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  1. Re:You don't need the 4 ISOs on FreeBSD 5.0 Available · · Score: 1
    actually you missed an important bit.

    doing that will not update your /etc. you need to run mergemaster, as outlined in /usr/src/Makefile after you cvsup your sources

  2. Re:When the Mayan Calendar ends on When Appliances Revolt · · Score: 1

    Windows is revolting

    nothing to see here, move along

  3. Re:Can't stop it in the US on Hollywood Muscles Aussie ISPs Over Movie Downloading · · Score: 1

    I'm not a network nut, but could the DMCA be used to stop them from trying? create/use a protocol that uses encryption to hide the identities of users. ROT13 would be adequate. Then they cannot "reverse-engineer" the packets. Failing that, the next best place to get movies is on IRC. The best networks will be the ones that hide the I.P. addresses.

  4. obviously the courts are missing something... on California Consumers Settle MS Antitrust Suit · · Score: 1

    pain & suffering involved in using MS products haven't been factored in

  5. !open on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 1

    i don't see where ms profit from closing the format here. obviously it would benefit them as well as everyone to open the "standard". i can't see how integrating excel+word etc into every-day web services produced by anyone with a .NET || J2EE || whatever server would hurt. there's plenty of stuff around now that provides a hint of what it could be like.

  6. Re:That's still to be seen... on Is the New Microsoft Office Really Open? · · Score: 1

    i am someone who is completely ignorant about legalese, i guess it comes down to how many lawyers are protecting your software against theirs. once it becomes plain text, it kinda invalidates the reverse engineering argument, no? at least from my POV

  7. Re:Though... on New Look at ADSL2 · · Score: 1

    yes 600ft is very impressive. i'm impressed. now i just need to move my house 2,000ft and i'm all set

  8. Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA on How Much Do You Pay to Host Your Website? · · Score: 1

    actually the topic is co-location but everyone else seems to have missed that as well

  9. community animosity for Telstra on ZDNet Australia Interviews Richard Alston · · Score: 1
    What happens is you get some guy who's just moved from the city to a holiday resort, he can't get the broadband speed he wanted and he says it's an outrage.

    it's this kind of comment that senator luddite is famous for. internet is a luxury in the bush, sometimes you can't even even get a telephone line

    never mind that i had to wait 3 months for a landline, and I live in a large rural city

    fuck telstra, for their ongoing abuse and total and utter incompetence. animosity is an understatement

  10. Re:The Truth? You can't handle the truth on Why UNIX is better than Windows... By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    they either don't patch security holes (rebootarama) or netcraft is wrong

  11. 50,000? on Massive Two Towers Battle · · Score: 1

    wasn't there more "participants" in the book?

  12. Re:Tomcat is easy! on Professional Apache Tomcat · · Score: 1

    this explains your previous post as to the technical know-how to get it running - i suppose it took you the whole day to get a hold of mod_webapp.dll?

    unfortunately i consider the docs on the web and especially on the tomcat site woefully inadequate when you "have" to install the connectors from source onto a unix system. the modjk2 & webapp's quality is diminished by their docs. in the end i went with resin, which was a good deal easier (their documentation was accurate)

  13. when & where in oz on Meet The Leonids · · Score: 1

    couldn't find any info from the links from fark.com & in the article, anyone know if us aussies will be able to watch the show?

  14. Re:A Possibility on Indiglo Clock Case Mod · · Score: 1

    you mean like a radio clock?

  15. Re:Yeah, what is with these colors? on Windows Longhorn Screenshots Available Online · · Score: 1

    It's interesting you said that. My first impression was like, "it's KDE running a WindowMaker theme".

    seriously though, the font rendering is probably the only good thing about the interface. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they steal/buy/borrow THAT from a third party?

  16. Re:And... on Internet Backbone DDOS "Largest Ever" · · Score: 1

    it depends if 123.123.123.123 is running smtp and there is a user account called joeblow

    there's a type of dns record called an MX. Basically, it's there so that my email address can be me@business.com, instead of me@mail.business.com

  17. Re:Actually, on Felten Follower Examines Crippled Music Disks · · Score: 5, Funny

    or even useability-challenged

  18. Re:Debian is rock solid but the install ... on Two Reviews of Debian 3.0 · · Score: 1

    what you can do quite easily is compile the port on a fast machine using "make port". Once it's done, scp the .tgz over to the slow machine and install it there. Of course, it helps having a fast machine running freebsd to do it, and you don't mind editing the make.conf file to suit.

    I used this method to put sun's jdk on an old 32M ram machine, as it didn't have enough memory to build it itself and it was taking 3 hours to get to the point of being whacked by the kernel. A memory upgrade later, and it turns out 64M is not enough to run tomcat+mysql.

  19. Re:DO we want that? on Liberty Alliance Plans Passport Interoperability · · Score: 1

    problem is that "single sign-on" is the catchword of the year and anyone who manages by magazine is sold on the idea... if my boss is going to tell me (as i'm pretty sure he will) that it will be "nice to have", i'd much prefer to have the option of staying well away from .net and that horrible "D flat" language than not

  20. Re:So...Who manages the management system? on The Days of SysAdmin Numbered? · · Score: 1
    Our distribution of labor on the UNIX side is about the same as on the Windows side.

    It would be interesting to try to quantify which group, as a whole, suffers more stress.

  21. Re:Read Microsoft's page ... on Ballmer Admits 'Linux Changed Our Game' · · Score: 1

    i don't see the NIS or NFS stuff in network neighbourhood, do i need more memory?

  22. Re:Thank you, George, for small favors on Spielberg Denied Crack at Star Wars · · Score: 1

    AoTC could probably have been called Titanic in space

  23. Re:Great... on Coasters to Face G-Force Limits? · · Score: 1

    great idea. lets change all the signs that say "train station" to "roller coaster"

  24. Re:Cats = Aliens? on Cat Meows Have Evolved Because of Humans · · Score: 1

    yes and here in australia the cats keep the (smaller) native wildlife under control

  25. Re:Great on The Matrix is Reloading · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I think it will end up being nicknamed "The Matrix core-dumps" on /.