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  1. Who cares on More Jail Time For Computer Crime Starting Next Month · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I dont live in the US nor frankly care about the democratic theocracy running there. The sooner the US falls (like all other empires in history) the better. The ironic thing about the US is americans are unwilling to pay minor costs associated with social services but are willing to pay huge costs associated with running the worlds largest prison population.

  2. Re:The Usual Suspects on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 0

    You forgot that in Soviet Russia Lindows runs you.

  3. Formatting on Is There An OS On My Hard Drive? · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least it will be easier to explain to people why new hard drives need to be formatted. To get rid of Lindows.

  4. Re:Norton Ghost on Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight · · Score: 1

    Knoppix will do exactly what Norton Ghost does, except it will do it securely. Sans fancy menu.

  5. Fair Benchmarks on Making a Fair Gfx Benchmarking Utility? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is no such thing as a fair benchmark. Each persons needs differ and therefore a different product suits those needs best. Best thing to do, is grab demo's of the things you like to do with your video cards and then head down to your local computer store and see how it works.

  6. Re:Canada-Runs! on Canada Immune From RIAA? · · Score: 1

    The extradition process doesn't allow for extradition for crimes that aren't crimes in Canada. Recently suspected "terrorists", I'm presuming blowing stuff up without US sanction, we not extradited to the US because Canada ruled the actions they were accused of could not be a crime in Canada.

  7. morph on Are Consumer Firewall/NAT Boxes Really Secure? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NAT generally is equivalent to a firewall that disallows incoming connections. Some consumer firewalls allow a DMZ (connections made to the firewall are forwarded to the DMZ box). If you need more advanced rules than that then you need something like Linux. Personally, for a free OS based firewall I would use OpenBSD, lots of cool features. However, if you don't need more than what the consumer firewall provides it is a very cheap solution. Just keep the firmware up to date and disable the external administration.

  8. Re:Don't bother. on Mirroring Controllers - What have been Your Experiences? · · Score: 1

    5 + 1 is silly. The problem with 5 + 1 as it only allows 2 drives to fail but makes half your drives useless. On the other hand raid 5 + 0 allows the same 2 drives to fail but gives your the performance of two striped RAID 5 arrays. However, if you have 4 drives and dont have the money for a RAID 5 controller w/ CPU. you can do RAID 10 in software for cheap. However, you get N/2 space instead of N-1

  9. SCO hosts on Linux on SCO DOS Harming Innocent Bystanders · · Score: 1

    http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.sco. com Sco hosts their site on linux, and not OpenServer.

  10. Re:Winzealots? on IBM Releases Compiler for Power4 and G5 · · Score: 1

    I met one, they are quite funny. He was also the only person I knew that was suprised that the MSN EULA required you to forfeit the contents of your email / messages to MSN and that the SP3 Service Pack required assigning admin rights to MS. He also setup an MS User Group, I asked him if Windows was so easy to use why they needed a user group.

  11. The answer? No on Videogames Attract More Women Than Boys? · · Score: 0, Informative

    The study found that 26 percent of game players are women 18 or older, while at 38 percent are men 18 and up.

    Who writes this stuff?
    Do people read more than just the headlines anymore?

  12. Shared Hosting on AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No one should require me to carry your traffic. If AOL doesn't wish to carry someone elses traffic who should make them? How AOL runs their servers is their business. No one should be able to require a shared hosting provider to not provide services to spammers either. I used to be hosted at a provider who hosted spammers. When I found out I asked them if they were planning on removing the spammers, they said no, i moved hosting providers.

  13. Re:Ghost or RAID? on Simple Windows Backup to CD/DVD? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Ghost is a pain in the ass. Personally I a knoppix cd customized with a private key, a little menu system that automates these two commands:

    dd if=/dev/ | ssh backups@backup.server | gzip > ~/--

    and

    ssh backups@backup.server cat ~/-- | dd of=/dev/

    Note ssh already compresses so putting the gzip on the side of the client is a double whammy for the CPU, however if you have multiple boxes it may be more effective to do it that way.

  14. Hint on Simple Windows Backup to CD/DVD? · · Score: 3, Informative

    DOS and I think NT, has an archive bit, when ever a file is modified the archive bit is set.

    Backup programs should clear the archive bit.

    Just select files with the archive bit set. Setup WinZIP to make 700 meg zip files of all the files on your HD with the archive bit set except the dir where you store your zip files and then burn the zip files.

    Also what you may want to do to start your backups is burn a knoppix CD and use it to make an image of your hd with dd. Then when you loose your hd you restore the image, boot windows and restore your zip files.

    Just remember to create new images after you increase your hard drive size. as the image is only good for the size of your current drive.

  15. Gentoo... on Gentoo 1.4 Final Released · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah the best part about gentoo is... emerge openoffice 16 hours later you have a build.

  16. Strategy Change? on Meet Martin Taylor Of Microsoft's Open Source Test Lab · · Score: 1

    Why not try to compete with linux? Instead of changing argument style, put a decent POSIX layer and lots of services in Windows by default. Create standards and provide complete reference implementations for multiple platforms. Why MS is losing market share to others is because of the competitive advantage other products have.

  17. IPv8? on 70,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Stars Out There · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does this mean within the next few eons we may have to transition to a 256 bit IP space or will IPv6 be enough?

  18. Ask on Royalty Free AV Data for Benchmarking? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ask a filmmaker, musician or other copyright holder if you may use their work. There are alot of producers of music and film, eventually one will say yes.

  19. MTBF... on Calculating the Mean Time Between Failures? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The best way to determine *REAL* MTBF is how long the drives are warrantied for, no one warranties a product longer than it is supposed to last. When you see a company reduce it's warranty expect quality to drop in accordance.

  20. Duty Cycle on Calculating the Mean Time Between Failures? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Usually they have a duty cycle associated with an MTBF which can drastically alter the MTBF at a 100% duty cycle.

  21. Re:Windows Domain-like functions? on Apple Will Demo Mac OS X Server At WWDC · · Score: 3, Informative

    OS X supports LDAP, and i believe it also supports kerebos, these two technologies are the basis for AD in Windows 2000. It also supports NetInfo which is similar in function to LDAP

  22. HREF? on Solid Snake Voice Actor Interviewed · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least put a link.

  23. Gnome term? on Decent Terminal Emulation on Mac OS X? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does Gnome term compile with the OS X version of GTK? I was thinking that might be your best route.

  24. Re:Sounds rather fishy... on Latest SCO News · · Score: 1

    I think the thing everyone is trying to say here is that what SCO thought they bought might not have been forsale. SCO could end up suing over BSD code. Which would leave them the violators of the copyright as from what was stated during the AT&T suit in `93. Namely that AT&T was much more infringing than BSD.

  25. Re:Mmmmmm.... conrol.....[drool] on Games - The Jury Is Out And Confused · · Score: 1

    hahah i know the drill dude, was wondering where the fuck is all the money i make?

    try to figure it out and the questions start..... the worst part is it isnt like she got nice clothes or something to show for it. i could understand that. it's just fucking gone.

    grr....