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  1. Re:CVSUPing to 5.0-RC1? on FreeBSD 5.0-RC1 Now Available · · Score: 1

    Try: *default tag=.

  2. Re:Well, let's look at the list on Will Open Source Ever Become Mainstream? · · Score: 1

    For Windows, there is PuTTY. Its the best SSH client I've used in this platform.

  3. Re:SETI blocks computed: take out the brag factor on Slashback: Eldred, Cruise, SOAP · · Score: 1

    I believe that the bragging is what makes many people join the SETI@Home project.

  4. Re:A couple of thoughts on Calculators vs. PDAs in the Classroom · · Score: 1
    Yup. Try EasyCalc for the Palm.

    It does basic graphs, integrals, derivatives (1 and 2), and conversions between hex, octal, binary and decimal. Also is a full-fledged scientific calculator.

    A great help when visualizing areas between curves.

  5. What about other countries? on FF XI Goes Live in Japan · · Score: 1
    I know the big markets are Asia, US and Europe. But there are thousands of fans here in Mexico and in the rest of Latin America.

    Does anyone know of plans for releasing the needed accesories in Mexico?. The local Sony shop does not have a clue about when and if they will sell the PS2 harddrive and modem.

  6. Re:What would happen if you hold one of these thin on Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, its not like a building. In a building, the mass is distributed all over the building (you can calculate the centroid, but it is much father away than this stuff). I was talking a physics teacher at school, when he saw this he said there's nothing we have right now to contain this stuff.

  7. Clean everything on Workstations 'Dirtier Than Toilets' · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every 6 months I disassemble my machine. Everything that can be washed on the kitchen sink is washed there; everything else is dusted and/or cleaned with q-tips and alcohol. A bit overkill but the keyboard keys never get stuck.

  8. Re:What would happen if you hold one of these thin on Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth? · · Score: 1

    As mentioned in the Telegraph article: "Strangelets - sometimes also called strange-quark nuggets - are predicted to have many unusual properties, including a density about ten million million times greater than lead. Just a single pollen-size fragment is believed to weigh several tons." If the density of lead is: 11340 kg/m3 The mass of a spoonful of these strangelets would be (let's say the volume is 0.001m3) the density of the material times the volume. Let's also suppose this small quantity of strangelets is half a meter away from you. Using the formula for force of gravity by newton (F=G*m1*m2/r), the force exerted on me would be F=(6.672 x 10-11 * (70) * (11340 * 10,000,000 * 1,000,000 * 0.001) / (.5) = 1, 059, 246.720 Newtons Like someone putting 108, 086.4 KG over you. Its 119 tonf US. That's the problem, what would happen to you if it stayed still? You don't even have to hold it, but when you hold it, the distance between you and the strangelets tends to be zero, so the force exerted on you tends to infinity.

  9. What would happen if you hold one of these things? on Do Strangelets Pass Through Earth? · · Score: 1
    Imagine you could hold a gram of these things in your hand. Would the gravity force exerted by that thing on you make you disappear?

    If it stayed still for a while, would it engulf something? maybe make the world disappear.

    Something similar was published in april in tne New York Times, the article is now archived, but here's some info.

  10. OT, but I'd like... on Samba Wins eWeek & PC Magazine Award · · Score: 1

    ...for SWAT to come with an SSL option (like webmin does), instead of wrapping with stunnel.

  11. To get the latest version of mozilla... on First Looks at Suse 8.0 / KDE 3.0 · · Score: 1

    http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozill a1.0rc1/Red_Hat_7x_RPMS/

  12. Re:Almost forgot... on Vulnerabilities in FreeBSD · · Score: 3, Informative

    Everybody should try "man jail". A chroot on steroids, go on, try it. You won't be disappointed.

  13. Re:Nimda on Viruses: More Hype than Danger? · · Score: 1

    Here at school in Mexico, it took it by storm. The guys in IT did not stand a chance against it for a while (it took out 2 WinNT Lotus Notes servers on the first hour). Because many of the school courses are based there, no one could submit homeworks or check for information while they were repairing them. For us students, it was a break; for teachers, it wrecked their schedule for the day. This happened with Nimda, and to a lesser extent, with Code Red. As I write this, I've received 4 emails with the KLEZ virus, all from school's addresses. And note, the school has a campus license for Norton AV. Guess people should really start updating theirs software, I mean, how hard is it to let LiveUpdate run automatically?

  14. damn, its slashdotted already :( on Lycoris - Linux for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    Warning: Too many connections in /home/httpd/lycoris.org/mainfile.php on line 27 Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: Too many connections in /home/httpd/lycoris.org/mainfile.php on line 31 Warning: MySQL: A link to the server could not be established in /home/httpd/lycoris.org/mainfile.php on line 31 Unable to select database

  15. Id love to see pf in FreeBSD on Custom OpenBSD 3.0 with IPFilter From Darren Reed · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know of plans of porting pf to FreeBSD?