- Including Code Samples · · Score: 4, Informative

    Also mirrored...

    http://diode.ecn.purdue.edu/~abrezinsky/docs/Doc -1 00-A.pdf

  6. Re:No PC on Rolling Your Own Wireless Communications System? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More information for my original post.

    Consider the cost of your solution vs the cost of a regular system.

    CS-222 Clearcom 2 channel base station: $876
    Belt pack: $238
    Headset: $149

    Now you'll need a headset for the base station (which is a station by its self). So say you need 1 stage left, 1 stage right, and your base station will be at FOH for sound/lighting. That takes a basic solution to $1799 without XLR cables. Buying used you could probably save even more. Remember, not every single person needs a headset. You basically need someone stage left, stage right and FOH to give messages and give cues. I was in highschool theator and I know how much everyone loves to wear the headset to sound important. I can also remember how many cues people missed because they were messing around on them.

  7. No PC on Rolling Your Own Wireless Communications System? · · Score: 1

    I'm confused, what would the PC accomplish? You can't possibly consider trying to do a VOIP solution for a highschool theator. You may know how it works but when you graduate no one else will. Save the cash and buy clearcom or telex. They're really not that expensive once you consider just how long they last. I've seen clearcom systems that have been installed for atleast 15 years, and telex for even longer. Instead of posting this to slashdot, write up a proposal to send to your school board or even student council.

  8. So.. on Dispelling the IPv4 Address Shortage Myth · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So yeah, it'll take 20 years to exhaust the space. Let's wait until 2029 to switch to IPv6.

    Or instead start switching now (after all, it'll probably take atleast 10 years to get everything switched over) and not worry about IPs until we're extinct.

  9. Re:Just curious on Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue · · Score: 1

    It's debian or redhat

  10. Re:Where on campus? on Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue · · Score: 1

    the power plant can handle the entire campus load if it must

  11. Re:Where on campus? on Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue · · Score: 1

    basement of math

  12. Command line rendering on Fulfilling the Promise of XML-based Office Suites? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If there was a way to render out the open office/star office documents on the command line it would explode in the reporting area. Being able to have the end user making a really nice template and have a perl script fill it then pass it off to a pdf or printer is key.

  13. Re:Get into amateur radio yourself - here's how .. on Amateur Radio Braces for Hurricane Isabel · · Score: 1

    I've always heard this thing about running higher 802.11b. How much can we pump it up if we're licensed?

  14. Re:I can't confirm this is true.... on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well wait for it to propigate, everyone on NANOG (who I hope would be able to confirm this) has said it's true. Verisign also posted this:

    Today VeriSign is adding a wildcard A record to the .com and .net
    zones. The wildcard record in the .net zone was activated from
    10:45AM EDT to 13:30PM EDT. The wildcard record in the .com zone is
    being added now. We have prepared a white paper describing VeriSign's
    wildcard implementation, which is available here:

    http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/ im plementation.pdf

    By way of background, over the course of last year, VeriSign has been
    engaged in various aspects of web navigation work and study. These
    activities were prompted by analysis of the IAB's recommendations
    regarding IDN navigation and discussions within the Council of
    European National Top-Level Domain Registries (CENTR) prompted by DNS
    wildcard testing in the .biz and .us top-level domains. Understanding
    that some registries have already implemented wildcards and that
    others may in the future, we believe that it would be helpful to have
    a set of guidelines for registries and would like to make them
    publicly available for that purpose. Accordingly, we drafted a white
    paper describing guidelines for the use of DNS wildcards in top-level
    domain zones. This document, which may be of interest to the NANOG
    community, is available here:

    http://www.verisign.com/resources/gd/sitefinder/ be stpractices.pdf

    Matt
    --
    Matt Larson
    VeriSign Naming and Directory Services

  15. Re:Verisign just DDOSed itself on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 1

    Then dont send the data directive and hang the process. A few hundred people doing that should do wonders on their little 'service'

  16. Re:How can we undo this? on Resolving Everything: VeriSign Adds Wildcards · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ICANN and DoJ

  17. Re:Soothing break on BSDCon '03 Nearly Here (OpenBSD 3.4, Too) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    THIS is a much better reason. I'm just wondering, does she come in the box or as an upgrade?

  18. Schools on Camera Watch: Links to Public Webcams · · Score: 1

    Someone here maintains a pretty good list of webcams on campus. There a few cams that I go past every single day and I never knew they were there. Same being said for the computer lab cameras. I always thought they were for security, and not being broadcast over the net

  19. So? on CWRU Opens Largest Wi-Fi Net · · Score: 4, Informative

    I don't really see how this is news. Purdue has a good 1600 access points on campus and have total coverage in all the buildings and are working on open space coverage now. Any student/staff member can use it free. Here's our coverage map: http://www.itap.purdue.edu/airlink/WirelessCurrent 3.pdf

  20. Re:enjoy the show ;) on SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More · · Score: 0, Funny

    Hope you guys enjoy the slashdotting we're working hard on it!

  21. Re:Cool feature that is easy to miss on Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released · · Score: 1

    That's freaking awesome. Didn't microsoft just start advertising this?

  22. Re:Samba wha?.... on Samba 3.0.0RC1 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except there are many situations where it is impossible for everyone to just go ahead and install linux. I'm all for running linux, but in the "real world" people still run windows. If I can install a linux server running headless in the corner of a small office handling all of the file sharing/printing needs of that office, I'm happy. Programs like samba are important to show people that linux is a good operating system to use, even if it is just serving files.

  23. Re:Oh crap on FSF FTP Site Cracked, Looking for MD5 Sums · · Score: 1

    There ARE backups. They're just not sure if those themselves have been compromised.

  24. Re:Fortunatelly, is just the ink on Ink More Expensive Than Champagne · · Score: 1

    You mean like buying a $200 pc from walmart and having to spend almost that much on just the operating system?

  25. Re:meh on Building A (Serious) Home Network From Scratch · · Score: 1

    What I was refering to was their pulling techniques. I use cat5e/cat6 for phones and LAN.

    With phone cables they can nick the jacket and pull on it hard. With data cable you need to be careful not to stretch it out, observe the paths you pull (watch out for those power cables) and crimp it properly.